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Bob McConnell, who twice in the past five months told Republicans in western Colorado he was their man for high office, today set some kind of record by quitting the party (more…)

Jay Says One: Gov. Bill Ritter signed a law that expands civil protection orders to include threats or acts of violence against pets. Pets? (more…)

(Denver Post, Mar. 7) “Isn’t it pretty to think so?” mutters a world-weary American to his paramour at the end of a Hemingway novel. The acid dismissal of love typifies suspicion of idealism in any form, a timeless temptation for humankind. Hemingway gave his story a modern setting but borrowed its title, “The Sun Also Rises,” from Ecclesiastes, a world-weary classic of 2200 years ago. Since the novel’s publication in 1926, Americans have gone on to conquer the Depression, defeat Hitler and Tojo, end segregation and polio, win the Cold War, computerize earth and explore space. Still the stance of cynicism toward nobility and goodness (more…)

As one of the many transplants who have moved from Texas to Colorado, I’ve picked up on several interesting differences (more…)

State Republican leaders are said to be near agreement on a center-right campaign agenda for turning Colorado around in 2010. (more…)

Walk into a typical third grade classroom, and most students can explain what means to “freeze” something. They can explain (more…)

Who knew? Within the Republican Party there are number of organizations representing identity groups that the Left assumes it owns: (more…)

By Bill Moloney

States with constitutional and/or statutory restraints on taxing and spending have strong financial foundations because those restraints greatly militate toward the positive business climate and robust economy that invariably generate increased revenues across the board.
Colorado, which has had such restraints since 1992, is a prime example of their great benefits. California — today having the nation’s most disastrous state economy — once had such restraints but cast them aside some years ago and consequently has become the poster child for what happens to states that fall into the trap of unrestrained taxing and spending. (more…)

Editor: The most provocative comment on current politics that I’ve seen from any GOP 2010 candidate is this one from Dan Maes, (more…)

Editor: More first-person color from a participant in Saturday’s presidential visit to Grand Junction. The author is Kathleen Baker of Denver. Hat tip (more…)

Editor: Colorado bloggers captured insights you didn’t see in MSM when the President brought his health care pitch to Grand Junction on Aug. 15. (more…)

The Colorado Union of Taxpayers, a non-partisan group advocating for taxpayers, has released its 2009 CUT Ratings of the Legislature, (more…)

Grappling with declining state revenues makes for some very unpleasant budget choices, as Gov. Bill Ritter and the Democrat majorities (more…)

(Denver Post, July 5) In lieu of fireworks, a cannon boomed at sunrise and sunset over Lewis and Clark’s campsite on a Missouri River tributary in present-day Kansas on July 4, 1804. They drank a toast and named the place Independence Creek. It was the first-ever Fourth of July celebration west of the Mississippi, writes Stephen Ambrose in Undaunted Courage. This weekend, 233 years after the Declaration of Independence claimed for Americans our “separate and equal station… among the powers of the earth,” the Colorado map abounds with reminders of the nation’s heroes (more…)

Monday headlines in newspapers across the nation proclaimed, “Conservatives score big wins in European Union parliament voting (more…)