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Gaines: Getting back from the state what we’re owed under TABOR
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Gaines: Getting back from the state what we’re owed under TABOR

By Cory Gaines | Complete Colorado (via Colorado Accountability Project) Pretend that your employer accidentally overpaid you, say $20 extra a month for a couple years.  Neither of you notice until one day you get an email telling you about the mistake.  The mistake has been fixed and your pay will be $20 less going forward.  Also, you now owe your employer $240.  Not a pleasant thing to consider. Fresh on the heels of Governor Polis signing the state budget, we got similar bad news.  Due to an accounting error there’s a $67 million “oops” in the budget. The mistake stretches all the way back to the hurried 2020 legislative session and a bill rushed through for Polis’ signature.  SB20-215 created the Health Insurance Affordability Enter...
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Basile: ‘Woke’ Scouts and the death of another American institution
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Basile: ‘Woke’ Scouts and the death of another American institution

By Tom Basile | The Washington Times Another week, another headline that has millions wondering what has happened to the America of our youth. “Woke” social engineering by the far left appears to have claimed another victim: the Boy Scouts of America. The organization that had molded millions of boys into leaders who valued nature, personal responsibility and hard work has announced it will rebrand itself as “Scouting America,” removing the word “boy” from its name. It’s a wonder they didn’t remove America too. The storied institution says that its core mission remains the same, and that its European counterparts have already rebranded to be more inclusive. They say this rebrand to focus on inclusivity is necessary to boost membership. On the contrary, BSA’s mission is and until r...
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Copeland: How to stop wrecking our country
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Copeland: How to stop wrecking our country

By Dr. Tom Copeland | Guest Columnist President George Washington, wearing a keffiyeh with a Palestinian flag across his shoulders? That’s what anti-Israel agitators recently did to the statue of our founding President, at the university named after him.  Protests at universities across the country are being organized and funded by anti-Israel groups. Many administrators have shown no backbone in dealing with them. But let’s add the boards of trustees, faculty, staff and parents of the agitators. Where are they? They are either completely absent, or in the case of faculty at places like Columbia, actively encouraging and supporting the protests. Yet we cannot absolve the students themselves of responsibility. They are adults, although they have often been coddled. They believ...
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Gaines: Colorado Democrats skirt asking your approval to take your money, bristle at attempts to rein them in
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Gaines: Colorado Democrats skirt asking your approval to take your money, bristle at attempts to rein them in

By Cory Gaines | Colorado Accountability Project I think that, among other things, one-party dominance in this state has led to an arrogance on the part of the ruling party.  The idea that they know best.  That the values that their political base along the Front Range ought to by right be the template for the state.  That the special interests they represent have the one true vision for things here.   READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT THE COLORADO ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT
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Walcher: We can govern ourselves, something our current regulators apparently no longer believe
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Walcher: We can govern ourselves, something our current regulators apparently no longer believe

By Greg Walcher | Guest Commentary 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.” Friedman often taught that if something were in people’s best interest, they would discover and put it to use without having to be told or forced to do so. A Forbes economic writer named Tilak Doshi, a long-time energy economics analyst, wrote a great piece called “The Energy Efficiency Paradox,” in which he highlights the folly of governments around the world forcing consumers to make energy choices designed to save them money. ...
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Devotional: ‘It’s not dying I’m talking about, it’s living’
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Devotional: ‘It’s not dying I’m talking about, it’s living’

By Drake Hunter | Guest Columnist Losing a loved one is one of the most painful experiences in life, especially when it happens in tragic circumstances. My friend, Delilah Maly, knows this pain all too well, after losing her son and my dear friend, Ethan Dow, on April 20, 2024. Ethan was only 22 years old and had so much potential, but he struggled with many issues in life. However, rather than dwelling on the problems up front, let's honor Ethan's memory with compassion and learn from his story. Doing so can create a world where people like Ethan find hope, healing and support to overcome challenges and discover renewed purpose in life. Remember that with enlightened, rather than misguided, faith, we can find a good reality for everyone through those who “Just Believe” in Life. ...
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Barnhart: Abortion doesn’t belong in Colorado’s Constitution
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Barnhart: Abortion doesn’t belong in Colorado’s Constitution

By Faye Barnhart | Guest Columnist Colorado has one of the most extreme laws in the world. It allows children to be poisoned, scalded, stabbed, starved, dismembered or otherwise inhumanely killed by any means from all nine months of pregnancy up to the point of birth. To call these “procedures” to end the life of a living human being “healthcare” would be laughable were it not so barbaric and tragic. Right now, Colorado allows the killing of children any time during the pregnancy.  And now, extremists want to put an amendment on the Colorado ballot requiring health insurance and taxpayer funds to pay for these practices and to be added to the Colorado Constitution as a “right”. Killing people has never been a right, nor should it ever be. Pregnancy and childbirth are healthy....
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Sweeting: Free speech on campus isn’t absolute
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Sweeting: Free speech on campus isn’t absolute

By Don Sweeting | DonSweeting.com 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? When Columbia University President Minouche Shafik started clamping down on pro-Palestinian protesters, students, faculty and a university oversight panel criti...
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Sharf: No, left-tilting media, campus protestors aren’t anti-war, just anti-Jew
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Sharf: No, left-tilting media, campus protestors aren’t anti-war, just anti-Jew

By Joshua Sharf | Complete Colorado 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.” Editorial note: They’re not anti-war, they’re just anti-Jew. As the campus protests grow more violent they are also exposed as being more radical than one might suppose from coverage by standard left-of-center news outlets.  It is not uncommon for them to openly support Hamas’s October 7 indiscriminate massacre and rapes as “legitimate acts of resistance,” even as they deny that the worst of the atrocities even happened.  They cite Hamas’s unverifiable, and likely invented,  casualty figures witho...
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Caldara: Colorado’s majority Democrats assault free speech
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Caldara: Colorado’s majority Democrats assault free speech

By Jon Caldara | Complete Colorado (You can listen to this column, read by the author, here.) Among all protections throughout human existence for political minorities, none greater was ever created before the First Amendment. For the better part of my life, it was classic liberals and the political left who fought for the right of dissent, guaranteeing government shall not abridge speech. It was the cultural warriors of my childhood through school, media and Hollywood who drilled into us themes like: “innocent until proven guilty”; “the ends don’t justify the means”; “I disagree with what you say, but defend your right to say it”; and “dissent is patriotic.” Why? Because the political majority needs no protection for its self-expression. The political minority does. ...
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