He’s Not My Doctor!

by Jon Caldara | 2:47 pm, August 13, 2009

Remember those anti-Bush bumper stickers that read, “He’s not my President”?  Well, I am pleased to announce that we at the Independence Institute debuted our new awesomely awesome bumper stickers yesterday at the Mike Coffman townhall.  They went faster than we could hand them out! Check it out: (click to enlarge)

If you’d like to [...]

Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold on 850 KOA’s Mike Rosen show (host: Tom Tancredo), noon 13 August (Thurs)

by CTBC Director | 2:44 pm, August 13, 2009

Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold made a special studio appearance on Thursday’s 850 KOA Mike Rosen show (hosted by Tom Tancredo).
Listen in to learn more about the grassroots movement to restore accountability to Colorado’s judiciary.  The four unjust justices of the Mullarkey Majority (Justices Michael Bender, Alex Martinez, Nancy Rice, and Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey) need [...]

Don’t Tape Me Bro! Coffman Town Hall–ObamaCare Supporter Hits Camera

by elpresidente | 1:52 pm, August 13, 2009

(title by MIM) Instalanche! Thanks Glenn! “He’s Not My Doctor!” On video (the confrontation starts about 1:00 in): The ObamaCare supporter was not pleased that she was being filmed, and after accusing me of “setting her up,” she proceeded to move towards me, and then slammed the viewfinder of the camera. Tolerance. Following the encounter, [...]

Transforming Anti-Obama Care Debate to Pro-Liberty Health Reform

by Ben DeGrow | 11:28 am, August 13, 2009

I’m a little late in posting, but I recommend to anyone who wants to stay intelligently attuned to the ongoing health care reform debate, please take a listen to my recent iVoices podcast interview with Brian Schwartz (click the play button):

Both in the podcast and in a new Patient Power posting, Brian explains how the [...]

Real Health Care Reform: Making the Case

by Jon Caldara | 11:24 am, August 13, 2009

You’ve been there before. You’re at a function, your dinner table, or the grocery store and you hear it: silly, half reasoned arguments for yet MORE government interference in health care. Nevermind that Colorado already has 46 health care mandates as of 2007. Simply put, the idea that yet MORE mandates will somehow [...]

Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold interviewed by KJCT-ABC (TV Channel 8), Grand Junction

by CTBC Director | 10:00 am, August 13, 2009

During a trip to Grand Junction, Colorado last week to spread the word on Clear The Bench Colorado, Director Matt Arnold was interviewed by Grand Junction’s local ABC affiliate, KJCT (Channel 8).  Part of the interview aired Sunday evening (9 August) and additional footage is scheduled to be featured on a more in-depth treatment of the topic [...]

There is no state or local government “budget crisis”

by David K. Williams, Jr. | 8:37 am, August 13, 2009

Despite the gnashing of teeth by elected officials at the state and local levels, there is no budget crises.

Self-righteousness and force.

by David K. Williams, Jr. | 7:34 am, August 13, 2009

In recognition of the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, Glenn Garvin, of the Miami Herald, says the concept of the “peace loving” hippies from the 1960′s is a myth.

Public goods, forced charity, and liberal-think

by Rossputin | 1:35 am, August 13, 2009

For the second day in a row, I’m making a full blog post out of a response to a comment (or several comments.)

Today, I’m responding to Jane, who commented on my blog asking about public goods. (See the comment from 8/10.)

Jane, you are obviously extremely self-serving in a rhetorical sense (not to mention naive) when you say that “public goods” are all about national security. That’s not necessarily true, nor would you and I necessarily agree on what is a “public good”. I’m sure you will classify far more things – things you think everyone should have or have access to – as public goods. Your arguments are essentially socialist, as you should but probably don’t realize and, despite your rhetoric tinged with references to history, you clearly don’t understand the principles of our Founding.

While you and I might have an interesting debate about whether stopping an epidemic is a “public good” much less a “national security” issue, I doubt you could make an even half-decent case for their being any public good or national security benefit involved in dealing with the disparate various illnesses and injuries that people suffer throughout their daily lives. If someone breaks a leg snowboarding, why is that any of your business – much less the government’s?

