What’s Wrong with the Colorado GOP?

by Bob Adelmann | 1:18 am, March 7, 2013

by Bob Adelmann John Ransom thinks he knows. He’s been inside the beast and the picture isn’t pretty.  Ransom used to be active in Colorado politics and knows personally both aspirants to become chairman of the state’s GOP. He likes them both, and considers each of them friends. But friends is friends and business is [...]

Kopel Goes to Washington

by Jon Caldara | 4:14 pm, January 30, 2013

Our resident genius and Second Amendment scholar Dave Kopel was in Washington DC this morning to testify on gun violence, public safety, and the right to arms. He was on a panel of five experts who each gave a 5 minute prepared statement and then fielded questions from the US Senate Judiciary Committee.
Here is [...]

This is News? Senate to Pass A Budget

by Randall Smith | 10:30 pm, January 20, 2013

You know there’s a problem when the idea that the Senate will pass a budget is news.

“We Democrats have always intended to do a budget this year,” [Senator Chuck] Schumer claimed, reiterating that the Democrats’ budget will raise taxes while offerin…

Solving the Fiscal Cliff Crisis: Extend and Pretend

by Bob Adelmann | 2:05 pm, November 12, 2012

Schiff is a realist. I, on the other hand, am an optimist.

Obama’s Support for the UN Arms Treaty is Back On

by Bob Adelmann | 12:46 pm, November 12, 2012

At least Obama is consistent. Adolph Hitler wrote: “The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms.”

CBO All But Guarantees Fiscal Cliff Gridlock

by Bob Adelmann | 6:31 pm, November 11, 2012

When an irresistable force meets an immovable object, it’s called gridlock.

More Positives from Tuesday’s Election

by Bob Adelmann | 5:32 pm, November 10, 2012

It was not an unmitigated disaster after all.

If Obama Wins, He’ll Be the Lamest Duck in History

by Bob Adelmann | 9:11 am, October 31, 2012

Dan McLaughlin, writing at RedState.com on Monday, brought up a very good point: What if Obama loses the popular vote but wins in the Electoral College? He’ll be an emasculated duck. Barack Obama is trying to do something no president has ever done: get re-elected without winning the national popular vote.  If he were to [...]

How Many “Fiscal Cliff” Scenarios Are There?

by Bob Adelmann | 3:13 pm, October 30, 2012

In his blog at MarketWatch over the weekend, Robert Schroeder reviewed five possible outcomes to the challenge of the “fiscal cliff” and concluded that only one was truly catastrophic: Simply letting the Bush-era income tax cuts expire and allowing billions of dollars of spending cuts to kick in would actually be the easiest thing to [...]

The Inevitable Tax Increase No One Is Talking About

by Bob Adelmann | 3:41 pm, October 27, 2012

There’s zero likelihood that this tax increase will be stopped. No one wants to talk about it. It has been avoided in the debates like the plague. No politician who I know of has mentioned it. It has public support from those who are dependent on it. Resistance is futile. It’s the Social Security payroll tax [...]

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