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Armstrong: Colorado’s brush with the eugenics movement
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Armstrong: Colorado’s brush with the eugenics movement

 By Ari Armstrong | SOURCE: COMPLETE COLORADO PAGE TWO POLITICS “Build the wall,” Trump says, for immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of our country. Many Americans agree. A CBS/YouGov poll asked, “Do you agree or disagree with the statement that immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are ‘poisoning the blood’ of the country?” 45% agreed, 55% disagreed. Among Republican registered voters, 72% agreed, and 82% did when the language was attributed to Trump. We like to think that the eugenics movement is far behind us and a campaign only of Nazis. Not so. Rhetoric about immigrants “poisoning our blood” harks back to America’s extremely popular eugenics movement of the early 1900s. The Nazis based their own sterilization law partly on those passed by a majority of U.S. states, partl...
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Natelson: Myth busting distinctions between ‘democracy’ and ‘republic’
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Natelson: Myth busting distinctions between ‘democracy’ and ‘republic’

By Rob Natelson | SOURCE: COMPLETE COLORADO PAGE TWO In 2011, a group of politicians and special interests sued in federal court to void Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR). The case was Kerr v. Hickenlooper. The plaintiffs’ primary argument was that TABOR violated the U.S. Constitution’s Guarantee Clause (Article IV, Section 4), which says in part, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” The plaintiffs contended that to be a “republic,” a state must make taxing and spending decisions through elected representatives only. They based this on a misreading of James Madison’s Federalist No. 10 essay—while ignoring everything else Madison and other Founders said about republican and democratic governance. The plainti...
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Caldara: Let’s bring back 4-year TABOR overrides
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Caldara: Let’s bring back 4-year TABOR overrides

By Jon Caldara | SOURCE: COMPLETE COLORADO PAGE TWO (You can listen to this column, read by the author, here.) The former head of the leftist ProgressNow Colorado, who is married to a U.S. congresswoman living in Jefferson County, has donated to the election campaigns of all three of the current Jefferson County commissioners. So, what a coincidence those same Jefferson County commissioners, all Democrats, are now going to pay him $180,000 to help dupe taxpayers out of TABOR refunds. As reported by the news site CompleteColorado.com (a project of Independence Institute, which I run), 7th Congressional District U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen’s husband, Ian Silverii, has just inked a spectacular deal from Jefferson County. His firm “won” a $340,000 con...
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Draft bill puts numerous places off limits to concealed carry; Democrats test limits of ‘sensitive spaces’
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Draft bill puts numerous places off limits to concealed carry; Democrats test limits of ‘sensitive spaces’

By Sherrie Peif | SOURCE: COMPLETE COLORADO PAGE TWO DENVER — A bill banning the licensed carrying of a concealed handgun in many newly designated “sensitive spaces” around Colorado may soon be making its way through the legislature, despite similar laws passed in other states already being challenged in court, and losing. The bill has not yet been introduced, but at least one version of a draft has been circulating, showing how far majority Democrats are willing to go to restrict Coloradans’ gun rights. According to the copy obtained by Complete Colorado, the bill is almost identical to legislation already passed in California and New York. Those laws are already being challenged and are expected to eventually make their way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The legislation...
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Armstrong: Colorado journalists cheerlead government interference
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Armstrong: Colorado journalists cheerlead government interference

 By Ari Armstrong | SOURCE: COMPLETE COLORADO PAGE TWO I worry about those who disparage “the media” without context or specific complaints. Badmouthing journalists can be a way to dodge reporting you don’t like. But there is such a thing as media bias, or at least biases within media. That’s not surprising. Journalists are people, and most people harbor some bias or other. But news publications, I think, have a responsibility to try to counteract rather than feed their reporters’ biases. Here I address a couple of recent cases of journalists cheerleading government interference. We might call this a “pro-state bias.” This bias is pronounced with three of Colorado’s leading news outlets, Colorado Public Radio, the Denver Post, and the Colorado Sun. Here I’ll look at examples from the...
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Rosen: Democracy is safe, but Biden threatens the Republic
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Rosen: Democracy is safe, but Biden threatens the Republic

