One of the most annoying things about environmentalists is their insistence upon controlling our daily lives. There’s probably nothing in this category more prevalent than environmentalists who claim that cow farts are ruining the environment; thus, we should all eat kale-based products. We just threw up in our mouths a little.

Now, like many of their other studies, this claim has been debunked by, um, actual science. Researcher Albrecht Glatzle, a professor with INTTAS (Initiative for Research and Extension of Sustainable Agrarian Technologies) who has written 100 scientific papers and two books, has research that shows there is no discernible impact on the environment from cow farts. Here’s what he told Beef Magazine (yes, apparently, this is a real thing that we should all subscribe to) about this environmentalist fairy tale:

“There is no scientific evidence, whatsoever, that domestic livestock could represent a risk for the Earth’s climate….Between 1990 and 2005, the world cattle population rose by more than 100 million head (according to FAO statistics). During this time, atmospheric methane concentration stabilized completely.”

Exactly.

Please feel free to go back to your regularly scheduled hamburgers, steak, or kebabs.

This morning’s Denver Post featured an op-ed by a former legislator turned economic development chief (appointed by Governor Bill Ritter) suggesting that Republicans and Democrats should unite to implement another Referendum C-style TABOR fix.

Let’s be clear. The only reason that TABOR needs to be fixed is because Democrats can’t get their greedy hands in your wallets as it stands. Even a recent Denver Post editorial noted that there’s no longer a budget shortfall, or a need to loosen the purse strings for TABOR. Don’t worry, our friends at the Post also noted that they were salivating at the idea of repealing TABOR in its entirety.

Even worse, the polling on Proposition CC is abysmal. This may be why there have been rumblings in recent weeks about a special session to fix it. Here’s the bad news for Democrats – the polling on that fix is likely bad, too. What’s in it for Republicans? Republicans who lend their name to this effort will only be sealing their fates among their base. And, by that, we mean eroding their base. Republicans don’t get credit among unaffiliateds or Democrats for supporting either of these attempts to raise taxes (and, yes, that is what this is). So, why should Republicans support the Yes on CC effort or any attempt to call a special session?

The answer? Republicans shouldn’t. There’s nothing in it for Republicans. It’s going to lose anyway and Democrats would love to see Republicans irritate their base. Not to mention, this effort could divide Republicans at a time when Republicans need to come together to support the re-election of Sen. Cory Gardner.

If we, as Republicans, cannot agree to support TABOR, is there anything on which we can agree? No matter how Republicans feel about abortion, gay rights, immigration, or any other divisive issue, we should be able to agree on holding government accountable and keeping it small.

Mr. Marostica may have called to unite Republicans, but he’s wrong on one account. This isn’t a partisan issue. This is a Democratic problem. Republicans and unaffiliateds should unite in agreement that our state government must be more accountable and keep TABOR as a check against runaway spending that Democrats have planned.

Sure are a lot of crickets down there in South Carolina, and John Hickenlooper got to hear them all during a speech he gave as part of the Democrat’s big shin dig weekend at U.S. Sen. Jim Clyburn’s fish fry.

Hick hit the race button, the climate change button, the cop killing button, all of the liberal triggers, almost nothing seemed to work.

For good reason.

“Our democracy is something we neglect at our own peril. (Trump’s) fueling a national crisis of division unlike anything our nation has seen since the Civil War,” Hick roared to the politely silent southern crowd, whose economy is based on Yankee tourists.

Hick continued to bash Trump — who carried the state in 2016 with 56% compared to Hillary’s 41% — calling him everything except the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.

The best part, was Hick bragging about how racially sensitive Denver Police are because of his work as mayor, and all about how minority folks don’t get shot here like they do down south.

Hick’s staff might want to do some actual research before throwing their boss to the crowd unprepared.

Cop shooting doesn’t appear to be as big an issue down there as it is here, and the crowd wasn’t at all mesmerized by Hick’s talk of the brew pub he started or legalizing marijuana, because THIS IS THE BIBLE BELT.

