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Polidays & Holidays

Slated on Backbone Radio, Dec. 20 Listen every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver... 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs... and streaming live at 710knus.com.

Conservative politics and policy, our mainstay on Backbone Radio every week since 2004, will share the spotlight today with Christmas and the turn toward 2010. Join us for an overview of all the issues from health care, Copenhagen, and Afghanistan to the Colorado budget, Zhu Zhu hamsters, and the coming campaign year. Plus our holiday special including a theologian's perspective on how Jesus' birth changed the world and a columnist's wrapup of the old year and forecast of the new. (My wrapup and forecast are in Head On TV, just below.)

Here's our guest lineup for Dec. 20... 5:30 Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies 6:00 Lang Sias, Republican candidate for CD-7 6:30 Jimmy Lakey, Republican candidate for CD-7 7:00 Jay Ambrose, Scripps Howard columnist 7:30 Sid Buzzell, Dean of Theology, Colorado Christian University

The reason came is that a Man came saying that he is Truth, and that if we followed him we'd know the truth and be made free. Vast human betterment has been the result, including the miracle called America. Ample reason to celebrate!

Yours for truth and life, JOHN ANDREWS

GOP unifies as Ritter fades

Slated on Backbone Radio, Dec. 13 Listen every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver... 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs... and streaming live at 710knus.com.

Don't miss our governor's race preview show this evening. Republicans are on offense and Dems on defense as the 2010 election year is soon to dawn. With Gov. Bill Ritter weaker than any incumbent in half a century, his party was counting on opposition infighting to keep their chances alive. The GOP unity movement of recent weeks has changed all that. I'll talk with Republican challenger Scott McInnis about his game plan for the months ahead, with Josh Penry about why he closed ranks behind Mighty Mac, and with underdog Dan Maes about why he intends to fight on.

Other big questions on our Dec. 13 show... Will the nation's distaste for tax-funded abortion sink Obama's takeover of US health care? ... And will the teacher unions stop at nothing in their power trip at kids' expense?

Here's the guest lineup: 5:30 Scott McInnis 6:00 Dan Maes 6:30 Josh Penry 7:00 Pro-life organizers Leslie Hanks & Lolita Hanks 7:30 Education policy analyst Ben DeGrow

Backbone is the quality that won America's independence from the Old World and carved Colorado out of the wilderness. It's the quality our country needs more than ever now, to keep from going soft and stagnant as Europe has. It's what our radio program has been about since 2004. Thank you for being part of it.

Yours for the Constitution, JOHN ANDREWS

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