Month: April 2024

(Colorado Peak Politics)

Many parents banking on their hipster youth returning from college in a few weeks to get summer jobs and help pay for their six-figure diplomas in DEI are going to be shit outta luck.

Campuses across the U.S. and now Colorado are under siege by mysteriously funded tent suppliers to train tomorrow’s young terrorists today in how to occupy their collegiate safe spaces.

We expect Peaceful Protestors™ demanding the demise of Israel and the Jewish people will refrain from the “Death to America!” chants until after we pay off their student loan debt.

Apparently, lessons haven’t yet been learned about the violence and dangers to both humans and the environment in these tent city occupations, whether it’s on Wall Street, or the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle.

The Denver Post reports that several hundred protesters descended on Denver’s Auraria Campus this week and pledged to keep on camping and complaining until the University of Colorado divests all finances from links to Israel.

“We would love to pack up and go home, but until those demands are met, we will stay here,” organizer Abdullah Elagha said.

Elagha has quite the history as a radical antisemite. Just so there’s no ambiguity as to where he stands, this is an example of what he posts on social media:

You can read more here about Elagha,

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

A newly released list of travel hotspots for Colorado’s recently reintroduced wolves shows high country tourist destinations aren’t just for people anymore.

When not feeding on sheep, cattle, or dogs, wolves are making their way to Vail, Breckenridge, and Steamboat Springs.

And just to show there’s no hard feelings against Front Range folks who voted to uproot wolves from their happy dens in other states and relocate them to Colorado, wolves are also pinging on the eastern side of the Continental Divide.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife detected wolves close to these notable communities from March 26 through April 23.

• Eagle
• Avon
• Granby
• Grand Lake
• Steamboat Springs
• Walden
• Kremmling
• Red Feather Lakes
• Silverthorne
• Craig
• Hot Sulphur Springs
• Winter Park
• Vail
• Breckenridge
• Estes Park
• Georgetown
• Nederland

 From Colorado Politics:

Those exploring these areas may need to prepare for a potential wolf sighting. While wolves tend to avoid human interaction, a human-wolf encounter could happen. When planning a trip into the backcountry, it may be a good idea to check the most recent report of where wolves have been, but keep in mind that the data lags behind and doesn’t show location in real time.

It’s only a matter of time before some naïve tourist encounters a wolf and tries to take a selfie.

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

New polling reveals that Colorado’s most vulnerable Democrat congressional member running for reelection has lower popularity numbers than Joe Biden.

U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo is in deep trouble with independents leaning toward Republican candidates, in a race that was decided by Independents in 2022.

Her favorability among voters in the poll was at a dismal 23%.

Caraveo’s ballot position and low name identification make the fledgling 8th District ripe for the flipping come November, said a spokeswoman for the National Republican Congressional Committee.

The Washington Examiner has the exclusive on the poll that was commissioned by the committee, and reports:

A growing number of independent voters also say they are more likely to back Republican challenger Gabe Evans in the general election. About 41% of independents say they’d back Evans compared to 35% for Caraveo, giving the Republican newcomer a 6-point advantage, according to the poll.

Biden isn’t doing much better. Only 41% gave his job performance a thumbs up, which still seems shockingly high.

But among independents, only 38% approve of Biden’s handiwork.

In a district that will rely heavily on independents to add weight to the partisan divide, this one is ripe for swinging right.

The poll included 400 likely voters with a 4.9 point margin of error.

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

Colorado Democrat have finally figured out how to resolve the dangerous and unmanageable side effects of President Biden’s open border policy problem — they’re censoring lawmakers and legislation.

Lefty legislators have issued a list of banned words that cannot be used in legislation, during debate, or spray painted on the side of the Capitol during Peaceful Protests™.

Poof. Problem gone.

We, the minority, were given a list of words from House leadership that are offensive to the majority around illegal immigration. We demand that the majority stop silencing our voices and the voices of our constituents.#copolitics #coleg #mighty19 pic.twitter.com/5kokYT4yfL

— Representative Lisa Frizell (@LisaFrizellHD45) April 22, 2024

When Democrats controlled Congress, they stopped using the phrase illegal alien claiming the term was associated with hate groups, according to the censorship memo.

So now Colorado Dems are acting like high school language monitors and censoring a whole list of words.

Their actions are so egregious, even the woke Denver Post published a critical commentary on the front page of its website:

Somebody give the Democratic majority in the Colorado General Assembly a copy of the Bill of Rights, large print if available, and underline the First Amendment with a sharpie.

For the second time this year, they have forgotten they cannot prohibit speech or coerce it from their peers,

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(Complete Colorado Page Two)

On Monday night, the Denver City Council weakly attempted to justify Mayor Michael Johnston’s proposal to shift tens of millions of dollars away from services to help pay for the city’s influx of illegal aliens.

But perhaps the most indefensible part is what they’re not cutting.

The $8.4 million cut from the police budget has attracted national attention.  While much of that comes from foregone hiring, but those positions wouldn’t be open in the first place if they weren’t needed to help restore some measure of order and safety to the public streets.  In addition to that, Public Health and Environment is losing $1.5 million; the Safety Department, $2.2 million, and the Sheriff’s Department, $3.9 million.  In fact, of the $34.9 million being reassigned, nearly half is coming from public safety departments of one form or another.

