Digital Learning Grows, Local Union Sent Packing: School Reform News Utah Two-fer

by Eddie | 2:58 pm, August 3, 2011

What is it about our neighbors to the west? A couple months ago I brought your attention to Utah’s new law providing accountability to the use of teachers union release time. But there’s more going on in the Beehive State that has captured our attention here. Within the past month my Education Policy Center friend [...]

MoveOn Smears Lamborn for Invoking African Tar Baby Folklore

by Ari Armstrong | 2:02 pm, August 3, 2011

It seems that the phrase “tar baby” has become something of a tar baby for me as well. Yesterday I waded into the debate over Congressman Lamborn’s use of “tar baby.” Peter Boyles read the piece and invited me on to his radio show to discuss the matter…

Channel 7 Likes Us!

by Jon Caldara | 11:41 am, August 3, 2011

Along with the completely insane Lobato education case, this week marked the beginning of the legal battle over Douglas County’s school voucher program. The suit was brought by the ACLU and “concerned” parents. They are asking a Denver judge to block the program, or in legalese – grant an injunction. 7NEWS is covering the courtroom [...]

Udall and Tipton on Debt Ceiling Vote

by PerlStalker | 9:07 am, August 3, 2011

Here’s an interesting contrast for you. First up, here’s Scott Tipton describing why he voted against the debt bill.

“I cannot authorize a record $2.4 trillion in additional deficit spending without taking larger steps in fixing the underlying probl…

Take the Work, Screw the Worker: Part Three in a Diagnostic Manual for the Center-Right

by Eileen McGuire-Mahony | 9:00 am, August 3, 2011

Just what is it costing us to have the political show run by the extraordinarily unextraordinary, the remarkably unremarkable, those whose stand-out quality is their mediocrity? We’ve got a few starter ideas. If you’ve spent any time in this game, you know at least one person adamant that his brilliant idea was stolen by some [...]

Job Growth in Wisconsin? Let’s Recall the Governor.

by Mr. Bob | 8:58 am, August 3, 2011

Continued moves like this from the left side of the political spectrum are quite eye opening to those actually watching. As the country loses jobs record month after month, there are few states like WI with conservative governors where things are movin…

Obamacare threatens solvency of Colorado health plans

by Brian T. Schwartz | 5:30 am, August 3, 2011

The notion that politicians can control health costs is a conceit of the ruling class. Health costs will only decline when patients, not politicians, directly control more of our health spending. This cannot happen until President Obama’s health law is repealed. In the meantime, CO should reject politicized control of insurance premiums.

Lamborn Strikes the "Tar Baby" Tar Baby

by Ari Armstrong | 12:45 pm, August 2, 2011

What’s amazing about the phrase “tar baby” (as others have noted) is that in today’s world of political character assassination a politician strikes a tar baby merely by uttering the phrase.Just ask Colorado Congressman Doug Lamborn. As of the moment o…

Green Still Costs Green

by Joshua Sharf | 12:01 pm, August 2, 2011

Regular readers know, my favorite left-of-center blogger is Walter Russell Mead, over at The American Interest.  The reason Mead is so interesting is that, unlike the Paul Krugmans and Ezra Kleins of the world, he’s willing to challenge liberal shibboleths, recognizing that for liberalism to be more relevant, it needs to be more intellectually robust.  [...]

Another Colorado “Edu-Trial” Opens Today: Defending Dougco Choice from Injunction

by Eddie | 9:27 am, August 2, 2011

Update, 8/3: Further highlighting how the attempt to enjoin the Douglas County voucher program would disrupt families’ lives, Denver 7 News has a great story — including an interview with Diana Oakley, who was featured in the recent Independence Institute video on Douglas County vouchers. In fact, if you watch the video of the 7 [...]

If You Hold the Sword, You Can’t Hold the Purse

by Jon Caldara | 8:54 am, August 2, 2011

Even though the whole debt ceiling fiasco is on its way out, I want to point this iVoices.org podcast in your direction. Last week a new narrative emerged from the debt ceiling = default storyline. It advanced the idea that the president could raise the debt ceiling unilaterally – Congress be [...]

Debt ceiling: Budget Deal Doesn’t Cut Spending

by Brian T. Schwartz | 5:30 am, August 2, 2011

“Rs & Ds have come together on a ‘historic’ budget deal that … [the] Washington Post’s lead story calls the cuts ‘sharp’ and ‘severe.’ However, the budget deal doesn’t cut federal spending at all. The ‘cuts’ in the deal are only cuts from the CBO ‘baseline,’ which is a Washington construct of ever-rising spending.” – Chris Edwards, Cato

Is Heath’s tax hike for Colorado a great “grass-roots” effort?

by Kelly Maher | 2:17 am, August 2, 2011

If Colorado state Sen. Rollie Heath aspired to a standard of “the greatest grass-roots effort that this state has seen,” there’s a level of disingenousness when a majority of his petition gatherers were getting paid to do so.

Cloward-Piven Paradise Now?

by Mr. Bob | 5:04 pm, August 1, 2011

It is getting more and more difficult to give Obama the benefit of the doubt here. Is he clue-less? Or is this by design?Cloward-Piven Paradise Now?

Lobato-mizing the State Budget

by Jon Caldara | 11:58 am, August 1, 2011

A lawsuit filed 6 years ago taking Colorado to court over how we fund education finally started today in Denver. The case is officially called Lobato v. Colorado and it specifically concerns K-12 education funding. The lawsuit claims that by not handing over the entire Colorado budget to K-12 education, the state is in violation [...]

NAACP official convicted on 10 counts voter fraud

by Mr. Bob | 11:23 am, August 1, 2011

#votefraud #teaparty #tcot #naacp #acornWhile NAACP President Benjamin Jealous lashed out at new state laws requiring photo ID for voting, an NAACP executive sits in prison, sentenced for carrying out a massive voter fraud scheme.In a story ignored b…

Lobato Case Round 2 Starts Today: Of Adequacy, Taxes, Graphs and Rational Bases

by Eddie | 10:44 am, August 1, 2011

Update: In today’s post on Lobato, the Colorado Education Association blogging team writes: “In 2008-09, before the current recession began, Colorado spent $1,809 less per pupil than the national average of all states.” However, the National Education Association’s latest data (see page 55, table H-11) show Colorado spent $9,574 per student in 2008-09, only $616 [...]

8/1 Meetup Will Be Streamed Live!

by redrocks | 9:22 am, August 1, 2011

Visiting from inside the (DC) beltway, William Owens, publisher of Tea Party Review Magazine, is planning to visit with us to LIVE STREAM metro-Denver’s hottest politico rooftop gathering tomorrow.  Mr. Owens streamed the Western Conservative Summit this weekend, and also introduced today’s straw poll winner, presidential candidate Herman Cain.
We expect [...]

Colorado Reapportionment Commission schedule summary and state legislative district preliminary map wrap

by CTBC Director | 8:01 am, August 1, 2011

The Colorado Reapportionent Commission (charged with drawing our state legislative districts) has completed the final set of preliminary legislative district maps for Colorado, having heard public testimony in meetings in Denver from 31 May to 25 July and bringing the maps to a vote in committee.
The commission now takes the show on the road, traveling [...]

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