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COMMUNITY RIGHTS OR BUST: Fractivists Plan to Bankrupt Towns that Reject Utopia
Fractivists now publicly admit they don’t care if local control initiatives lack a legal leg on which to stand in court -- greenies would declare an even greater victory when communities go bankrupt trying to defend their ungovernable efforts. Energy in Depth found...
SUPREME JUSTICE: EPA Rule to Kill Coal Bites the Dust
Buried underneath the avalanche of recent praise and criticism for various Supreme Court decisions was this little gem that’s gone unnoticed: The EPA’s rule to regulate emissions from coal-fired power plants was crushed in a 5-4 decision. The EPA was spanked for...
SHAMELESS PANDERING: Hispanics + Environmental Issues = More Democratic Votes?
Have Democrats shortsighted, Denver-centric, far-left environmental policies cost them support with Hispanics? That's the logical conclusion one must reach after watching a video, featuring Denver Metro-centric Democratic Hispanic legislators Rep. Joe Salazar, Sen....
TABOR INTACT FOR NOW: U.S. Supreme Court Sends Kerr for Retrial
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court sent Kerr v. Hickenlooper, a case that seeks to undermine TABOR, back to federal court to be retried. This seems like a good time to remind everyone that there is a group of liberal legislators who are working overtime to strip...
BUG OUT! Chinese Wasps to Battle the Ash Borer for Supremacy in Boulder
We don’t claim to be Entomolopolowagamolo … bug experts, but bringing predator wasps from China to kill beetles in Colorado sounds like the worst idea since Dr. Strangelove used a nuclear bomb to cure polio. The deployment of thousands of these stingless, parasitic...
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GOLDIE: Aspen’s Big Ideas Festival Goes Overboard
We’ve never had the honor of attending the Aspen Ideas Festival, where people no one’s ever even heard of gather with politicians and celebrities to solve every imaginable and possibly real problems that plague Mother Earth. But with a line-up this week that includes...
CO CEO PAY MAKES HEADLINES: Why the Wealthiest 1 Percent Shouldn’t Matter
Executive pay has been one of the left’s favorite things to go after. And why shouldn’t they? It’s easy to gin up outrage over someone on Wall Street making $100 million a year while middle class families struggle to pay for their kid’s college. You would be hard to...
THIS LAND IS THEIR LAND: BLM Allows a Measly 200 Acres of Public Roads to Remain Public
As victories go, this one is barely worth the effort of popping open a bottle of water or celebrating with a cupcake. The Bureau of Land Management, whose motto is: “Closing Off Land Is Management Enough,” has agreed to defer the closure of 200 miles of trails...
SUE THE BASTARDS! Colorado Joins Lawsuit Against Regulating Ditches and Ponds
A dozen states have lined up to challenge the feds new rule declaring that ditches and ponds are officially “Waters of the United States” so the government can do what it does best – regulate the Hell out of our lives and property. Attorney General Cynthia Coffman...
THE WAR ON CRAIG: An Unholy Convergence of a Federal Trifecta Threatens the West
The Denver Post discovered the Town of Craig in a Sunday article, but presented a rather sterile perspective of the federal trifecta of economic chaos racing towards the region. The article includes the obligatory quotes from folks who are worried, a lot of...