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Bob Schaffer – A Man of Principle Standing Up for Colorado’s Taxpayers and Protecting the Constitution

Bob Schaffer can read, which is helpful if you are going to be Colorado’s next United States Senator.  More importantly, he understands what he reads. Schaffer was peeved at the actions of Gov. Ritter and the Democrat majority in the State Legislature to “freeze” property tax rates that would otherwise have fallen.  This scheme is [...]

Why America Needs Warrantless Wiretap Authority

42 days – where’s Nancy?
Six weeks have passed since FISA, the authority for the President to authorize wiretap surveillance of terror suspects. Nancy Pelosi continues to stonewall and deny the House to vote on the re-authorization bill already passed 68-29 by the Senate. Click here to read the stark, honest assessment of Attorney General Michael [...]

Dead Man Walking in Oklahoma

On Nov. 19, 2007 Zach Dunlap, 21, was pronounced dead from injuries sustained in an accident.  His family stood vigil, but finally agreed to terminate life support and even approved having his vital organs harvested for transplant.   Somebody must not have given Zach a copy of the script – he woke up. 
Four months after he [...]

Berkeley vs. U.S. Marines

As reported in A Line of Sight the enlightened city of Berkeley, California recently stood up to the United States Marines and told them they were “uninvited and unwelcome guests” in the infamous City by the Bay.
To follow up on how things have been going, you’ll want to click on this video link from Jon [...]

Regent Bosley on how they hired Benson

Steve Bosley, the chairman of the CU President search committee and CU Regent, explains the search and selection process for hiring CU’s newest president — philanthropist, oil man, and political activist Bruce Benson. His op-ed from the Daily Camera can be found here.
“It has been inspiring to see that so many Coloradans care so passionately [...]

In Case You Missed It: Not all in the media taken in by Obama speech

Video revelations of outrageous anti-American, anti-White, anti-Semitic ranting of Barack Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright created a tornadic frenzy.  Obama’s poll numbers immediately tumbled, and the would-be President was forced to address the situation. 
At best, Obama’s speech was an attempt at damage control created by his own unwillingness to remove an obvious thorn in his political [...]

America at Risk: Waiting on Nancy

 Days Since FISA Expired:
34
Nancy Pelosi arrogantly denied the House a vote on legislation already passed 68-29 by the Senate, and as a result surveillance wiretap authority necessary for our American intelligence community to intercept terrorist telecommunications expired on February 16.
Mike McConnell, Director of National Intelligence and Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Pelosi’s inaction has had [...]

The Lost Children of Sudan

 If you dig deeply enough in the mainstream media you might on rare occasion find a story about the tragedy that has befallen Sudan for most of the last generation. Claudia and I have befriended and pledged support for a group of refuge girls in the Boulder community that call themselves the Lost Girls of [...]

Ah, Those Democrat Uniters

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both assert that they can somehow bring this nation together – not be as polarizing as George W. Bush. They might start by uniting their own party. The 2008 Democrat primary is becoming increasingly bitter. If it keeps up the Dem’s Donkey may be split down the middle and sacrificed [...]

No Solution on Wiretaps - Pelosi takes two week recess, Expiration Now Over 30 days and No End in Sight

Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrat leadership left town in mid-February for a weeklong recess letting expire on Feb. 16 wiretap authority that seriously weakened the intelligence community’s ability to intercept terrorist telecommunications. Now Pelosi recessed the House for two weeks – this time for Spring Break. Two months, and three weeks of recess?
Before leaving [...]