Oprah Winfrey was in Colorado Springs Sunday to plug her book while delivering the commencement address at Colorado College’s graduation.

Seriously, she’s shameless:

Her legacy to the Colorado College Class of 2019 was not only being their Commencement speaker; Winfrey also personally handed each graduate a copy of her most recent New York Times bestseller, “The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose,” which features short essays on her life principles, peppered with quotes from luminaries.

Her speech was mediocre and uninspiring with offerings such as “life is about decisions,” and urging them to dedicate their lives to service.

But Winfrey wasn’t talking about the military or becoming the butler or housekeeper at Downton Abby.

She urged them to use that expensive college education to get a job protest stuff.

Take your pick, Oprah said, in ticking off a litany of today’s issues — gun violence, media bias, protection for “Dreamers,” homelessness, prison reform, misogyny and other societal ills.

“You will speak up. You will show up. You will stand up. You will sit in. You will volunteer. You will vote. You will shout out. You will help. You will lend a hand.  You will offer your talent and your kindness however you can, and you will radically transform whatever moment you’re in – which leads to bigger moments.”

And who should today’s graduates look to for inspiration?

Why that would be Marxist radical, militant activist, and former communist candidate for vice president Angela Davis, from whom Oprah borrowed this quote:

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically change the world. And you have to do it all the time.”

Winfrey’s insipid speech of radical transformation was radically outshined by the commencement address delivered by billionaire Robert F. Smith at the historically black Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Colorado native gave those graduating students a gift of “liberation,” freedom from their school loans debts, which he will pay off through a grant he’s created that is estimated to cost $40 million.

In return, Smith urged the class to pay it forward to future graduates of the college.

Now that’s a legacy.

A new study released this week by the University of Colorado shows no significant change in U.S. methane emissions since 2006.  This time period coincides with a 46% increase in U.S. natural gas production.  Another inconvenient fact that you won’t find pundits yapping about on the network propaganda outlets.

This study, conducted by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) showed methane emissions ten times lower than other studies claiming to measure methane trends.

Why such a vast difference?  The genius scientists running past studies to measure methane in the atmosphere were actually measuring ethane, and then erroneously extrapolating an out-sized increase in methane output due to oil and gas drilling. In fact, the CIRES study called out “major over-estimations of oil and gas emissions trends in some previous studies.”

It turns out that if you want to measure changes in methane, it is best to measure methane, and not something else.  Brilliant concept, unless you are a “climate scientist” with an agenda.

The CIRES study demonstrated that since 2006, methane in U.S. air was rising at the same pace as the world as a whole, demonstrating that energy production has no statistical influence on methane emissions in the U.S. Methane is mainly produced by decomposition in wetlands, agriculture/livestock, rice fields, and biomass burning, and it is a focus of the environmentalist movement because many current scientists believe that it is the second most potent greenhouse gas, behind carbon dioxide.

At least that is what some of them are saying now.  While that view will almost certainly change (anyone remember acid rain), Colorado Democrats are working to destroy this most important industry in our state. Every. Single. Day.

Can someone please tell the know-nothings who pushed SB-181?

We’re still six weeks away from the first Democratic presidential debate with 20 contenders on stage, and the Washington Post is already predicting Colorado’s senior senator will be one of the three who won’t make the cut.

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet continues to rank below “someone else” in national polls, and candidates must show at least one percent of support in multiple polls or collect contributions from 65,000 unique donors in 20 states.

“It’s a traffic jam in Iowa and New Hampshire,” said Craig Hughes, a senior adviser to Sen. Michael F. Bennet (Colo.), “especially for those running who currently serve in Congress, putting weekend travel at a premium.”

Right, that whole Congressional gig is really putting a damper on Bernie Sanders’ 2nd place showing.

Bennet has managed to pull one percent in at least one national poll, running in 12th place — behind four other members of Congress.

However, Bennet’s been going the contributor route to get on the debate stage, rather than waste time trying to capture that elusively consistent one percent of support.

So while the adults in the campaign will debating topics of national importance on the big stage come June 26, Bennet will be in the wings, playing in his sandbox full of $1 bills.

The Republican Women of Weld thought they had a place secured for the club’s monthly meeting that would explore the topic of oil and gas development. That is, until the Town of Erie told them that their planned meeting was “too politically sensitive” and revoked the space the Republican women intended to use.

According to DeAndrea Arndt, president of the Republican Women of Weld, the group offered to cancel the oil and gas speaker and focus on a different topic (to which, we say, why?), Erie still put the kibosh on the meeting space, with the deputy town administrator, Farrell Buller, claiming that changing the topic was “not acceptable, regardless of the topic of makeup of the meeting.”

To Arndt’s point, Republican women clubs are pretty tame as far as political clubs go. But this isn’t about all political groups according to activists in Weld County and Erie, who say that the town has permitted anti-fracking groups to use the space. In fact, one activist noted that on August 4, 2018, there was an open event to sign a petition in support of what eventually became Proposition 112. The event was hosted by Colorado Rising (the anti-fracking group) at the Erie Community Center.

At the very least, this seems unfair, but maybe even illegal. If anyone from the Erie Board of Trustees would like to explain why fractivists get to hold public meetings, but Republican women don’t, we’re all ears.

Earlier today, in protest of a law 1,400 miles away in a state in which she has never been elected, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold issued an edict calling for state employees to boycott Alabama following the signage of an Alabama law that would restrict abortion.

As you would expect, she got a ton of flack for it – not from Republicans, but from journalists who rightly thought the gesture was dumb.

Westword’s Ana Campbell notes that this gesture will do nothing to change the law.

A “symbolic gesture” that will have zero impact on Alabama but will get your name in a headline. Woof. https://t.co/6eUjKOprKg

— Ana Campbell (@journoana) May 16, 2019

And Colorado Sun’s Jesse Paul pointed out that no state employees were actually slated to go to Alabama.

