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Slated on Backbone Radio, July 5

Listen every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver… 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs… and streaming live at 710knus.com.

Imagine a Congress with no party labels, no limos, no spin, the courage to risk the gallows, and the humility to submit their work to judgment by Almighty God. Such were the men who met at Philadelphia in defiance of the strongest empire on earth and enacted the Declaration of Independence, 233 years ago this week. By that action, and with Americans’ representatives “appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of [their] intentions,” the crown colonies of June 1776 became the “free and independent states” (more…)

Slated on Backbone Radio, June 28

Listen every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver… 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs… and streaming live at 710knus.com.

“O beautiful for pilgrim feet, whose stern impassioned stress a thoroughfare of freedom beat across the wilderness!” So wrote Katherine Lee Bates in the inspiration of climbing Pike’s Peak on a summer day in 1893. Have you been to a mountaintop lately? A friend of mine recently did his first 14′er and came back all aglow. But it’s easy to lose the lofty vision in the flatlands of daily life. Time overtakes nations as it does individuals. If we allow America in its third century to grow soft and tired, (more…)

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5PM Show Open John Andrews, Krista Kafer, and Matt Stark, Guest Allen Orcutt

5:30PM Guest: Bob Beauprez

6PM Guest: Joseph C Phillips

6:30PM Guests: Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

7PM Guest: Ward Connerly

7:30PM Guest: Amy Menefee

First Hour Ross Kaminski, Matt Dunn and Joshua Sharf

Second Hour Ross Kaminski, Matt Dunn and Joshua Sharf

Third Hour Ross Kaminski, Matt Dunn and Joshua Sharf

Slated on Backbone Radio, June 21

Listen every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver… 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs… and streaming live at 710knus.com.

What would become of Father’s Day if the whole culture and political system grew indifferent to men and women marrying each other, if most babies came from labs and acquired their parents through agencies, if the family itself were declared a toxic institution as some feminists and Marxists claim? Sorry for the downer, but doesn’t that seem to be where Western civilization (formerly so called) is heading unless some of us (more…)

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5PM Show Open John Andrews, Kathleen LeCrone & Matt Dunn

5:30PM Guest: Steve Milloy

6PM Guest: James Carafano

6:30PM Guests: Jay Ambrose

7PM Guest: Stephen Schwartz

7:30PM Guest: Rob Roseman

Slated on Backbone Radio, June 7

Listen every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver… 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs… and streaming live at 710knus.com.

Whoa, does Obama think he’s president of the planet? A community organizer from Chicago gets 60 million votes to be the trustee of power in one country for 48 months, so he jets off to the ancient capital of the pharaohs to fix things up with 1.2 billion followers of Muhammad across the globe. Amazing. Obviously he does think that’s what he is, but he’s not, and only bad can come of the man’s wild grandiosity. (more…)

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5PM Show Open John Andrews, Karen Kataline & Krista Kafer

5:30PM Guest: Dick Wadhams

6PM Guest: Paul Rahe

6:30PM Guests: Gary Marx

7PM Guest: Ron Robinson

7:30PM Guest: David Harsanyi

Slated on Backbone Radio, May 31

Listen every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver… 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs… and streaming live at 710knus.com.

Tough times, deadly enemies, and political upheavals can force a nation to search its soul. America is going through that right now. Who are we as a country, anyway? What do we stand for? What’s worth fighting over and what’s not? These questions echo through the identity politics of Obama’s Supreme Court nomination, the assault on limited government by liberals in Colorado and Washington alike, the hypnotic mantra of change that currently substitutes for common sense. Again this Sunday, Backbone Radio steps up (more…)

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5PM Show Open John Andrews, Joshua Sharf & Karen Kataline

5:30PM Guest: Sen. Nancy Spence

6PM Guest: Bill Simon

6:30PM Guests: Michael Tanji

7PM Guest: Tom Trento

7:30PM Guest: Lee Strobel

Slated on Backbone Radio, May 24

Listen every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver… 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs… and streaming live at 710knus.com.

Facts are stubborn things, said John Adams. Obama’s dovish campaign rhetoric and Pelosi’s scapegoating of the CIA have been overtaken by cold reality. Dick Cheney’s fearless patriotism provides a spinal transplant for skittish fellow Republicans. Jihadist bloodlust is highlighted by the Muslim plot to dynamite a New York synagogue. Iran now has Israel in missile range.
Wishful thinking and pretty words won’t quite do it for protecting America in a dangerous world, our new president is having to recognize (more…)

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5PM Show Open John Andrews, Karen Kataline and Matt Schmitz

5:30PM Guest: Bill Federer

6PM Guest: Ed Feulner

6:30PM Guests: Michael Barone

7PM Guest: John Newkirk

Slated on Backbone Radio, May 17

Listen every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver… 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs… and streaming live at 710knus.com.

In return for some of our liberty, writes Michael Barone in a powerful column this week, Obama’s band of “would-be soft despots are offering Americans money and the promise of security against economic distress.” That’s a chilling prospect, and Barone is not one to sensationalize. Nor did the warning about soft despotism originate with him. It’s a vulnerability Tocqueville foresaw long ago. (more…)

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5PM Show Open Guest Host Ross Kaminsky and Matt Dunn
6PM: Guest Host Ross Kaminsky and Matt Dunn

7PM: Under the Dome Special

Slated on Backbone Radio, May 10

Listen every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver… 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs… and streaming live at 710knus.com.

Never mind the gloating by liberals in places like the current Time magazine cover, which depicts Republicans as an endangered species. The fact is, public skepticism over Democrat ineptitude could make 2010 a good year for the GOP here in Colorado. You’ve seen the numbers. Voters disapprove Gov. Bill Ritter’s performance by 49% to 41%, according to an April poll. Matched against potential GOP challengers, he trails Scott McInnis and barely leads Josh Penry. His appointee in DC, Sen. Michael Bennett, is disapproved by 41% to 34% (more…)