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Slated on Backbone Radio, March 2

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

If only pigs had wings and wishes were horses. If only water wouldn’t wet us and fire wouldn’t burn us. If only. Wishful thinking may sustain an open borders policy, a blind eye to radical Islam, cheap money, Obamania, and other fantasies of liberalism — but reality won’t. Kipling diagnosed all of it long ago in “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” (see below). That classic conservative poem is on my mind this week with the passing of William F. Buckley Jr., (more…)

(Denver Post, Mar. 2) “The Idea of a University” is the title of a classic work by the scholar and churchman John Henry Newman. Recently it has also been the subject of a contentious public seminar polarizing Coloradans. Some acted as if the University of Colorado belongs exclusively to under-age students, self-important faculty, and the Democratic Party. Others saw the idea of a university as involving a civic trusteeship and the transmission of truth, (more…)

If you lie awake at night anguishing over unemployed trial lawyers, you must be a Democrat politician. (more…)

Centennial Home Rule is a bad idea. Establishing home rule grants the city more power (more…)

“Our next president will need to exercise leadership to defeat radical Jihadists, perhaps the most important national security challenge facing our nation” said Congressman Pete Hoekstra during a Michigan speaking tour (more…)

6PM Guest: James Bennett

5:30PM Guest: Nicholas Wapshott

5PM Show Open: John Andrews, Joshua Sharf and Kathleen LeCrone

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5PM Show Open: John Andrews, Joshua Sharf and Kathleen LeCrone

5:30PM Guest: Nicholas Wapshott

6PM Guest: James Bennett

Here are the followup directory and links for John Andrews’ legislative special on 710 KNUS. Make your voice heard today! (more…)

Centennial’s elected treasurer warns that elimination of her position under the proposed city charter would result in less protection for taxpayers. (more…)

It’s not hard to forecast how we will deal with this new supposedly “pro-West” Muslim country. The flood of jihad fighters, (more…)

In the ever-changing kaleidoscope of American education reform we have lately seen, from the local to the national level, (more…)

Today is a tough anniversary for Kris Hager, a Gold Star father in Pueblo West and a good friend of Backbone America. (more…)

Slated on Backbone Radio, February 24

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

What? A parallel system of laws in Britain so Muslims there could live by sharia and opt out of human rights as understood in Western civilization? Has the head of the Church of England lost it? No, the head had not lost his head in making this craven suggestion the other day. He had lost his backbone, and you wonder how many of his countrymen still have theirs. (more…)