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Lundberg: Get ready, there will be more laws for Colorado citizens in 2025
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Commentary, State

Lundberg: Get ready, there will be more laws for Colorado citizens in 2025

By Kevin Lundberg | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice With the start of 2025, several new laws and regulations become effective for the people of Colorado.  There will now be a requirement (SB24-065) that a driver of any age must use a hands-free system to make calls while driving. With the almost constant use of smartphones in everyday life, my guess is virtually everyone subject to these rules will be violating this law from time to time. In 2020, HB20-1343 set January 1, 2025, as the date requiring new caging systems for Colorado's large egg producers. This unrealistic rule for chickens is, so to speak, coming home to roost. It has already caused shortages and skyrocketing prices for eggs. HB24-1348 requires Secure Firearm Storage in a Vehicle while ...
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Caldara: Reality check on mass deportations in Colorado
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Commentary, completecolorado.com

Caldara: Reality check on mass deportations in Colorado

By Jon Caldara | Commentary, Complete Colorado Let the meaningless battle over mass deportation in Colorado begin. Watching our cities virtue-signal on immigration is the best free entertainment your tax dollars can buy. The war of words and chest beating is worthy of a reality show. On one side, you have Denver’s Mayor Mike Johnston playing a modern-day Paul Revere. With those hideous Redcoats marching on Denver, his cry of “ICE is coming” will rally the Highland moms (who apparently cannot be messed with) and his own police force to take up arms to protect the immigrants who are bankrupting his city. On the other side, you have cities like Castle Rock, those dirty British sympathizers, who have made it clear they welcome the motherland’s ICE agents and wil...
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Sullivan: Citizens must always be vigilant in order to protect self-governance
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Commentary, Texas Scorecard

Sullivan: Citizens must always be vigilant in order to protect self-governance

By Michael Quinn Sullivan | Guest Columnist, Rocky Mountain Voice A self-governing people must be eternally vigilant. The first three words of our Constitution make it clear who is supposed to be in charge: “We the people.” Without the citizens taking an active and engaged role in civic life, the notion of self-governance collapses. In the Bible, we’re told the people of God went to the Prophet Samuel and begged for a king. Up until then, they had lived — for better and for worse — as a uniquely self-governing people under the rule of God. Things were better when they followed God’s rule and worse when they did not. Just as they had been warned by God Himself when they rejected Him, the rule of man under a king didn’t work out so well, either. Within a couple of generations, Israe...
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Browning: With hiring of environmental justice liaisons, state taking another stab at DEI implementation at taxpayer expense
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

Browning: With hiring of environmental justice liaisons, state taking another stab at DEI implementation at taxpayer expense

By Lindy Browning | Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice During a time when state legislators are trying to figure out where to cut the budget because of the state operating at what previously was thought to be a $1 billion shortage, the Energy and Carbon Management Commission, previously known as the Colorado Oil and Gas Commission, has announced that they are hiring two new environmental justice liaisons. According to the announcement on the ECMC website: “We are hiring two EJ Community Liaisons. One position is dedicated to the West Slope and one position is dedicated to the Front Range. You’ll work remotely from home and receive a state-issued electric vehicle to make travel possible as you interact extensively with communities in your region. You’ll work independently but be part of...
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Krannawitter: Of school shootings, why do record numbers of teenagers have a desire to commit mass murder?
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Commentary, Thomas Krannawitter

Krannawitter: Of school shootings, why do record numbers of teenagers have a desire to commit mass murder?

