COST just discovered that Colorado’s Department of Human Services, on behalf of taxpayers, paid Radio Disney $1010 for “other marketing expenses.” COST has no idea what taxpayers received because the Web site provides no explanation.
[...]COST just discovered that Colorado’s Department of Human Services, on behalf of taxpayers, paid Radio Disney $1010 for “other marketing expenses.” COST has no idea what taxpayers received because the Web site provides no explanation.
[...]Looks like Louisiana picked the perfect Senator to represent them in Mary Landrieu - or at least those Louisianans who ply their trade in the shadowed corners of the French Quarter:
Landrieu defended the inclusion of the provision and said Republican critics who accuse her of selling her vote for [...]
HSA-qualified insurance: affordable premiums, patients spend prudently & take responsibility for their own health, and can save for future expenses. But politicians like Harry Reid want to make HSA-qualified insurance plans illegal.
Read about it in the Wall Street Journal: The End of HSAs: Harry Reid wants to kill consumer-driven [...]
Today’s Colorado Springs Gazette published my op-ed, “Environmentalist clowns threatening human life,” reviewing a November 18 talk by Keith Lockitch. (The online version is dated November 20, while the print date is November 21.)
I write, “People need industrial energy to live and flourish, Lockitch emphasized. Indeed, modern energy enables [...]
Governor Bill Ritter cuts funding for Higher Education and eliminates tax credits for seniors to balance Colorado’s budget. Yet according to the Associated Press, Ritter spends millions lobbying governmentfor programs taxpayers can’t afford. COST’s own Amy Oliver Cooke and champion of taxpayers Rep Kent Lambert are quoted in the article.
If taxpayers want [...]
A packed house–100+ in attendance
People’s Press Collective heads east to St. Louis to expand the empire of citizen journalist proletariat!
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Investigative Journalism:
–importance of open records requests, be focused in search parameters and willing to negotiate over costs
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Harry Reid’s Senate health bill up for a procedural vote on Saturday, which could allow it to move forward to debate. (Yet Republicans are pushing to read the whole thing, which could take 34 hours!) In any case, be wary of how this bill [...]
P. J. O’Rourke offered a perfectly delightful address at the Independence Institute’s 25th Anniversary Banquet, held in Denver on November 19. He mostly blasted leftist policies but saved some of his best lines for Republicans. For example, he said that building a wall between us and Mexico would be [...]
Here are two interesting charities I’ve learned about recently. I’ve contributed a modest sum to the first one:
Heifer International: Among other things, gives food-providing animals to poor people around the world, with the condition that the recipients share the offspring of those animals with other poor people. (They do [...]
Both the House and Senate care bills include a new government-run health plan. (See the Wall Street Journal’s comparison.) In June I wrote the following:
Supporters of the “public insurance option,” that is, government-run insurance that competes with commercial insurers sense opposition: People realize it’s unfair competition. You know, [...]
It is hard work defending a cult. Especially when the truth might harm its foundations. Cult leaders will suppress the truth to protect the religious movement. Scientists seek truth. That, my friends, is the difference between members of the Al Gore Cult of Global Warming and actual scientists. The New York [...]
Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold is appearing as a guest at this Saturday’s (21 Nov) South Weld County Breakfast Club meeting at the Branding Iron restaurant in Fort Lupton at 8AM.
Join Matt at Saturday morning’s meeting to learn more about the Mullarkey Court’s repeated assaults on the Colorado Constitution, the resulting impact to your [...]
I am slated as the keynote speaker this coming Monday, 7 AM, at the Jefferson County Republican Men’s Club (follow link and scroll down for information). The topic? “What Do Teachers Unions Negotiate from You?” Find more about my areas of research here.
[...]A devastating story for the scaremongering “climate change” religionists breaks today because of illegal hacking activity:
Climate Audit, “Mike’s nature trick” Ed Morrissey, Hot Air, “Do hacked e-mails show global warming fraud?” Paul Chesser, American Spectator, “Get that hacker a pimp coat”On a different note, George Will has a [...]
#redco #teaparty #perlmutter
A Colorado music promoter is weighing a Republican campaign against two-term Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D).
The Denver Business Journal reported Thursday that Jimmy Lakey, who owns concert promotion and artist management companies, has formed an “exploratory committee” to prepare for a possible run in Colorado’s 7th [...]
