Legalizing Immorality

by Jon Caldara | 5:29 pm, February 21, 2013

The Colorado Legislature is considering repealing a very old, unenforced law banning adultery and criminalizing innkeepers for renting rooms to unmarried couples. Looking for a trusted leader of morality and virtue in our community, the sponsor of the bill repealing the law asked me to testify for it. Let me make very clear that the [...]

An Idea Whose Time May Come

by T.L. James | 10:41 am, January 27, 2013

Looks like some New York residents are not planning to meekly comply with their state government’s new requirement to register their weapons: New York Gun Owners Flip the Bird to “Assault Weapons” Registration Law. Personally, I’m skeptical about this. I think it’s great in concept, if enough people can commit to it to make it [...]

Policy from a Politically Manipulative Fantasyland: the TSA’s Latest Bid for All Your Data

by Eileen | 5:06 am, January 12, 2013

The TSA is trying to resurrect a terrible program that been deservedly thwarted since its post-9/11 conception.  It was CAPPS, then CAPPS II, then Secure Flight.  Under all those guises, the goal was the aggregate any and all commercially available datasets into a behemoth database and then generate unique ‘aviation risk profiles’ for any airline [...]

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal at CPAC Colorado

by T.L. James | 8:18 pm, October 6, 2012

Bobby Jindal’s appearance at CPAC Colorado on Thursday afternoon. My apologies for the shakiness in spots – the mounting plate on my tripod was loose and I didn’t have tools with which to fix it.

Kopel on the Patriot Act

by Jon Caldara | 10:10 am, September 15, 2011

Our resident Constitutional Law and Second Amendment expert Dave Kopel weighed in on the hot issue of personal liberty vs. national security in this issue of La Voz (Colorado’s #1 Hispanic publication). With the passing of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 just days ago, the Patriot Act has taken center stage once again. Take a [...]

Unions & Civil Rights

by Joshua Sharf | 11:29 am, April 18, 2011

One of the themes of April 4th’s Union Rights rallies across the country was the attempt to link state workers’ collective bargaining rights with civil rights.  The date chosen was not only just before the Wisconsin Supreme Court special election, it was also the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, when he was [...]

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