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Marshall Fritz of the Alliance for the Separation of School and State is one of the most effective freedom advocates and brilliantly buoyant human beings I’ve ever known. (more…)

(Denver Post, June 1) It was a graduation to remember. Our grandson and his classmates looked great in their blue mortarboard caps with gold tassels. Parents beamed and cameras flashed. The speaker was brief, taking his text from Psalms: “Children are a gift from God.” Ian’s dad caught the whole thing on video. Did I mention that Ian is five, and this was preschool commencement at Hosanna Lutheran? There was hardly a dry eye in the place as the graduates gave a fine choral rendition of “Kindergarten Here We Come.” Our little crown prince won’t recall much about that day as the years pass, but be honest: (more…)

Dr. Jim Geddes, a trauma surgeon from Sedalia, will carry the Republican banner for CU Regent from the 6th congressional district (more…)

Slated on Backbone Radio, May 18

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“The right is coming, the right is coming.” That’s the cry at CU-Boulder after this week’s announcement of plans to endow a chair in conservative thought and policy. The liberal faculty are scandalized. Heaven forbid there should be “a political test for any kind of hiring,” said marketing professor Margaret Campbell to a reporter. As if the university isn’t already in the grip of such a test. You can picture Campbell pedaling through the halls of ivy on her low-emission (more…)

CU president Bruce Benson needs reliable Republican backing on the Board of Regents. Mike Rosen’s May 9 column makes the case (more…)

My hosts from the College Republicans were told by the university’s Office of Multicultural Affairs — are you ready? — that they should have invited a white speaker to campus instead of me. (more…)

“How far do you think free speech should go?” was the question in DU’s student paper, the Clarion, March 4 edition. (more…)

“Cops lie: Don’t trust cops!” was the theme for an hour-long training session for would-be protesters at the Democratic National Convention, held in Denver on April 14 (more…)

Some Americans, principally on the Left, are understating the threat of terrorism while overstating the hyperbolized threat of man-made global warming (more…)

A wise man once said, if it sounds too good to be true, it is. That wisdm keeps many a smart person away from cheap Rolexes, (more…)

Don’t look for author Matt Miller to be a featured speaker at any school board conferences for a while, not after his recent, much-discussed Atlantic Monthly article entitled “First, Kill All the School Boards.” (more…)

Sure enough, on Sunday afternoon I was barraged by liberals insisting that nothing is actually knowable, for having had the nerve (more…)

In the ever-changing kaleidoscope of American education reform we have lately seen, from the local to the national level, (more…)

(Denver, Feb. 3) How have the educrats managed to portray decades of educational malpractice as the greatest thing since sliced bread? By systematically debasing four key standards upon which citizens, parents, taxpayers, and elected officials have long relied to make judgments about educational quality: grades, promotion, graduation, and college admission. (more…)

Toward the end of his State of the State address on Jan. 9, Gov. Bill Ritter unveiled his plan to fix Colorado high schools once and for all. Promising a “revolutionary shift in education policy” the Governor focused on high school standards and, in effect, said they were a mess. He’s right. Existing standards are incomplete, hopelessly vague, and generally ignored. To fix this mess, the Governor wants to get everyone together — (more…)