#teaparty #stimulus #waste #fraud #abuse Bosse Enters Race for NH 00 District
Priceless;
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Thanks to Australia’s Herald Sun for breaking this story.
In a potentially game-changing turn of events regarding “global warming” alarmism and its cap-and-trade policy implications, a hacker got into the computer system of the British University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (”CRU”), one of the leading sources [...]
As Don at Business Word notes, the Ryan Frazier campaign yesterday touted a list of endorsements from “nearly one hundred influential Coloradans” in his bid to be the next Congressman from the 7th District. Yes, the list contains the names of some heavy-hitters — including Phil Anschutz, Pete [...]
#tcot #teaparty #obamacare #corruption
Hat tip Malkin
1)MARY LANDRIEU AND LOUISIANA: $100 million via Jonathan Karl:
2)CALIFORNIA: $300 million, via LA Times:
3) AARP
a) Via Philip Klein: $18 million in stimulus money
b) The Medigap royalty/kickback scheme
4) THE ABORTION LOBBY, via LifeNews:
5) Big Labor - Via Houston [...]
#tcot #gwot via Yahoo news hat tip Hot Air blog
President Barack Obama is now confirming what many have long suspected: He will miss his January deadline to close the Guantanamo prison — partly because he cannot persuade other nations to take the detainees.
Prisoners like Walid Abu Hijazi. The 29-year-old [...]
The Institute for Health Freedom advises you to contact your Senator today about tomorrow’s vote “on a motion to proceed” on Harry Reid’s health care bill (Sat. Nov 21). There are many reasons not to like this bill. The Institute summarizes:
The bill would (among many other provisions):
require nearly every [...]The Politico, hardly a conservative outlet of political opinion, offers a devastating analysis of Barack Obama’s trip through Asia.
You can read the article for yourself, but here are a couple of highlights:
Obama’s minimalist approach was most consequential in China, where he did not meet with Christians, dissidents or bloggers, [...]
There has been a clear (if not perfect) correlation in recent months between the value of the dollar and the price of broad stock market indices, i.e. S&P 500.
In particular, the market goes up when the dollar goes down. See the chart below of the last few months. The blue [...]
Dr. Paul Hsieh has a great article in the Washington Examiner about HR 3962 and mandatory health insurance. It begins:
Suppose the mafia came to your town and forced everyone to purchase all their meals at mob-approved restaurants. The mafia would also select the menu items.
If [...]
(Note: this article was originally written for, and published by, the monthly ”A Line Of Sight“ news/commentary newsletter which appeared on Tuesday, 17 November)
Last month’s A Line of Sight profiled Mark Hillman’s excellent article describing the Colorado Supreme Court’s latest “power grab”.
In an audacious power grab, the Colorado Supreme [...]
This evening the Independence Institute celebrates its 25th anniversary with a sold-out Founders’ Night dinner featuring keynote speaker P.J. O’Rourke. It should be a good family reunion of sorts. Count me as one of the crazy, freedom-fighting cousins.
No one in the area is better at leveraging the media [...]
This was forwarded to me a little while ago. Someone named Kathy from Evergreen apparently (and doubtless with good reason) is not happy with the responsiveness of Congress to her concerns about Obama Care and a rapidly growing and spending federal government.
She took a mechanical form letter from Colorado [...]
Last Saturday I reported that thousands of Colorado state employees who never signed up to join a union were barraged with membership cards from the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) — one of the union partners in the “Colorado WINS” coalition brought to life by [...]
#tcot #redco #teaparty #liberal #conservative
Dennis Prager brings a ray of sunshine in the window while most conservatives are preaching a depressing outlook. I agree with his optimism here, I think there are enough smart people in this country that IF..IF …IF they are paying attention this may be the [...]
As environmentalists dressed as clowns protested coal-fired electric plants in Denver — see the reports from the Denver Daily News and Denver Post — Keith Lockitch prepared to give a talk at the Auraria campus that evening explaining the profound human need for industrial energy. (More on [...]
From today’s Denver Post: Colorado has received millions in stimulus funding for projects in the 8th, 24th, 45th and 64th congressional districts, according to a federal website tracking the money. But the state has only seven districts. It turns out that the misclassifications were the result of mistakes, faulty interpretations and even [...]
