Do you live in either Betsy Markey's district (4th, map) or Diana DeGette's district (1st, map)? If so, contact them (see end of post) and tell them to vote "no" on the Senate health "reform" bill or any scaled down version of it. This reform is terrible from both moral ...
Tim Phillips at Americans for Prosperity summarizes the situation and has links to quick ways to contact your Senator and Representatives. An excerpt:
President Obama finally made it official yesterday: he wants Congress to ignore Senate rules - and the American people - and use a parliamentary trick called ...
Contact your Colorado state senator about opposing this bill. From Vincent Carroll in the Denver Post:
HB 1193 requires out-of-state online retailers to collect sales tax from Colorado customers if those businesses have a relationship with a local "affiliate." ...
Democratic lawmakers are sleepwalking toward approval of a bill that could have ...
From Pajamas Media TV:
"Barack Obama ran an unprecedented Presidential campaign - utilizing the power of design to help secure the seat of the President of the United States of America. However, his iconic emblem, the ever present "O", holds more power than even Obama knows. Bill Whittle points out the ...
The People's Press Collective has good resources for Colorado Elections 2009. Ross Kaminsky has additional comments for the Boulder election 2009 and the Jefferson County election.
Gene Healy of the Cato Institute says it quite well:
The president isn't a benevolent father-protector, charged with the welfare of all creatures great and small — and educators do kids a great disservice if they help promote such a childish notion. Still less was he supposed to be the educator ...
I am maintaining a list of upcoming Colorado town hall meetings where people can discuss health care policy. If you know of others or if any I list are wrong, please e-mail me.
As published in today's Daily Camera:
Do you want politicians to put you "in it together" with others, or would you prefer to reserve that choice for yourself?
Last Tuesday guest editor Clay Evans wrote that one of President-elect Obama's "great challenges" will be to "bring us together." While defending Social Security, ...
The Associated Press reports that president-elect Obama's proposed economic policies caused the stock market to close higher on Monday. But do the authors, Joel Bel Bruno and Tim Paradis, give any evidence for this causal relationship, or do they just assert it? Here's how the article starts:
A stock market gaining ...
Paul Hsieh has an excellent essay on this in the Denver Post:
After a resounding electoral defeat, in which voters in this once-red state rejected Republicans McCain, Schaffer, and Musgrave, the Colorado Republican Party will undoubtedly be asking themselves, "Why did we lose?"
I want to let them know that they lost ...