Next, your federalism argument is very poorly thought out. Yes, we are designed to have states as “laboratories of democracy”, to see what works and what doesn’t. So in what way have we tested in one or more of these laboratories anything substantially like what Obama and the Democrats are proposing regarding health care? And if you want to argue that any state’s SCHIP program or Massachusetts’ Commonwealth Care are similar enough, can you please tell me anything about those programs (including, of course, mentioning cost/benefit analysis) which would make them seem to be things substantially proven to have sufficient benefits at low enough costs that they should be enacted nationally? And of course, please show me where the Constitution gives the federal government authority to do such a thing. (Hint: It’s not there and if you want to argue the General Welfare clause, you need to read a little more history but you can take comfort in the fact that you’re not alone in that misunderstanding.)

People do good things for the “community” if they want to. Anything else is essentially slavery. It’s not charity if it’s done at the point of a gun. (Which reminds me, please show me evidence that people were REQUIRED to perform public service in 18th century America.)

You argue that “there’s not enough supply” of people doing public service. But you can’t actually know that because right now government squeezes out those who would perform those services by (1) making people feel like their work is unnecessary because government will “take care of it”, and (2) taxing us so much for what government (unconstitutionally) does that we don’t have the free time to spend helping others because we need to work to pay the tax man.

In other words, every part of your argument is fatally flawed, and I haven’t even gotten to pointing out that “public goods” do not need to be provided by government. Everything from roads to parks to water supplies can and often are provided by private enterprise.

As your professor of political economy, I’ll give you a “D” on that report but give you a chance to resubmit another after you spend some time thinking and trying to throw off all the wrong stuff you apparently learned in college or from watching or reading the dominant liberal media. With a little intellectual calisthenics, we can help you tighten up your flabby political thought processes.

Update on who’s really “astroturfing”

by Rossputin | 12:05 am, August 13, 2009

As I noted in a prior posting, the Democratic leadership remind me of a former business partner who thought everyone was lying to him because he was lying to everyone. That’s how the Dems are with accusations that anti-ObamaCare participation at town hall meetings and rallies are not true outpourings of grassroots antipathy to the proposed government takeover of health care.

Nancy Pelosi and friends are spending an inordinate amount of time and energy making this claim…and I believe it’s backfiring on them, in part because nobody other than the far left believes it, in part because so many independent voters are likely to find those accusations repulsive, and in part because there’s so much evidence to the contrary of Pelosi’s claims.

And here’s just the latest evidence:

Check out this 2 1/2 minute report from a Portsmouth, New Hampshire TV News broadcast. (You’ll have to sit through a 15 second commercial…) In it you can clearly see ObamaCare supporters arriving by bus (at about 45 seconds into the video) and a guy in a suit, clearly out of place and clearly a Democratic or union organizers (at about 50 seconds). As usual, the only pre-printed signs were on the pro-ObamaCare side.

http://www.wmur.com/video/20358253/index.html

Who’s really “astroturfing” here? (Hint: It’s not the pro-liberty side. It’s the people who invented the tactic.)

Health Reform Astroturfing

by wesley | 11:32 pm, August 12, 2009

Earlier today, I got a hold of an SEIU email instructing the union thugs on how they were going to ambush Congressman Mike Coffman’s town hall meeting on health reform this evening. Let me share that email with you before we get into some of the pictures I was able to take outside the town [...]

New Hampshire Obama Care Astroturfing … Grand Junction Next?

by Ben DeGrow | 10:35 pm, August 12, 2009

The Campaign for Liberty documents the pro-Obama astroturf activity in and around yesterday’s staged New Hampshire townhall meeting (H/T Granite Grok). Watch carefully, especially those of you who may be heading to Grand Junction to welcome the President for his next staged townhall meeting:

Free Market Health Care Reform

by Mr. Bob | 4:10 pm, August 12, 2009

#tcot #hhrs #redco #
As usual, those in government who want to fix the problems, helped create them just like the Housing Crisis.

Laws that impede competition hurt the market…and costs are passed down to consumers and a crisis is used to take drastic action, that as with most government solutions will not work.

John Mackey today posted some great alternatives using Whole Foods Store’s employee plan as a model. Most ALL these ideas have been put forward by conservatives in Congress, but ignored for a long time and so need to be stated again. It is a lie that Republicans are just saying NO…they’ve been saying we need reform for some time, but the lobbyists in DC hold sway over decisions being made…especially the trial lawyer’s lobby.