Colorado’s Future, a group that wants to make the citizen’s initiative process more difficult, will be hosting a meeting in Greeley on December 1. According to Chairman Bob Tointon, some 500 community leaders and elected officials from the Greeley area have been invited to participate in the 3 hour meeting, [...]
I’m going to keep this short…there will be a lot of time to dissect the Democrats’ lies over the next two months.
Yesterday, Harry Reid presented “The Senate Bill” which, if it gets through a cloture vote, will soon be replaced by some other unknown bill.
Just a few of thoughts:
The Senate [...]
Local talk radio host and attorney (former prosecutor, now criminal defense) Craig Silverman has written an excellent piece laying out the many reasons why Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 terrorists in civilian courts in New York is a stupid and dangerous [...]
From the Wall Street Journal:
Democrats are quietly attempting to impose a “global budget” on Medicare, with radical implications for U.S. medicine. …
If Democrats impose such a commission nationwide, it would constitute a radical change in U.S. health care. The reason that physician discretion—not Washington’s cost-minded judgments—is at the core [...]
The Clear The Bench Colorado message - ‘vote “NO” on the unjust justices of the Colorado Supreme Court in November 2010 to restore accountability to the judiciary and bring back balance to the bench’ - is being picked up by an increasing number of astute observers of the state of [...]
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Update, 12:30 PM: If you have the same experience as I did, you’ll find the voice mail in Senator Bennet’s D.C. office to be full. Then go ahead and call the regional office near you. You’ll likely talk to a tired-sounding staffer who will take your message in opposition [...]
After the Associated Press broke the left-leaning media’s cone of silence about the Administration errors and/or lies regarding jobs “created or saved” with so-called “stimulus” money, other would-be journalists and even Democratic politicians have found a bit of courage and are castigating the reported statistics.
From the “Are you kidding me?!?” files comes this remarkable story by the Washington Times describing how “Environmental laws put gaps in Mexico border security“.
The title, while disturbing enough, puts a nice face on a remarkable problem that shows just how confused our federal government’s policies and priorities are.
The [...]
Jeff Scialabba at the Ayn Rand Institute has written a two-part blog post on how HR 3962 would punish medical innovation. Part one is about the benefits of medical devices and the cost of bringing them to market. It begins:
America is the world leader in medical device innovation, producing [...]
Earlier this year, I criticized a new law that allows police to take DNA samples from people they arrest for a felony, absent any criminal conviction. As the Denver Post summarized, “The bill was amended to allow police to take DNA tests upon arrest but for the sample [...]
Update, 11/18: Count out another one, too. Ali Hasan left a comment following my earlier speculation that included his name as a possible candidate: “Sorry Mount Virtus, but I won’t be getting into SD16 at all – I got my eyes on a different race. Honestly, Don Ytterberg ran a [...]
Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold is the featured speaker at this Wednesday’s (18 Nov) Weld County Republican Breakfast Club meeting (doors open at 6:30 AM, event/speaker begins 7AM - please note the change of venue for this week’s meeting).
Join Matt at Wednesday morning’s meeting to learn more about the Mullarkey Court’s repeated [...]
well done video #obamacare #healthcare #tcot #teaparty
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Earlier this month I did a little research on the Obama administration’s multimillion-dollar Recovery.gov website and found that one Jefferson County, Colorado, job was created for every $1.1 million spent.
And now we find that dollar figure in fact may be low! Why? Among other reasons, $6.4 billion of [...]
#tcot #gitmo #navy #teaparty #gwot
Good people doing good work down there…oh yes and Keith Olbermann is a propaganda piece for the enemy just in case you didn’t know.
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Introducing the top-line results from the 3rd edition of the survey of Colorado’s political temperature. Participation dropped to 281, but results still demonstrated some remarkable consistency. As always, thanks to those of you who took the time to help out!
Coming later in the month will be an analysis of [...]
Diggs Brown formally announced his candidacy for the Fourth Congressional District of Colorado at the Best Western Hotel in Loveland Colorado on Saturday, Nov. 16th. Many in the district have been waiting for Diggs to return from his tour in the Army and announce his [...]
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