Author: Jon Caldara

Jon Caldara TABOR simply means voter consent. TABOR is democracy. Weakening TABOR is weakening democracy. Every couple of years the spending lobby orchestrates an assault on our Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. They are testing another onslaught likely for next year. I was around for the fights to pass TABOR in the early 1990s. Then-Gov.Roy Romer…

Jon Caldara Hollywood is coming to my hometown. By now you’ve heard the Sundance Film Festival is moving to Boulder. What a relief! Finally, some common folk are coming to town. As you know, Boulder is home to the state’s most smug elite, those who know how the rest of us should live, what we…

Jon Caldara With apologies to Pete Seeger, and the 5,000 acts who covered his song. Where have all the liberals gone? Long time passing. Where have all the liberals gone? Long time ago. Where have all the liberals gone? Young progressives canceled them, every one. When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?…

Jon Caldara You can file this under “and this is the kind of crap that got Donald Trump elected.” The job of government is to serve the citizens, not to indoctrinate them into victim identity ideology. We have choices of where to worship, to read politically persuasive literature or hear debates if we wish to…

Jon Caldara Renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” is obnoxious, needless and, well, just kinda stupid. And I love it. It’s just freakin’ awesome! After a decades-long leftist renaming orgy, like changing our beloved Mount Evans into “Mount Blue Sky,” Gulf of America gives them a taste of their own medicine.…

Jon Caldara Last year the Colorado legislature voted to exempt itself from large portions of our beloved Open Meetings Law because, as Mel Brooks famously said, “It’s good to be the king.” It took them no time to exploit their new power to operate in the dark. For the first time in half-century, starting at…

Jon Caldara Losing your job sucks. We all empathize with people who get laid off, as we should, including the formerly untouchable federal government workers. What was it Ronald Reagan once said? “A recession is when your neighbor loses his job; a depression is when you lose yours.” I’m guessing you’ve lost a job or…

Jon Caldara Yes, social media sucks. Government tracking won’t make it better. As regular readers can attest, I am barely literate. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); If you find my work hard to read, be comforted by the fact I find, well, everything hard to read. It wasn’t until well into adulthood that I understood dyslexia. Giving…

Jon Caldara I was born in the wrong time. For instance, I completely missed the sexual revolution of the 1970s when people were having casual sex like it was shaking hands. As an eager young man with hopeful bad judgement and a rupturing libido, I couldn’t wait till I was old enough to join the…

Jon Caldara Slowly, very slowly, Colorado environmentalists are learning basic math. Simple math is a wickedly dangerous thing. I strongly recommend you never learn it. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); Those fool enough to play around with basic math realize our lawmakers have painted us into an energy-starved corner that will, quite literally, kill people in the…