A Real Immigration Solution – Local Control, No Pathway to Citizenship

by Elliot | 6:58 am, August 9, 2010

In the comments yesterday, somebody brought up my immigration ideas. Well, I’ll let anybody judge for themselves – here is the white paper that I’ve been working on for a while. The key points are (1) immigrants here without status would be allowed to apply for a card that would let them work/reside in the [...]

Michael Bennet, financial genius…not

by Rossputin | 6:38 am, August 9, 2010

Last week, the NY Times ran a front page article laying out potential financial damage to Denver Public Schools from a bond issuance done in early 2008 by the school district under the leadership of Michael “Who?” Bennet and Tom Boasberg.

The Bennet campaign complains that a paid supporter of Andrew Romanoff shopped the story to the Times for months and finally got it printed…just in time for the end of the primary election campaign, it seems. And while that’s certainly plausible, it doesn’t mean that the issues raised in the story aren’t interesting or important.

Radio talk show host Craig Silverman was very rough on Bennet (in Bennet’s absence, since Bennet refuses to show his face to the media, and particularly to that show), but I thought much of Silverman’s ire was misplaced. Not that Bennet didn’t make a big mistake or isn’t due for some serious criticism; just that it’s not quite where Silverman was focusing.

Here, then, is the note I sent Craig Silverman (whom, I should add, I’m enjoying more and more on the radio with each passing week as he seems more free to speak his mind since switching from being a registered Democrat to registered unaffiliated.)

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Hi Craig,

Here are a few thoughts on the Bennet/DPS article.

First, I wish you’d spent a little more time questioning how and why the Times ran something like that on its front page. Bennet’s camp claims that it was pushed to the times by a paid supporter of Romanoff’s. (Note: As I said above, that doesn’t make the story any less true, but it’s an interesting radio topic in itself.)

Second, while I understand how you can make a politician look bad by talking about the fees that the bankers got, and while I acknowledge that those fees do sound rather high, Boasberg is basically right to focus on the total savings to the school district. The deal that DPS did was much more complicated than a vanilla bond issue and higher fees are appropriate. I don’t know how much higher would be appropriate; maybe DPS was ripped off, maybe not. But just because the fee is a big number isn’t necessarily a sign of anything. As for the total savings to Denver, I don’t know if his figures are right, but that is the most important thing to look at in terms of immediate impact.

Third, it’s sorta unfair of you to say that they should have known the overall market would crash some months later. Few people predicted that. What is fair, however, and deserves even more attention, is the fact that these were auction rate securities, and that was a market which had all but collapsed, at least temporarily, several months earlier, roughly Feb 2008.

This WSJ story gives a sense of it:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120295439920567161.html?mod=hps_us_pageone

One problem with the WSJ article: the people who invested in these securities weren’t major victims even though the WSJ article somewhat portrays them that way…they almost all ended up getting out whole, some getting higher interest payments than they had planned. Mostly, they just lost access to some money for some time. The victims, or rather the losers, were the issuers who had to pay much higher interest rates than anyone previously thought possible.

And some history:
http://www.money-zine.com/Investing/Investing/Auction-Rate-Securities/

An example of an issuer getting out of ARS:
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/03/port_authority_frees_itself_fr.html

With this sort of turmoil having occurred several months before the DPS issue, and with Bennet and Boasberg certainly sophisticated financial people who read the WSJ and would have been well aware of the problem, it is absolutely unconscionable that they risked DPS money in auction rate securities. This is NOT about foretelling the future, but rather looking at the rather recent past; it was just 2 or 3 months earlier that the ARS market imploded, and then they sign DPS up for an ARS deal? Now that’s crazy…and negligent.

There is also a big problem with the cancellation fees on the deal. Every Colorado entity which is in these things and which feels a need to get out (by the way, these are NOT all bad deals even if it was unwise to go into them given what happened in 2008) should negotiate hard with the bankers and tell them they will be out of the running for future business for a decade if a suitable exit isn’t agreed to. (That said, these deals are not the banks’ fault and the banks should not take losses to help out the municipalities unless the banks really misled those municipalities on the risks, the fees, or other substantive parts of the transactions.)

