Month: December 2021

(Colorado Peak Politics)

Of all the topics one should avoid during this season’s holiday parties, it turns out that discussing “police deescalation tactics” can actually escalate fairly quickly into a violent situation and become a PR nightmare.

Just ask Phil Washington, the CEO of DIA, who along with other airport bigwigs were present when their executive vice president decided to demonstrate his point on an unsuspecting airport attorney.

CBS4 has the story that involves Scott McCoy, who in addition to being a VP is the lead attorney for the airpot, and Everett Martinez, one of the lawyers on McCoy’s team.

Things went south at the annual @DENAirport holiday party for top execs. Airports top lawyer accused of slapping subordinate in front of DIA CEO Phil Washington and other execs. @MayorHancock administration not responding to @CBSDenver investigation:https://t.co/BkC2tHcREU

— Brian Maass (@Briancbs4) December 27, 2021

At some point during the discussion, McCoy “jumped up and violently slapped Martinez in the face multiple times and yelled commands at him, nearly knocking Martinez out of his chair,” CBS4 reports. 

The police were not called to deescalate the situation, so we can’t report what tactics were used to break up the fight over police tactics, or who eventually won the argument over police deescalation tactics. 

Our money’s on McCoy, but neither he nor anyone else present at the party is returning media phone calls. 

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

The must-watch spectacle of this election season is unfolding in Aurora where the man of many accomplishments, all of them seemingly bogus, is running in the Democrat primary for House District 42.

The seat was vacated by Democrat state Rep. Dominique Jackson, who was recently appointed administrator of Housing and Urban Development Region 8 by President Biden. 

A half-dozen Democrats have already jumped into the race, including a man by the name of Eric Nelson, whom PeakNation™ will remember lost that same election to Jackson back in 2016 when he served on the Aurora Board of Education.

Nelson was busted back then for running on a record of academic and military accomplishments that the Colorado Statesman, and an independent review by the board, were wholly unable to actual verify.

Here’s the original report, republished by Colorado Politics, which beautifully captures the lost art of what happens when journalists actually question what a Democrat tells them.

Colorado Politics reported again on Nelson’s political history Monday, and the findings of the school board’s review of his resume:

Nelson was censured by that board in 2016 for falsifying or overstating his academic and military credentials. As first reported by The Colorado Statesman, and according to a report commissioned by the board, Nelson “falsified his academic history and exaggerated his professional affiliations.” The report said of the four college degrees he listed on his resume,

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(Complete Colorado Page Two)

Eight of the nine Supreme Court justices are Catholics or Jews—groups historically victimized by religious discrimination. Yet the court’s emerging leader in defending religious freedom is its only mainline Protestant.

Some see Neil Gorsuch, nominated by former President Donald Trump to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia, as Scalia’s natural successor: Both were or are highly intelligent, very well educated, generally (but not purely) originalist in constitutional interpretation, and eloquent writers. But Gorsuch, the Episcopalian, is showing himself even more dedicated to religious freedom than Scalia, the committed Catholic.

No doubt there were earlier indications of this side of Gorsuch, but they have come to the fore in the current pandemic. It’s a good time for that side to show itself, because in public emergencies, constitutional rights often are shunted aside. Indeed, in this emergency the federal judiciary’s record of defending constitutional rights has been mixed at best.

But Gorsuch’s record has been anything but mixed. When his fellow justices defend religious liberty only tepidly, Gorsuch’s concurring opinions stake out stronger positions. When his colleagues do not defend religious liberty at all, he dissents.

Gorsuch opposes anti-religious pandemic orders

On Nov. 25, 2020, the justices issued their opinion in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo. The Diocese and an Orthodox Jewish congregation had sued to void then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s severe capacity restrictions on houses of worship. The plaintiffs won, but only by a bare 5–4 majority.

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(Complete Colorado Page Two)

The Boulder Valley School District’s stated mission says, “… so that all children thrive and are prepared for successful, civically engaged lives.”

They should clarify that “all” doesn’t include disabled students.

Time for an update on my son Chance. If you recall my 17-year-old son has Down syndrome, can’t read or write or even count to 10 consistently. My hope is that he can maneuver in the real world. As he is becoming an adult, he can’t. It’s very hard to understand his speech; therefore, the education he gets now is indispensable to his future — kinda like every other kid in the world, just on a different wavelength.

When the Boulder Valley School District padlocked his in-person school — the center of his world — and forced him onto remote learning, it took away the way that he learns: personal, physical interaction with teachers, students and therapists.

For my son, and many kids like him, remote learning was no learning at all. Simply, it was segregation.

I requested that the school district open the school so he could get an education. They refused.

I asked if they would open up the school just to special-needs kids; without all the typical students there’d be plenty of room for social distancing. They refused.

I asked if they could send professionals to our home to work with chance in person. They refused.

I asked them to add time to his educational services since he’s soon to age out of the educational system.

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(Mile High Evening News)

(NOQ Report) A number of medical experts, scientists and published studies now warn that the COVID shots reprogram your immune system to respond in a dysfunctional manner. Aside from increasing vulnerability to infections, this can also result in autoimmune diseases and cancer.

Pfizer Shot Reprograms Both Arms of Your Immune System

A paper posted May 6, 2021, on the preprint server medRxiv reported that the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID jab “reprograms both adaptive and innate immune responses,” causing immune depletion.