You know who’s not suffering cuts?  Green programs and the social justice warriors.

Denver’s Office of Climate Action, Sustainability, and Resiliency – an example of a city government trying to play outside its league if ever there was one – is being asked to surrender slightly more than $400,000 out of a general fund budget of nearly $7 million.  Its $48 million Special Resource Fund is untouched, as is its $11 million in capital projects.

What’s more, the Mayor’s Office of Social Equity and Innovation and it’s budget of more than $2 million is left completely untouched.

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

Democrats are all about demanding decorum when legislating, except when it comes to their own behavior.

Yet this week it was a Democrat who lost his cool during a House healthcare committee when state Rep. Mary Bradfield tried to strip the biologically bizarre term “birthing person” from a bill and replace it with (GASP) “mothers.”

So outraged was socialist Democrat state Rep. Tim Hernandez at the gall of a woman thinking only women could give birth or be called mother, that he grabbed her amendment and in a show of male dominance, ripped it to shreds!

The belligerent behavior was reenacted for social media by Republican state Rep. Ryan Armagost.

Yesterday in Health & Human Services Committee, there was a bill that referred to “birthing persons”…
Rep Bradfield ran an amendment to change the language to “mothers”…
The amendment failed and then Timmy “Hamas” Hernandez theatrically grabbed and ripped the amendment sheet… pic.twitter.com/L0RmLdAtTy

— Representative Ryan Armagost (@RepRyanArmagost) April 24, 2024

Here’s how the debate over who can have children unfolded:

Democrats in Congress also threw decorum to the wind a few days ago after passing $60 billion in aid to Ukraine by causing a ruckus on the House floor and waving Ukraine flags.

Democrats behaving badly causing a ruckus on the House floor and waving Ukraine flags.

If only Democrats would wave American flags when they pass tax relief for American citizens.

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(Complete Colorado Page Two)

(You can listen to this column, read by the author, here.)

The speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, has called for a vote on funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. He has done so at sizable professional risk. His isolationist Republicans might remove him from his leadership position for it.

By the time you read this column, you’ll likely know how those votes went. As I write this, I have no idea. But I do know there’s one vote that could be wildly important, if only there were a representative to cast it.

With Ken Buck’s resignation well before his term ends, he has left the voters of Colorado’s 4th Congressional District without a voice in government, and at a remarkably critical time.

Not only is the future of Ukraine’s very existence at stake, but, again, so could be the leadership of the U.S. House. And collapse there could have a sizable impact on November’s elections nationwide.

Even given my very libertarian leanings, I understand providing for the common defense is a core, enumerated duty of the federal government.

I see a very big difference between supporting our allies with American dollars and goods versus with American blood. One I support. The other I’d fight.

Our president has given a very clear message to our foes around the globe. The United States will always back down,

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

One of Colorado’s 10 imported wolves was found dead this week in Larimer County, reportedly of natural causes.

The price of being a boutique wolf state has already reached about $1.6 million — or about $160,000 million per wolf.

So, taxpayers are already down that much for obtaining an unhealthy wolf. Add in the two wolves with a history of chronic depredation, and the state has already wasted nearly half a million dollars on defective wolves.

Tragically, these apex predators were kidnapped from their perfectly happy homes in other established states and dumped in the high country to make Front Range voters feel good about themselves.

Also, it’s a bragging right for Gov. Polis, who will undoubtably use it when he eventually runs for president.

Polis’s office finally released a statement late Monday addressing the mayhem brought by the handful of wolves and basically told livestock owners to get over it.

“It is widely known that wolves are opportunistic hunters and Colorado voters were fully aware of the diet of wolves and made the decision to reintroduce wolves.”

Right, and this is how voters view opportunistic hunters, thanks to progressives like Polis.

Polis’s office assured livestock owners the same agency that imported the defective wolves will be along shortly to show them how to scare away the deadly animals by non-lethal means.

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(Complete Colorado Page Two)

I’ve been listening to the excellent podcast series, “The History of Philosophy without Any Gaps.” I’m still on the ancient Greeks. On one level, those thinkers had some absolutely bonkers ideas.

Thales thought that everything is or comes from water. Parmenides thought that everything is one solid and undifferentiated mass, that change is impossible, and that the world of experience is illusory.

But these thinkers are worth paying attention to. Following Thales, we think that there is some underlying unity of matter. Parmenides provoked some hard thinking about logical argument and the nature of reality.

The lesson is that often we fruitfully can engage with others even when they are largely wrong or when we think they are. And often people who are mostly wrong still have something interesting to contribute to the conversation.

What in the heck does this have to do with Colorado politics, you’re probably are wondering at this point. I’ve been seeing a lot of name-calling and straw-manning when we’d be better off with more empathy and attempts at understanding.

Sex abuse suits

Consider the recent legislative vote over whether to try to jump the courts and allow lawsuits over old cases of sexual abuse. The legislative vote, over whether to send a measure to the voters, failed on party lines.

If you listen to various Democrats, Republicans voted against the measures just because they are obtuse and evil. But if you read Marianne Goodland’s report in Colorado Politics,

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