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Lundberg: A look at the bad bills remaining in the final week of session
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Lundberg: A look at the bad bills remaining in the final week of session

By Kevin Lundberg | KevinLundberg.com I have not ever seen this many really bad bills in one session. Further there are still way too many bills yet to be fully processed and this too looks like a record-breaking volume. Please note that the bad bill list is not exhaustive, these are just the worst ones I have snagged. To see the most recently introduced bills, read the list from the bottom up. Follow Kevin Lundberg at kevinlundberg.com. Good Bills HCR24-1005 Parents’ Bill of Rights This is a resolution to refer to the people this constitutional addition. I helped write this bill, which was heard in House State Affairs last Monday. There was great testimony presented for several hours, but it was still killed, PLV (Party Line Vote). HB24-1022 Publis...
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Walcher: We can govern ourselves, something our current regulators apparently no longer believe
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Walcher: We can govern ourselves, something our current regulators apparently no longer believe

By Greg Walcher | Guest Commentary There is a famous story about Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman walking down the street with a friend. The friend stopped and said, “Hey, there is a $20 bill on the sidewalk.” The economist turned to him and replied, “There can’t be. If there were a $20 bill on the sidewalk, somebody would have picked it up.” Friedman often taught that if something were in people’s best interest, they would discover and put it to use without having to be told or forced to do so. A Forbes economic writer named Tilak Doshi, a long-time energy economics analyst, wrote a great piece called “The Energy Efficiency Paradox,” in which he highlights the folly of governments around the world forcing consumers to make energy choices designed to save them money. ...
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Devotional: ‘It’s not dying I’m talking about, it’s living’
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Devotional: ‘It’s not dying I’m talking about, it’s living’

By Drake Hunter | Guest Columnist Losing a loved one is one of the most painful experiences in life, especially when it happens in tragic circumstances. My friend, Delilah Maly, knows this pain all too well, after losing her son and my dear friend, Ethan Dow, on April 20, 2024. Ethan was only 22 years old and had so much potential, but he struggled with many issues in life. However, rather than dwelling on the problems up front, let's honor Ethan's memory with compassion and learn from his story. Doing so can create a world where people like Ethan find hope, healing and support to overcome challenges and discover renewed purpose in life. Remember that with enlightened, rather than misguided, faith, we can find a good reality for everyone through those who “Just Believe” in Life. ...
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Barnhart: Abortion doesn’t belong in Colorado’s Constitution
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Barnhart: Abortion doesn’t belong in Colorado’s Constitution

By Faye Barnhart | Guest Columnist Colorado has one of the most extreme laws in the world. It allows children to be poisoned, scalded, stabbed, starved, dismembered or otherwise inhumanely killed by any means from all nine months of pregnancy up to the point of birth. To call these “procedures” to end the life of a living human being “healthcare” would be laughable were it not so barbaric and tragic. Right now, Colorado allows the killing of children any time during the pregnancy.  And now, extremists want to put an amendment on the Colorado ballot requiring health insurance and taxpayer funds to pay for these practices and to be added to the Colorado Constitution as a “right”. Killing people has never been a right, nor should it ever be. Pregnancy and childbirth are healthy....
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NW Co. Energy Initiative: Prioritizing the need to address energy poverty
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NW Co. Energy Initiative: Prioritizing the need to address energy poverty

By Northwest Colorado Energy Initiative In the debate surrounding energy and climate change, where discord often drowns out reason and cooperation, a rallying cry for unity emerges: the imperative to address energy poverty. It transcends political divides, urging collective action toward a future where every individual can thrive in this world. At the recent Energy and Environment Symposium in Garfield County, a statement from Liberty Energy’s publication, "Bettering Human Lives," resonated profoundly: “Zero Energy Poverty by 2050 is a superior goal compared to Net Zero by 2050.” This declaration reframes the discourse, shifting from the divisive "how" to the unifying "why." While debates often revolve around the mechanics of transitioning to renewable energy, they overlook who...
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Sweeting: Free speech on campus isn’t absolute
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Sweeting: Free speech on campus isn’t absolute

