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25Feb

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Rocky Mountain Voice, Commentary, National, Top Stories

They Would Not Stand for Americans

By C. J. Garbo | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice During the State of the Union, Donald Trump issued a clear and direct statement. “If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal immigrants.” Every Republican in the chamber stood. Not one Democrat did. https://twitter.com/TheRMVoice/status/2026479858017276192 That moment was not theater. It was a stress test. And it revealed something deeply troubling about the state of the Democratic Party at the highest levels of government. Protection of citizens is not a partisan concept. It is the foundational obligation of any legitimate government. The Constitution exists to secure the bless...

When medals matter more than flags: Inside the rise of Olympic nationality swaps

24Feb

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American Thinker, Approved, Commentary, National

When medals matter more than flags: Inside the rise of Olympic nationality swaps

By Brian C. Joondeph | Commentary, American Thinker The Winter Olympics have wrapped up, reportedly drawing their highest ratings since Sochi in 2014. I didn't watch. Between niche “sports” invented to fill broadcast hours and athletes apologizing for the country they represent, the Games increasingly feel less like national competition and more like a global spectacle. But the larger issue isn’t ski mountaineering or media melodrama. It’s nationality itself. Twelve years ago, during the Sochi Olympics, I wrote about what I called “nationality fluidity” - athletes competing for countries far removed from where they were born or trained. American-born siblings skating for Japan. An Italian competing for Germany. A Vermont native skatin...

As in the Days of Noah: Moral Decline, Divine Patience, and the Certainty of Judgment

24Feb

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As in the Days of Noah: Moral Decline, Divine Patience, and the Certainty of Judgment

By C. J. Garbo | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Civilizations do not collapse at random. They follow patterns. Scripture presents that pattern with clarity. Moral order produces stability. Moral rebellion produces decay. The sequence is consistent across centuries and continents. Romans 1 describes the progression in forensic detail. People suppress truth. They exchange what is righteous for what is corrupt. God then gives them over. That phrase signals something profound. Judgment often begins with permission. Restraint is lifted. Disorder becomes self-inflicted. What was once shameful becomes celebrated. What was once honored becomes despised. The Old Testament confirms the pattern at a national scale. Israel did not fall in a single dramatic mo...

Colorado should drop its membership in the California Clean Car Cartel.

24Feb

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Colorado should drop its membership in the California Clean Car Cartel.

By Sean Paige | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice President Trump's recent repeal of the "endangerment finding"—a Barack Obama-era rule that handed the federal government absolute power to regulate almost anything that emits CO2 emissions, in response to the alleged climate crisis—marks a potential turning point for Colorado. Why? Because it gives Colorado an opportunity, an invitation, to decouple from California clean car mandates we've been operating under for years. Most Coloradans probably don't know that their state’s "clean car" mandates are written by an unelected board of all-powerful ecocrats called the California Air Resources Board (CARB.) But why would most Coloradans know this, since it was never debated by the legislat...

Federal Reimbursement Model of ‘Perverse Incentives’ Fuels Colorado Medicaid Expansion

24Feb

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Complete Colorado, Approved, Commentary, State

Federal Reimbursement Model of ‘Perverse Incentives’ Fuels Colorado Medicaid Expansion

By Nash Herman | Commentary, Complete Colorado Colorado’s ongoing budget-gap struggles are the predictable result of structural problems with Medicaid. Paragon Health Institute, a non-partisan research institute, recently published a new report, Preserve and Improve Medicaid, which explains the program’s inherent challenges and how states such as Colorado can take advantage of One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) reforms to improve outcomes. However, it remains ultimately up to Colorado legislators to address the program’s systemic issues. Medicaid’s ‘perverse incentives’ As economist Linda Gorman recently explained, the rapid 2010 expansion of Medicaid did not produce large gains in physical health, suggesting that the new expansion ...

$16 trillion question: Was the climate agenda history’s biggest financial misfire?

23Feb

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$16 trillion question: Was the climate agenda history’s biggest financial misfire?

