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SuicideKillers.com is one of the films I previewed at the Arapahoe Republican breakfast on Oct. 31. ObsessiontheMovie.com is the other. NYPD report on home-grown jihadists (more…)

Authors: J.B. McCoy & Mark Brennan

After publishing our Backbone voter guide with skeptical comments about Centennial’s home rule plan and council insiders, (more…)

Even though the Federal Reserve will probably treat Americans to an interest rate cut on Halloween, the goblins of massive debt (more…)

Backbone friends heard it first: US Rep. Tom Tancredo’s “utterly obvious” intention to leave Congress after his current term (more…)

Slated on Backbone Radio, October 28

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

Our World Series pregame edition will be live at five to talk with Heather O’Mara of Hope Academy Online about web-based charter schools for those inner-city kids who are too often left behind… with Richard Allen about the old days with Reagan and the uncertain days of 2008… plus a conversation on baseball and politics with liberal commentator Jim Spencer. (more…)

If you believe with America’s founders that our rights come from God, then government exists not to create but only to secure them. (more…)

As the prattle in France about consumers’ perceived loss of purchasing power reveals, discredited Keynesian and Marxist economic fallacies die hard in old Europe. (more…)

On Fox News the other night, Oct. 19, there was a discussion between Greta Van Susteren and Laura Ingraham about “Girls Gone Wild,” (more…)

Backbone audiophiles can now listen at any time, on this site, to the complete recording of each week’s Sunday radio show with John Andrews, (more…)

5PM Show open: John Andrews, Matt Dunn, and Joshua Sharf

5:30PM Guest: Joseph C. Phillips

6PM Guests: State Representative Rob Witwer and State Senator Josh Penry

6:30PM Guest: Bob Woodson

7PM Guest: Bob Howsam

7:30PM Guest: Marc Prowisor

When my friend, former US Rep. Bob Schaffer, asked me to lead the Pledge of Allegiance in the name of Franco-American friendship (more…)

Slated on Backbone Radio, October 21

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

Yes, we’re a political show and proud of it. But we wouldn’t miss the chance to talk baseball, the supreme subject of the hour here in Colorado, on the eve of the dazzling Rockies’ first trip to the World Series. It will be my honor, and your treat, to have sports legend Bob Howsam on the show this Sunday. Howsam has been in the middle of baseball (and football) locally since he ran the old Denver Bears in 1948. After helping found the Broncos and their league, the AFL, Bob became St. Louis Cardinals GM in midseason 1964 as they pulled a pennant upset, (more…)

Why this column freaked out the Dems: Click here.

(Denver Post, Oct. 21) Has your ballot come in the mail yet? Mine just did. Yes, it’s a local election year – even though we’re already tired of the presidential candidates wooing us for next year, and still getting used to the new governor we elected last year. Two things concern me here. First, the candidates for city council and school board are a generic list, lacking the party labels we see when electing county commissioners, sheriffs and district attorneys, or state and federal officials. Second, I’m bothered that the ballot came in the mail at all. (more…)

As noted in my current Denver Post column, it seems local elections are deliberately obscure and confusing. After all, cui bono, who benefits? (more…)

The Colorado Civil Rights Initiative, which Ward Connerly told us is now petitioning for the 2008 ballot after a close call (more…)