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The American Presidents: Some Historical Perspectives

Adding considerable luster to the achievement of the Founding Fathers in building success and stability in the infant Republic is the fact that five of our first seven Presidents’ not only won and served out two terms but also departed office popular enough to insure the election of approved successors.
What was achieved by five of [...]

Allard for CSU’s chief

Guest Commentary – Denver Post, 11/27/08
By Bob Beauprez
Colorado State University is looking for a new leader. Someone with intimate ties to Colorado, and in particular a love and affection for the state’s great land grant college.
Someone with the ability to articulate a vision for the growing, expansive university to major donors and to the nation. [...]

A thoughtful perspective

In the wake of the second consecutive election setback for the GOP, some have suggested the party’s problem is due to the influence of social conservatism.  Randall Hoven is self-described agnostic-libertarian.  Writing for the American Thinker, Hoven observes that the “liberty killers” are actually coming from the left side of the political spectrum, and that [...]

Memo to the President-Elect:

Let’s Have a Real Middle-Class Tax Cut
Obama’s tax credits won’t stimulate the economy.
By NEWT GINGRICH and PETER FERRARA
“For a real middle-class tax cut, we should cut the 25% income tax rate that now applies to single workers earning $32,550 to $78,850, and married couples earning $65,100 to $131,450. We should reduce that rate down to [...]

Mitt Romney: Let Detroit Go Bankrupt

While Barack Obama and the Democrats are scrambling for votes to give the automakers billions of taxpayer dollars to continue business as usual, Mitt Romney offers a better solution consistent with free-market principles. 
“Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course — the suicidal course of [...]

Tip of the Hat - United States Senator Wayne Allard

When the 111th Congress of the United States is sworn in next January, it will be without one of Colorado’s finest public servants.  Wayne Allard is retiring from public life after a quarter century of service to his native Colorado. 
Born near Walden into a ranching family, Wayne received a doctorate in veterinarian medicine at Colorado [...]

Good News of the Month - Sanity Prevails 5-to-4 at the Supreme Court

By a margin of only one vote, the United States Navy won an important battle in the Supreme Court.  Environmental groups had successfully blocked submarine sonar training exercises through a lower court decision based on predictions of potential damage to sea mammals.  The Navy noted in testimony that there had not been “a single documented [...]

Democrats and the Auto Workers Union –

A Lemon of a Bailout
by Charles Krauthammer
Washington Post, November 16, 2008
”The point of the Democratic bailout is to protect the unions by preventing this kind of restructuring. Which will guarantee the continued failure of these companies, but now they will burn tens of billions of taxpayer dollars. It’s the ultimate in lemon socialism.”

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Bumper Sticker of the Month

It’s Veterans Day. Pause and remember. And, tell at least one veteran “thanks”.