The “Head On” debate between former state Sen. John Andrews (R) and former Denver councilwoman Susan Barnes-Gelt (D), seen daily on Colorado Public Television since 1997, began its July series this week. Andrews said Independence Day is mocked if our borders aren’t secured. Other topics this month include chaos in Gaza, dark horses for 2008, Denver’s “Greenprint” folly, and offbeat summer leisure ideas. (more…)
Former Colorado Sen. President John Andrews, the proponent of last year’s costly and contentious “Limit The Judges” proposal to place term limits on the state’s top judges, isn’t wavering in his efforts, Law Week Colorado found during a recent interview. (more…)
By Dave Petteys (dpetteys@comcast.net)
If there were a catastrophic attack on the United States tomorrow, many patriots would hope this would finally unite the country in the face of a radical Islamist enemy who have publicly announced their intention to destroy us. Unfortunately, I no longer believe this to be the case. (more…)
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The amnesty immigration bill we hoped was dead earlier this month is once more on the brink of Senate passage. The week of June 6, D-Day, brought elation for secure borders advocates. Now there’s a powerful counter-offensive, much like the Bulge of late 1944, and we the people must win the battle against the political fixers all over again. (more…)
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Father’s Day 2007 fills me with gratitude for my dad, John K. Andrews (1920-1998). All that he taught by precept and example to me, my brother and sisters; the protection and provision he gave us; his long devoted partnership with our mother; and his manly faith in the God of the Bible — this heritage from “Cap,” as thousands of kids at summer camp called him, gives me wealth beyond gold and much to live up to.
How tragic and troubling that America in this new century sees almost half its children born to single mothers, with no dad at all to help them grow up. The fatherless kids in some minority groups are now closer to two-thirds. And the problem is worse when effects of the divorce epidemic are factored in. (more…)
By David Petteys (dpetteys@comcast.net)
The golden age for ancient Israel was the united kingdom under King David and his son Solomon. It lasted less than a 100 years. It fractured when Solomon’s son tried to impose an unreasonable agenda on the Northern Kingdoms. In analogy, has not the American golden age been the last 100 years of a united and prosperous United States? But are not the pieces in place for its dissolution over the next couple of generations? (more…)
(Andrews in the Denver Post and on Townhall.com) Can a good Muslim be a good American? Brian, a constitutional scholar, put the question to Michael, a national security expert, as we passed the Washington office of Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim to serve there. Ellison’s decision to be sworn in on the Quran still echoes controversially.
Holy war proclaimed against the United States in the name of Islam by Osama bin Laden in 1996 was not taken seriously until his terrorists struck here in 2001, shouting Allah’s name as they died. Even since then, President Bush has insisted Islam is a religion of peace and the global jihad is a perversion. But is it? Coloradans need to ask ourselves. (more…)
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President Bush is powerful. Kennedy and Reid and the Senate Democrats are powerful. Arizona Republican senators McCain and Kyl are powerful. RNC chairman and Florida senator Mel Martinez is powerful. But you know what? We the people are more powerful.
We spoke these past three weeks, and our message of no amnesty for illegal aliens, no sellout of law-abiding Americans to coddle foreign lawbreakers, prevailed decisively in Thursday night’s US Senate vote to all but kill the Bush-Kennedy-McCain immigration bill. (more…)
By Dave Petteys (dpetteys@comcast.net)
The bottom line on immigration is that the Progressives wish to import 35 million poor people to vote Democratic. This would give the Progressives absolute control of the country. And as happens in most situations like this, once the Progressives gain power by the ballot, they will change the rules to make their grasp on power permanent. Hitler did this with his “Enabling Act” and so did Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. All it would take is a Progressive-packed Supreme Court that would reinterpret the First Amendment to make criticism of government officials felonious prohibited “hate speech”. Then, opposition parties, talk show hosts, newspapers and TV stations, and websites that didn’t hold the Progressive view could be suppressed. (more…)
Liberal media hitman Jason Salzman used his Rocky Mountain News column on May 12 to call me a hypocrite and a flip-flopper for opposing Bill Ritter’s $1.8 billion property tax increase this year, after being on record with a yes vote for a similar proposal in the Senate in 2004. In today’s column he ups the ante by suggesting the whole affair proves me a liar. Jason, Jason — are you and the Dems really that panicked about the damage this huge, unconstitutional tax hike may do with voters in the 2008 election? Apparently so. (more…)
By Karen Kataline (kaykat73@aol.com)
I know it’s a stinky subject but the recent acquittal of Kathleen Ensz, of a criminal charge, for filling a political mailer with dog feces and returning it to Marilyn Musgrave’s office, got me thinking. Underneath the sheer entertainment value of reporting on the extent of political “dung-slinging” lies a profoundly serious issue. Ensz was acquitted on the grounds of free speech. But what exactly does that mean nowadays? We are living in a time when words are increasingly punished and seen as “violence” — while actions, which used to be the only thing punishable by the courts, are now defined as speech and protected accordingly. (more…)
Yep, it’s true, I told Hugh Hewitt during the 5 o’clock hour on his national radio show today: I write a Sunday column for the liberal Denver Post, and now I’ll be doing political commentary for denverpost.com as 2008 approaches. We conservatives are out to reclaim the Post little by little, I added.
Hewitt had said on the air that if John from Backbone Radio was listening, I should call in with comments about last night’s Republican debate — which I immediately did. My comments were at the ready as a result of having live-blogged the debate with four other Post pundits. (more…)
By Krista Kafer (krista555@msn.com)
I don’t like McMansions – those pretentious, overbuilt houses parked on a crust of a yard within spitting distance of the next near-identical house. I’m not into bland or beige or three-car Garage Mahals. I’m wary of McMansion neighborhoods where I feel like I’m on the set of the Stepford Wives, only super-sized. I imagine a homeowners’ association, in the dark lair of a fully finished basement, churning out smiling replica families complete with shiny-coated Weimaraners and wintergreen SUVs. Yikes! Get me out of here! Take me back to the days of my childhood when this blighted land was untilled prairie where red foxes hunted, prairie dogs barked and hawks circled on the warm summer air. (more…)
By Brian Ochsner (baochsner@aol.com)
At this time of year, Memorial Day and now D-Day, we reflect upon the sacrifices that soldiers have made for our country. It’s also good to look back at our economic history, review our successes and make sure we don’t repeat our mistakes. The Democrat-controlled Congress now appears bent on repeating the disastrous economic blunders of the late 1920′s and early 1930′s. Namely, believing that higher import tariffs and income tax rates will make our economy more robust and ‘protect’ American jobs and incomes from foreign competition. That’s like strangling the goose who lays the golden eggs. I’ll tell you which two senators are today’s Smoot and Hawley, and why this kind of misguided thinking is dangerous for America’s economy. (more…)
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“None of the above” seems to be gaining support in both political parties as the 2008 presidential marathon continues. Discontent with the existing candidates has people buzzing about the opportunity for a late entry and meteoric rise by Fred Thompson for the GOP or Al Gore for the Dems.
On the Republican side, it’s now doubtful President Bush (if eligible to run again) could even get the nomination, let alone be reelected. So badly has he “torn the conservative coalition asunder,” according to a grim piece by Peggy Noonan in the WSJ on Friday. (more…)