Ahh, “progressives”. Always thinking about the future…through the lens of the Protest Sixties:
Political activists hoping to rain on the Democrats’ parade when the party holds its national convention in Denver have launched a website encouraging others to make the next convention look like the one in 1968.
…But instead of raving about the city’s assets like [...]
Entries from January 2007
We Don’t Want to Go Back to Tomorrow
January 30th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Moonbattery
FAC: Lucky Dog
January 30th, 2007 · No Comments
[ February 2, 2007; 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Please join us this Friday for our February FAC; we’ll be gathering at around 5:30pm at Lazy Dog, 4100 E Mexico, in Denver. [MAP].
We look forward to seeing all of you there.
Tags: Events
Light-Rail Pub Crawl
January 27th, 2007 · No Comments
[ January 27, 2007; 7:00 pm; ] Join DMYR for a Light Rail Pub Crawl, Saturday January 27. We will meet at the Blue Bonnet at 1:30pm, and continue to three other Denver bars via light rail (since we’re stuck with it, we might as well put it to good use…).
The schedule for the Pub Crawl is as follows:
Meet-up at Blue Bonnet Cafe – 1:30 [...]
Tags: Events
GOP Darkhorse?
January 25th, 2007 · 6 Comments
Given that I’m just not excited about any of the already announced Republiacan candidates, probably because the field needs an actual Reagan Republican, I thought I’d share the story that South Carolina Governor and former Congressman Mark Sanford just might run.
Tags: National Politics
Read this article
January 25th, 2007 · No Comments
Heritage Foundation Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought Lee Edwards has penned a brief and very worthwhile article on the modern American ‘Conservative’ movement - excellent reading overall and especially germane to recent wide-spread accusations that the GOP is irretrievably fractured betwen libetarians and traditionalists.
If you like this article, check out Ryan Sager’s book, The Elephant [...]
Tags: Philosophy
Iran Undeterred
January 21st, 2007 · 3 Comments
JPost writer Benny Morris explains how This Holocaust Will Be Different.
In an article filled with disturbing prognostication about what might happen to Israel in a world where Ahmadinejadian Iran has the Bomb, this jumped out at me for its implications:
IN SHORT order, therefore, the incompetent leadership in Jerusalem would soon confront a doomsday scenario, either [...]
Tags: International Affairs
Wow, Who Would Have Expected It?
January 20th, 2007 · No Comments
Stop the presses!
Hillary Clinton Launching Presidential Run
What a shocking development! Out of the blue! Surely nobody could have seen this coming from fifteen years away!
Now that she’s got the announcement part over with, I suppose we’ll start seeing the hit pieces on Obama and Edwards flooding the MSM. Should be fascinating, in a train-wreck sort [...]
Tags: National Politics
General Meeting - Speaker: Rep. Bill Cadman
January 18th, 2007 · No Comments
[ January 23, 2007; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Join us for our next General Meeting at 5:30pm on January 23.
Speaker: State Representative Bill Cadman (District 15, El Paso).
Serving in the Colorado General Assembly, Representative Cadman is a member of the Legislative Council Committee, State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee, and the Joint Computer Management Committee.
We meet each month at the On The Border [...]
Tags: Events
2007 LPR Retreat
January 18th, 2007 · No Comments
[ February 23, 2007 8:00 am to February 24, 2007 2:00 pm. ] As many of you know, the Leadership Program of the Rockies is a wonderful course that educates emerging leaders on a wide range of issues. Every year, they hold a two day retreat at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, and tickets for the 2007 retreat, being held on the 23rd and 24th of February, are [...]
Holy Crap, Tancredo is Running For President!
January 16th, 2007 · 7 Comments
That was the title of an e-mail sent to me today and I couldn’t personally decide if that exclamation was one of excitement or horror. I love Tancredo and concur that we have an immigration issue. However, I have personally been frustrated by his hard and fast views that contractors are to blame for our [...]
Tags: Colorado Politics · National Politics
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