Anyway, the problem with Bennet and Boasberg was not that they failed to see the future. It was that they ignored the past.

Best,
Ross

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There Are Surrender Monkeys In The Colorado GOP

by Chuck Moe | 6:25 am, August 9, 2010

Just when you thought we were safe from Surrender Monkeys, the little rascals keep coming back. What do we have to fear from these monkeys? Only, the future of our nation and Democracy itself.

Colorado SD 6 Primary: Ellen Roberts Looks Far Too Cozy with Obama Care

by Ben DeGrow | 11:30 pm, August 8, 2010

Update, 8/9 AM: Rep Ellen Roberts’ response posted in full at the end of this post. With election day practically here, a strange development has been unearthed in the Colorado Senate District 6 Republican primary between Rep. Ellen Roberts and conservative grassroots candidate Dean Boehler. Hopes of successfully resisting Obama Care mandates and advancing free [...]

Colorado’s caucus and state assembly scheme has created tremendous problems for both parties

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 5:37 pm, August 8, 2010

The Grand Junction Sentinel has got this one right. It is time to do away with Colorado’s undemocratic caucuses and state assemblies.
Impact graphs:
For one thing — and tea party types are right in this respect — the process allows party leaders and their favored candidates to elbow most other candidates out of the game. Many people believe Josh Penry would have stayed in the race for governor if key figures in the Republican Party hadn’t made it clear Scott McInnis was their annointed candidate.
Second, the precinct caucus system allows small groups of very committed voters — often far from the mainstream of Coloradans in general — to control caucuses and push little-known or fringe candidates. This isn’t new in 2010. It has occurred for decades, often producing candidates who are unappealing to independents and moderates in both parties.
Finally, the requirement that candidates for party nomination receive at least 30 percent of the delegate vote at state or district conventions means that it’s unlikely voters will see more than two primary candidates in a single party for any given office.
LINKs:
Primary predicament. Grand Junction Sentinel editorial.
Ken Buck, Andrew Romanoff look strong in tonight’s caucuses, but so what? The Business Word, 3.16.2010.

Tom Tancredo at Jefferson County Republican Mens Club Monday

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 5:25 pm, August 8, 2010

Gubernatorial candidate, Tom Tancredo, will address the Jefferson County Republican Mens [and Womens] Club at 7 – 9 a.m. Monday, Aug. 9. Details:Howard Johnson Denver West, 12100 W 44th Ave, Wheat Ridge, I-70 (exit 266) & Ward Rd, across fromTravel Centers of America Truck Stop.) Meeting $10 tab buys your Davie’s Chuck Wagon Diner (#3) yummy order-your-own-breakfast, super speaker(s), program, Q&A, and camaraderie with some truly great folks.

About 10 days ago, Tancredo addressed a big crowd at the Highlands Ranch Republicans breakfast. The Arapahoe County Republican Men’s Club has voted to have him debate the GOP candidate for governor.
I suspect more GOP clubs around the state will invite Tancredo to talk to them during the campaign, especially as it becomes clear that he is the real GOP candidate in the race.

How Scott McInnis betrayed and disappointed his friends, the Hasan family

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 3:20 pm, August 8, 2010

Scott McInnis wanted to extend his two-year, $300,000 fellowship with the Hasan Family Foundation, but he had blown the foundation off with sloppy and incomplete work. No wonder that the Hasans replied, “Scott, you’ve got to be kidding,” Patrick Malone reports in a nicely timed article in the Pueblo Chieftain. If you still like and support McInnis after reading this piece. . .well, ok. LINK: McInnis-Hasan ties mostly social; Dr. Malik Hasan recounts relationship during McInnis congressional years. h/t Jason Salzman.

Norton Attack Ads Funded by “Grow Our Party”

by Al Maurer | 1:13 pm, August 8, 2010

This week, in the last days before the primary election, two very similar attack ads from the Norton campaign arrived in our mailbox, hitting on the sexism theme and urging women to vote against Buck. Both were addressed to my wife, who was disgusted by them. On close inspection, they turned out not to be [...]

