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Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-CO5) couldn’t have known when he first waded into Colorado politics over a decade ago (more…)

Wednesday’s striking article in the Pueblo Chieftain reporting that Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) is less than entirely firm in his opposition to the Army’s expansion (more…)

Supporters of Jeff Crank’s congressional primary run in Colorado Springs dealt another blow in the past week to the very honesty in campaigning they have been so vocal in calling for from Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO5). (more…)

“Let justice run down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.” (more…)

“Also I will make justice the measuring line,” we read in Isaiah after sadly reading the headlines, (more…)

“As the last journey of this faithful pilgrim [has taken] him beyond the sunset… we here still move in twilight, but we have one beacon to guide us that Ronald Reagan never had: we have his example.” (more…)

As Whittaker Chambers wrote: “Since my desire is to live, I must live as far as possible outside the vapors of the perishing West (more…)

“He speaks fluent Arabic, and for some reason this upsets the Arabs.” — Entry for March 25, 1988, referring to the imminent recall of the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, whom Reagan calls “a darn good man”.

HarperCollins in May published the long-awaited diaries of President Reagan, kept, says Nancy, because they wanted to be able to remember the presidential years better than the blur that was their Sacramento gubernatorial years. How quaint, how terrestrial, for this couple to want to remember what they considered not an entitlement due their obvious greatness, but a privilege bestowed on them by Heaven. (more…)

By Dave Crater

“For me, Mr. President, this is a very close question. But I must resolve my doubts in favor of the American people, whose rights would be in jeopardy if John Roberts turns out to be the wrong person for this job,” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said today in announcing his opposition to the President’s nominee for Chief Justice.

Translation: Despite a clear affirmation by Roberts that a “right to privacy” is created by the liberty clause of the 14th Amendment – an affirmation troubling to many conservatives and one that certainly would have been troubling to the authors of the 14th Amendment – Judge Roberts has not sufficiently endorsed the orthodox liberal activism Sen. Reid has grown to expect of American judges. The people, apparently, are demanding such activism and senators who heroically defend it. (more…)