Author: By Jon Caldara
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Arm Colorado’s school staffs now! | CALDARA
Enough. Damn it, enough! Enough virtue signaling instead of preventing school shootings. Enough of elected school boards denying reality. It is time for all of Colorado’s 178 school districts to join the 50 that currently have volunteer, trained, concealed armed staff to stop a shooter the moment he begins — because when seconds count, the…
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Past time to press Polis on his process politic | CALDARA
There are only three jobs worth having in Colorado. The first is fortunately mine. Any person who can make a living by indulging his passion is beyond blessed. I somehow have provided for my family by fighting for personal and economic freedom in Colorado. Running Independence Institute, Colorado’s machine to promote liberty principles over party,…
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Colorado’s ‘free’ school lunch steals | CALDARA
A key part of the planned march toward socialism is, of course, endless propaganda. It’s not enough just to rely on the politics of envy. We need to take away those dangerous little opportunities where young people might accidentally experience the benefit of the free market in their fledgling lives. So how can we teach…
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The Colorado legislature’s latest attack on democracy | CALDARA
Yes, yes — the threat to democracy is President Donald Trump. I’ve read the bumper stickers. But while we’re hyperventilating about fascism from the White House, we might want to save some furor for the frontal assault on democracy from the Colorado state Legislature. I’m talking attacking direct democracy. To my knowledge, no legislature in…
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Threats to TABOR are threats to democracy | CALDARA
TABOR simply means voter consent. TABOR is democracy. Weakening TABOR is weakening democracy. Every couple of years, the spending lobby orchestrates an assault on our Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. They are testing another onslaught likely for next year. I was around for the fights to pass TABOR in the early 1990s. Then-Gov.Roy Romer famously declared…
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Where have all the liberals gone? | CALDARA
With apologies to Pete Seeger, and the 5,000 acts who covered his song. Where have all the liberals gone? Long time passing. Where have all the liberals gone? Long time ago. Where have all the liberals gone? Young progressives canceled them, every one. When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn? Do you…
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Colorado’s leftist language police must learn coerced speech backfires | CALDARA
Renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” is obnoxious, needless and, well, just kinda stupid. And I love it. It’s just freakin’ awesome! After a decadeslong leftist renaming orgy, like changing our beloved Mount Evans into Mount Blue Sky, Gulf of America gives them a taste of their own medicine. Every time…
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The actual science behind the Boulder NOAA protest | CALDARA
Losing your job sucks. We empathize with people who get laid off, as we should, including the formerly untouchable federal government workers. What was it Ronald Reagan once said? “A recession is when your neighbor loses his job; a depression is when you lose yours.” I’m guessing you’ve lost a job or two to layoffs,…
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Parents, not government, must police social media | CALDARA
Yes, social media sucks. Government tracking won’t make it better. As regular readers can attest, I am barely literate. If you find my work hard to read, be comforted by the fact I find, well, everything hard to read. It wasn’t until well into adulthood that I understood dyslexia. Giving me a book is like…
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A new twist in schools sexually targeting your kids? | CALDARA
I was born in the wrong time. For instance, I completely missed the sexual revolution of the 1970s when people were having casual sex like it was shaking hands. As an eager young man with hopeful bad judgment and a rupturing libido, I couldn’t wait till I was old enough to join the party. Finally,…