FWIW, I just checked with the Secretary of State’s Office and no state employees were actually slated to go to Alabama this year because there’s a regional training in Denver. #copolitics https://t.co/jsUEBL2Jbu

— Jesse Aaron Paul (@JesseAPaul) May 16, 2019

9News’ Marshall Zelinger sarcastically nailed it by basically noting that this was simply Griswold posturing for a potential U.S. Senate run against Republican U.S. Senator Cory Gardner.

INBOX: @COSecofState Jena Griswold is totally not running for U.S. Senate. #copolitics pic.twitter.com/UJ68y22Ufd

— Marshall Zelinger (@Marshall9News) May 16, 2019

Let’s just call this a swing and a miss, as usual, for Griswold who is more interested in her next political promotion than actually doing her job.

Nobody’s ever accused ProgressNow’s 50-year old intern, Alan Franklin, of being a voice of reason, but even his latest tweet is a bit too far even for him.

Yes, there has been some intraparty warfare this week. No, nobody in the GOP cares about what Franklin says or does when he agrees with a former legislator. Also pretty sure that nobody legitimately thinks people with whom they disagree should die. Except Franklin, apparently.

Sorry, Alan, we aren’t planning to wander through any desert or drop dead. At least, not anytime soon.

Lynn Granger was named executive director of the Colorado Petroleum Council and will lead the advocacy association during this critical time for the energy industry.

With radical activists now pulling the strings in the Democratic-controlled legislature and the industry facing increasing calls for a moratorium on our leading economic driver, Granger has her work cut out for her.

In making the announcement, American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Mike Sommers noted Colorado is a cornerstone of America’s energy revolution, and says Granger’s leadership skills will be necessary to lead the industry forward.

“The natural gas and oil industry thrives on collaborative, proactive engagement with stakeholders on every side of energy policy issues, and Lynn’s breadth of experience in government, military and business matters is uniquely suited for this role.”

Granger joins the council from Colorado Concern, a business advocacy association where she served as chief operating officer.

Bourbon Street

First marijuana, followed by injection sites for heroin, then magic mushrooms — it was only a matter of time before Denver took the radical step of legalizing the consumption of alcohol, in public.

Not everywhere, of course. Denver hasn’t completely lost their collective mind and surrendered to the decadency and depravity of beer and wine.

By strictly regulating the lax rules, cups of alcohol may soon appear within restricted areas along the 16th Street Mall, Dairy Block, and perhaps an art walk among some Santa Fe Drive businesses, Denverite reports.

It’s still just in the proposal stage, but here’s how it would work:

A business applies for the special liquor license, likely along with adjacent storefronts, to create a strip where people can drink while walking, shopping or doing anything else available in bounds. The drinks can only come from restaurants and bars within that area — not from outside vendors.

The city insists they’re not creating booze zones like New Orleans’ Bourbon Street, because some areas will be fenced in with signs, that say “buzz kill,” or something.

“It can be scary and create a lot of anxiety in people, so we wanted to address those questions upfront,” Rogers said.

Yes, art walks with wine are truly the stuff of nightmares, and by all means, let’s regulate it into a box.

Republicans aren’t the only ones who’ve had enough of Gov. Polis, his Democratic base is also turning their backs on him because he’s failed to live up to their radical standards.

That’s according to the leftist experts at Westword, which reports in depth on liberals’ dissatisfaction “Colorado’s dramatic leftward lurch hasn’t materialized.”

The list of injuries the left has suffered at the do-nothing-hands of Dear Leader is both real and imagined.

Most bizarrely, they are insulted that Polis made “remarks defending ICE as a ‘legitimate law enforcement agency,’” Westword said.

Uhm, Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) is a real federal law enforcement agency, in that Congress gave them the power to enforce customs and immigration laws.

Waving a magic wand and declaring they have no power here won’t change that.

Be gone, ICE! You have no power here!

They think Polis is some sort of moderating influence on Democrats in the legislature, many of whom are under threat of recall from angry Republicans for the oil and gas law, red flag law, and liberal’s intent destruction of the Electoral College, etc., etc., etc. …

Or as Westword explains it, “GOP hysteria.”

So what did they want besides the elimination of a federal immigration agency plus all the same rights for illegal immigrants as enjoyed by legal immigrants (now referred to simply as “immigrants”)?

Taxpayer-paid family leave for all, collective bargaining rights for state employees, and even stricter greenhouse gas emission rules. They’re also mad that Polis favored an income tax cut, which never even happened.

Polis may still have a “bold, progressive vision for Colorado,” but so far he seems to be taking a cautious, conservative approach to bringing it into reality … many left-leaning Coloradans hoped that he would represent a break from former governor John Hickenlooper, a business-friendly centrist who often left progressive activists frustrated …

In other words, they wanted a Marxist revolutionary.

A marijuana publication is having a hard time getting comment from pro marijuana members of Congress on Denver’s vote to decriminalize mushrooms.

At the risk of mixing up our drug metaphors, we’ll get straight to the point — no one wants to talk about Denver, including the city’s own congressional representative.

U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette’s office refused to respond to several requests from Marijuana Moment on how she even voted for the measure.

They also wanted to know what steps she will take to support her city’s vote on the federal level.

U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter says he doesn’t know enough about the issue to comment.

Well, he better learn, and fast.

As some have pointed out, law enforcement will need special training to deal with locals tripping their brains out who think the kaleidoscope of skull-faced monkeys living behind their eyeballs are trying to destroy them.

With the shrooms vote, plus the Denver City Council’s willingness to create injection sites for the legal use of heroin and other opioids, there appears to be growing support for the decriminalization of drugs in Denver.