Vice President Joe Biden, during a speech in North Carolina, made the following statement. My dad used to have another saying, for real. And, by the way, I’ve been saying this for 30 years. And I’m glad to see that Congressman Ryan likes his dad, too, and quotes his dad. I mean that sincerely. But my dad [had] a lot of wisdom. Every time someone | Read More »
In Tom Clancy’s novel Executive Orders, Jack Ryan becomes President after a long and successful career in the CIA. A terrorist takes out the President, Congress and the Supreme Court, just after he was sworn in as Vice President, replacing someone that had resigned. It was done to re-unite the country, but was only supposed to last for one year. What is so appealing about | Read More »
One of the few things that most of us have agreed upon during this Presidential election cycle is the need to continue to improve Congress. We know that even if the best conservative candidate is elected he’ll need a solid conservative Congress to accomplish real reforms. And if we end up with a re-elected Obama, we’ll still need a solid conservative Congress to thwart his | Read More »
It’s time. The silly season officially ends tomorrow as we begin to see rhetoric converted to votes. Although the Colorado caucus and primary are not for some time, I felt it was important to select a candidate. I recently wrote a diary with my evaluations of the candidates, so I see no reason to repeat that information here. As many of you likely expected, I’m | Read More »
I have to start all the way back on August 29, 2008. It was the day after the Democratic National Convention ended in Denver. I was leaving on a business trip to Italy that day, and found myself on a flight to Boston filled with delegates from the Convention. As you might imagine, there was quite a bit of chatter about the convention and the | Read More »
Two of the past three years I’ve written a diary on the Day of Remembrance. I grew up in the area in and around San Jose, California so I’m familiar with its history. Last year, I wrote a diary about the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. On November 6th, the remaining members of the 442nd received the Congressional Gold Medal. Here is the statement from the | Read More »
Michelle Bachmann – “You’re retarded if you don’t vote for me…or you might be.” Herman Cain – “It’s about my management style. I’ll find people that know about that stuff later.” Newt Gingrich – “I’ve known more in and out of politics than anyone else.” Jon Huntsman – “You will soon come to know the greatness that is me.” Ron Paul – “AUDIT THE FED!!! | Read More »
Yeah, that’s pretty much it. That should be the singular, loud and clear message from the Republican candidates for President. Sure, the right candidate will have foreign policy experience, executive experience, and a strong understanding of how government works. Every election is about something, and this one is no different. This election will be about jobs. This is the issue foremost in the minds of | Read More »
Yesterday there was a vote in the House on another short-term (3-week) Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government. Much has been written about Republican Freshman and hills to die on. One thing upon which we all agree is that spending has gotten completely out of control, and something must be done about it. Colorado’s fourth congressional district has a new Republican representative after | Read More »
Hydrofracking, or hydraulic fracturing, that is, or so says Ian Urbina of the New York Times as reported by the Denver Post. Look, there’s a picture of it happening in Rifle, Colorado! In our beautiful Rocky Mountains!! Look! The description even tells us how awful this is! Rifle has natural-gas wells. Fracking a relatively new drilling method known as high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing that carries | Read More »
I realize this diary is a week late. I was going to write it last weekend, but decided to wait until the recent unpleasantness had passed Two years ago I wrote a general diary about the internment of Japanese during WWII. I think it’s an important subject to revisit from time to time. Tyranny is always lurking at our doorstep, and will find his way | Read More »
I haven’t weighed in on the situation in Arizona before now, primarily because the dialog afterwards disgusted me. That people would use the deaths of six people including a child for political gain shows to what extent some will go to gain any political advantage. This behavior by those on the left should not come as a surprise. I believe there’s a deep-rooted reason why | Read More »
From the diaries by Erick Colorado State University recently completed a study on the economic feasibility of increasing the usage of renewable energy. The results of this study were published in the world-renowned science periodical, The Coloradoan. Another stimulus-funded study of the obvious? No, what we have here is simply a heavy dose of reality for academicians who aren’t willing to match their rhetoric with | Read More »
Now that the dust has finally settled on the 2010 political campaign in Colorado, it’s time to assess the results and find the way forward. Unless we learn the lessons from this and past elections, we’re doomed to continue along the same path. Although this diary is about Colorado, it could apply to many other states. There are probably many that won’t agree with my | Read More »
Colorado didn’t fare as well on election day as much of the nation. There are several reasons why this is so. Trying to pin key losses on one or two reasons oversimplifies what really happened here. This diary isn’t going to have a bunch of links to past events. I’m sure there are going to be people out there that disagree with my analysis here, | Read More »
Ross Kaminsky at the People’s Press Collective brings humor to what has become the Colorado Governor’s race. The only people left that don’t know it’s over for Maes are him, his family, and supporters who’ve gone so far down the road there’s no turning back. Here’s a recap for those of you that haven’t been following this race. 1. Dan Maes can’t raise money. 2. | Read More »
Promoted to the front by Erick because Dan Maes must drop out for the good of the people of Colorado and of the party he purportedly would lead. Almost two weeks ago I wrote this. I truly believed it was in the best interests of Coloradans, especially in the long term, to continue to support Dan Maes in the Governor race. That all changed for | Read More »
Erick Erickson just posted a front page diary saying it’s time for Dan Maes to go. The time for Maes to drop out was about a month ago. If he didn’t do it then, he’s certainly not going to do it now. Even if he did, his name would remain on the ballots that have already gone out. The only candidate that has any sort | Read More »
You show me a politician that doesn’t care about polls, the media, or pretty much what anyone else thinks about him, and I’ll show you a politician that gets things done and earns the respect of the people: I sure wish they could bottle this stuff so we could give it to the rest of the GOP politicians. P.S. Meg Whitman for California. Because she | Read More »
From the diaries by Erick. Karen Crummy at the Denver Post reports that former CO Senate President John Andrews has withdrawn his endorsement of Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes. Andrews met with Maes to encourage him to drop out of the race so the Party can choose another candidate with a chance to beat the democratic candidate John Hickenlooper in November. Andrews, who as late | Read More »
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