Of all things, Hollywood is gearing up to bring the inside history of the Reykjavik Summit to the big screen:
Academy Award Nominated Director Ridley Scott today announced his company, Scott Free Productions, will team up with a group of entertainment and political veterans on a film project about the now famous Summit at Reykjavik which marked [...]
Entries from January 2008
Hollywood History
January 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Moonbattery
John Andrews joins the YRs in February
January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Backbone Radio host and Claremont Institute Fellow John Andrews will be speaking at our February meeting, but I just couldn’t wait that long to pass on his most recent column:
Resist Political Seduction
Who do you like for president? Many Americans this year seem inclined to answer that question with another: “What’s today?”
The polls are volatile. We’ve already seen [...]
Tags: Uncategorized
Bleah
January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people.
So long, Fred.
I quickly passed through denial over this (hard [...]
Tags: National Politics
Caucusing
January 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Don’t forget — the Republican caucus is coming up on February 5th.
Don’t miss your chance to participate in the first big GOP event of this election season. Colorado Republicans has a trove of info on how to get involved.
Tags: Colorado Politics · National Politics
Look Who’s Blogging
January 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Dick Wadhams has discovered the intertubes!
Speaking of Dick Wadhams, I wonder if he’d still give me that same look of amused patience (the kind you use with people who talk about UFOs and such) if, a year later now, I asked him again whether we were going to be stuck with John McCain as the Republican nominee. [...]
Tags: Colorado Politics · State-Level Politics
General Meeting - Speaker: Mike Rosen
January 20th, 2008 · No Comments
[ January 22, 2008; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Join DMYR for our January General Meeting on Tuesday, January 22.
Our speaker this month will be 850 KOA radio host and political commentator Mike Rosen, who is always entertaining and thought-provoking.
Tags: Events · Uncategorized
Vital Expenditures
January 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments
At The Corner, Victor Davis Hanson makes a simple but important observation on the nature of government funding:
We in California, given the past budget implosions, know the script to follow. We expect that police, fire, prisons, parks, etc. will be threatened with cut-backs and closure, while the state-funded “Center for this” and the “Department of [...]
Tags: Colorado Politics · Philosophy · Small Government · State-Level Politics
Good News, Bad News
January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Well, the good news coming out of Iowa is that Fred Thompson has so far squeaked past John McCain to take the #3 GOP slot. Hopefully, this reflects a “surge” for Thompson and will give him the motivation (and buoy the funding needed) to stick with the race.
The other good news (or schadenfreude, if you [...]
Tags: National Politics
January FAC: Front Porch
December 30th, 2007 · No Comments
[ January 11, 2008; 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Join us for our Friday After-work Club for January, at Front Porch in LoDo. Come hang out with DMYR and get to know your fellow young Republicans!
WHERE: Front Porch, 1512 Larimer St # 33R [map]
WHEN: Friday, January 11, 5:30pm-8:30pm
Denver Metro Young Republicans