Colorado deserves straight-shooting Senator
In this year’s race for U.S. Senate, Colorado voters have a clear choice both in substance and in style.
Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet has backed President Obama 97 percent of the time, according to Congressional Quarterly.
His opponent, Republican Ken Buck, opposes virtually every significant measure passed or pending in the current Congress – massive “stimulus” spending, government-mandated health care, and cap-and-tax energy policy. read more…
TEA parties ignite conservative resurgence
The Republican Party wasn’t always a conservative party. Waves of conservative insurgency and resurgency during the past 50 years have transformed the Grand Old Party into the only major party with a core constituency that desires individual freedom and limited government.
The emergence of TEA (for “taxed enough already”) parties and the 912 Project — often referred to jointly as the Liberty Movement — is the newest chapter in this resurgence. read more…
NRA sells out your gun rights
Correction: The NRA ultimately decided not to endorse Harry Reid. They gave him money and seemed to agonize over the decision — which should tell you all you need to know. NRA lobbyist Chris Cox suggested that Reid’s votes for Supreme Court nominees Elana Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor were deal-breakers. That it was even a close call before those votes is ludicrous.
To anyone who still believes the National Rifle Association cares more about protecting your Second Amendment rights than it does about kissing up to powerful politicians, it’s time to wake up and smell the coffee.
For the NRA, the Second Amendment has become little more than an expedient tool for raising money, striking political compromises, and maintaining access to those in power.
This week, the NRA’s Political Victory Fund endorsed liberal Democrat Congresswoman Betsy Markey, who cares so deeply about the Second Amendment that she didn’t even bother to return the NRA’s survey when she first ran for Congress two years ago. read more…
House Dems ready to abandon Markey
What goes around comes around, and today the New York Times reports great news for Republican Cory Gardner.
Just as Betsy Markey (D-Fort Collins) was swept into office in a Democrat landslide when House Republicans were forced to cut their spending to former Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave (R-Fort Morgan), it appears that now Congresswoman Markey is about to a casualty of a looming Republican landslide.
The Times reports that Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District may move beyond Democrats’ reach, in which case the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee may cut its losses by pulling its resources of Markey’s race in order to save other vulnerable but stronger Democrat seats.
Teachers unions harass non-teachers
Check out this new Independent Teachers video about what happens when a non-union school employee who is forced to opt out of paying union fees every year misses the deadline because of family medical emergencies:
The True Meaning of Independence
As we observe the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence this Fourth of July, we should consider the unique form of government for which our Founding Fathers chose to risk “their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor” against the militarily-superior British.
The definitive passage in the Declaration reads: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” read more…
A billion reasons Colorado voters can’t trust Democrats
Four years ago, Colorado voters decided to trust Democrats with complete control of state government — the governor’s mansion and large majorities in the legislature.
As voters consider their choices for 2010, they might be surprised by how little governing Democrats have trusted voters in those four years. read more…
Now they ask, so they never need to ask again
After imposing more than $1 billion a year in tax and fee increases – without once seeking voter approval – liberal Democrats in the Colorado legislature now want voters to permit them to raise taxes without limitation and without ever asking voters again.
Can you say, “Oblivious to irony”? read more…
Michael Bennet feels your pain
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Continuing his “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” routine Michael Farrand Bennet is spending some of his $4.8 million campaign war chest on a new television commercial that strongly suggests that Bill Ritter’s personal senator believes Coloradans are suckers – or at least that enough can be suckered in order for him to win his first real election.
The commercial toggles between the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., and scenes from Washington County on Colorado’s Eastern Plains. Bennet, who grew up in Washington, D.C., and has lived in Colorado for a mere 13 years, wants us to believe that he’s a regular Joe, just a common, hard-workin’ good ol’ boy. read more…
A Ponzi scheme by any other name …
Economic illiteracy has its advantages, especially for liberal agitators who seem disproportionately afflicted by it.
A few weeks ago, the whiny left erupted with feigned outrage when Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton noted the obvious — that Social Security has become “a Ponzi scheme.”
For anyone who understands economics and the fraudulent way the federal government constructed Social Security, Norton’s observation was a simple statement of fact. read more…