Ken Buck or Jane Norton will beat Andrew Romanoff or Michael Bennet

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 7:44 am, August 8, 2010

A Republican, Ken Buck or Jane Norton, will beat an Obama Democrat, Andrew Romanoff or appointed Senator Michael Bennet, in the Nov. 2 general election.
Buck and Romanoff were leading in the latest polls, which were published more than a week ago. But Norton has been gaining on Buck, and Romanoff has turned so cynically dishonest in his TV ads that Bennet and the Democratic Party’s establishment still may sneak by him in Tuesday’s primary election.
The Republicans’ sometimes snarky primary has allowed Weld County District Attorney Buck to show that he’s a classy, smart politician who is good at thinking through complex issues like the war in Afghanistan, illegal immigration, taxes and spending, the climate and environment and what it’s like to be a real Republican.
And the GOP primary has showcased former Colorado Lieutenant Governor Jane Norton’s skills as a campaigner, communicator and experienced elected official and private sector executive. She is proving that she would be a smart problem solver in the Senate. She’s very good at analyzing tough problems and figuring out politically doable political solutions that satisfy all kinds of conservatives. Democrats will find it hard to demonize Norton. And she hires talented staff to help her get the job done.
Romanoff impressed his Democrat friends while he was speaker of the Colorado House. And he has run an aggressive, tough and even scorched earth campaign against Bennet. In the process, he has shown himself to be a left-wing extremist. He wants to imprison Americans in a single-payer health insurance system that would dumb down health care and patients’ access to specialists and expensive services. He obviously thinks the young should be served and the old should go away. Romanoff thinks he has all of the answers and obviously looks down on Coloradans who disagree with him. His sharp elbows won’t go over well if he wins the primary. After the GOP gets done with Romanoff, few Coloradans will like him or trust him.
In only 19 months as the appointed Obama Democrat in the Senate, Bennet has confounded everyone who thought that he was a financial wiz, problem solver and independent thinker. Instead, he’s been a rubber stamp for everything that President Obama wants to do. Bennet supports Obama’s drive to bankrupt America, make the U.S. the world’s door mat, raise taxes, kill jobs and ensure that—as in Europe—20% to 25% of our young people will be unemployed forever. Bennet will have to run on his record, and nobody in his right mind wants to run on Bennet’s record.
The primary has shown that all of the Senate candidates will use negative advertising, which is what you need to learn about the candidates. Whoever the candidates are, they will have all the money they need to trash their opponents.
The Republicans’ negative advertising will be more effective in 2010 than the Democrats’.
Look for the Republican Senate candidate, Buck or Norton, to win 53% to 60% of the votes in November.

Republicans will vote Tom Tancredo over John Hickenlooper

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 7:19 am, August 8, 2010

Tom Tancredo will get most GOP and independent votes if either McInnis or Maes stays in the contest. Neither one of them will be a real factor in the campaign. This means that it will be John Hickenlooper v. Tancredo in the Nov. 2 election.

Perot and Nader are not the role models here. Joe Lieberman in Connecticut and Meek in Florida are better models. In Connecticut, Lieberman and the Democrat fought it out while the GOP candidate was invisible and a non factor. In Florida, Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio are fighting it out while the Democrat, Kendrick Meek, is and will be a non factor.

Candidates who have shown themselves to be ethically challenged and incompetent as well as unpleasant get very few votes. That is how McInnis and Maes are seen in Colorado. In a race against two smart, personable and competent guys, Hickenlooper and Tancredo, McInnis/Maes will not be able to raise money, rally volunteers or win more than 5% to 10% of the votes. McInnis might make 10%. Maes would get less than 5%.

So in the 2010 gubernatorial contest, the Republican will be the third party candidate unless the Republicans score a 9th inning triple play and a walkoff grand slam homer and find a replacement candidate for McInnis/Maes who Tancredo will support.

