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7:30PM Guest: Jay Ambrose

6:30PM Guests: Andrew Campenella

6PM Guest: Krista Kafer and Matt Dunn

5:30PM Guest: Richard Westfall

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5PM Show Open: Krista Kafer and Matt Dunn

5:30PM Guest: Richard Westfall

6PM Guest: Krista Kafer and Matt Dunn

6:30PM Guests: Andrew Campenella

7:30PM Guest: Jay Ambrose

It is a faint memory now, but at the height of the civil rights revolution in the 1950s and 1960s, advocates contended for a color-blind society (more…)

My support for Wil Armstrong in the 6th CD received a semi-amen and lengthy quotations in this week’s endorsement editorial (more…)

Slated on Backbone Radio, July 27

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In America these days, who owns hope? Barack Obama the apostle of it and Bill Clinton the native of it, dreamers of the left? Not on your life. Hope in America and America the hope of the world belong to those who have always cherished them: the patriots of liberty, the heirs of Lincoln and Washington. Since I can’t talk with you on the radio this weekend — taking a little time off — let me invite you instead to read “American Hope 2050,” my newly published manifesto on a conservative vision for the 21st century. (more…)

With conservatives heavy-hearted all across the country about their choices and chances in the 2008 campaign, we in Colorado can relate. Our lean times started several years ago. The answer lies in looking not just to next November, but to a longer horizon: even to mid-century. Will America remain the hope of the world as these decades unfold? Conservatives tend to believe it will; liberals dissent. Long before hope became a cheap thing, a racket on the left, it was a noble thing on the right, as Lincoln and Washington well knew. The latter wrote: “The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.” That’s the real meaning of hope in our tradition. (more…)

“They don’t like our Constitution,” asserted Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco. That incredible remark, uttered on television (more…)

To tag so-called progressives as reactionaries seems an oxymoron, but that precisely describes the liberals’ outmoded, illogical (more…)

Republicans have an important choice to make in the 6th CD primary for a successor to Tom Tancredo. Wil Armstrong gets my vote. (more…)

7:30PM Guest: Ward Connerly

7PM Guest: John Fonte