Gaines: Colorado Democrats skirt asking your approval to take your money, bristle at attempts to rein them in
I think that, among other things, one-party dominance in this state has led to an arrogance on the part of the ruling party.
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Lundberg: A look at the bad bills remaining in the final week of session
I have not ever seen this many really bad bills in one session. Further there are still way too many bills yet to be fully processed and this too looks like a record-breaking volume.
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Walcher: We can govern ourselves, something our current regulators apparently no longer believe
There is a famous story about Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman walking down the street with a friend. The friend stopped and said, “Hey, there is a $20 bill on the sidewalk.” The economist turned to him and replied, “There can’t be. If there were a $20 bill on the sidewalk, somebody would have picked it up.”
Devotional: ‘It’s not dying I’m talking about, it’s living’
Losing a loved one is one of the most painful experiences in life, especially when it happens in tragic circumstances.
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Barnhart: Abortion doesn’t belong in Colorado’s Constitution
Healthcare should be about helping people find health. Reproductive healthcare should preserve a woman’s ability to have children. And the right to live is the most basic right for all of us who have everything that makes us human and alive from the moment we are conceived within the protective sphere of our mother.
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NW Co. Energy Initiative: Prioritizing the need to address energy poverty
In the debate surrounding energy and climate change, where discord often drowns out reason and cooperation, a rallying cry for unity emerges: the imperative to address energy poverty.
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Sweeting: Free speech on campus isn’t absolute
Fierce campus debates swirl around the Israel-Hamas war. One of them is a debate about the extent of free speech. Should there be restrictions on those protesting Israel’s military actions or its right to exist? Protesters’ voices vary, with some being pro-Palestinian and others pro-Hamas. Some are calling for a cease-fire, while others call for the end to the Jewish state. Freedom of speech is a precious right guaranteed in our Constitution’s First Amendment. The right to discuss, debate, inquire and even protest on a university campus should be cherished and protected. But are there limits?
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Sharf: No, left-tilting media, campus protestors aren’t anti-war, just anti-Jew
The digital news site Denverite (owned by Colorado Public Radio), as well as other leftward-tilting Colorado news outlets, recently referred to the inhabitants of a pro-Hamas tent encampment on the Auraria Campus in Denver as “anti-war.”
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Caldara: Colorado’s majority Democrats assault free speech
Among all protections throughout human existence for political minorities, none greater was ever created before the 1st Amendment.
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Sloan: Weighing the immunity question facing the Supreme Court
A fortnight ago, on CBS’s Sunday morning show “Meet the Press”, one of the guests interviewed was Doris Kearns Goodwin, Presidential historian, author of “Team of Rivals” and former staffer for President Lyndon Johnson.
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