Occupy Wall Street, corporate greed, income equality, and democracy

by Brian T. Schwartz | 5:30 am, October 10, 2011

Published in the Boulder Daily Camera: The “Occupy Wall Street” protesters’ opposition of corporate greed and demands for democracy and income equality are misguided. Continue reading →

Independence Institute Writers In The News

by Mike Krause | 9:33 am, May 6, 2011

ObamaCare health exchanges, our fiscally irresponsible Congress and overcriminalization in Colorado are all topics of published work by Independence Institute writers this week.
First, check out research associate and health care blogger Brian Schwartz in the Denver Post as he warns us against getting mugged by a politically controlled insurance exchange.
Then check out Mothers Against Debt [...]

Check Out The Audio Of Our Sentencing Reform Panel Event

by Mike Krause | 2:21 pm, February 15, 2011

In early February, the Independence Institute, the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, and the Pew Center on the States held a panel event on the ongoing work of the Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice (CCJJ) and the prospects for criminal sentencing, parole, and other criminal justice related reforms in the 2011 Colorado General [...]

Independence Institute Event: Sentencing Reform In The 2011 Colorado General Assembly

by Mike Krause | 5:16 pm, January 9, 2011

State spending does not drive the prison population.  Rather, just like an entitlement, the prison population drives state spending.  The legislature’s ability to affect the prison caseload, and thus the corrections budget, rests in its prerogative to write, and when necessary, re-write the state’s criminal sentencing and parole laws and policies.
In 2010, Colorado lawmakers passed [...]

Prop 102 A Danger To Liberty; Antithetical To Principle Of ‘Presumed Innocent’

by Mike Krause | 10:56 am, October 29, 2010

Independence Institute Research Director and Constitutional Law Professor Dave Kopel explains why Colorado Proposition 102 is, among many other terrible things, “The Red Queen’s justice from Alice in Wonderland: punishment first, trial afte…

Stop! (the Supremes) in the Name of Love…

by The Peripatetic Pundit | 6:15 pm, March 19, 2009

 The Colorado Supreme Court has trampled our Constitution one too many times… This is a rogue court, populated with partisan “justices” with no respect for justice or the rule of law.  This partisan court violated accepted legal practice in ignoring the “findings of fact” of the trial court which heard the case and ruled (correctly) on [...]

Obama, Holder shift on Guantanamo detainee policy incoherent, inconsistent, and dangerous

by Captain Arapahoe | 8:20 pm, March 15, 2009

In a dramatic break with longstanding U.S. government policy and well-established interpretations of the laws of war, the Obama administration (Holder Justice Department) announced Friday afternoon (a time when government officials announce policy changes they hope will be ignored or buried by the news media) that it will abandon the use of the term “enemy [...]

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