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Caldara: Reality check on mass deportations in Colorado
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Caldara: Reality check on mass deportations in Colorado

By Jon Caldara | Commentary, Complete Colorado Let the meaningless battle over mass deportation in Colorado begin. Watching our cities virtue-signal on immigration is the best free entertainment your tax dollars can buy. The war of words and chest beating is worthy of a reality show. On one side, you have Denver’s Mayor Mike Johnston playing a modern-day Paul Revere. With those hideous Redcoats marching on Denver, his cry of “ICE is coming” will rally the Highland moms (who apparently cannot be messed with) and his own police force to take up arms to protect the immigrants who are bankrupting his city. On the other side, you have cities like Castle Rock, those dirty British sympathizers, who have made it clear they welcome the motherland’s ICE agents and wil...
Caldara: The ridiculous double-standard behind Denver’s flavor ban
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Caldara: The ridiculous double-standard behind Denver’s flavor ban

By Jon Caldara | Commentary, Complete Colorado I get tired of all the double standards. When The Little Mermaid swims around half naked, singing to her underwater friends, she is “sweet” and “beautiful.” But when I do it, people say I’m “drunk” and “no longer welcome at the aquarium.” Modern society often makes knowing when you’re acting hypocritically difficult. I mean, burn a body at a crematorium, you’re “doing a good job.” Do it at home you’re “destroying evidence.” It’s just hard to know when people are going to get upset and throw the double-standard flag at you. So, of course, I’ve got a great deal of sympathy for the Denver City Council and its bizarre inconsistent hypocrisy between cannabis and tobacco. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT COMPLETE COLORADO Editor’s n...
Caldara: Taxpayers foolishly subsidized my new electric car
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Caldara: Taxpayers foolishly subsidized my new electric car

By Jon Caldara | Commentary, Complete Colorado I want to thank the taxpayers of Colorado for my brand-new car. Really, thanks to each and every one of you dupes. You see, I have never in my 60 years had a brand new, off-the-lot automobile. Instead, I buy used, and I mean really used, cars and drive them until they drop. Out of college I bought a sexy $500 Datsun 210 and sold it eight years later for $950. My current beater is a 2010 Nissan Altima. I bought it with 95,000 miles for $6,000. It now has over 200,000 miles and still going strong. I drive ugly, old used cars. Why do I drive these cars? Simply, because I know what women like. While they’ll rarely admit it out loud, when a woman sees a bald man tooling around town in a 15-year-old rusted-out Japanese car she can’t help...
Caldara: Trump win puts progressive intolerance on display
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Caldara: Trump win puts progressive intolerance on display

By Jon Caldara | Commentary, Complete Colorado Welcome to the Great Un-friending. One of the telltale signs of a progressive is the constant self-celebration of their tolerance. Progressive communities, like my hometown of Boulder, slap the word “diversity” on every school wall, rec center poster and library. “All are welcome,” don’t ya know. The woke mob has mandated Diversity, Equity and Inclusion trainings that feeds the DEI Industrial Complex. The trans movement created the pronoun police state, where gender dysphoria is not merely tolerated, it will be celebrated. Free speech and proper grammar are relics of a long-gone racist era. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT COMPLETE COLORADO Editor’s note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those of the author and do not ...
Rosen: Voters paved path forward for Trump, GOP majority
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Rosen: Voters paved path forward for Trump, GOP majority

By Mike Rosen | Commentary, Complete Colorado Two years ago, I predicted that Joe Biden wouldn’t be on the presidential ballot by November 2024.  After Kamala Harris secured the nomination, my rosy scenario was a Trump victory riding a red wave.  (It’s true I picked Dewey over Truman in 1948, but I was only three-years-old then.) Now, all the usual Democrat suspects, the liberal media, and other assorted sore losers are up in arms over President-elect Trump’s announced selections for cabinet posts and other leadership positions in his incoming administration.  Really, Rachel Maddow and the crew of lefty wackos at MSNBC are outraged?  Isn’t that too bad?  Trump’s appropriate response should echo the eloquent words of President Barack Obama when he met with def...
Gaines: Colorado newsrooms promote left-wing ‘civic engagement’
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Gaines: Colorado newsrooms promote left-wing ‘civic engagement’