Here are some excerpts;

• Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation of high-deductible health insurance plans and health savings accounts (HSAs). The combination of high-deductible health insurance and HSAs is one solution that could solve many of our health-care problems.

• Equalize the tax laws so that employer-provided health insurance and individually owned health insurance have the same tax benefits.

• Repeal all state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing across state lines.

• Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover. These mandates have increased the cost of health insurance by billions of dollars. What is insured and what is not insured should be determined by individual customer preferences and not through special-interest lobbying.

• Enact tort reform to end the ruinous lawsuits that force doctors to pay insurance costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.

• Make costs transparent so that consumers understand what health-care treatments cost.

• Enact Medicare reform. We need to face up to the actuarial fact that Medicare is heading towards bankruptcy..

• Finally, revise tax forms to make it easier for individuals to make a voluntary, tax-deductible donation to help the millions of people who have no insurance and aren’t covered by Medicare, Medicaid or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.

Click to READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT THE WSJ

16 Year Old’s Reaction to Obama’s Townhall Meeting Today

by Mr. Bob | 2:51 pm, August 12, 2009

#tcot #hhrs
This kid give me hope for America. Listen to him articulate why the government should stay out of health care…and education and business in general.

Two Great Pieces Broadening Context Around Health Care Reform Debate

by Ben DeGrow | 2:44 pm, August 12, 2009

Getting caught up in the intense, day-to-day political and policy battles over the health care reform debate, it can be helpful from time to time to step back and take a look at the big picture. Not that I have time myself, but I can point you to two excellent pieces that do just that.
First, [...]

Howard Dean’s health care BS

by Rossputin | 2:26 pm, August 12, 2009

It’s remarkable to hear DOCTOR Howard Dean say “you’re stuck with private health insurance” (as I just heard him say on a CNBC interview.) Are we also “stuck” with private car insurance, private gas stations, private supermarkets, private movie theaters, and private department stores?

The Democrats’ argument about the “public option” being the only way to ensure competition would be laughable were it not so dangerous. It’s time for the public to start waking up to the fact that EXISTING LAW is what keeps the health insurance market relatively uncompetitive…but that even the current situation results in health insurance companies generating net profits on the order of 3% to 4% of revenue, hardly the model of an industry that’s raping customers.

p.s. Congratulations to CNBC for being the only non-Fox media outlet I’ve seen which doesn’t just blindly accept the left’s lies. The interviewer asked Dean some tough but absolutely fair questions.

Rally and Protest during Obama’s Town Hall Visit to Grand Junction 8.15.09

by elpresidente | 2:02 pm, August 12, 2009

Latest details for protest during President Obama’s visit to Grand Junction this Saturday: Date: August 15, 2009 Start Time: No earlier than 10:00 am and no later than 11:00 am Place: Lincoln Park, corner of 12th & North Avenue, Grand Junction CO 81501 Map: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/Lincoln+Park:Grand+Junction+CO+81501#a/search/l:::Grand+Junction:CO:81501:US:39.0748:-108.549:zip:Mesa+County:1/m::14:39.07357:-108.55026:0:::::1:1:1::/so:Lincoln+Park:::d::25:::::/e Event: Hands Off My Health Care Rally and Protest Hosts: [...]

Congressman David Scott of Georgia Seems a Bit Touchy on Healthcare

by Mr. Bob | 2:02 pm, August 12, 2009

#tcot #hhrs #healthcare #congress
This is a local news story…makes the congressman look pretty foolish because he assumes a constituent asking a normal question is a “right winger” sent to disrupt the meeting…he’s a Democrat, a doctor and a constituent.

While Denver Faces $120M Budget Shortfall – public “art” programs carry on

by Mr. Bob | 1:47 pm, August 12, 2009

#redco #tcot #waste
Hat tip to Todd Shepherd at the Independence Institute.

According to an internal spreadsheet produced by city administrators, 47 projects are on tap across the city for an estimated $3,850,000. That dollar-figure does not take into account the fact that at least 4 projects slated by the city were given an “unknown” dollar estimate in the spreadsheet.