By Thomas Krannawitter | tkrannawitter.substack.com Less than a week ago, on Monday, Dec. 16, 2024, a 15-year-old student at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisc., named Natalie Rupnow, opened fire during study hall. Using what appears to be a 9mm pistol, the girl — who reportedly preferred to be called Samantha — attempted to murder as many people as possible. She succeeded in killing a teacher, a fellow student and herself, while wounding several others, some critically. This Substack is not a news outlet. I will not attempt to provide up-to-the-minute developments in this tragic case — that information is readily available elsewhere. Instead, I want to step back and examine the larger cultural and philosophical framework in which such heinous acts increasingly occur:...
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Joondeph: Biden leaving a steaming pile of Syria under Trump’s Christmas tree
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American Thinker, Commentary

Joondeph: Biden leaving a steaming pile of Syria under Trump’s Christmas tree

By Dr. Brian C. Joondeph | American Thinker President Joe Biden is often unaware of his surroundings or behavior, but he surely knows that Christmas is almost here. Playing Santa Claus, he is handing out gifts — pardons to existing and as-yet-unprosecuted criminals and members of Congress and special gifts to those succeeding him in the White House, particularly President-elect Donald Trump.Concerning Biden’s cognition, we are now learning that the White House was fully aware of his mental decline since before he took office and concealed this information from the public, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT THE AMERICAN THINKER Editor’s note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those of the author and do not necessarily refl...
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Garbo: Woman burned alive on NYC subway, the deadly consequences of open borders and sanctuary policies
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

Garbo: Woman burned alive on NYC subway, the deadly consequences of open borders and sanctuary policies

By C. J. Garbo | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice A woman was burned alive in one of the most horrific acts of violence imaginable — set on fire as she slept in a New York City subway station, dying a slow and agonizing death as her attacker stood by and watched. This is not just a tragic story. It is a searing indictment of the failed policies that enabled this crime to occur in the first place. The suspect, now identified as an illegal immigrant from Guatemala — previously deported but re-entered illegally — should never have been here. Yet, because of weak immigration enforcement, sanctuary city protections and an unsecured border, he was free to roam our streets and commit this unspeakable act. While the media celebrates the use of surveillance technology in his app...
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Devotional: The reason for the season, Jesus and justice for all
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

Devotional: The reason for the season, Jesus and justice for all

By DRAKE HUNTER | Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Why do humans care so much about justice? It's a question worth pondering, especially during Christmas, when themes of peace, goodwill and fairness shine brightly. In the animal kingdom, justice isn’t exactly a top priority. Some creatures eat their mates — talk about a bad date! — others abandon weaker offspring, and many simply operate on the law of survival. Thankfully, my mom — raising triplets, no less — wasn’t an animal. She didn’t leave one of us behind to focus on the others, much like a Panda does. Why do humans recoil at such behavior and demand fairness and accountability? The Bible provides a fascinating answer that brings Jesus, the reason for the season, front and center. On Page 1 of the Bible, humans are set apart ...
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Overbeck: What happens when Democrat Sec. of State Griswold’s office leaks secret election passwords?   Pretty much nada
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

Overbeck: What happens when Democrat Sec. of State Griswold’s office leaks secret election passwords?   Pretty much nada

By Joy Overbeck  | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Just a few days before the Nov. 5 election, Colorado voters learned that Democrat Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s office had posted critical election machine passwords online, passwords that could make hundreds of Dominion voting machines in most of the state’s 64 counties vulnerable to outside meddling. Worse, Griswold had deliberately concealed this significant breach from the county clerks responsible for running the elections in their jurisdictions. As in most such government scandals, the cover-up debacle was more damaging than the original debacle. Or was it?  Immediately the hashtags #JailJena and #FreeTina started sprouting all over social media, referring to former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina P...
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Sloan: Biden’s legacy is weakness on the world stage, while at home unprecedented inflation and ‘woke’ culture
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

Sloan: Biden’s legacy is weakness on the world stage, while at home unprecedented inflation and ‘woke’ culture

By Kelly Sloan | Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice We read in the Telegraph that outgoing President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, has briefed President-elect Trump, and has warned him that a freshly-weakened Iran could build a nuclear weapon. One can only imagine the look of stunned shock in Trump’s face at this entirely unexpected and unforeseen revelation.  To be fair, it is entirely appropriate and necessary for the outgoing national security advisor to brief the new administration, and it is very reasonable to conclude that Iran — now pushed up against the ropes, quickly losing allies in the region and having its proxy armies systematically obliterated — could put Tehran in a desperate enough frame of mind to accelerate the motivation to consummate the...
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