By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A.
Honorable Friends:
I learned from yesterday’s front page headline of The Denver Post that my party now stands united behind former Rep. Scott McInnis in the Colorado gubernatorial race. Odd that. I used to think we had primary elections for this sort of thing, but it [...]
So some Colorado GOP leaders have crafted a Prosperity Platform and rallied behind Scott McInnis as the gubernatorial candidate.
Meanwhile, some in the grassroots remain thoroughly unconvinced and stand behind hard-working longshot Dan Maes. The issue is not the rhetoric or the substance of the 20 governing principles that [...]
From the Denver Business Journal on Mark Udall:
Udall, D-Colo., said he is “carefully reviewing this legislation,” entitled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But he did say he was “encouraged” that the measure, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled on Wednesday, “is estimated to drive down the [...]
The exciting opportunity for a Republican pickup in Senate District 16 with a departing incumbent Democrat Dan Gibbs has taken some interesting turns in the past week. State senate minority leader Josh Penry’s most highly touted replacement was Cheri Gerou. But the HD 25 representative told me today her [...]
#tcot #teaparty #communist #socialism #acorn
ACORN caught recently in 6 cities red-handed giving tax evasion advise and helpful loan information to a Pimp, his prostitute and their illegal underage sex slaves, now in another barrel of hot water.
As usual Breitbart will release it slowly, letting ACORN hang themselves with lies [...]
Today’s announcement (with much fanfare and commentary) of a ‘Contract for Colorado’ emphasizing key principles, positions, or policy prescriptions for conservative candidates for Colorado statewide office picked up on several key themes long espoused by Clear The Bench Colorado. (Although Clear The Bench Colorado is not affiliated with any political party nor [...]
An article in the most recent edition of the Colorado Statesman - a normally nonpartisan and reasonably reliable source of information on Colorado politics and policy - got it dead wrong when mentioning Clear The Bench Colorado at the conclusion of the piece.
Colorado Statesman reporter Janet Simons mischaracterized Clear [...]
#tcot #obamacare #aynrand #SNL
This SNL skit is Rated R but hilarious.
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As health care reform inches closer to reality, a massively important question becomes even more pressing: Will ObamaCare kill the sorts of medical innovation that makes the United States the leader in bringing new treatments, technology, and procedures to market?
“America is the only industrialized nation that doesn’t have a national [...]
The following article originally was published November 23 by Grand Junction’s Free Press.
People vote for freedom with their feet and effort
by Linn and Ari Armstrong
“Why are they all running to Colorado? What have they got down there that we haven’t got?” So asks a villain in Ayn Rand’s Atlas [...]
#tcot #redco #mcinnis #colorado
In what could be a winning strategy for other races, Colorado GOP primary candidates decide to drop fighting other Republicans and decide to focus on the real enemy….overspending, over taxation, and government control over freedom. This is a smart move by the Republicans and could [...]
The antithesis of the conservative reform agenda now being heavily touted by many Colorado Republican leaders is the sort of stale tax-and-spend thinking that emanates from the many taxpayer-funded commissions appointed by Bill Ritter and the Democrat legislature.
Such an example is the Long-Term Fiscal Stability Commission. Three of [...]
First, below, is a note I sent to Colorado’s junior senator, Michael Bennet, last Thursday. Following my note is the vacuous form letter I received in response.
Dear Senator Bennet,
I realize this note is almost certainly falling on deaf ears, but I’ll try anyway:
I urge you to vote NO in [...]
What special interest groups got paid off in the Democrat-sponsored health care “reform” bills? They include unions, the AARP, the American Medical Association, the state of California, and the state of Louisiana. See:
Health Care BS’s Health reform: Who got paid off? and Michelle Malkin’s The Demcare bribe list.
[...]From the Wall Street Journal:
…the bills are fiscally dishonest, using every budget gimmick and trick in the book: Leave out inconvenient spending, back-load spending to disguise the true scale, front-load tax revenues, let inflation push up tax revenues, promise spending cuts to doctors and hospitals that have no record [...]
I was at the Republican National Committee (RNC) sponsored Say It Out Loud presentation this past Friday in Denver.
