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In their public statements on health insurance reform, Democratic spokesmen have consistently dismissed those with objections to government health care as liars. (more…)

The current saga of Roman Polanski, who aspires to the lofty category of “artist,” reminds us of the old Puritan suspicion of actors as immoral. It may shock people of all persuasions to learn (more…)

Taxpayers beware. Politicians want you to provide a revenue guarantee for higher education. The campaign has already started. (more…)

Editor: Fire up a group blog and you never know who may want in. A Denver businessman asked me if his daughter and her college pal could (more…)

“Modern English . . . is full of bad habits which spread by imitation . . . If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly (more…)

TCM, the Turner Classic Movie channel, offers a steady stream of yesterday’s movies. Sometimes it offers a classic (more…)

The soon-to-be graduates marched into the World Arena in Colorado Springs while the organist played “Pomp and Circumstance” (more…)

We all know America’s campuses are loaded with Ward Churchill clones, lefty individuals and whole departments. But have you stopped to (more…)

There’s a personal angle when I read a story like the one today about 20 colleges and universities asking the federal government (more…)

“Anything goes” in college classrooms: that’s the message of Ward Churchill’s legal victory this week, according to Stephen Balch (more…)

John Perkins, far-left author of the book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, came to Regis University this week (more…)

I walked into the cafeteria here at Colorado Christian University, pondering what Obama meant last week (more…)

(Denver Post, Mar. 1) One thing will get Colorado out of this recession, and it’s not big government. It is the human spirit. All economic growth is the improvement of material resources by creativity and work. Silicon, ignored for eons as beach sand, became microchips humming with intelligence. Petroleum was worthless tar seeps before men made it black gold. Our state was labeled “the Great American Desert” on early maps. People transformed it (more…)

Tonight on Backbone Radio, campus editor Sean Doherty related the hilarious, but also deeply paranoid, fears of a Metro State (more…)

(Lakewood, Feb. 3) Former Colorado Senate President John Andrews has been appointed Director of The Centennial Institute, a new think tank being created by Colorado Christian University, CCU President Bill Armstrong announced today. The new entity (more…)