At one point, a lone staffer supporter started clapping really loud to get the crowd going.

Hick’s most popular line?

His claim he cut teenage abortion by 64%.

We suspect that’s the last South Carolina will even see of Hick before their February primary.

The Democrats’ strategy of throwing every candidate they can find into the race for president is backfiring, spectacularly.

A national poll led by the Associated Press honed in on the response from one Denver mom, who summed it all up perfectly.

“It’s kind of a blur,” said Maggie Banks, 32, of suburban Denver, who has two young children and only has a chance to glean a few details about the race while listening to National Public Radio during her commute.

Banks said she has only a “vague” idea of who’s running and didn’t realize her state’s senior senator, Michael Bennet, or former governor, John Hickenlooper, were in the race.

When the race is so noisy and muddled that Coloradans don’t even know their sitting senator and former governor are running the big race, there’s a problem.

And that’s with 79% responding they’re very interested in the campaign, but only 62% say they know very little about what’s going in the race.

No duh.

There’s no need for the whole immigrant community to panic.

Despite what some media reports suggest, federal immigration officials are not planning widespread raids across Denver to capture everyone who is in the country illegally.

It is true that specific deportation plans were in the works, but called off Sunday by President Trump after Democrats agreed to work on a new asylum process.

But again, this action was never going to be random raids on unsuspecting immigrants.

Only 2,000 families nationwide who skipped their court dates and who were already served with deportation orders were the targets of this effort.

Trump’s message Sunday:

I want to give the Democrats every last chance to quickly negotiate simple changes to Asylum and Loopholes. This will fix the Southern Border, together with the help that Mexico is now giving us. Probably won’t happen, but worth a try. Two weeks and big Deportation begins!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 23, 2019

U.S. Rep Diana DeGette accused Trump of “Instilling fear in the hearts of families across the country by announcing these nationwide raids, while continuing to lock up kids at the border.”

But the only fear mongers we see are Democrats like DeGette, who are twisting the purpose of the targeted ICE sweep to insinuate that armed agents are standing outside the doors of every immigrant in the country.

Immigrants truly seeking asylum can’t just skip out on their hearing date. There is a process, and when it’s ignored, this is what happens.

If Democrats truly want to help those immigrants, then stop screaming that the sky is falling, and come back to the negotiating table to review this process and make it more humane. 

We realize it’s been a slow news period, but there’s no excuse for this:

No, the life-altering flood did not involve Noah and the animals. This study was more interested in what people feel as opposed to what science can’t prove.

Whether it’s floods or draught, warm winter days or snowing on the first day of summer, it’s all global warming/climate change, we’re told.

But how to convince the masses?

In this latest useless study with our tax dollars, conducted by the University of Colorado Denver and (P)uke University, researchers discovered folks who were not impacted by the 2013 floods now blame the event on climate change.

What mattered most was the shared experience of the community, researchers found after surveying about 900 residents of Boulder, Longmont, Lyons, Estes Park, Loveland and Evans. Those whose homes did not flood grew just as concerned about climate change and natural disasters because of what happened to their neighbors and friends.

“These findings may speak to the power of collective experiences, rather than experiences felt independently,” the researchers wrote in a paper published in May in the academic journal, Climatic Change.

While not exactly scientific in nature, we’re betting the study will prove invaluable to radical environmentalists, who will use climate change natural disasters for their propaganda and fundraising purposes.

This is starting to get funny. You might recall the great news earlier this week, with the Colorado Legislative Council projecting that taxpayers stand to receive both TABOR refunds and a decrease in their state income tax rate in the years ahead. You see, Colorado’s best-in-the-nation economy provides for that. And what do you think provides for Colorado’s best-in-the-nation economy?

We’ll give you a hint: it rhymes with LABOR.

All of this makes Colorado Democrats’ efforts to undermine or do away with our Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights all the more ridiculous. Upon hearing the news that Coloradans would be getting back what they overpaid into state government, liberals freaked out. FOX31’s Joe St. George explains why:

“A couple making $175,000 will receive around $246. A couple earning more than $226,000 would receive $751.