By Stephen Moore | Commentary, The Epoch Times Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex. And for what? Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources. The war on safe and abundant fossil fuels has cost countless lives in poor countries and made those countries poorer by blocking affordable energy. Since the global warming crusade started some 30 years ago, the temperature of the planet has not been altered by one-tenth of a degree—as even the alarmists will admit. In other words, $16 trillion has been spent—a lot of people got very, very rich off the governmen...

A different kind of Republican: Windholz urges support for Dr. Janak Joshi for U.S. Senate

20Feb

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A different kind of Republican: Windholz urges support for Dr. Janak Joshi for U.S. Senate

By JoAnn Windholz | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Not all doctors are the same just as not all candidates for elected office are the same. One such doctor and candidate, Dr. Janak Joshi is my pick to be Colorado's Republican nominee for U.S. Senate. Having served with Dr. Joshi I know he is the perfect example of servant leadership. He treats everyone with dignity and kindness, while refusing to compromise his values and principles. It’s evident to anyone who knows him that his strong faith and patriotism drive his passion and commitment to protecting Colorado families, providing relief to taxpayers, defending the unborn, and standing strong for our Constitutional liberties. Dr. Janak Joshi is different from all the rest. ...

Hope for Colorado conservatives: Why small steps still count in a blue state

20Feb

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Colorado Accountability Project, Approved, Commentary, State

Hope for Colorado conservatives: Why small steps still count in a blue state

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project Hope for conservatives in Colorado Being a conservative or Republican in Blue Colorado is tough. I have noted multiple emails and comments on my writing that fall somewhere along the lines of “it’s hopeless” or “why bother getting involved, it won’t change anything?” I understand the sentiment. The thing is, situations are hopeless until they aren’t. Things won’t change until they do. What I mean is that change is not a sweeping jump. Change, whether in your life, in nature, in Colorado’s politics, is more often than not a gradual process. Think more water wearing down rock than mountains crumbling in an earthquake. Doing nothing because it will not immediately fix the problem is the wr...

Local control or state mandate: Colorado bill would override city prostitution laws

19Feb

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Local control or state mandate: Colorado bill would override city prostitution laws

By Scott K. James | Commentary, ScottKJames.com The Colorado General Assembly wants to decriminalize commercial sex and block every city and county from prohibiting it. That is not reform. It is a statewide power grab dressed up as enlightenment. There are bad bills. There are misguided bills. And then there are bills that crawl out of the Capitol smelling like moral decay wrapped in legislative arrogance. This one is the latter. Under the gleaming gold dome of the Colorado State Capitol, Democrats in the Colorado General Assembly have decided that commercial sex is now so enlightened, so elevated, so philosophically superior that no city, no county, no community in the entire state of Colorado may forbid it. SB26-097 not only decriminalizes consensual...

Wave of bills sparks alarm over parental rights and religious freedom

19Feb

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Christian Home Educators of Colorado, Approved, Commentary, State

Wave of bills sparks alarm over parental rights and religious freedom

By Colleen Enos | Commentary, Christian Home Educators of Colorado The last couple of weeks have been a whirlwind of bills and hearings. Sadly, the Colorado State Senate passed the harmful SB26-004, Expand List of Petitioners for Protection Order, which could result in homeschool families that exercise their second amendment rights being targeted as “a danger” by schools where they participate in part-time or extracurricular programs. The actual school, district or even a health care facility can petition for a Red-Flag order against the parents and remove their firearms according to the bill. It would actually incentivize families to avoid getting necessary healthcare for fear of being targeted. It is now scheduled to be heard in the House State, Civic, Military and Veteran...

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They Would Not Stand for Americans

When medals matter more than flags: Inside the rise of Olympic nationality swaps

As in the Days of Noah: Moral Decline, Divine Patience, and the Certainty of Judgment

Colorado should drop its membership in the California Clean Car Cartel.

Federal Reimbursement Model of ‘Perverse Incentives’ Fuels Colorado Medicaid Expansion

$16 trillion question: Was the climate agenda history’s biggest financial misfire?

A different kind of Republican: Windholz urges support for Dr. Janak Joshi for U.S. Senate

Hope for Colorado conservatives: Why small steps still count in a blue state

Local control or state mandate: Colorado bill would override city prostitution laws

Wave of bills sparks alarm over parental rights and religious freedom

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