Tag: Thomas Jefferson
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The interdependence at the heart of American independence | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Way up high in one of the gables of the Jefferson Memorial, a pediment sculpture depicts the renowned Committee of Five. The sculpture is a reminder that the Declaration of Independence was not the work…
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Apocalyptic rhetoric nothing new in American politics | Vince Bzdek
“Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!” Those classic Bill Murray lines from “Ghostbusters” aptly capture the kind of end-of-the-world hyperbole flying around right now during the final runup to Election Day. Vince Bzdek Lauren Boebert shot her neighbors’ dogs (false). Heidi Ganahl claims that kids are “identifying as cats” rather than boys…
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35 people become U.S. citizens during naturalization ceremony in Greeley: Independence Day celebration
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Thirty five people were welcomed as U.S. citizens on Friday in Greeley just ahead of Independence Day. The newest citizens reside in northern Colorado and come from 12 different countries including Burma, Canada, Colombia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Somalia, Thailand, the United Kingdom…
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It’s time for Americans to be worthy of Ukrainians | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Vitali Klitschko, the former heavyweight boxing champion of the world who is now the mayor of the embattled city of Kyiv, Urkaine, was on cable news last week. He was speaking in broken Rocky Balboa English, sending a message to the world. “Freedom,” he said,…
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In battle of Denver natives, the Giants’ Gausman beats the Rockies’ Freeland
DENVER — It was a battle of the Denver natives on the mound at Coors Field on Monday. For the Rockies, it was Kyle Freeland, their lefty from Thomas Jefferson high school. The Giants strutted out Kevin Gausman from Grandview, giving the hometown kid the start at the ballpark 20 minutes from where he grew…
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Buckle up, Westerners: The Zoomigrants are coming | Vince Bzdek
In 1846, President James K. Polk struck a bargain with the British to set the boundary between Canada and Oregon at the 49th parallel. Britain would get the land north; the United States would get the land south, soon known as the Oregon Territory. Shortly afterward, the U.S. struck another bargain, the Treaty of Guadalupe,…
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Is this the country our founders intended? | Vince Bzdek
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “Original sources!” American History professor T.K. Barton exhorted us, a cigarette always dangling from his mouth as he lectured. We Colorado College students were held captive more by the question of when the lengthening stalk…