Kendall Peterson is the public administrator of the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs. She argues that continuing on with the planned artwork installations is the equivalent of stimulus spending. “.. READ THE ARTICLE

Health Reform vs. ObamaCare

by elpresidente | 11:07 am, August 12, 2009

ObamaCare = rationed health care. Transcript: Once the government is in charge of healthcare, bureaucrats, not doctors, decide who gets what treatment. Take Oregon. Every year politicians there create a priority list for Medicaid patients. The higher your illness gets on the list, the better the chance you’ll be treated. As soon as they start [...]

In case you missed this…

by David K. Williams, Jr. | 10:15 am, August 12, 2009

Check out Camille Paglia’s column in Salon today, “Obama’s healthcare horror.”

Post of the day at Mount Virtus – Health Care Debate

by Mr. Bob | 10:12 am, August 12, 2009

#redco #tcot #hhrs
Good to have Mr. Degrow back online today.

Ben Degrow at Mount Virtus Blog has a great response this morning to some lefty misinformation being diseminatated as “facts” in local news stories about the health care debate.

Here are some excerpts;

The Heritage Foundation’s Conn Carroll has identified even more lies and misinformation from yesterday’s townhall meeting — including some of the same old, same old from Obama.

To his credit, even Lefty David Sirota is upset that Obama is making “verifiably dishonest statements”. And with his false claim of AARP support, make that two big whoppers the President told yesterday.

Support for the Congressional health reform plan touted by Obama has reached an all-time low (42 vs. 55 opposed)
Support for “single-payer health care” is even lower (32 vs. 57 opposed)

Did you catch that, Lefty propagandist David “I think the majority of Americans support health care reform” Sirota? Most Americans indeed may support health care reform, but it isn’t the top-down, bureaucratic, government health care READ THE REST

Happy Cost of Government Day!

by Ben DeGrow | 9:36 am, August 12, 2009

Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) notes that today, August 12, is the official “Cost of Government Day” for 2009:

Working people must toil 224 days out of the year just to meet all costs imposed by government – a full 26 days longer than last year.
In other words, in 2009 the cost of government consumes 61.34 [...]

What we’re really dealing with

by Rossputin | 6:34 am, August 12, 2009

Here’s a must-read note from FreedomWorks, including recordings of calls they’ve received opposing FreedomWorks’ activities encouraging people who oppose ObamaCare to attend town-hall meetings. It’s a must-read and must-listen. It says everything you need to know about the real “thugs” in American politics today, i.e. the Democratic Party and their union masters.

see “FreedomWorks Issues Abject Apology to Left“, 8/11/09
http://www.freedomworks.org/press-releases/freedomworks-issues-abject-apology-to-left

How insurance companies can gain credibility

by Brian Schwartz | 1:30 am, August 12, 2009

Insurance companies are unpopular, so they don’t get much sympathy when arguing that the “public option” is unfair competition.  The insurance industry should come clean by admitting how much the tax exemption for employer-provided insurance coddles them, which gives them an unfair competitive advantage. It shields insurance companies from competition and discounts their products compared [...]

Responding to well-meaning and not-so-well-meaning liberals

by Rossputin | 1:10 am, August 12, 2009

Over at FreedomWorks’ blog site, I’ve received quite a few comments on my note with the three “Quotes of the Month.” I decided to respond to a handful of them in a separate note, which you can read here. I think my responses are adequate for readers of these pages to infer what the comments were, but if you want to read the actual comments, you can see them HERE

Thanks to those of you who took the time to comment on my selection of quotes…thanks even to those people whose comments were infantile, moronic, or attempts at personal insult. I’d like to respond to a few. I would have written back sooner, but I took the family away for a long weekend and promised the wife I’d stay away from the computer.

So, here goes, in the order that your (selected) comments were posted:

To “Dob Bixoff”: Calling me “selfish” is like throwing Br’er Rabbit in the briar patch. Have you ever heard of Ayn Rand’s “The Virtue of Selfishness” (which you must read to understand)? Well, my son’s middle name is Rand, so you can imagine how pleased I am to be called selfish in the context of a political discussion. (For more info, see THIS LINK.)

But more seriously, in what way is your definition of “unselfish” morally superior to whatever selfishness you are gleaning from my writing? How did “unselfish” policies like “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” work out for Russia, Cuba, Cambodia, etc? Furthermore, do you drive a car or heat your home? If so, is it from “unselfishness” that the people who started and now continue energy producing companies have provided you with energy you need to survive but could under no circumstance provide for yourself? I could ask you the same about the food you bought at the supermarket recently or the clothes you’re wearing.

