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Boebert Says Border Enforcement Is Delivering Results for Colorado and America
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THE HILL, Approved, Commentary, National

Boebert Says Border Enforcement Is Delivering Results for Colorado and America

By Rep. Lauren Boebert | Commentary, The Hill For four years under the Biden administration, Americans watched our southern border collapse. Record numbers of illegal crossings poured into the country. Cartels flourished. Fentanyl flooded our communities. Criminal illegal immigrants, including members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang, embedded themselves in my home state of Colorado and across the United States. The previous administration’s open-border policies were a choice. That chaos ended when President Trump returned to office and Republicans in Congress kept the promise we made to the American people. At the start of the 119th Congress, I voted for the Laken Riley Act, which requires the detention of illegal immigrants charged with theft, burgl...
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New Uses for Pueblo Half Cent Tax Prompt Debate Over Voter Intent
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Uncategorized, Approved, Commentary, Complete Colorado, Local

New Uses for Pueblo Half Cent Tax Prompt Debate Over Voter Intent

By Nicki Hart | Commentary, Complete Colorado Pueblo offers a cautionary tale for communities across Colorado being asked to extend, renew, or continue a dedicated tax. When voters approve a tax for one purpose, how much can the government redefine that purpose before it must return to the people for permission? That debate is unfolding in Pueblo over the city’s Half-Cent Sales Tax Fund, a voter-approved revenue source that has existed for more than four decades. The fund originated in 1984 following the collapse of Pueblo’s steel economy. In 1992, voters fundamentally reshaped the program around a more specific economic promise that public funds would support capital improvements that create “primary jobs.” Primary jobs are those that bring new money into the local ec...
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Joondeph: Pediatric gender medicine is cracking under its own evidence
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Rocky Mountain Voice, Approved, Commentary, National

Joondeph: Pediatric gender medicine is cracking under its own evidence

By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D. | Commentary, American Thinker When ideology overrides biology, it isn’t compassion — it’s harm dressed as progress. For nearly a decade, Americans were told to deny what biology, common sense, and their own eyes made plain. Men could become women. Women could become men. Children were fully capable of choosing sterilizing hormones. Puberty blockers were “reversible.” And anyone who questioned any of it was a bigot. It was one of the most aggressive campaigns of magical thinking in modern public life. We were told sex was “assigned at birth,” as if doctors in delivery rooms were rolling dice rather than observing biological reality. Chromosomes, anatomy, and reproductive function were suddenly deemed less important t...
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Only Congress can tax you. So why are unelected regulators doing it?
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Rocky Mountain Voice, Commentary, National, Top Stories

Only Congress can tax you. So why are unelected regulators doing it?

By Jay Davidson | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." —Thomas Jefferson (1820) A battle of wills has been developing over the past 100 years, actually longer. It's a war between ideas, principles, philosophy and is the seminal event for our children's children. In truth, this conflict is eternal. Once we realize the dividing lines, our life philosophy comes clear. What type of government best suits the concept that Jefferson (the...
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What Amendment 87 Could Mean for Broncos Players and Colorado Employers
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What Amendment 87 Could Mean for Broncos Players and Colorado Employers

By Jon Caldara | Commentary, Colorado Politics Do you want the Broncos to win the Super Bowl? Then you’d better hope Amendment 87 — which brings back Colorado’s economy-strangling “graduated” income tax — loses at the ballot box this fall. Seriously. Forget Republicans and Democrats. Forget tax policy. This is about Xs and Os — and whether Denver can afford the players who execute them and win a Super Bowl. Every successful business has star employees: rare talents without whom the enterprise simply doesn’t work. Same goes for an NFL franchise. Every business has star employees the whole operation is built around. Sometimes that star is the chief executive. No Henry Ford, no assembly line, no affordable car. No Steve Jobs, no iPhone — foldable or otherwis...
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Right to hunt: The strange branding of Colorado’s sensible-conservation group
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Right to hunt: The strange branding of Colorado’s sensible-conservation group