While they confirmed the jab “induced effective humoral and cellular immunity against several SARS-CoV-2 variants,” the shot “also modulated the production of inflammatory cytokines by innate immune cells upon stimulation with both specific (SARS-CoV-2) and nonspecific (viral, fungal and bacterial) stimuli.”

This article appears in its entirety at NOQ Report. Read it here. Note: Title changed by Mile High Evening News.

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

Gov. Polis is contemplating clemency for a truck driver recently sentenced to life in prison for a crash that killed four motorists.

A sex offender is turned loose early from prison only to molest another child.

And, of 400 arrested during the 2020 Peaceful Protests™ in Denver, most cases were dismissed while just a few dozen served a limited time in jail.

Jesse Thomas was arrested May 29, 2020, while protesting for allegedly throwing a rock at a Denver Sheriff Department vehicle. Prosecutors with the Denver District Attorney’s Office charged him with misdemeanor criminal mischief but dropped the case in November, court records show.

Having the criminal case looming over his head stressed Thomas out, he said. He said prosecutors told him they were dropping the case for lack of evidence.

“It’s kind of just been a nuisance,” he said.

What we have here is a lot of crime and very little punishment — the fallout from the movement to defund police by progressive activists and the pursuit of restorative justice by their allies in the court system.

Meanwhile, an unknown assailant went on a shooting spree across metro Denver Monday killing four people and injuring several others including a police officer. 

Multiple businesses filled with people were put on lockdown until police finally cornered the suspect, who was shot and killed.

Progressive public officials have had nothing to say about the increase in crime across Colorado as their wayward policies falter.

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(Complete Colorado Page Two)

Deterring crime by bringing criminals to justice, keeping dangerous criminals off the streets, and stopping crimes in progress when possible, are central functions of government. By physically attacking others or damaging or stealing their property, criminals impose fear, pain, and loss on others. Sometimes they cause extreme suffering, terror, or death. So when crime rates go up, as they have in Colorado, that rightly sparks concern.

Yet fighting crime is not the only value. If it were, we would repeal the Bill of Rights and let government censor speech that might encourage crime, ban guns because they can be used to commit crimes, search people and their homes without a warrant, treat suspects harshly and hold them indefinitely, try people repeatedly, force defendants to testify against themselves, revoke jury trials, and impose cruel and unusual punishments.

So we should say that we want government to fight crime consistent with people’s rights. If government agents violate people’s rights in the name of fighting crime, then, especially in severe cases, those agents become the criminals, in fact if not in law. In some cases (the drug war, asset forfeiture) people fiercely debate whether a given policy or practice is appropriate or rights-violating; I tend toward the civil libertarian side. I’m all for being “tough on crime” so long as we remain just on crime.

We also want government to fight crime effectively. Resources are limited, and we want government to do the best it can to curb crime within a reasonable budget.

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

Army combat veteran Erik Aadland has busted a move from the crowded field of Republicans running against U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and will instead target Ed Perlmutter and challenge him for the 7th Congressional District seat. 

Colorado Politics reported Aadland’s decision Monday citing the significant fundraising that will be required to take on Bennet and his $3.5 million war chest. 

Aadland has about $82,000 cash on hand while Perlmutter has less than $1 million in the bank.

From Aadland’s statement:

“Though it was a very difficult decision after investing significant time, money and effort into the U.S. Senate race, I am motivated by duty and a desire to be of service, and after much prayer and reflection, this is the clearer path to accomplish that end.”

“I am not running for office to serve my own ends — I’m not a career politician. There is a fight for integrity, accountability, transparency and virtue in the U.S. House of Representatives, and this seat represents the primary line of defense against the tide of socialism that we’ve seen under the Biden administration and Ed Perlmutter.”

The deadline for the 4th quarter fundraising period is this weekend. We’ll be watching the money rolling in to see who is taking the lead in fundraising against Bennet. 

Meanwhile, Aadland won’t be the presumptive nominee to take on Perlmutter. He’ll have to compete against Laurel Imer in a Republican primary.

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(Complete Colorado Page Two)

GREELEY — The 22-year-old Eaton man accused of driving his vehicle through a crowd of supporters at a pro-police rally in 2020 has had his disposition hearing continued for a third time.

Isaiah Cordova’s attorney, Robert Ray, told the court on Dec. 23 that he will “probably reject” the final plea agreement offer from the Weld County District Attorney’s office, but needed to go over it with Cordova and his parents first.

Isaiah Cordova

Cordova was initially arrested in July 2020 on seven counts of first-degree assault, seven counts of felony menacing, and one count of reckless driving. The charges came after Cordova was accused of jumping curbs and driving through a park nearly hitting more than a dozen people, including four young children.

On Jan. 6, 2021, the DA’s office amended the charges to seven counts of second-degree assault causing injury with a deadly weapon, felony menacing with a weapon, seven counts of attempted murder with extreme indifference and an “enhancer” charge of committing a violent crime with a weapon.

At a disposition hearing in July 2021, Ray told the court that he and the prosecutor’s office agreed to disagree on a plea bargain and asked to set the case for a preliminary hearing. That was then set for August 27 but continued again until Dec. 23.

Cordova is now set to appear for another disposition hearing at 2 p.m. on April 12,

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