I’m already months late in mentioning a new addition to downtown’s ethnic fare. It’s an Afghan restaurant called RUMI’S KABOB, in the location of the old Persian Grill. Rumi’s joins the Everest Nepal Restaurant, the Taste of Jerusalem [...]
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 [...]
A Colorado Springs municipal judge Friday postponed a trespassing trial for Douglas Bruce and a fellow anti-tax activist after prosecutors argued the jury pool had been tainted by a man handing out leaflets in front of the courthouse.
The leaflets, according to Colorado Springs spokesman [...]
Bill and Genie Durland, Colorado Springs’ most vocal champions for Palestine, will be among a tidal wave of peace activists converging on Palestine on the first anniversary of Israel’s unrestrained attack of Gaza. With a Mile Long March [...]
Gov. Bill Ritter, a Democrat, this week presented his 2010 budget proposal to the legislature's Joint Budget Committee. Face The State has audio from his presentation as well as analysis from GOP budget hawk Rep. Kent Lambert, R-Colorado Springs.
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COLORADO SPRINGS- I confess to being reminded regularly of a clip from Michael Moore’s movie Capitalism a Love Story. It’s the mock tourism video ad selling ">Cleveland: We’re not Detroit. The punch line accompanying this shot is “we think this is art.” Of" [...]
Springs’ own Guy Fawkes, aka union activist Ed Billings, has a website finally, named not unpredictably, Colorado Springs Sucks. His first salvo is aimed at Mayor Rivera and our city’s cutback of transportation services. Excerpt:
Mayor Jackass …er… I mean Mayor Lionel Rivera … wants Colorado Springs to be the [...]
Since the City of Colorado Springs and El Paso County have been held hostage by corrupt elected officials placed in power by Doug Bruce and Sean Paige and their related Extremist Groups who make up the current membership of the Klan err… “Minutemen” and “Republican Party” and”Tea Party”… Groups who [...]
The resurgence of “We The People” in the form of local citizens banding together in grassroots civic action organizations to defend our constitutional rights is THE political story of the year 2009 in America…
Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold is both proud and humbled to have been invited as [...]
Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold joins Backbone Radio on 710 KNUS (1460 KZNT in Colorado Springs) at 7PM tonight (Sunday) to discuss the most recent outrageous and unconstitutional Colorado Supreme Court ruling, which asserted the authority of the courts (vs. elected representatives) to decide on school funding levels, along with other examples [...]
Good news, Colorado Spring’s main power plant is not among the world’s 200 biggest carbon offender power plants. But our neighbors are. One quarter of the world’s dirtiest power plants (53) are in the US. All in red states, because the [...]
From the Colorado Springs Gazette article titled, “Fort Hood shooter wanted U.S. out of Iraq, Afghanistan,”
Lee said Hasan had hoped Obama would pull troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq and got into frequent arguments with others in the military who supported the wars.
But…. I thought they hate us for [...]
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Ted Haggard, who was dismissed from the megachurch he founded after a man alleged a cash-for-sex relationship with him, plans to lead people in worship again.Just a little fun with the You Tubes:
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Yesterday the effort to raise more municipal taxes called Ballot measure 2C went down to total defeat more than 2 to 1. While many who voted against this measure had all the worst of motives, the measure needed to be defeated since it really was a ballot measure to try [...]
From CBS4 Denver, foot-in-mouth State Senator David Schultheis (R-Colorado Springs) has pulled a surprise and announced he’s not running for re-election in 2010.
Does this make former blogger and self-proclaimed “big tent” Republican candidate Tom McDowell the frontrunner in Senate District 9?
It’s no secret that Tom [...]
From CBS4 Denver, foot-in-mouth State Senator David Schultheis (R-Colorado Springs) has pulled a surprise and announced he’s not running for re-election in 2010.
Does this make former blogger and self-proclaimed “big tent” Republican candidate Tom McDowell the frontrunner in Senate District 9?
It’s no secret that Tom [...]
State Sen. Josh Penry is eager to go one-on-one with Scott McInnis, his fellow Grand Junction resident, former boss and rival for the GOP governor's nomination.
"We're not going to win this race on the front porch, having an iced tea," said Penry, who's generally' [...]
An alert reader (hat tip to Live Free Colorado) brought the Colorado Springs Gazette editorial criticizing the tax and “fee” ‘bait and switch’ tactics employed by the current administration - thanks to the Mullarkey Majority’s unconstitutional ruling last November - to my attention this morning.
The Taxpayer’s [...]
COLORADO SPRINGS- This year for Halloween I’m dressing up like yokel heroes Sean Paige, Richard Randall, Tom Gallagher, and Doug Lamborn, the rabble-rousers behind our local Teabag mobs. They’re reveling in the white man anger, against immigrants, ACORN, and taxes [...]