By Don Sweeting | DonSweeting.com Fierce campus debates swirl around the Israel-Hamas war. One of them is a debate about the extent of free speech. Should there be restrictions on those protesting Israel’s military actions or its right to exist? Protesters’ voices vary, with some being pro-Palestinian and others pro-Hamas. Some are calling for a cease-fire, while others call for the end to the Jewish state. Freedom of speech is a precious right guaranteed in our Constitution’s First Amendment. The right to discuss, debate, inquire and even protest on a university campus should be cherished and protected. But are there limits? When Columbia University President Minouche Shafik started clamping down on pro-Palestinian protesters, students, faculty and a university oversight panel criti...
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Sharf: No, left-tilting media, campus protestors aren’t anti-war, just anti-Jew
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Sharf: No, left-tilting media, campus protestors aren’t anti-war, just anti-Jew

By Joshua Sharf | Complete Colorado The digital news site Denverite (owned by Colorado Public Radio), as well as other leftward-tilting Colorado news outlets, recently referred to the inhabitants of a pro-Hamas tent encampment on the Auraria Campus in Denver as “anti-war.” Editorial note: They’re not anti-war, they’re just anti-Jew. As the campus protests grow more violent they are also exposed as being more radical than one might suppose from coverage by standard left-of-center news outlets.  It is not uncommon for them to openly support Hamas’s October 7 indiscriminate massacre and rapes as “legitimate acts of resistance,” even as they deny that the worst of the atrocities even happened.  They cite Hamas’s unverifiable, and likely invented,  casualty figures witho...
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Caldara: Colorado’s majority Democrats assault free speech
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Caldara: Colorado’s majority Democrats assault free speech

By Jon Caldara | Complete Colorado (You can listen to this column, read by the author, here.) Among all protections throughout human existence for political minorities, none greater was ever created before the First Amendment. For the better part of my life, it was classic liberals and the political left who fought for the right of dissent, guaranteeing government shall not abridge speech. It was the cultural warriors of my childhood through school, media and Hollywood who drilled into us themes like: “innocent until proven guilty”; “the ends don’t justify the means”; “I disagree with what you say, but defend your right to say it”; and “dissent is patriotic.” Why? Because the political majority needs no protection for its self-expression. The political minority does. ...
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Sloan: Weighing the immunity question facing the Supreme Court
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Sloan: Weighing the immunity question facing the Supreme Court

By Kelly Sloan | Special Contributor, The Rocky Mountain Voice A fortnight ago, on CBS’s Sunday morning show “Meet the Press”, one of the guests interviewed was Doris Kearns Goodwin, Presidential historian, author of “Team of Rivals” and former staffer for President Lyndon Johnson. Mrs. Goodwin is a frequent guest of the show and, while unabashedly Democratic, often brings up some interesting points, as befitting her role as historian. On this episode, the conversation turned, naturally, to the pending threats to American Democracy – meaning, of course, Donald Trump. Goodwin expressed concern, as all good Democrats do, that the former President would, again, not accept the results of the upcoming election, and how deleterious an impact that could have on America’s political founda...
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Barnhart: Abortion is Not Healthcare
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Barnhart: Abortion is Not Healthcare

By Faye Barnhart | Guest Columnist Abortion is not healthcare. Abortion intentionally tortures a child to death. Abortion violates a mother's body to rip away her child by unnaturally stretching her cervix or putting her into preterm labor and painfully dismembering her child or poisoning, starving, or scalding her child so that she delivers a dead baby. There is nothing healthy or caring about that. Abortion is the opposite of healthcare in that it intentionally causes death and unnecessary pain and suffering. There is no reason to intentionally take away the life of a child. Natural childbirth or Caesarean section intended to save the child’s life are safer for mother, too. It is more dangerous for a mother to deliver a dead baby than a living one, as the living child helps posi...
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