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“Conservative gathering, liberal dose of pessimism,” was the headline over a Mar. 28 story on the previous night’s panel hosted by (more…)

Garbage in, garbage out, was my reaction on reading the environmental love song by one Richard Anthes in the Denver Post, Mar. 29. (more…)

“Are bloggers journalists?” asked media critic Jason Salzman on the Rocky’s opinion page, Mar. 29. Some are, some aren’t, he answered (more…)

Slated on Backbone Radio, March 30

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It’s said that elections turn on voters’ perception of which candidate and party owns the future, which message convinces us of a better tomorrow. In 2008, a rocky economy and an unpopular war would appear to favor the out party, the Democrats. Yet the message is only as good as the messenger, and right now both Barack and Hillary seem to be prisoners of their distasteful past. By contrast McCain, the old, crusty, uneloquent white guy, looks to an American future of strength, (more…)

Don’t look for author Matt Miller to be a featured speaker at any school board conferences for a while, not after his recent, much-discussed Atlantic Monthly article entitled “First, Kill All the School Boards.” (more…)

Obama on the campaign trail isn’t practicing what he preached (pun intended) in last week’s widely praised speech (more…)

So goes the joke: If you’re freezing and starving in the dark because the green movement made energy and food ever more expensive, (more…)

(Oklahoma Perspective, Feb. 2008) Which side of the political divide has the entitlement mentality? Democrats and liberals, of course. It’s our friends on the left, as everyone knows, who assume that money grows on trees, benefits rain down like manna, risk protection is for worry warts, hard work and deferred gratification are passe’. While that’s often true, we on the right have entitlement egg on our faces today. Ask Dennis Hastert, Bill Frist, and the late Republican Congress. A funny thing happened on the way to that permanent GOP majority (more…)

Obama failed to explain how a church can harmonize Wright’s “God damn America” with Christ’s “blessed are the peacemakers.” My own limited experience worshiping in a black inner-city church has been diametrically different. Rather than Wright’s hateful condemnation of white people, the message at this church contained not a tinge of racial exclusivity. (more…)

Weak, indecisive, ineffective, directionless, no clout, poorly staffed — those are some of the descriptions of Bill Ritter (more…)

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5PM Show Open: John Andrews, Joshua Sharf, Karen Kataline

5:30PM Guest: Adam Schrager

6PM Guest: Rich Martinez

6:30PM Guests: Rudy Rasmus