There was a good mix of folks there, from the Peoples’ Press Collective, R Block Party, 9/12, as [...]
Huffington Post is running video of our appointed junior U.S. Senator Michael Bennet saying he will vote for Obama Care socialized medicine even if it means losing his job. In other words, he’s completely ignoring you.
But sounds like a good idea to me. A few sensible Democrats remaining in [...]
I received an invitation and attended the new Republican National Committee (RNC) outreach program Say It Loud in Denver this past Friday, the 4th time it’s been presented to the general public around the country.
The new GOP surrogate training program is organized into [...]
Word has leaked to the Grand Junction Sentinel that state senate minority leader Josh Penry will formally announce his endorsement of former rival Scott McInnis for Colorado governor. The endorsement was contingent on the McInnis formally agreeing to 20 conservative governing principles.
“These are the principles that swept the GOP [...]
COST just discovered that Colorado’s Department of Human Services, on behalf of taxpayers, paid Radio Disney $1010 for “other marketing expenses.” COST has no idea what taxpayers received because the Web site provides no explanation.
[...]Looks like Louisiana picked the perfect Senator to represent them in Mary Landrieu - or at least those Louisianans who ply their trade in the shadowed corners of the French Quarter:
Landrieu defended the inclusion of the provision and said Republican critics who accuse her of selling her vote for [...]
HSA-qualified insurance: affordable premiums, patients spend prudently & take responsibility for their own health, and can save for future expenses. But politicians like Harry Reid want to make HSA-qualified insurance plans illegal.
Read about it in the Wall Street Journal: The End of HSAs: Harry Reid wants to kill consumer-driven [...]
Today’s Colorado Springs Gazette published my op-ed, “Environmentalist clowns threatening human life,” reviewing a November 18 talk by Keith Lockitch. (The online version is dated November 20, while the print date is November 21.)
I write, “People need industrial energy to live and flourish, Lockitch emphasized. Indeed, modern energy enables [...]
Governor Bill Ritter cuts funding for Higher Education and eliminates tax credits for seniors to balance Colorado’s budget. Yet according to the Associated Press, Ritter spends millions lobbying governmentfor programs taxpayers can’t afford. COST’s own Amy Oliver Cooke and champion of taxpayers Rep Kent Lambert are quoted in the article.
If taxpayers want [...]
A packed house–100+ in attendance
People’s Press Collective heads east to St. Louis to expand the empire of citizen journalist proletariat!
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Investigative Journalism:
–importance of open records requests, be focused in search parameters and willing to negotiate over costs
–audits from [...]
Harry Reid’s Senate health bill up for a procedural vote on Saturday, which could allow it to move forward to debate. (Yet Republicans are pushing to read the whole thing, which could take 34 hours!) In any case, be wary of how this bill [...]
P. J. O’Rourke offered a perfectly delightful address at the Independence Institute’s 25th Anniversary Banquet, held in Denver on November 19. He mostly blasted leftist policies but saved some of his best lines for Republicans. For example, he said that building a wall between us and Mexico would be [...]
Here are two interesting charities I’ve learned about recently. I’ve contributed a modest sum to the first one:
Heifer International: Among other things, gives food-providing animals to poor people around the world, with the condition that the recipients share the offspring of those animals with other poor people. (They do [...]
Both the House and Senate care bills include a new government-run health plan. (See the Wall Street Journal’s comparison.) In June I wrote the following:
Supporters of the “public insurance option,” that is, government-run insurance that competes with commercial insurers sense opposition: People realize it’s unfair competition. You know, [...]
It is hard work defending a cult. Especially when the truth might harm its foundations. Cult leaders will suppress the truth to protect the religious movement. Scientists seek truth. That, my friends, is the difference between members of the Al Gore Cult of Global Warming and actual scientists. The New York [...]
Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold is appearing as a guest at this Saturday’s (21 Nov) South Weld County Breakfast Club meeting at the Branding Iron restaurant in Fort Lupton at 8AM.
Join Matt at Saturday morning’s meeting to learn more about the Mullarkey Court’s repeated assaults on the Colorado Constitution, the resulting impact to your [...]