By Chris Dorsey | Commentary, The Outdoor Wire Modern politics has a gift for parodying itself, but even by Colorado standards, this one is hard to improve upon: the campaign warning voters against a constitutional right to hunt and fish has found itself with a hunter delivering the message. Enter Eric Washburn, president of the newly formed Colorado Hunters and Anglers for Sensible Wildlife Conservation, who has come forward to explain why hunters should be alarmed by the prospect of protecting hunting. Washburn says he hunts big game, holds multiple Colorado licenses, and has hunted waterfowl. Fine. Nobody needs to inspect his freezer. The interesting question isn't whether Eric Washburn hunts; it's how a professional public-affairs consultant with a long record of advocating w...
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Case: Why Colorado’s Next Attorney General Must Investigate the Flawed Voting System
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Case: Why Colorado’s Next Attorney General Must Investigate the Flawed Voting System

By John Case | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Colorado voters deserve to know the truth about our voting system. Based on the evidence cited below, this letter calls for our next Attorney General to conduct an independent investigation of the voting system and publish the results to the people. The evidence: Please watch the 21 minute video at https://vimeo.com/1220653027 in which computer expert Mark Cook demonstrates how bad actors can control Colorado election outcomes without being detected. Votes in 62 counties are counted on computers leased from Liberty Vote, Inc., formerly known as Dominion. Federal standards prohibit use of components in critical infrastructure that are supplied by America's enemies or are subject to foreign control. Supply chain expert Co...
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Frizell Makes the Case for Education Reform Without Shortchanging Taxpayers
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Colorado Politics, Approved, Commentary, State

Frizell Makes the Case for Education Reform Without Shortchanging Taxpayers

By Lisa Frizell | Commentary, Colorado Politics If we truly want to fix Colorado, we must respect taxpayers, demand accountability and prioritize classroom results.  Proposition NN fails the test.  The far left put forth this measure, presenting it as the only way to fund public schools. Colorado voters should look past the title and see what Prop NN really does.  The Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights says money collected above the state’s spending cap goes back to the taxpayers. Proposition NN asks voters to increase the spending limitation and lets the state keep all the money above the spending cap, money that would otherwise go back to Colorado families.  The legislature’s nonpartisan staff estimated Proposition NN...
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Prop 123 pledged 10,000 units a year. Colorado is nowhere close.
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Colorado Accountability Project, Approved, Commentary, State

Prop 123 pledged 10,000 units a year. Colorado is nowhere close.

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project Where's that Prop 123 money going? Hint: not all of it to new housing! Per the first link below, Prop 123 was a new tax** passed by voters in 2022 which went into a dedicated fund to provide money for "affordable housing" efforts. Screenshots 1a and 1b are from the state's Prop 123 "About" page. They give an overview of the measure along with a list of legislative changes since its passage respectively.  If you want to see the bills, you obviously can't click on a picture, so use the link below to research more about legislative changes to Prop 123 (see also "Related" below).Whether you voted for Prop 123 and/or support the idea, it's worth the time to go and check where that new tax money has g...
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From no-fault divorce to VAWA, the case that fatherlessness was by design
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Rocky Mountain Voice, Commentary, State, Top Stories

From no-fault divorce to VAWA, the case that fatherlessness was by design

By Carl Roberts | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice My guess is that most people, most parents, rarely think about parental rights. Why? Most likely because their parental rights have never been threatened. Their role in their child's life never questioned or judged. They haven't been through the drill of a custody battle or had CPS show up at their door. Nor have they had someone at their child's school secretly try to transition their son into a girl or daughter into a boy. Most parents are simply unaware that this is happening all around them, every day, until it hits them square between the eyes. Another layer to it is, not only do they not have the lived experience, but they can't imagine how the systems that were built to protect children often cause far more harm than...
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