It’s still unlikely McInnis/Maes will drop out after one of them wins the primary. It’s even more unlikely that the GOP can find a big name or wealthy Republican who Tancredo can support instead of running himself.
Who will be the third party candidate in Colorado’s gubernatorial election this fall?
Tom Tancredo will get most GOP and independent votes if either Scott McInnis or Dan Maes stays in the contest. Because both McInnis and Maes are unfit to be governor, neither of them will be a real factor in the general election campaign. This means that it will be John Hickenlooper v. Tancredo in the Nov. 2 election.
Former third-party presidential candidates, Ross Perot and Ralph Nader, are not the role models here. Sen. Joe Lieberman in Connecticut and Kendrick Meek in Florida are better models. In Connecticut, Lieberman and the Democrat fought it out while the GOP candidate was invisible and a non factor. Lieberman, the independent and incumbent won running as an independent. He had been beaten in the Democrats primary. In Florida, Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio are fighting it out while the Democrat, Kendrick Meek, is and will be a non factor if he wins his primary.
Candidates who have shown themselves to be ethically challenged and incompetent as well as nasty get very few votes. That is how McInnis and Maes are seen in Colorado. In a race against two smart, personable and competent guys, Hickenlooper and Tancredo, McInnis/Maes will not be able to raise money, rally volunteers or win more than 5% to 10% of the votes. Both have self-destructed in the primary. McInnis might make 10% of the general election votes. Maes would get less than 5%.
So in the 2010 gubernatorial contest, the Republican candidate will be the third party candidate unless the Republicans score a 9th inning triple play and a walkoff grand slam homer and find a replacement candidate for McInnis/Maes who Tancredo will support.
It’s still unlikely McInnis/Maes will drop out after one of them wins the primary. It’s even more unlikely that the GOP can find a big name or wealthy Republican to replace Mcinnis or Maes who Tancredo can support instead of running himself.
Remember that the GOP isn’t as responsible for its predicament as McInnis and Maes are. McInnis and his sugar daddies forced a better candidate, Josh Penry, out of the race last winter. The unknown, unemployed Maes decided that he could con Colorado voters into believing that he was a successful business executive. Maes found that he could fool some of the people some of the time, as President Abe Lincoln famously put it, but he could not fool enough of us to get elected dog catcher. He still doesn’t get it.

New Atlas Shrugged web site

by Rossputin | 6:54 am, August 8, 2010

The Ayn Rand center has created a new web site all about the most important piece of fiction ever written, Atlas Shrugged. (Yes, I know many of you think the Bible is fiction but I just didn’t want to go down that road…and certainly at least some of it is historical fact.)

Perhaps not coincidentally, the URL is:

http://atlasshrugged.com/

On the site, you can learn about the book, the author (Ayn Rand), the philosophy, and more.

I encourage you to check it out…and to buy and read Atlas Shrugged if you’ve never read it before.

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Backbone Radio, August 8, 2010: Afghanistan, Doubling Down, John McCain and Surrender Monkeys

by Rossputin | 4:22 pm, August 7, 2010

In a somewhat unusual twist during these times of the economy and jobs being the paramount issue among American (and Coloradoan) voters, the Colorado Republican Senate primary turned to the issue of Afghanistan, with former Lt. Governor Jane Norton pressing for our government to “double down” and Ken Buck pressing for a more cautious, limited strategy.

In an apparent effort to show her military strategy bona fides, Jane Norton has invited Arizona Senator John McCain to come campaign with her.

Given the repeated criticism of Mrs. Norton by many in the Republican base, not least Buck supporters, of her close ties to McCain, it seems a risky strategy. However, Norton campaign manager Josh Penry explained the strategy in an e-mail to me, including noting that McCain has very high popularity ratings among GOP primary voters and offering the (presumably intentionally) provocative statement that “The 22 percent who dislike John McCain almost universally agree with McCain and Norton on the war – and thus disagree with the Surrender Monkey wing of the Ron Paul movement that Buck has shown sympathies to.”