“‘It’s primarily because of a stronger economy,” said State Sen. Rachel Zenzinger, who sits on the state’s Joint Budget Committee. ‘That will be refunded to people in the form of a check.’

“That, however, could change if a special session is called by Gov. Jared Polis.

“Special sessions typically cost taxpayers around $25,000 a day.

“A special session could change the total amount refunded to Coloradans.”

Zenzinger and her fellow Democrats are super upset that you are entitled to money that you overpaid into an already-bloated state government. That’s why they’re trying to take away these refunds forever with Proposition CC. And just to be clear, Democrats want to use your TABOR refunds to push for a tax increase. It’s pretty sick.

Sadly for the big-government-minded, Coloradans are going to crush Prop CC this November. We have a suggestion: if Democrats think TABOR is so bad, go ahead and bring the full TABOR repeal to the ballot, rather than ridiculous, death-by-a-thousand papercut measures like CC. Let’s just have TABOR vs. No TABOR go twelve rounds in the ring for all the marbles; our money would be on Colorado’s taxpayers.

Gov. Polis has a vision for the Western Slope’s economic future, and it’s barely a step above unemployment.

Instead of making oodles of money in oil and gas, Polis wants to wean those workers off the politically incorrect jobs and put them in call centers making minimum wage and spending their days getting yelled at over the phone.

And, he thinks the Western Slope is prime for the independent worker — in jobs that are actually located someplace with a better economy than the one Polis is planning.

It’s an economic scheme right out of a 1960s science fiction novel.

“I think western Colorado will continue to thrive in the 21st-century economy. It’s really positioned for success with location (and) independent employment,” he said. That independent employment can mean everything from employees working remotely in everything from highly skilled jobs to call center work.

The governor wants to see more of  that kind of  employment moving to the Western Slope, rather than a return to the region’s historic roots in oil and gas. He has remained neutral and cautious on the proposed Jordan Cove pipeline project, which could open foreign markets to natural gas from the region.

The governor’s comments came during one of many interviews he is conducting to try and cover his faux pas earlier this month when he accidentally revealed he would rather see the Denver metro area land the federal BLM headquarters than Grand Junction.

His reasoning, Grand Junction’s airport is too small.

We’re starting to see a pattern here. The governor simply refuses to think in terms of growth — like expanding airline flights or allowing our energy economy to flourish along with good-paying jobs.

He wants the workers herded into call centers to compete with India.

We’ve hit the big league, PeakNation!

Such a threat we’ve become to the liberal way of thinking, tech giant Facebook has decided to shadow ban us from existence.

It’s a practice social media outlets, including Twitter, are using to silence conservative journalists and Republican congressmen.

We’ve had the problem with Facebook for a month now, but didn’t realize we’d been hit with the secret ban until Fox News contributor Sara Carter explained this week how it happened to her.

Shadow banning is when they don’t cut off your account completely, they just block your content from being shared with your followers hoping the user will get frustrated or bored and just abandon the site.

The problem with this tactic, Facebook actually shows us how many people are “reached” or have “engaged” with each post, and our numbers dropped overnight from thousands, to zero.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-California) is suing over this problem, claiming he too has been shadow banned.

“I’ve also heard of it happening to Representatives Mark Meadows (R-North Carolina) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and others,” Carter continued. “The American people should be concerned about this because we have private entities in the public sphere that making decisions on what people see, and it appears these companies want to kind of skew towards the Democrats.”

Our drop was so dramatic, we spotted it immediately.

The first post Facebook didn’t want you to see, was about the sexual assault charges facing now ex- Democratic Rep. Rochelle Galindo.

We’ve filed numerous complaints with Facebook, but they are just ignoring our objections.

The only way to fight this for now, PeakNation, is to bookmark our website here and read our posts daily, and follow us on Twitter @COpeakpolitics.