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Needless to say, 2008 was not a good year for Republicans. Our nation faced major financial and energy crises brought on by (more…)

Editor: Ron Phelps sent this to newspapers before the election. With the GOP’s identity crisis, it’s needed now more than ever. (more…)

The reasons for Republican losses this year and the steps we need to take to rebuild are extensive. Start with the average voter. (more…)

(Denver Post, Nov. 9) “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” Did I hear that from Hallmark, my mom, or in Sunday school? Turns out the words are from Stephen R. Covey’s self-help classic on good habits. They hit me on election night. My Republican party needs self-help if anyone ever did. Some of our gripe sessions about this year’s Democratic sweep feel like a sales meeting where everyone blames the customer. There are echoes of the East German party boss who said if the people didn’t like his regime, they needed to be straightened out. I mean serious denial. Having been a highly ineffective party (more…)

Those of us who have been through a few election cycles know that nothing really ever changes. Candidates make feel-good promises (more…)

Cut through the doubletalk that obscures the financial mess in Washington and on Wall Street, and these points are obvious to everyone (more…)

There is a fundamental difference between Marxism, provider of the Socialist philosophy, and Christian teachings. The difference (more…)

If Democrats take over the executive branch, there will be no veto pen to stop the runaway train of Congress and no brakes on Barack (more…)

It’s hard to turn on the TV these days. The news and images from Washington are like a train wreck. The height of hypocrisy: (more…)

In a weekend piece from the U.K.’s Telegraph comes a story that should be news to voters in the key states of Florida, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Colorado: Barack Obama thinks he’s going to win the 2008 election in a “landslide”.  (more…)

We Americans generally understand and appreciate the value of our citizenship. We know that we are fortunate to be living (more…)

Mirroring this extraordinary political year the conventions of both parties were unusual, unpredictable and given to striking twists (more…)

Wow! Here are some of the pictures I took during the RNC, where I was one of Colorado’s alternate delegates. (more…)

Regarding this week’s violence outside the Republican convention perpetrated by left-wing groups: there is no constitutional (more…)

Editor: Are the Dems ready to fracture down the middle if attacked on the fault line between labor and environmentalists? New contributor (more…)