As Adam Smith put it, “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”

Your “spoilt children” analogy is particularly inapt. In political policy debates these days, we’re talking about government taking the hard-earned proceeds of people’s labor. That has extremely dangerous potential consequences, far worse than what apparently happened when someone took your shovel in the sandbox…clearly you’re still scarred by you mother’s admonitions to share.

To Anonymous: I agree with “Publius Snerdly” that the VA is arguably constitutional, though some libertarians would disagree with me. Regarding public schools, most liberals find my view unsatisfactory (which does not displease me): I’m against them for a few reasons: First, they’re obviously failing the people who need them most, i.e. the lower income levels of American society who desperately need a decent education to better their standards of living. That’s no surprise given that government enterprises tend to turn into union enterprises and union enterprises are not about quality of product. Second, I think government schools stifle individualism and promote reverence for “society” and government, which I think is bad for the students and the nation. That said, it’s not one of the first battles I’d pick. Far more important is that there is obviously no FEDERAL authority in education. No Child Left Behind is clearly unconstitutional as is the entire department of Education (and most other cabinet departments.) Snerdly has the right answer on fire departments as well: A reasonable function of government, but not the federal government.

In general, liberals need to get a much better understanding of the difference between classical liberalism (something like libertarianism) and anarchism. They are NOT the same thing. I, and as far as I know everyone at FreedomWorks, believes there are legitimate functions of government but that government in general and the federal government in particular do far more than they should.

To DanD: Government in general should only be involved in things that people basically can’t do for themselves or where government has such a massive advantage that people shouldn’t do for themselves (though this last is a slippery slope which one must be careful approaching.) More specifically, the Federal government should only do those things which the Constitution says it should do, the most important of which is national security. Liberals too often assume that if government doesn’t do something then it won’t get done. However, that’s almost always a terrible assumption. More often than not, government crowds out the same actions by individuals and organizations by taking on projects that it should not, costing taxpayers more money than the same project would cost if done by private enterprise, and often subjecting the people to ongoing taxation which becomes the plaything of the next elected official. Your question about “whether it is good for the people or not” is a standard liberal question…to me it’s an irrelevant question. The Federal government should only do what it is authorized to do, not what you or someone else thinks is “good”. After all, what if you and I absolutely disagree on what is “good for the people”? You ask about he point of government. That’s obviously a very big question. However, he point of the federal government can be found here: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/help/constRedir.html

To “Anonymous”: First, the 45 million number is a lie, and not just because of the illegal aliens. The number of chronically, unwillingly uninsured is probably under ¼ of that number. The health care system is a drag on the economy because it is set up in a way which separates the cost of receiving care from the benefits of receiving care. In other words, people overuse the health care system because they don’t care how many $10 copayments they have to make. Furthermore, the system is non-competitive because we can’t buy across state lines. How many people do you hear constantly complaining about their car insurance? Very few. It’s a very competitive business with companies fighting across the country for your business. That needs to be possible with health insurance. Also, the implication of your comment is that government-run health care would be less of a drag on the economy. However, there is no evidence to support that implication and plenty of evidence to dispute it.

My vision of the health care system (and I do NOT speak for FreedomWorks” is one where there is true competition among plans (i.e. access by lots of plans to people, not just access the way it’s usually spoken about of people to a couple of plans) and where people bear a little more of the cost of seeing doctors and having tests. Although Medicare Part D (the prescription drug benefit) is unconstitutional and already has a larger unfunded liability than the entire Social Security system, it is worth noting that the plan has come in somewhat under the expected costs – incredibly unusual for a government program – because it has built-in competitive aspects (which Democrats opposed) which use free-market forces to keep costs down. Beneficiaries (except for those with very low income) generally have a deductible and have to pay co-pays for medicines. Particularly remarkable (again, I note that the Dems opposed this) is that there are over 1,800 plans available. The Wikipedia entry on Part D says that “The number of available plans varied by region. The lowest was 27 (Alaska) and the highest was 63 (Pennsylvania & West Virginia). This allows participants to choose a plan that best meets their individual needs.”

