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(Denver Post, July 20) Welcome to the shrink’s office, Mr. and Ms. Voter. It says here you got fed up with the Republican Congress after years of overspending and scandals and laxity in foreign affairs, so at the last election you fired them. But surprise; the other guys have done no better. Gas prices are outrageous, the economy is anemic, troop levels in Iraq are up not down, and the defeat that Reid and Pelosi predicted over there is turning into victory. The Democratic Congress you hired so hopefully in 2006 has a 9% approval rating as the 2008 election approaches. How’s that working for you? (more…)

If it wasn’t for the honor of it, I’d rather have walked. Lincoln’s account of the man’s reaction to being ridden out of town on a rail (more…)

My legislative campaign preview for Republicans with four months to go, aired July 10 at 7pm on 710 KNUS. Key races in the Colorado Senate and House as highlighted (more…)

If Douglas Bruce authored a ballot initiative that simply said, “Taxes shall be reduced by $300 million a year” but couldn’t explain (more…)

When we French need insights into American society, we can profitably peruse French historian Alexis de Tocqueville’s 1835 classic, (more…)

Here comes the cavalry at last, I told a press conference at the State Capitol today. Too few powerful voices speak up (more…)

The problems with our health care system stem not from too many market forces, but from too little. (more…)

One of the first speeches Barack Obama gave after becoming the presumptive nominee of the Democrat Party was to AIPAC, (more…)

It’s Republican primary time, when ambitions, conservative promises, and Reagan invocations are in full flower. And the only way to tell real conservative defenders from perennial conservative pretenders is to examine their records. (more…)

The GOP picture in Colorado’s 5th congressional district is a picture of soulless politics and in microcosm of a national GOP headed for a November electoral disaster. (more…)

Republicans lost Congress in 2006, and may lose more seats in 2008, largely because members forgot it’s all about the principles, the party, and the country, and acted as if it was “all about me.” (more…)

Colorado Republican conventioneers gave presumptive presidential nominee John McCain a strong vote of confidence (more…)

Here’s the podcast of my May 29 special on KNUS about the Right to Work ballot issue.  (more…)

Take a minute and consider this with me, even if you don’t live in the affluent, tree-lined Denver suburb of Centennial where neighbors are duking it out over the June 10 vote (more…)

Want more information on the Right to Work ballot issue, Amendment 47, as featured on John Andrews’ radio special May 29? (more…)