Author: The Colorado Springs Gazette

It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and no one is safe from post-election politics. Addressing a group of business leaders Friday, President Donald Trump quipped about the sad, politicized state of our culture. “One of the things that I heard this morning . watching the news was that – amazingly, it’s never happened before – that politics…

If mainstream liberals want to preserve their good brand, they must distance themselves from thugs who rioted Wednesday at the University of California, Berkeley, and other mobs oppressing civil rights to protest President Donald Trump. Left-wing activists shut down a speech by Milo Yiannopolous, an openly gay British Jewish man who writes for the right-wing…

The current issue of Reason, a nationwide libertarian journal, identified Colorado’s Matt Arnold as the poster symbol of our state’s flawed campaign finance law. Arnold, who identifies as a conservative, has filed more Colorado campaign finance complaints than anyone else, all against Republicans or right-of-center organizations. As Reason documented, Amendment 27 is so ill-conceived it…

As an example of government buffoonery, the Department of Veterans Affairs is a gift that keeps giving. For Americans who served their country with valor, it is an insult, a disgrace and a threat to health and survival. The agency has been in the news for excessive wait times that have led to deaths from…

Congratulations to President Donald Trump for nominating Boulder resident and 10th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the void left by deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Opportunities don’t get better than this. The Denver native’s resume alone ranks Gorsuch among the cream of the top 1 percent of lawyers in the…

Winston Churchill warned about excessive regulation. “If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law,” he said. George Mason University analyzed the 103 million words in the Code of Federal Regulations, contained in more than 175,000 pages. As a presidential candidate, Dr. Ben Carson said a stack of all federal regulations…

President Donald Trump has been criticized for adopting his “America first” campaign slogan because of its fraught historical implications. But it shouldn’t be controversial that Trump wishes to shape his policies for the benefit of the country he leads. That’s at least as true on immigration as in on any other issue. Trump signed two…

President Donald Trump has minced no words, repeatedly assuring American taxpayers they will never pay for a wall along the southern border. Mexico will pay. To keep that promise, Trump should immediately renounce the plan he floated Thursday to impose a 20 percent tax on imports from Mexico. It doesn’t take Econ 101 to know…

Having served less than a week, President Donald Trump has shown his ability to get things done fast. His actions in just six days will cause sweeping changes all Americans will experience, for better or worse. Alas, he has also made clear his unwillingness to abandon the type of self-destructive behavior that could make this…

With the stroke of a pen Tuesday, President Donald Trump improved the future of Colorado Springs, Denver and all points between. No longer do we face the prospect of EPA bureaucrats tying up the I-25 widening project for years, a decade or more. As the president’s detractors belabored “my crowd was bigger than your crowd,”…