As if anticipating this debate, my former editor at Human Events, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, Jed Babbin, wrote a pair of articles assailing our Afghanistan strategy.

In this week’s edition of Backbone Radio, we’re going to explore the subject of our Afghanistan strategy with all of the above participants.

During our first hour, we’ll be joined by Mr. Babbin who will explain the thinking between his “Bonfire of the Neocons” series in which he condemns American nation-building and our current counterinsurgency strategy.

Following Jed, occasional guest-host of Backbone Radio, Christopher Sanders, a former military intelligence officer who served in Iraq, will offer some counter-point to Mr. Babbin’s assessment.

During the second hour, Christopher and I will discuss the Senate and Governor’s primaries before being joined at 6:30 by Ken Buck who will lay out his thoughts on Afghanistan as well as spending some time talking about other political and campaign-related issues.

At 7 PM, Jane Norton will join the show, and we’ll have a parallel discussion to that which we have with Mr. Buck. It will be interesting, to say the least, to hear both Buck and Norton offer their perspectives on Norton’s decision to have John McCain campaign with her.

With the show only two days before the primary, most GOP voters will have made their decisions already, but my guess is that this race remains so close that it is still important for each of these candidates to do their best to sway you, Mr. or Mrs. Undecided, to mark that candidate’s name on a ballot before turning it in to your county’s election division. (Ballots must be received, not just postmarked by the close of polling on August 10^th!)

I’ll be happy to take questions for any of the guests, either by phone, e-mail, or instant message.

Please join me by listening to (and calling in to) this week’s Backbone Radio program from 5 PM to 8 PM on 710 AM KNUS in Denver and 1460 AM KZNT in Colorado Springs.

If you’re not in range of the radio waves, you should be able to listen to the show online by clicking HERE.

I hope you’ll actively participate in the conversation with me: Call the studio at 303 696 1971, e-mail me at ross(at)710knus.com, or instant message from my site at http://rossputin.com or through AOL Instant messenger to screen name Rossputin.

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Colorado a leader in state employees’ pension reforms and PERA

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 2:19 pm, August 7, 2010

In the last session of the Colorado General Assembly, a bi-partisan coalition passed cuts in state employees’ benefits annual cost of living increases so that PERA will be more likely to be able to pay pensions down the road. Ron Lieber calls the legislature’s action courageous. Pensioners are suing over breach of contract. And gubernatorial candidate, Tom Tancredo, says the legislature didn’t go far enough. He told a recent press conference that more needs to be done to protect taxpayers from having to bear the cost of making up for PERA’s under funded liabilities. PERA is the agency that administers pensions for employes of the state of Colorado and other governmental employers in the state. Your homework is here and here.

Would Dems in power rally ’round Romanoff?

by Kelly Maher | 1:13 pm, August 7, 2010

If Andrew Romanoff wins the U.S. Senate primary on Tuesday, would the Democratic Party establishment in Colorado and nationally, whom Romanoff stiff-armed by running against Bennet in the first place, embrace him and provide the resources he’ll need to compete in November?

Would Dems in power rally ’round Romanoff?

by Kelly Maher | 1:13 pm, August 7, 2010

Living (effectively) without a Constitution in Colorado – courtesy of the Colorado Supreme Court

by CTBC Director | 9:12 am, August 7, 2010

Constitutional limits on government power – constraints on what the government can do to you – are the hallmark of the American form of government, and an essential bulwark of liberty against tyranny. Our Constitution is our nation’s “rulebook”, as our state Constitution is the rulebook for state government.
What happens when our governing officials – [...]

Ground Zero Mosque – Will Political Correctness Trump Private Property Rights?

by Elliot | 7:49 am, August 7, 2010

As far as I can tell (and if I am mistaken, please let me know), here are the facts about the Ground Zero mosque: (1) It is being built on private, not public, land; (2) It is being built using private, not public, money; (3) Its planned use is not one of an illegal purpose; [...]

