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June 22, 2008
May 31, 2008
Another reason to like Condi Rice
She is a fan of KISS.
The Kiss Army fan club has an enthusiastic new recruit: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Rice was in the Swedish capital Thursday for an international conference on Iraq. Kiss had a sold-out concert to play Friday.
"I was thrilled," Rice said of her late-night encounter with Kiss frontman Gene Simmons and bandmates Paul Stanley, Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer in the executive lounge of the Sheraton Hotel where they signed autographs and handed out backstage passes and T-shirts to her staff.
I would Rock'n' Roll All Night with Condi.
"Hillary math"
Denver Post cartoon - Ed Keefe
The only way Hillary can win the Democratic nomination is by using imaginary numbers.
"You want 'change?' Start here"
Denver Post column - David Harsanyi
Harsanyi is my favorite local columnist by far. I got the chance to meet him at the Libertarian National convention last weekend, and bought an autographed copy of his book "Nanny State." I recommend the book. (Harsanyi is not a Libertarian, but he is libertarian.)
In this column, he discusses Obama's recent Denver appearance where he discussed education.
Obama has peddled a tired canard linking education failure to lack of funding. Nothing about obstructive unions? Nothing about increased teacher accountability? I wonder why.
"In one-party districts, primaries are all-important"
Denver Post column - Bob Ewegen
Really?
"A setback for state tax freeze"
The Post laments Denver District Court Judge Christina Habbas' decision finding a state tax increase unconstitutional. Of course they do.
The Post's use of double-speak would put Orwell to shame. The Post refers to the tax increase as a "tax freeze." I know, it's impossible to explain.
Lewis Carroll would be impressed with this absolute nonsense: "The governor intended money from the freeze to go into the state education fund to help at-risk kids attend preschool and full-day kindergarten."
Look at that sentence. Somehow, the governor expected to raise money from a tax freeze.
And night is day, black is white, and the Rockies are a good baseball team.
I don't mind the Post being misguided and wrong, but when they start calling tax inreases tax freezes, that is just dishonest.
"Space Aliens in Denver"
Rocky Mountain News cartoon - Ed Stein
What kind of self-respecting space alien would want to live in Denver?
"An impossible exercise"
Rocky Mountain News column - Paul Campos
The Rocky's resident wacky liberal responds to a column by the Rocky's resident wacky conservative, Mike Rosen.
Campos takes Rosen to task for his claim that only liberal judges are "activists." Campos says, no, in fact conservative judges can be "activists," too.
Campos assertion is correct, but his concusion is not. He thinks that since everybody does it, it's okay.
The correct conclusion is that judges should never attempt to achieve a desired result. They should apply the law in a good faith, honest manner, regardless of the result. If a result is "bad," it is up to the legislative branch - or the voters - to change it.
That is a crucial part of the "checks and balances" of our constitutional republic.
"Obama right and wrong"
Rocky Mountain News Column - Vincent Carroll
Obama's collectivist outlook fails to acknowledge that business and commerce are important to society.
And that is frightening.
"Slimy Senate showoffs"
Rocky Mountsin News column - Mike Rosen
Rosen generally bats about .500 in his columns. Today, he gets all of it and scores:
Last week, five executives from the nation's biggest oil companies were paraded before the Senate Judiciary Committee and harangued by hypocritical political exhibitionists whose shameless theatrics were exceeded only by their manifest ignorance of basic economics.
"Dailies shrug off Libertarian confab"
Rocky Mountain News column - Dave Kopel
Kopel points out the alternative and new media that did a good job of covering the third largest political party in the United States' Denver convention and chastizes the two major dailies for their lack of coverage.
Ever wonder why daily newspapers are dying? They can't (or don't) provide the coverage the internet can. Daily newspapers certainly can't provide the up to the minute coverage of the internet.
Once upon a time, the Rocky Mountains had hearty Mountain Men trapping and hunting for a living. Time moved on, and the mountain men died off. They were replaced by farmers, ranchers and textile mills.
Daily newspapers are on their way to being replaced by electronic media.
"Heed voters on pot"
The vote this week by Denver's Marijuana Policy Review Panel urging the city to stop convicting adults for simple marijuana possession reinforces the message voters have twice sent to local officials. It's a message law enforcement should heed.
The people of Denver have made it clear they do not want their limited law enforcement resources used to prosecute simple marijuana possession.
The people of Denver are smart. Now, if we can only get the DA's office to join in, Denver would be a better place to live.
If Denver DA Mitch Morrissey fails to change his office policy, he needs to be replaced by someone that will.
"Stunning rebuke for state leaders"
Major props to the Independence Institute for spearheading the lawsuit against an illegal tax hike.
Even bigger props to Denver District Court Judge Christina Habas for having the courage and honesty to actually apply the law.
May 30, 2008
"Despite high costs, don't sell the ethanol farm yet"
The Post continues its love affair with government subsidies, even when they are demonstrated failures like ethanol.
The Post believes that somewhere out there exists just the right combination of subsidies that will make our energy problems go away. We just have to let the government figure out what that perfect combination is.
The Post urges our patience while we munch on $10 ears of corn, because the ethanol subsidies are "generating new industry in Colorado."
That, my friends, is simply short sighted. It is impossible to micromanage the economy without creating unforeseen negative consequences.
"Voter database taking too long"
"It's troubling that after years and millions of dollars, the state still hasn't put the finishing touches on a reliable statewide voter database. "
"The cost of this system is now pegged at almost $13 million and it's more than two years late in being implemented."
"The state missed a 2006 deadline for having such a database. The state since has hired a new contractor and more consultants and spent more money to get the thing up and running. "
The Post calls out the state government for waste, sloth and ineffeciency. Yet, the Post rarely fails to look to the government for answers.
Let's take the same guys in charge of this database debacle and let them run health care.
At what point does even the most diehard socialist realize that government is rarely the answer? How much waste does it take?