I am slated as the keynote speaker this coming Monday, 7 AM, at the Jefferson County Republican Men’s Club (follow link and scroll down for information). The topic? “What Do Teachers Unions Negotiate from You?” Find more about my areas of research here.
[...]A devastating story for the scaremongering “climate change” religionists breaks today because of illegal hacking activity:
Climate Audit, “Mike’s nature trick” Ed Morrissey, Hot Air, “Do hacked e-mails show global warming fraud?” Paul Chesser, American Spectator, “Get that hacker a pimp coat”On a different note, George Will has a [...]
#redco #teaparty #perlmutter
A Colorado music promoter is weighing a Republican campaign against two-term Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D).
The Denver Business Journal reported Thursday that Jimmy Lakey, who owns concert promotion and artist management companies, has formed an “exploratory committee” to prepare for a possible run in Colorado’s 7th [...]
#teaparty #stimulus #waste #fraud #abuse Bosse Enters Race for NH 00 District
Priceless;
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Thanks to Australia’s Herald Sun for breaking this story.
In a potentially game-changing turn of events regarding “global warming” alarmism and its cap-and-trade policy implications, a hacker got into the computer system of the British University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (”CRU”), one of the leading sources [...]
As Don at Business Word notes, the Ryan Frazier campaign yesterday touted a list of endorsements from “nearly one hundred influential Coloradans” in his bid to be the next Congressman from the 7th District. Yes, the list contains the names of some heavy-hitters — including Phil Anschutz, Pete [...]
#tcot #teaparty #obamacare #corruption
Hat tip Malkin
1)MARY LANDRIEU AND LOUISIANA: $100 million via Jonathan Karl:
2)CALIFORNIA: $300 million, via LA Times:
3) AARP
a) Via Philip Klein: $18 million in stimulus money
b) The Medigap royalty/kickback scheme
4) THE ABORTION LOBBY, via LifeNews:
5) Big Labor - Via Houston [...]
#tcot #gwot via Yahoo news hat tip Hot Air blog
President Barack Obama is now confirming what many have long suspected: He will miss his January deadline to close the Guantanamo prison — partly because he cannot persuade other nations to take the detainees.
Prisoners like Walid Abu Hijazi. The 29-year-old [...]
The Institute for Health Freedom advises you to contact your Senator today about tomorrow’s vote “on a motion to proceed” on Harry Reid’s health care bill (Sat. Nov 21). There are many reasons not to like this bill. The Institute summarizes:
The bill would (among many other provisions):
require nearly every [...]The Politico, hardly a conservative outlet of political opinion, offers a devastating analysis of Barack Obama’s trip through Asia.
You can read the article for yourself, but here are a couple of highlights:
Obama’s minimalist approach was most consequential in China, where he did not meet with Christians, dissidents or bloggers, [...]
There has been a clear (if not perfect) correlation in recent months between the value of the dollar and the price of broad stock market indices, i.e. S&P 500.
In particular, the market goes up when the dollar goes down. See the chart below of the last few months. The blue [...]
Dr. Paul Hsieh has a great article in the Washington Examiner about HR 3962 and mandatory health insurance. It begins:
Suppose the mafia came to your town and forced everyone to purchase all their meals at mob-approved restaurants. The mafia would also select the menu items.
If [...]
(Note: this article was originally written for, and published by, the monthly ”A Line Of Sight“ news/commentary newsletter which appeared on Tuesday, 17 November)
Last month’s A Line of Sight profiled Mark Hillman’s excellent article describing the Colorado Supreme Court’s latest “power grab”.
In an audacious power grab, the Colorado Supreme [...]
This evening the Independence Institute celebrates its 25th anniversary with a sold-out Founders’ Night dinner featuring keynote speaker P.J. O’Rourke. It should be a good family reunion of sorts. Count me as one of the crazy, freedom-fighting cousins.
No one in the area is better at leveraging the media [...]
This was forwarded to me a little while ago. Someone named Kathy from Evergreen apparently (and doubtless with good reason) is not happy with the responsiveness of Congress to her concerns about Obama Care and a rapidly growing and spending federal government.
She took a mechanical form letter from Colorado [...]
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