No Straw Men

E-mail Sent to Members in Colorado
Conservatives in Colorado haven’t had much to cheer about recently. Amendment 39 changes that prospect.
For too long, the only demand of education funding has been more money. Indeed, owing to Amendment 23, Colorado taxpayers have seen their public education costs rise to record levels every year.
Amendment 39 reverses this trend […]

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Why are gas prices so high and unpredictable? Here’s one big but underreported reason: The federal government, which for the past 30 years has been sealing off millions of acres of oil- and gas-laden reserves across the country and offshore, thus decreasing domestic supply.
In other words, the scarcity is not physical but […]

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E-mail Sent to Members
We all know the drill. In purchasing alcohol or tobacco, cashing a check or boarding a plane, you need a picture ID. No ID; no dice. The routine is uncontroversial and commonsensical.
But did you know that in order to vote in a national election—in order to exercise that most elemental aspect of […]

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First they came for the Internet, which they wanted to smother with innovation-stifling regulations. Now they’re after your TV, which they want to keep in the clutch of a select few companies, rather than open the field to competition.
“They,” of course, are far-left groups like MoveOn.org, and their goal is as predictable […]

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