Archive for May, 2008

Dear Friends and Family, Of all the patriotic related messages I write, the ones I write for Memorial Day are always the hardest.  It is the one and only holiday celebrated in our country that is specifically set aside to honor the dead.  It honors the men and women who have not only made the [...]

I find this amusing.  Three years ago Denver Mayor Hickenlooper promised the students at Cole Middle School to help them find money to go to college.  Now, as that class gets ready to graduate, the mayor is keeping his promise by obtaining private funds for the students tuition bills.  That isn’t good enough though for [...]

A great story about an extraordinary young man, eigth grader Jeffrey Sahli of Evergreen Middle School appeared in the Rocky Mountain News Friday.  Young Mr. Sahli noticed that the flag outside of his school was looking pretty rough and that it wasn’t being treated with the proper respect and he knew that wasn’t right. He [...]

Quite a dustup late this week over some comments President Bush said in a speech to the Israeli Knesset.  In addition to professing the standard support for Israel, the President said: “Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all [...]

Quite the news item in yesterday’s Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel that should make folks really stand up and take notice.  CDOT Commissioner Heather Barry told the Thornton City Council Tuesday that she was concerned that the north FasTracks rail line is in very real jeopardy due to rising cost overruns by RTD. She said, “Honestly, right now [...]

You have to love it when someone who maintains a “holier than thou” attitude and portrays themselves as a pillar of society is found to be anything but that.  Not generally reported by the mainstream media, it has recently been reported that the Reverand Al Sharpton owes a little bit of overdue taxes. Sharpton’s own [...]