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Slated on Backbone Radio, December 2

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

Friday, Nov. 30, marked the 133rd anniversary Winston S. Churchill’s birth in 1874. “I confess I am quite disheartened about you,” his mother later wrote to the young cavalry officer in India. “You seem to have no real purpose in life and won’t realize at the age of 22 that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed.” Little did she know what his future held: by age 30 he would already be world-famous, a combat veteran several times over, a successful author and lecturer, and a rising member of Parliament. Reading Churchill’s book about those years, “My Early Life,” helped prompt (more…)

(Denver Post, Dec. 2) Midgets everywhere. Rappers, starlets, shrinks, scolds, facilitators, litigators, hustlers, hucksters, victims, vegans. Ours is the age of the shallow, the small, the squalid. Where are the great? “There were giants in the earth in those days,” says Genesis. Granted, every era magnifies the memory of bygone times. But what now passes for excellence in manhood and womanhood, thought and expression, moral and civic life, would make our grandparents shake their heads. (more…)

The Claremont Institute and XJet World hosted a full house as we welcomed J.C. Huizenga, founder of National Heritage Academies, for an executive briefing on educational excellence through entrepreneurship, (more…)

5PM Show Open: John Andrews, Krista Kafer, Joshua Sharf

5:30PM Guest: Bobbie Carson

6PM Guest: Stan Mattson

6:30PM Guests: Jed Babbin

7PM Guest: David Barton

7:30PM Guest: Jim Spencer

“Lies, damned lies, and statistics,” the comment attributed to Mark Twain and Benjamin Disraeli, is typified by today’s government economic stats. (more…)

A remnant, an unbowed faithful few, have rallied to the defense of truth and freedom time and again at critical moments in the history of Western civilization. Anyone who knows history and Scripture knows that. I wrote about it in my latest Denver Post column (above), noting that America’s true patriots are the remnant for our time. This radio program seeks to be a voice for them, on whom so much depends. David Barton of Wall Builders, an authority on our nation’s godly heritage, speaks the language of the remnant. So does Stan Mattson, head of the C.S. Lewis Foundation, active on many campuses. Both will be my guests (more…)

Two turkeys named May and Flower will not be carved up tomorrow after all. They were spared by a mock presidential pardon (more…)

5PM: Mark Hillman, Matt Dunn and guest Allan Jensen

6:30PM Guest: Ward Connerly

7PM : Mark Hillman and Matt Dunn

7:30PM Guest: Jay Ambrose

John: “Gov. Ritter is hell-bent to be green , even if it means tanking the economy. Overreacting wildly to alleged manmade global warming, he announced a sweeping plan to remake our industry, our agriculture, and your lifestyle. Plus, he climbed in bed with Big Labor. Recession, here we come.” So begins the November series of “Head On” debates between former state Sen. John Andrews (R) and former Denver councilwoman Susan Barnes-Gelt (D), seen daily on Colorado Public Television since 1997. (more…)

(Denver Post, Nov. 18) “Out there in Colorado, what is the remnant looking for in a president?” The editor of a conservative magazine had called from Washington to talk about the 2008 race. His question surprised me at first. We’re often considered flyover country by those DC types. But in today’s polarized electorate, Colorado matters more. Gore would have won in 2000 with our handful of electoral votes; Kerry in 2004 with ours and another state our size. A bright teenager knows that much. My friend’s term “the remnant” was less familiar. He didn’t just mean Republicans or conservatives. He meant those of us who care deeply about the Declaration of Independence, (more…)

Slated on Backbone Radio, November 18

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

At the Claremont Institute (whose annual dinner I am attending in California this weekend, missing the radio show), we take the Federalist Papers seriously. Hamilton in No. 78 famously predicted the judiciary would be the “least dangerous branch” of government; he didn’t foresee the god complex that overtook judges in modern times. Judicial term limits are one remedy. (more…)

5PM Show Open: John Andrews, Matt Dunn, Krista Kafer and Jon Caldera

5:30PM Guest: David Harsanyi

6PM Guest: Congressman Tom Tancredo

6:30PM Guests: State Sen. Nancy Spence and State Rep. Ken Lambert

7PM Guest: Joe Ruffini

7:30PM Guest: Brian Kennedy

Paul Campos, the CU law professor and Rocky Mountain News columnist, needs to acquaint himself with James Madison, the father of our Constitution (more…)

The uproar over Governor Ritter’s executive order setting all state employees on a path to unionization has been extraordinary. Business outrage, legislative indignation, (more…)

President Sarkozy’s speech before the U.S. Congress on Nov. 7 certainly sounded very heartening to friends of America in France. Reversing years of efforts by his predecessors (more…)