When the Left Attacks, Beware of What They Are Hiding

by Lu Busse | 7:32 am, August 7, 2010

When the left media and bloggers take what seems like minor story about our governor’s race nationwide, we can be confident that an issue they want to keep hidden has been exposed. Their attacks and attempted marginalization of Dan Maes for saying there is more to the Denver B-cycle story than meets the eye reached a fevered pitch the [...]

What’s good for the campaign finance goose…

by Rossputin | 7:21 am, August 7, 2010

Most campaign finance laws are, in the words of Douglas Adams, a load of dingo’s kidneys. But at least for now they are what they are, every candidate knows or should know what they are, and everybody needs to play by the same rules.

It’s been suggested to me several times that Scott McInnis probably has similar violations (and perhaps more in quantity since he had more donors) than those violations which cost Dan Maes’ campaign $17,500 in penalties (which, by the way, is an insane amount for essentially irrelevant errors.)

The Constitutionalist Today has reached the same conclusion and has actually done some homework which they lay out in an article entitled “Scott McInnis…In All Fairness.“

The reporter notes that Scott McInnis had 35 of the same type of reporting error for which 9 instances cost Maes a chunk of change. She continues:

There are other problems with the report for June. The McInnis campaign had one contribution (from San Francisco) of $2,000, one for $1,500, two for $1,100, and one for $1,107. Legally a single person can only contribute $1,050. These are not simple reporting mistakes, these are real violations and should be thoroughly researched. Remember this is only the report for June and there are four more…wonder what’s in those?

Again, I think most campaign finance laws are an infringement on free speech (although I do support rapid disclosure of contributions, especially individually or in-the-aggregate large contributions). But we can’t have these rules enforced against only one candidate. If Scott McInnis wins the primary, somebody (with a lot more free time than I have) should indeed consider following up on these questions with the Secretary of State.

One potential benefit from all this: Just as I thought the judges were stretching the law in ruling against gay marriage bans in Massachusetts in California, I saw a silver lining in that it might remind people of the danger of having government involved in peoples’ personal lives. Similarly, maybe with another politician getting hit with ridiculously large fines, we can persuade the legislature to cap penalties for reporting violations, perhaps so that no violation can cost more than 150% or 200% of the contribution amount it was associated with.

To be clear, my write-up of the story of Dan Maes’ violations was not about bashing Maes just for the hell of it or to support campaign finance laws. Rather it was an issue of Maes’ competence, which I think is fairly in question in a broader sense. But once that’s been used against one candidate, I think it would be dishonest for those who blogged about it not to ask or report the same sort of potential problem with Maes’ opponent, as if Scott McInnis needs any more reasons for people to turn away from him.

Again, I urge my Republican friends not to vote in this primary.

Dan Maes in unqualified and Scott McInnis is disqualified.

(By the way, the Denver Post reported that Scott McInnis has reached a settlement agreement with the Hasan Family. Don’t you just love the image of a sitting governor on an installment plan to pay back a charitable organization he essentially defrauded? No thanks.)

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NY Daily News takes on “material girl” Michelle Obama

by Rossputin | 6:48 am, August 7, 2010

H/T Mike R.

At least Bill Clinton “felt our pain”. The Obamas seems just to be feeling for our wallets…

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/08/04/2010-08-04_material_girl_michelle_obama_is_a_modernday_marie_antoinette_on_a_glitzy_spanish.html

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Obama economic advisor leaving the sinking ship

by Rossputin | 2:31 pm, August 6, 2010

This is the first part of a blog note I wrote for American Spectator. You can read the whole note here: http://spectator.org/blog/2010/08/06/jumping-ship

Christina Romer, the chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors becomes the first high-profile rodent to leave the foundering economic ship that is Obama’s “fundamentally transformed” America.

Apparently Romer took a lesson from the little guy at the bottom of this picture:

Please read the rest of this note over at the American Spectator blog:

http://spectator.org/blog/2010/08/06/jumping-ship

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Aug. 16th — Meetup with Pete Coors!

by redrocks | 2:00 pm, August 6, 2010

Pete Coors – Up On The Roof!
“A ‘COORS’ original and a Colorado ‘Native’”

Primaries are (will be) over!!! Time to toast the victors, rally the troops, and re-evaluate the road map going forward with words of wisdom from our esteemed guest speaker, Pete Coors. Yep, that’s correct, Pete Coors! This Colorado legend is a down to [...]

