Author: Jason Salzman
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THE PODIUM | Republican Cory Gardner’s actions belie his ‘bipartisan’ rating
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Jason Salzman Colorado’s Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner recently jumped on Twitter to promote himself as having been ranked the fifth most bipartisan member of the U.S. Senate, up from eighth in 2017. “It’s an honor to be named as the 5th most bipartisan Senator by the Lugar Center,” tweeted Gardner. “Coloradans expect their legislators to work across…
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THE PODIUM | It’s about time we offer a public ‘thank you’ to our many public servants
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Jason Salzman It’s great that we recognize people who’ve served in the U.S. military with the simple, time-honored acknowledgement of, “Thank you for your service.” Now, with so many of our other public servants under mindless attack, we should expand the tradition and begin thanking those who work for us in our government in other…
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Spinning a bigot into a ‘cake artist’
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If you’re trying to justify Jack Phillips’s refusal to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple, you have to be pretty creative, especially when Colorado law plainly says a bakery can’t discriminate against gays. How to do this? Phillips’ supporters are bending backwards, sideways, and forward to present the baker as a devout Christian “cake…
