BackboneAmerica

By John Andrews

Important as the 2012 election was, whether Obama beat Romney or vice versa was not going to keep our country from rolling into 2013 faced with the same ominous symptoms of decline. Another centennial for the USA is far from assured. Maybe our country will be around to celebrate 2076, but maybe America’s goodness and glory will be but a sad memory by then. Historians warn that great nations undo themselves with moral and fiscal laxity after about 250 years. My timely book, Responsibility Reborn: A Citizen’s Guide to the Next American Century, looks at our chances More >

(Denver Post, Apr. 28) Watch closely as the legislature enters its final ten days of the 2013 session. This year is shaping up as a game-changer for the way Coloradans govern ourselves and seek the common good. Over the decades, we’ve seen a Republican-led House and Senate confronting a Democratic governor, and vice versa. We’ve seen More >

Colorado is not better off as the legislative session wraps up with Democrats having pushed through a hard-left agenda, says John Andrews in the April round of Head On TV debates. Susan Barnes-Gelt disagrees, lauding the session as enlightened and pragmatic. John on the right, Susan on the left, also go at it this month More >

After weeks of uncivil wrangling, the Democrat-controlled state legislature passed a flurry of gun-control bills. The purported justification for violating our Second Amendment rights
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President Obama insists that America is not exceptional. Yet for his flawed economic policies to work, he must rely on
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Friends have asked how I am voting. Here’s the rundown for what it’s worth.
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Centennial’s city council, at its 13 August meeting, authorized a November ballot proposal allowing the city to “retain and spend excess revenues.” TABOR, our Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights
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Western Conservative Summit 2012, Centennial Institute’s third annual rally on the right, drew 1500 delegates for a stellar speaker lineup at the Denver Hyatt on June 29-July 1. From Glenn Beck’s opening speech
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I will vote for Brian Davidson in the Republican primary for CU Regent. After earlier endorsing Matt Arnold,
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Have you observed two reoccurring events in the news?  First, there is murder followed by a suicide.  Is this the result
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I’m a no-vote on Prop 103, and so should you be. The ballot issue raising Colorado’s income tax rate and sales tax rate
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Despite the wrong-headed Colorado statute barring party affiliations from the ballot in local elections, we all know it matters a lot
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Do you agree that Americans must revive responsibility or lose our liberty, as John Andrews warns in his new book Responsibility Reborn? Then join us when
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