It seems my friend Gov. Bill Owens got carried away in addressing the Referendum C & D event at Children’s Hospital last week. Perhaps trying to get the rhetoric down to kid level, he told the bipartisan tax rally, according to Mike Littwin of the Rocky, “We love Colorado, and we’re not going to let them take it away from us.” (more…)
(Jessica Corry in the Colorado Daily, Aug. 25) Maybe I was offered this newspaper column because I’m a conservative. Maybe it was because of my gender or because of my race. I guess I never asked why I was hired. I was just happy to get the job.
Maybe I should have asked. According to the Urban League, America’s media establishment is racist. In its recent well-publicized report, titled “Sunday Morning Apartheid,” the League laments “under-representation” of black panelists on the nation’s top five Sunday morning political talk shows. (more…)
By Krista Kafer krista555@msn.com
… and some builders don’t like what they see. The Denver Post reports that Aurora developers are planning to create their own schools apart from the Aurora Public School District (APS) in order to attract buyers. Good schools are important to consumers and APS – a district with more than half of its schools rated “low” on the state’s School Accountability Reports – isn’t always a hit with the developers’ clientele. (more…)
By Jeremy Schupbach jshoebox@mac.com
Whatever its chances of ratification over strong Sunni opposition, the new Iraqi constitution bears close study by you and me as Americans. It appears that Islam will provide a basis for law in the new Iraq. But will that be enough to hold together a fledgling democracy? (more…)
by Brian Ochsner baochsner@aol.com
Here’s a story on Yahoo! Finance that explains why I’m against governments increasing their borrowing and spending abilities, like Referendums C & D would do. I realize the public and private sectors are different. However, the results that come from out-of-control borrowing and spending are the same — bad ones.
By Brad Jones brad@jones.name
Leftists often believe they can win an argument by parroting any number of mantras in rapid succession, such as “Bush lied, people died,” “American oppression,” or my favorite and most succinct, “racist!”
Everyday examples – I’m writing this as I visit the People’s Republic of Boulder – are abundant. In an increasingly crowded media environment, such political sentiments need to fit on bumper stickers, and there’s no better place to admire bumper-sticker culture than Boulder. (more…)
By Dave Crater: crater@wilberforcecenter.org
“There was no controlling authority, no precedent to follow; this was a purely utilitarian ruling,” the law professor argued earnestly of Pierson v. Post, a standard case studied by first-year law students everywhere. Post and his hounds were chasing a fox in the Year of Our Lord 1805 across unoccupied New York countryside; Pierson, not of the Post party, rudely interrupted the fun by shooting and possessing the fox.
Post, perhaps possessing a few more free moments at that point in life than is healthy, sued to recover the fox. The case started in Queens County but was appealed to the Supreme Court of New York, which is New York’s name for its lowest-level state court – a classic Empire State oxymoron on par with “The Honorable Mrs. Clinton.” (more…)
By Jeremy Schupbach jshoebox@mac.com
Fareed Zakaria’s Newsweek piece is well worth reading as an analysis of the foreign policy implications of America’s dependence on foreign oil. Zakaria, is dead on in his dissection of the problem, namely that our dependence on foreign oil is crippling our foreign policy. He argues that the money and energy being spent advancing our foreign agenda is nothing compared to the money and energy being pumped right back into the regions we are so rightly trying to change. We are frustrating our own agenda.
It’s a great piece, but then he jumps ship and blames SUVs. No kidding. So I’m going to help the guy out. (more…)
Back to school we go, everybody from kindergartners to grad students. No educational institution in the country greets the fall term with more at stake than the University of Colorado. That will be our leadoff topic this Sunday on “Backbone Radio with John Andrews.”
Hank Brown, CU’s interim president, took the job this month with all eyes upon him. The university has been through stormy times with athletic and alcohol scandals, budget problems, and the disgraceful Prof. Ward Churchill. Brown’s leadership credentials from the US Senate and a previous university presidency will be tested at Boulder as never before. (more…)
(John Andrews debating Susan Barnes-Gelt on Colorado Public Television, Aug. 23) “The heroism of Casey Sheehan, an American patriot, is dishonored by the ravings of Cindy Sheehan, an America-hater. She calls our country fascist and our president a terrorist. That’s moral idiocy. She thinks the actual fascists, Bin Laden and his Islamic holy warriors, can be appeased by American surrender. That’s a prescription for national suicide. Stay the course, America. Stay the course.”
That was my closing argument in the Iraq/Sheehan segment of our latest Head On TV taping, Tuesday at Channel 12 in Denver. It will air on KBDI-12 and its statewide affiliates in daily rotation with four other topics for the coming month. Those topics are Judge Roberts’ nomination to the Supreme Court, Colorado’s proposed tax increase, illegal immigration, and the 2006 governor’s race. Click for airtimes. Here is the full script. (more…)
By Jessica & Rob Corry jessicapeckcorry@yahoo.com
David Lane, media spinster and attorney to the Far Left, has finally come to a point where he can spin no more. He and his client, Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado’s America-hating professor of the moment, laughably claimed “victory” yesterday upon learning that CU will move forward with its investigation into the professor’s professional incompetence and fraud. Nice try, Mr Lane, but no sale. (more…)
By Dave Crater, crater@wilberforcecenter.org
The “separation of church and state” crusade is joined every day in courtrooms across the land, but today in especially interesting fashion in North Carolina. Front page news says Chief N.C. District Court Judge Joseph Turner interpreted a reference in state law requiring witnesses to place their hand on the “holy scriptures” as, to everyone’s amazement, the Bible. (more…)
By Brian Ochsner, baochsner@aol.com
I got a good chuckle from the latest radio ad promoting Referendum C &D. If you believed it, folks at the Claremont Institute, Independence Institute – and others against C & D – are a bunch of out-of-touch, stuffy, publicly-funded elitists. They’re glad to see criminals let out of jail, and let college tuition costs go thru the roof. But in reality, that’s the furthest thing from the truth. (more…)
(John Andrews in the Denver Post, August 21) A notable birthday occurs in Colorado this week. Adventure Unlimited, the Denver-based youth organization and summer camp, is turning 50 years old. Hundreds of people from several countries will gather to celebrate at what was once my parents’ ranch in Buena Vista. It’s an occasion that has everything to do with what our family is about, who I’ve turned out to be, so with your indulgence this column will be rather personal. (more…)
“We thought it was worth reminding people that the Democratic Party brand [of bigger government] is strongly stamped on this proposal,” I told the Rocky Mountain News on Wednesday. Wow. Never was there a better illustration that the truth hurts.
We at Backbone America put up a cheery little radio ad complimenting the Democrats on their unanimous support for higher taxes and deeper debt under Referendum C & D, and they go nutzo. (more…)