By Mike Rosen | SOURCE: COMPLETE COLORADO PAGE TWO In essence, Joe Biden kicked off his reelection campaign mumbling through a theatrically contrived speech in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania arranged to coincide with the third anniversary of the January 6, 2021 debacle at the U.S. Capitol.  Staging this at the site of George Washington’s Revolutionary War headquarters in front of a backdrop of American flags, Biden shamefully misappropriated the father of our country as an implicit endorser of his re-election. Biden’s handlers seem convinced Trump will be his opponent. The oft-repeated slogan of his tirade loaded with exaggerations, paranoia and demagoguery was that Trump was “a threat to democracy,” echoing the drumbeat Democrats, progressives, and the liberal media have long pound...
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Over a million dollars raised in push to add abortion guarantee to the Colorado Constitution
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Over a million dollars raised in push to add abortion guarantee to the Colorado Constitution

By Mike Krause | SOURCE: COMPLETE COLORADO PAGE TWO DENVER–Proponents of a citizen-initiated ballot measure to place a guarantee of abortion access in Colorado’s state Constitution have spent over $440,000 just on signature gathering towards the effort, with the campaign reporting there’s plenty more where that came from. According to the Jan. 16 contributions and expenditures filing with the Colorado Secretary of State, the issue committee pushing the measure–Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom–has raised $1,368,811 thus far, while spending just $578, 488, leaving over $790,000 in cash on hand, likely more than enough to ensure the question ends up in front of voters. Currently numbered as Initiative 89, the measure would add a new section to the Colorad...
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Caldara: Stage is set for the ‘Colorado Rebound’
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Caldara: Stage is set for the ‘Colorado Rebound’

By Jon Caldara | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE Never since the passage of our Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights in 1992 have I been more optimistic about the possibility of Coloradans winning back the lost personal and economic freedoms stolen by the government leviathan. And no, I have not been ingesting the state’s newly deregulated psychedelic mushrooms. I make this observation after taking an inventory of the political condition of our state as I have worked in Colorado politics for well more than three decades. As I wrote last week, the Colorado GOP is a lost cause for the next several years. This is a painful but necessary process, like an addict going through the hell of withdrawal, to realign candidates to the new political truths of the state. Though difficult to swallow, conservativ...
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Democrat lawmakers take another stab at state-sanctioned drug injection sites
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Democrat lawmakers take another stab at state-sanctioned drug injection sites

By Mike Krause | SOURCE: COMPLETE COLORADO PAGE TWO DENVER–A pair of Colorado lawmakers are making another attempt at sanctioning what are sometimes referred to as “safe injection sites” for illegal drug users, despite their own Democrat colleagues killing off a similar effort during last year’s legislative session. House Bill 24-1028, titled Overdose Prevention Centers, allows Colorado municipalities (cities, towns, as well as a city and county) to authorize “A space for individuals to use previously obtained controlled substances in a monitored setting under the supervision of health care professionals or other trained staff for the purpose of providing life-saving treatment on the event of a potential overdose.”  The bill also allows for such things as distribution of clean n...
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Armstrong: A modest proposal for school choice in Colorado
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Armstrong: A modest proposal for school choice in Colorado

By Ari Armstrong | SOURCE: COMPLETE COLORADO PAGE TWO I’ll begin with my proposal: Parents who do not send their school-age children to public schools do not have to pay taxes to help support those schools. Whatever proportion of property, income, and other taxes go to schools, those parents either do not have to pay in the first place (I propose), or else they get the money back during tax season, up to the average per-pupil expenditure. I mean to include here property taxes paid indirectly through rent. It’s hard to object to that proposal on moral grounds. It says simply that parents should not have to pay for these government services that they do not use. There is no subsidy involved; we are talking only about a family’s own money. Families still would be required to provide ...
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