Author: Jon Caldara
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No beer taxation without representation | CALDARA
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Jon Caldara State Sens. Kevin Priola and Chris Hansen are doing their very best impersonation of Carrie A. Nation, the early 1900s prohibitionist who attacked liquor establishments with a hatchet in one hand and a Bible in the other. But “Mother Nation” just beat up drinkers. She didn’t steal their money and give it to…
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Privacy protects people | CALDARA
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Jon Caldara Let’s set the stage with a question: should Donald Trump become the dictator the left fears, do you want him to know who’s giving to organizations that criticize him? There are reasons people don’t want others to know with whom they associate and the groups they support. On Nov. 27, 2015, Robert Lewis…
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Give Chance a chance | CALDARA
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Jon Caldara Last Thursday was World Down Syndrome Day. You know, one of those well-intended “awareness” days when we’re supposed to learn about some sad cause or affliction. I usually roll my eyes at these kinds of days because there’s a million of them and I have important shows to binge on Netflix. But my…
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Gun legislation fosters systemic racism | CALDARA
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Jon Caldara Any regular reader of this column knows its recurring theme of the immorality of political majorities abusing political minorities. But now, the Colorado Legislature is stepping it up to openly target racial minorities. They are taking action to keep Black and Brown people from owning firearms, you know, like Whites. The legislature is…
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Colorado learns the hard way ‘free’ lunches aren’t free | CALDARA
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Jon Caldara Indulge me as I quote a few old, dead White guys. Yes, of course, we hate them because somehow, they victimized all of us. But, you know, that whole thing about a squirrel occasionally finding a nut… Who would have guessed Nobel-prized economist Milton Friedman was so right when he said there is…
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Why your favorite Colorado restaurant closed | CALDARA
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Jon Caldara The bad policy chickens are coming home to roost. At least you can eat chickens. We are seeing the first domino tumble in the economic ruin that will hit all of Colorado in a few short years. Small businesses, like locally owned restaurants, are shuttering. I don’t know if you remember dining out…
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Democracy dies in centralized social engineering at the state Capitol | CALDARA
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Jon Caldara The people making the most noise about former President Donald Trump being a threat to democracy are themselves working to take away democracy right here in Colorado. It would be comical if it weren’t so ugly. The Regional Transportation District (RTD) has a 15-member, directly elected, nonpartisan board of directors. I was elected…
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Podcasts killed the radio star | CALDARA
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Jon Caldara I must have hit that age. Nostalgia keeps overtaking me. I remember a Colorado that had thriving, competitive newspapers in every city, along with equally thriving local radio to keep them in check. There was a time when local radio was big. Colorado, and the Front Range in particular, had some of the…
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Bring back the old TABOR | CALDARA
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Jon Caldara The former head of the leftist ProgressNow Colorado, who is married to a U.S. congresswoman living in Jefferson County, has donated to the election campaigns of all three of the current Jefferson County commissioners. So, what a coincidence those same Jefferson County commissioners, all Democrats, are now going to pay him $180,000 to…
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The ‘Colorado Rebound’ nears | CALDARA
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Jon Caldara Never since the passage of our Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights in 1992 have I been more optimistic about the possibility of Coloradans winning back the lost personal and economic freedoms stolen by the government leviathan. And no, I have not been ingesting the state’s newly deregulated psychedelic mushrooms. I make this observation after…
