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Slated on Backbone Radio, September 30

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

It’s true, I did spend the past few days in New Hampshire, including a visit to little Dixville Notch, famed for casting and counting its ballots before anyone else in the nation, minutes after midnight on primary and general election day in presidential years. But this doesn’t mean I’m running for anything. (more…)

When a gang of “chip on their shoulders” black youth terrorize and beat white kids, it’s called an “expression of ethnic identity”. (more…)

“Nixon’s the One,” brags a faded 1968 campaign poster in the political museum that is my basement. Scoffers mocked the boast, (more…)

Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-CO5) couldn’t have known when he first waded into Colorado politics over a decade ago (more…)

On Sept. 17, the 220th anniversary of the US Constitution, I had the great privilege to talk to two separate fourth-grade classes at Summit Elementary, (more…)

Last week I was on the Auraria campus of CU-Denver a couple of times for notable events. On Sept. 11, President Hank Brown launched a new lecture series (more…)

Slated on Backbone Radio, September 23

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

Declaring himself “unmoved” by the current field of Republican candidates, among whom “there isn’t a standout,” Alan Keyes launched a third long-shot bid for President this week. Newt Gingrich has also been talking down the GOP contenders, saying a Dem victory is 80% likely. After holding his “American solutions” national town meeting (more…)

Old media and new or alternative media are one pair of names by which we feel our way toward a workable description of America’s info-saturation (more…)

“Fred Thompson has done nothing, anywhere, ever,” wrote National Review’s Rick Brookhiser on their group blog, The Corner, (more…)

“We are all Americans!” proclaimed the uncharacteristic but dramatic and poignant headline in Le Monde, France’s left-wing newspaper, on Sept. 12, 2001, (more…)

(Townhall.com 9/15 & Denver Post 9/16)
Victory Memo for the Candidate:

Sir, as a Republican seeking the presidency, you obviously would never consider a plan that risks losing the war in Iraq or the wider war against radical Islam, in pursuit of winning the 2008 election. Unlike the Democrats bent on taking the White House at any cost, you wouldn’t calculate (as Rep. James Clyburn did) that political success requires military failure. So our double goal must be victory for your candidacy and for this country against its jihadist enemy. (more…)

Slated on Backbone Radio, September 16

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

What? “General Betray Us?” The notorious MoveOn.org ad in Monday’s New York Times, apparently subsidized by the Times itself to the tune of $102,000, shows the surrender lobby and its Democrat allies reaching a new low.
The defeatist complaint against America’s distinguished commander in the Iraq War, Gen. David Petraeus, seems to be that unyielding determination to see our country win on the battlefield is now a betrayal of the national interest. (more…)

Tom Tancredo’s underdog campaign for President has its own version of the 300 made famous in the movie of that name about ancient Greece. They are the 400 who (more…)

Constitution Day student conference registration is here. Charles Kesler on what’s next in Iraq, this link. Mark Hillman on the Ref C money shuffle, oped from Friday’s Rocky. Plus that nagging lecture set to music, Total Momsense. Thanks for listening to Backbone Radio!

Upon waking this coming Tuesday, I will think aloud: “Today is 9/11. Today is a sad day. Today is the saddest day of the year.” That fateful September 11th six years ago, at about four in the afternoon here in France, I remember (more…)