Author: Sean Duffy

Sean Duffy Where can politicians go to find their New Year’s resolutions? Each year during Christmas week, I re-read Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” a novella far better, and more textured and nuanced, than any of the movie renditions. The story of the old, sour, lonely miser visited by spirits who show him the error of…

Sean Duffy The holiday season is supposed to be the season of giving. Apparently, the only people really giving this year – and next – are Colorado taxpayers.  The year about to pass will go down as one of the most anti-taxpayer years in Colorado history, with a property tax crisis allowed to fester, and the liberals…

Sean Duffy Are there any islands of civility in Colorado’s boiling, rancorous political sea? It’s been a bad year to find the good.   The case of Rep. Ruby Dickson from Denver’s southern suburbs is instructive.  It was tempting for cynics, me included, to chortle at the young lawmaker who sprinted to the Capitol exits after…

Sean Duffy Is it possible to break down ideological walls and help disadvantaged kids in Colorado rise to their full potential?  Ian Rowe not only believes it. He can prove it. Rowe, a nationally respected educator, entrepreneur and author partnered with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) to bring a fascinating two-day conference to Denver last…

Sean Duffy Is our dysfunctional political class helping to kill the American Dream? A new survey by the Wall Street Journal and University of Chicago-based NORC showed just 36% of Americans think the American Dream is within reach, a number down sharply from 53% a decade ago. The poll, completed in late October, defined the…

Sean Duffy Some Black Friday thoughts on a week of disorganization, dysfunction and a massive, missed opportunity by Colorado Democrats. Let us ponder the Lost Weekend Special Session, a Friday-to-Monday miasma in which the bar for substantive action was set lower than an ant’s shoulder. And the Democrats couldn’t climb over it.  The Democrats’ continuing…

Sean Duffy The face of the hard-left in Colorado has evolved from silly, to odious and, now, to racist and dangerous.  From the state Capitol to college campuses to local streets, euphemized “pro-Palestinian” rallies have created a sickening scene of largely privileged, and deeply ignorant, people parading around – at best – arguing for a moral equivalence…

Sean Duffy There’s a downside to having dominance over every part of state government. It breeds arrogance and isolation.  This year’s election drove that fact home. Consider Aurora and Proposition HH – which make the point for very different reasons.    In Aurora, there is a 2-to-1 registration advantage for Democrats. Mayor Mike Coffman squeaked to…

Sean Duffy The headline – “Christian Group Pushes Biblical Worldview” – could have come from satire sites such as The Babylon Bee or The Onion. But the folks at the Pueblo newspaper were deadly serious. The two reporters seemed simultaneously shocked, confused and – and maybe a little fearful – that a group of Bible-believing faith-filled Christians are organizing…

Sean Duffy In Colorado, educational freedom is fenced in, corralled by liberals who want to limit your choices and ignore the deep shortcomings of public schools – particularly in communities of color.  Gov. Jared Polis likes to tout his education reform bona fides, which are real. But he increasingly toes the line of traditional Democrats who…