BackboneAmerica

RTD and its Fastracks rail system are a mess. In his June 11 radio special, John Andrews asked why. The podcast is now up. (more…)

If legislative Democrats in 2007 were devious for passing Gov. Ritter’s infamous property tax hike without voter approval, the 2009 crop (more…)

Editor: Randy Pye, the only mayor the young city of Centennial has ever had, can’t run again. Two hopefuls are already in the field to succeed (more…)

What next? The Tea Party movement is simply not going to be co-opted by the Republican Party. It’s not a creation thereof, (more…)

From Colorado Springs, Steamboat Springs, and Loveland, along with a terrific photo essay on Denver, here are more party reports (more…)

What a shot in the arm it was to participate in Denver’s Tea Party. We had no harbor in which to dump tea, but I felt a strong kinship (more…)

Many folks in Denver are mad and appear not ready to accept our government as it currently stands. More than 5000 people made it a point (more…)

“In political arithmetic, two and two do not always make four.” Alexander Hamilton quoted this old maxim in the Federalist Papers (more…)

Tax, spend, borrow and regulate are the four horsemen of American socialism under Obama and Ritter. Intrusive government now tramples our liberties with a brazenness that would amaze those old Boston patriots who dumped the tea in ‘73. Tea Party protests will happen in many cities on Tax Day, Wed. April 15. I’ll be taking part and so should you. Here’s the information you need. (more…)

Seventeen years ago, Colorado voters frustrated by the excesses of an unresponsive government passed the Taxpayers Bill of Rights (more…)

Colorado’s constitution plainly says that state and local governments can’t raise taxes without voters’ permission. If only (more…)

Beginning July 1, Colorado drivers will pay higher taxes–we’re told to call them “fees”–on every vehicle every year when we renew (more…)

Emboldened that the state supreme court still hasn’t ruled on Gov. Bill Ritter’s plainly unconstitutional property tax hike, (more…)

Action from 2/22 Radio: For breaking an ID theft ring of over 1300 illegal aliens, DA Ken Buck finds himself sued by ACLU (more…)

(Denver Post, Feb. 15) How dumb do they think we are? The state is in a $600 million hole because Gov. Bill Ritter and Democratic legislators ignored advice from Republicans – and even some fellow Democrats – to restrain spending and save for a rainy day. Now those same spendthrifts want us to remove constitutional guardrails so they can rev the budget again (more…)