So when you hear the Democrats saying that the “public option” is needed to promote competition, it’s a blatant lie. All that’s needed is a change of the law so that companies can compete nationwide. While it’s a topic for another day, have no doubt that the “public option” or even a “co-op” is a Trojan horse to eliminate private coverage. A government insurance plan can use the Treasury to collect money for it, giving it a huge advantage over private companies. The cost of collecting that money will be elsewhere in our tax bills, but on the surface it will let the government sell health insurance cheaper than most private companies. Again, the TRUE cost won’t be cheaper. Also, the government plan can run at or near a loss…and almost certainly will. This is in part because that’s just how government works and in part because the closer they can run to a loss, the lower the premiums they can charge and therefore drive private companies out of business – again, certainly the intention of Democrats. If you don’t believe it, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT4mV3R7vu4

Also, don’t forget that the largest beneficiaries of health care “reform” as proposed by Democrats will be unions…and that’s why the Democratic leadership in Congress wants it so badly.

And finally, there’s DanG, the typical leftist hack who can’t argue against a message so has to try to attack the messenger.

First, Dan, here I am answering you even though you are, as my Russian friends used to say, an “oxygen thief.” Second, I do not work for FreedomWorks and am not paid to blog here. Third, of course, I give a s**t. If I didn’t I wouldn’t take the time responding to you and more worthy people.

I’m not sure why you think I might be “OWNED by Health Care companies” since I’m self-employed as a financial markets trader and have no customers, no employer, no employees, and no reason to say anything I don’t believe. So, you know where you can shove that accusation.

Next, do you think $12 billion in profit is a lot for the entire health insurance industry? I don’t know if your statistic is right, but that would amount to an annual profit of about $55 per insured American. WellPoint, one of the largest health insurance companies in America has a net profit margin of 4%. Cigna’s is 3.2%. Unitedhealth is 4.14%. Do you want to be in that business? You should thank their lucky stars they’re willing to provide you health insurance at such low profitability. Would you invest a million dollars in a business that after tax returned only $30,000 or $40,000 to you (annually)? I doubt it. Who are you to say that making a billion dollars a year is “enough”? If you think it’s too much and you could offer the services at a lower profit margin, go start a business and try to compete. In the meantime, keep your grubby hands off my money. I earned it and I didn’t earn it to please you.

I’m not here to defend “Wall Street executives”. I have no idea what that has to do with what we’re discussing here since health insurance companies (and most insurance companies generally) have very little to do with Wall Street in a direct way and do no operate like brokerage houses or investment banks. Again, a complete strawman from someone with no ideas of his own, no understanding of economics, and an instant disdain from anyone who doesn’t agree with him. In other words, a typical Obama-loving Democrat.

Obama Lies about His Support for Single-Payer Government Health Care

by Ben DeGrow | 10:49 pm, August 11, 2009

Update II: The Heritage Foundation’s Conn Carroll has identified even more lies and misinformation from yesterday’s townhall meeting — including some of the same old, same old from Obama.
Update: To his credit, even Lefty David Sirota is upset that Obama is making “verifiably dishonest statements”. And with his false claim of AARP support, make that [...]

Controversy Over Rice-Ritter-Mullarkey Car Tax Increase Isn’t Going Away

by T.L. James | 10:07 pm, August 11, 2009

Think the controversy over the Rice-Ritter-Mullarkey car tax increase has abated due to being drowned out by the furor over Obamacare? Think again: this van was parked at the Arapahoe County DMV office at Alameda and Chambers today, in plain view of taxpayers entering and leaving the office to renew their license plates…and pay the increased [...]

Register to attend Grand Junction Town Hall w/ Obama

by Brian Schwartz | 7:20 pm, August 11, 2009

The event will be at Central High School from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m, according to the Grand Junction Sentinel.

From WhiteHouse.gov:

Thank you for your interest in attending a Town Hall with President Barack Obama in Grand Junction, Colorado on Saturday, August 15th at 4:15 pm.
Due to limited space at the event we will only be [...]

‘Trust us’

by Amy Oliver | 4:23 pm, August 11, 2009

“..we are a board very concerned about transparency and oversight — about letting our constituency know what it is we are doing,” Greeley Evans District 6 school board member Judy Kron said at a meeting last night.
Really?
Perhaps Kron should read COST.  Then she would know that her fellow school board member Bob Stack testified against [...]

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