Tom Wiens for Colorado Governor Scenario Unfolding? Don’t Rule It Out

by Ben DeGrow | 1:33 pm, August 6, 2010

For those who have been paying attention as much as having a half an eye open while trying to sleep, it’s no surprise to hear that virtually every conversation I’ve had in the past several days about the Colorado governor’s race (and it’s no small number) inevitable lands on the word “disaster.” Yes, disaster. Polling [...]

Colo. Senator Michael Bennet’s ‘Exotic’ Financial Deal Cost Denver Public Schools Millions In Interest, Wall Street Fees; Leaves Schools Deeper In Debt

by Laura Victoria | 1:13 pm, August 6, 2010

The New York Times just published a lengthy and analytical front page article about Colorado appointed Senator Michael Benet’s failed scheme to shore up $400 million in unfunded pension liabilities when he was Superintendent of the Denver Public Schools. … Continue reading →

It’s Primary Time in Colorado – GO VOTE!

by Lesley Hollywood | 1:09 pm, August 6, 2010

Tuesday August 10th is primary day here in Colorado. Currently voter turnout has far exceeded 2006′s mid-term election turnout, and is expected to even break the massive turnout in 2008′s Presidential primary. Now this is great news - as long as you made sure you are one of those voters. Through our caucus system and primary voting, We [...]

Interview with “MAD” Mom Amy Oliver

by Jon Caldara | 1:08 pm, August 6, 2010

Our Transparency Czarina Amy Oliver’s campaign to mobilize mothers to take action against our government’s massive deficit spending is well underway with her organization Mothers Against Debt (MAD). All moms should find it disturbing that each baby born today is over $43,000 in the hole before they can even say their first words. [...]

Harry Potter’s Lessons for Journalists

by Ari Armstrong | 12:28 pm, August 6, 2010

The following article originally was published August 6 by Grand Junction’s Free Press.Harry Potter’s Lessons for Journalistsby Linn and Ari ArmstrongJournalism plays a critical role in a free society. However, just as politicians and private individua…

Do Coloradans Have a Duty To Nullify?

by Chuck Moe | 12:23 pm, August 6, 2010

Thomas Wood’s recent book Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century covers our nation’s history of using nullification as a tool for the states to resist unconstitutional federal laws.

Afghanistan, Doubling Down, John McCain and Surrender Monkeys

by Rossputin | 11:52 am, August 6, 2010

In an apparent effort to show her military strategy bona fides, Jane Norton has invited Arizona Senator John McCain to come campaign with her.

As if anticipating this debate, my former editor at Human Events, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, Jed Babbin, wrote a pair of articles assailing our Afghanistan strategy.

In this week’s edition of Backbone Radio, we’re going to explore the subject of our Afghanistan strategy with all of the above participants.

Following Jed, occasional guest-host of Backbone Radio, Christopher Sanders, a former military intelligence officer who served in Iraq, will offer some counter-point to Mr. Babbin’s assessment.

I’ll be happy to take questions for any of the guests, either by phone, e-mail, or instant message.

Please join me by listening to (and calling in to) this week’s Backbone Radio program from 5 PM to 8 PM on 710 AM KNUS in Denver and 1460 AM KZNT in Colorado Springs.

If you’re not in range of the radio waves, you should be able to listen to the show online by clicking HERE.

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Rep. Kent Lambert Endorses Dan Maes

by Al Maurer | 11:48 am, August 6, 2010

State Rep Kent Lambert today endorsed Dan Maes for Governor. His statement: “I endorse Dan Maes to be the Republican candidate for Governor of Colorado. Dan convinced the majority of elected Republican State Convention delegates that he should be their candidate for Governor. He is now earning strong grassroots support among conservative Republican voters all [...]

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