Posts Tagged ‘Jared Polis’

Wannabe veterans now have free reign to lie and claim military service and awards that they did not perform or receive thanks to two recent rulings by activist judges.  Two cases, one in Colorado and one in California, were the first to challenge the Stolen Valor Act, a 2006 law meant to protect the honor [...]

A new law in Arizona that empowers law enforcement to do the job of the federal government and enforce immigration laws has drawn its share of controversy in the past week.  Now comes Representative Jared Polis with dire warnings saying Arizona may be heading toward a police state akin to Nazi Germany.  In an interview [...]

Congressman Jared Polis has been a champion of education since before his election to office in 2008.  His positions on school choice often put him at odds with the powerful teachers unions.  Now he brews up a new controversy by urging illegal immigrants to seek financial aid for college. In a posting on Facebook yesterday (screenshot [...]

Never before in our nation’s history have we seen such a failure of our form of government as we witnessed yesterday with the passing of the health care legislation.  A measure which has soundly been rejected by the citizens of this nation has been rammed down those same citizens’ throats in defiance of the people’s [...]

I have already ranted on the unprecedented power grab by the federal government with its passing of the health care bill.  Of course there are thousands of news stories and opinions on the topic in recent days.  Here are a few I found interesting:

Gauging what is going on in Colorado voters’ minds can be a tough one.  In a state with an evenly split electorate between Democrats, Republicans and independents, trying to get voters to agree is a lot like herding cats – not an easy task for sure. The latest Rasmussen poll provides some interesting insights into [...]

Good morning – and I do mean GOOD morning.  Colorado is waking up to the news that Governor Bill Ritter will not seek reelection and that is putting wide smiles on many folks’ faces today.  Governor “Never Met a Committee I Didn’t Like” Ritter told his staff yesterday of the decision and will hold a [...]

This is one I came across a few months ago and kept forgetting to write about.  The north area has long been on the short stick of funding from the state and the Colorado Department of Transportation.  Now comes the little nugget that CDOT has never even planned to add additional general purpose lanes to I-25 [...]

If you were on the government payroll at a salary of $174,000 and your office was operated at taxpayer expense to the tune of at least $1.3 million, is it out of line to explain to taxpayers how you are spending their money?  Of course it is not.  As much as those in Washington D.C. [...]

A story that has long been ignored by the mainstream media finally cracked wide open in the last week revealing a liberal non-profit organization to be as corrupt as whistleblowers have been saying for years.  Even in the face of disturbing evidence against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), two Colorado congressional [...]