BackboneAmerica

By John Andrews

Will the USA be around to celebrate 2076? Or will America’s goodness and glory be but a sad memory to our grandchildren? Historians warn that great nations undo themselves with moral and fiscal laxity after about 250 years. My new book, Responsibility Reborn: A Citizen’s Guide to the Next American Century, looks at our chances More >

(Denver Post, Apr. 29) If I undertook to write about partisan politics for dummies, I’d immediately have your attention. Many people think that’s all partisan politics is for. It’s everyone’s favorite punching bag.But I’ll argue that partisan politics is forever with us and a good thing, so we may disagree. At least if we avoid capital letters, there’s no trademark rub More >

The President has failed on national security and can’t credibly campaign as a tough guy, says John Andrews in the May round of Head On TV debates. Just the opposite, replies Susan Barnes-Gelt: in eliminating bin Laden and removing Qadhafi, Obama has proved the strongest commander-in-chief since FDR. John on the right, Susan on the left, also go at it this month More >

In the statewide race to tilt CU’s board of regents rightward, not only by replacing a D with an R but also by making sure the R is a fighting conservative,
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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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President Obama has joined Mexico’s side by suing Arizona for trying to protect its borders. He has joined unions in opposing the governor of Wisconsin,
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President Obama proclaimed that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which states that marriage is between one man
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Republicans in the state Senate and House huddled with Tea Party leaders on Jan. 6, just hours after my column
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Bob McConnell, who twice in the past five months told Republicans in western Colorado he was their man for high office, today set some kind of record by quitting the party
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Some timeless wisdom for Obama: “This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership.
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