BackboneAmerica

Slated on Backbone Radio, September 2

Listen every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver.. 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs… and streaming live at 710knus.com.

Labor and liberty are inseparable in our American understanding of human equality and God-given rights. Each person’s ownership of himself and his work-product is foundational to a free society. A day to honor those who do the hard physical work is fine. But the deprivation of economic liberty is nothing to celebrate; it hurts the poorest the most. Michael Reitz, who works on labor issues for the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, understands this. (more…)

“Let justice run down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.” (more…)

A few years ago Prince Charles broached the idea of himself as “Defender of Faith” — as opposed to the monarch’s centuries-old title “Defender of the Faith — (more…)

Here’s the Josh Hager memorial website. My Sunday interview with his dad, Kris, (more…)

Slated on Backbone Radio, August 26

Listen every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver.. 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs… and streaming live at 710knus.com.

“Call me! Please. Is that too much to ask?” So ends one of the most powerful letters to the editor I have ever read. It was a cry from a father’s heart in the Rocky Mountain News one recent morning. (more…)

How about that Dwight Jones? The newly appointed Colorado Education Commissioner, in one of his last official acts as superintendent (more…)

(Lyon, France) Was I too uncompromising in last week’s piece about the challenges facing Nicolas Sarkozy as he embarks on (more…)

Ideal diversity, the quest for a prescribed rainbow of race and ethnicity, is making little headway at CU, (more…)

“Also I will make justice the measuring line,” we read in Isaiah after sadly reading the headlines, (more…)

With summer drawing to a close, flip-flops can still come in handy as philosophical accessories, even if no longer preferred as footwear. (more…)

The verdict on President Bush, his departing strategist Karl Rove, and Republican political hopes is hardly as settled or as negative (more…)

“As the last journey of this faithful pilgrim [has taken] him beyond the sunset… we here still move in twilight, but we have one beacon to guide us that Ronald Reagan never had: we have his example.” (more…)

Writing on Aug. 17, the 30th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death, I’d have to say the US equities bull market has left the building. (And see Aug. 20 update about Fed action, below.) (more…)

Here’s a synopsis of discussions some of us in Denver had with our guest of last week, French filmmaker Pierre Rehov, based on his lifetime of personal experience with Muslims. (more…)

(Denver Post, Aug. 19) “Is it Western hemisphere? Is it Western hemisphere north of the equator?” The inquiry sounded like a game-show contestant trying to buy a clue. Or like your boss going on offense to cover an embarrassment. Unfortunately the questioner was CU Regent Paul Schauer. (more…)