Author: Miller Hudson

Miller Hudson Commonly attributed to Ronald Reagan is the oft quoted 11th Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.” The former president was careful to note its origin belonged with California Republican Party Chair Gaylord Parkinson who fended off liberal Republican (yes, such creatures, apparently now extinct, once walked amongst us) charges…

Miller Hudson As Americans weigh our obligations to the brave Ukrainians battling in defense of their national independence, we should be reminded of the Cuban Missile Crisis which peaked 60 years ago this week. On Oct. 22, 1962, President John Kennedy addressed the nation to announce he was ordering a naval quarantine blocking the shipment…

Miller Hudson Sarah Kendzior of St. Louis has a new book out, “They Knew,” which explores her meditations on “How a culture of conspiracy keeps America complacent.” If that sounds a tad overheated, it should be noted Kendzior’s 2015 prediction that Donald Trump would win the 2016 Presidential race – a conclusion explained in her previous…

Miller Hudson This column appears precisely 50 years after my arrival in Colorado behind the steering wheel of a U-Haul truck towing a spanking new Toyota Land Cruiser. Parking for the night at a Motel 6 along West 6th Avenue, I had just three days to rent an apartment, unload our somewhat meager belongings and…

Miller Hudson Former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart emerged from his home on Troublesome Gulch the week before last to make an appearance at the Denver Press Club. The occasion was a signing for his latest book, “The American Republic Can Save American Democracy.” The author of a dozen previous tomes assessing the state of political…

Miller Hudson As you weigh Proposition 123 on November’s ballot, it’s important to recognize this is yet one more “end around” TABOR restrictions – almost as inventive as the Colorado Opportunity Fund Stipends which retain their Rube Goldberg standing for whitewashing state funds free of TABOR stains. The fiction that in-state Colorado students receive opportunity grants…

Miller Hudson Each time I think our politics can’t get any weirder, something comes along to dash my fervent hope we’ve hit bottom. The governor of Florida and 2024 Presidential aspirant, Ron DeSantis, dispatches anonymous operatives to San Antonio, Texas, where they recruit asylum-seeking immigrants with promises of jobs and housing in Massachusetts. Instead, he…

Miller Hudson Finding the news behind the news can demand arduous treks into the policy weeds to unveil dysfunction. It’s not uncommon to then discover idiosyncratic legislative histories that prompt bizarre behaviors within public bureaucracies. Recent reports that public defender offices across Colorado are toying with forming a union to petition for better working conditions…

Miller Hudson On Aug. 18 my bride and I boarded a plane for the first time in three years. Over the next twelve days we visited all the New England states, encompassing a three-day reunion in Bar Harbor, Maine, and visits to high school and college friends across four states. Five days eating lobsters and…

Miller Hudson There is a waggish take on bureaucracies and bureaucrats that observes they resist reform because a powerful bureaucrat would rather see his or her agency fail as long as they can retain control. Any fix that threatens to eliminate or replace incompetent managers, however dreadful their performance, is resisted with the ferocity of…