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(Denver Post, Sept. 19) “It is essential to liberty,” wrote Madison in Federalist No. 52, “that the government should have a common interest with the people; an immediate dependence on, and an intimate sympathy with the people.” And what did he say is the only way to secure that? “Frequent elections, unquestionably.” We saw a perfect example of Madison’s point, and a beautiful thing it was, the other day when Sen. Michael Bennet and Reps. Betsy Markey and John Salazar, Democrats all, dived off the Obama bandwagon on his ill-conceived $50 billion Son of Stimulus plan (more…)

7:30PM Walker Stapleton and Scott Gessler

7PM Jason Clark

6:30PM Dan Maes and Tom Tancredo

6PM Sally Pipes

5:30PM Holland Taylor

Show Open 5PM John Andrews, Mic partner Kathleen LeCrone, and guest Matt Dunn

Show Open 5PM John Andrews, Mic partner Kathleen LeCrone, and guest Matt Dunn
5:30PM Holland Taylor
6PM Sally Pipes
6:30PM Dan Maes and Tom Tancredo
7PM Jason Clark
7:30PM Walker Stapleton and Scott Gessler

A 2010 Republican Survival Plan
By John Andrews

With reluctance, I will cast no vote for the office of Governor of Colorado in this year’s general election. The choices are so unsatisfactory that I cannot in good conscience put my moral weight behind any of them. When my fellow citizens have made their choice on Nov. 2, no matter who wins, our state will be looking at a seriously flawed claimant to head the executive branch for the next four years. I say this without personal disrespect to any of the candidates. And I am confident that our constitutionally resilient self-government will come through the next governor’s term all right, (more…)

Does your college lean left while calling itself Christian? Is your church politically liberal though biblically solid? Engage them in a dialogue (more…)

(Denver Post, Sept. 5) “McInnis: A Jobs Governor,” say the bus benches and billboards that were to give the former GOP congressman a lift toward November after he won in August; only he lost. Still you see the slogan everywhere, as sad as a Christmas tree in spring, a reminder of how strange politics can be. Meanwhile the finalists for senator forge into fall with their own bizarre blemishes left over from summer – Democrat Michael Bennet alleged to have been a corporate looter, Republican Ken Buck scolded for joking that “I don’t wear high heels.” (more…)

By Tom Graham
Why is the FasTracks fiasco still with us, when the studies and reports of the regional and transportation districts themselves, the federal watchdog agency, and the advice of experienced transit experts say that bus rapid transit is superior to rail in every way? Following is the whole picture. Those who read and assimilate this analysis will have passed the definitive course on RTD and FasTracks. (more…)

This morning I called Dan Maes to withdraw my endorsement and urge him to end his candidacy, for the public good. As a conscientious (more…)