As many have requested my recommendations regarding amendments and judges on the 2012 Colorado General Election ballot, I am posting them for readers’ information. Amendment S – State Personnel System …
Obama on business: ignorance or arrogance
What’s more frustrating about President Obama – his ignorance of how difficult it is to make a profit in business or his arrogance that there’s so little he doesn’t know? …
ObamaCare ruling is a mess with a message
For anyone who naively thought the Supreme Court would render a clean and tidy decision on ObamaCare, Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority-of-one opinion should be instructive. Rarely does the high …
Santorum’s Surprise
Editor’s Note: My recent Capitol Review contained an old headline, but new text. Nice guys don’t always finish last. Sometimes they win three states in a single day. Rick Santorum’s …
Health care takes bite out of education funds
Budgeting is about setting priorities. In most states, K-12 education is the top priority and receives the lion’s share of funding. Yet across the country, states are grappling with a …
Rationality eludes judge in school lawsuit
When Gov. John Hickenlooper announced that the state will appeal a Denver court’s ruling that the state inadequately funds education, he acknowledged what Judge Sheila Rappaport — and previously the …
Anti-TABOR lawsuit is cynical slap at voters
Because those doggone Coloradans just won’t vote to increase taxes often enough, a cadre of folks who just can’t bear to see state government spend less is asking a federal …
Obama’s vision for an irreversible legacy
Say this for President Barack Obama: he doesn’t lack for vision. As a candidate, Obama spoke of “chang(ing) the trajectory of America” in a way that no president has since …
Gerrymandering by any other name: still the same
Gerrymandering — the conspicuous, irregular manipulating of electoral district boundaries to advantage one political party or candidate — is widely considered a distasteful, if not downright corrupt, practice. Through gerrymandering, …
Brother Can You Spare a Trillion?
Since 1988, the federal government has spent $8 TRILLION on interest on debt! We are spending our children and grandchildren into a future of poverty. That’s what the 2012 election …