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Complete Colorado Wanting to support your community and get civically engaged?  Do you also like warm cookies?  I suppose the Venn Diagram for these two things would likely show a lot of overlap.  I’m right there in the middle anyway. In what is surely a startling coincidence–how could it be otherwise?–two articles appeared within 5 days of each other in Colorado Public Radio and the Colorado Sun.  The former ostensibly telling people how to get involved in their communities, and the latter a glowing profile of a nonprofit focused on civic engagement.  Both, of course, have at their center the group Warm Cookies of the Revolution.  Friendly and homey name, no? READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT COMPLETE COLORADO
Caldara: Polis, Dems prefer Trump win Colorado’s electoral votes
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Caldara: Polis, Dems prefer Trump win Colorado’s electoral votes

By Jon Caldara | Complete Colorado Yet again the voters of Colorado pummeled Donald Trump at the ballot box. He lost here by an audacious 12%. I have a question for the majority of Coloradans who didn’t want him as president: How do you feel about Colorado’s 10 Electoral College votes going to President-elect Trump instead of Vice President Kamala Harris? Voters of our hardcore blue state despise Trump and came out in very large numbers to voice their hatred of the man. And yet, our 10 electoral votes from Colorado will go to…Trump. So, you with Trump Derangement Syndrome, is this what you wanted? READ THE FULL STORY AT COMPLETE COLORADO Editor’s note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the ma...
Caldara: Colorado’s political future under Proposition 131
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Caldara: Colorado’s political future under Proposition 131

By Jon Caldara | Commentary, Complete Colorado Out of the 14 statewide ballot questions, which by the way ties the record, it’s Proposition 131 that would bring the most political change and disruption with its jungle primaries and ranked-choice voting general elections. Assuming voter fatigue doesn’t keep voters from reaching this down-ballot issue, it’s the last of the statewide questions, it should pass. This is a prediction not an endorsement. It will pass because of its more than $15 million in funding, and because there is no effective or funded campaign against it, and generally voters are frustrated with both major parties. READ THE FULL STORY AT COMPLETE COLORADO Editor’s note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those of the author and do not neces...
Armstrong: Punishing the innocent with Colorado’s Proposition KK
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Armstrong: Punishing the innocent with Colorado’s Proposition KK

By Ari Armstrong | Complete Colorado Imagine the screams from the left if, instead of facing a ballot measure to allow for tax-subsidized abortions, Colorado voters instead saw a measure to tax abortions to fund mental health for women dealing with matters pertaining to fertility, pregnancy, and raising children. “This is punishing people for exercising their basic rights,” we would hear. “This is not how we should fund essential services,” the chorus would chant. And the critics would be right. But, when it comes to new taxes on guns and ammunition, the same people who would don sackcloth and ashes over an abortion tax are all cheers and grins. Why the double standard? Abortion good, guns bad, is the basic orientation of our dominantly Democratic legislature. We get more of ...
As Election Day nears, opposition to big cat hunting ban grows with counties, CPW staffers in mix
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As Election Day nears, opposition to big cat hunting ban grows with counties, CPW staffers in mix

By Sherrie Peif | Complete Colorado The list of organizations, local governments and others across the state opposing Proposition 127, the mountain lion hunting ban on Colorado’s statewide ballot, continues to grow less than two weeks from the general election. The ballot measure purports to ban the practice of “trophy hunting” of mountain lions (as well as lynx and bobcat), which generally means killing an animal for sport and not for consumption or harvest, a practice that is already illegal in Colorado. However, the initiative goes on to broadly define trophy hunting as “intentional killing, wounding, pursuing or entrapping of a mountain lion, bobcat or lynx,” which in practice means a ban on hunting the animals entirely, according to Dan Gates from Coloradans for R...