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The Americans with Disabilities Act is a terrible law and should be repealed. There, I said it. I’ll go even further: Believing this does not …
I have always stayed away from drugs, legal or otherwise, but they are a problem that we can’t ignore. Recent events reveal the futility of dr…
The American Legion is turning 100 years old, and as it celebrates a century of service, it faces ruthless membership decline. To confront thi…
Veteran’s Day had its origin at the end of World War I in 1918, a conflict so horrendous that it was dubbed, “the Great War,” or “the war to e…
It has been said, “Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.” That comment is fitting considering the hoopla surrounding Tuesday’…
This week marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It’s a time to celebrate freedom’s victory over communist tyranny. Do Ame…
When the University of Colorado was founded in Boulder the same year as Colorado statehood in 1876, Colorado’s pioneering forefathers envision…
We know that the Pikes Peak region was populated by Indian tribes since ancient times. The mysterious people known as Paleo-Indians, whom some…
It’s difficult to run any business or any organization month to month, unsure if you will have the resources in the coming weeks to keep proje…
“The biggest argument against democracy is a five-minute discussion with the average voter,” said the great Winston Churchill.
In its crusade to remake America in its progressive image, The New York Times, the leftist think tank that was once a newspaper, has launched …
The Constitution, we have been told, is outdated. For the latest example from this cottage industry of latter-day alleged experts, see Richard…
Colorado’s economy ranks among the best in the country. But despite a very low unemployment rate, record corporate profits and tourism revenue…
Steve Chapman’s opinion on universal health care was based largely on health insurance spin that will be coming at readers strong and hard in …
The fossil finds in Corral Bluffs just east of Colorado Springs are simply fantastic. What a privilege to be alive during the discovery of suc…
In a political auction for seductive but unachievable outcomes at someone else’s expense, socialist and progressive politicians unconstrained …
The following is an excerpt adapted from the new book “Fear Your Future: How the Deck Is Stacked against Millennials and Why Socialism Would M…
More than ever before, the value of a college degree is under intense scrutiny — especially from those who wonder if a degree is necessary to …
A Gallup poll from this year shows the fraction of Americans who identify as conservative over those who call themselves liberal is at its low…
Last week I attended the Colorado Springs School District 11 World Café meeting. The district, to its credit, invited citizen input on the dra…
Pro: Tony Frank and Mark Kennedy
With apologies to Hamlet and William Shakespeare: “To beef, or not to beef, that is the question.” This controversial issue has been stirred u…
Colorado’s Gunnison sage-grouse, a species for whose protection I have been advocating since discovering it in 1977, is going extinct — and Co…
After Colorado legalized marijuana for adult use, New York Times Columnist Maureen Dowd came to Colorado to experience legal marijuana edibles…
If you read Proposition CC’s ballot language, you’ll be hard pressed to figure out what it’s really asking.