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Seventeen years ago, Colorado voters frustrated by the excesses of an unresponsive government passed the Taxpayers Bill of Rights (more…)

Colorado’s constitution plainly says that state and local governments can’t raise taxes without voters’ permission. If only (more…)

“The country looks to the President on occasions like this to be reassuring to the nation,” Peter Jennings once said. “Some Presidents do it well, (more…)

Beginning July 1, Colorado drivers will pay higher taxes–we’re told to call them “fees”–on every vehicle every year when we renew (more…)

Emboldened that the state supreme court still hasn’t ruled on Gov. Bill Ritter’s plainly unconstitutional property tax hike, (more…)

The era of big government is back — with a vengeance. President Obama returned to Denver to sign into law his American Reinvestment (more…)

When President Bush and Congress first proposed a financial bailout for Wall Street investors last September, a grassroots (more…)

Here they go again. Faced with a budget that’s hemorrhaging dollars, it was only a matter of time before one of our spendthrift (more…)

Colorado faces a $630 million budget shortfall and stark options now that half the fiscal year is past and so much money is already spent. (more…)

For rank-and-file Republicans, our party’s mission is to advance freedom through limited government, strong national security, (more…)

The world has marveled at the orderliness of America’s “peaceful revolutions” ever since Jefferson’s Democratic-Republicans (more…)

For anyone born in the last 50 years, “separation of church and state” is inculcated secular orthodoxy. I well remember (more…)

After being routed at the polls for two consecutive election cycles, Republicans are turning introspective, asking how (more…)

As the dust settles after Election Day, it’s fair to say that Republicans deserved the thrashing we received. Unfortunately, some good (more…)

Cut through the doubletalk that obscures the financial mess in Washington and on Wall Street, and these points are obvious to everyone (more…)