Author: Tom Cronin

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy “Home Rule” legal authority gives city governments in Colorado the power to make laws regarding matters of local concern. It differs from state control, where matters of city government are controlled by the governor and state legislature. Under Home Rule, authority to act on matters of municipal (city) concern is…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy A major military parade in Moscow a week ago was just one of many celebrations of the victory of the United States and its allies over Nazi Germany in World War II. VE Day — Victory in Europe Day — was 80 years ago on May 8th, 1945. World War II was…

Tom Cronin Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, General David Petraeus and Democratic U.S. Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado served — along with 1.5 million others — U.S. military interests in the Iraq war beginning in 2003. The U.S. spent at least $2 trillion, lost about 4,500 service people and were responsible for a…

Tom Cronin Americans have been skeptical — if not hostile — to government bureaucracies since 1789. Americans generally view big government as bad, remote, wasteful and unresponsive, if not irresponsible. Americans, going back to the Anti-Federalist movement and the Whiskey Rebellion, have scorned national bureaucracy and yearned for local control and decentralization. “Bureaucratic man” has…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy President Donald Trump, the Tariff Man, has relished his retaking of the White House. He has also let everyone know, prematurely it seems, he’d welcome a third term as U.S. president. That would require repealing the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, or it’d require some imaginative “workaround,” which President…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy President Donald Trump is his own biggest cheerleader. He loves campaigning and he loves being a promoter — a promoter with multiple deals and multiple programs. He gave a lengthy, program-filled, blame-heavy, comeback-kid performance last Tuesday at the “Capitol Theater” in Washington, D.C. It broke the record for the longest presidential…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy “Here I am,” President Donald Trump proclaimed.  Trump 2.0 may be older, yet he yearns to be bolder. During his second inaugural address, Trump had scorn, and no praise, for his predecessors, many of whom sat nearby. He implied, because of God, he was brought back to save the American…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Former President Jimmy Carter wrote 32 books, and many more have been written about his unusual presidency and remarkable life. Both of us have written about him and taught about him. One of us met with Carter a few times and corresponded with him. (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”); Two of the…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy “One of the most universal cravings of our time is a hunger for compelling and creative leadership,” wrote one of our mentors, political scientist James MacGregor Burns. Yet, nowadays, leaders nearly everywhere are having a rough time. (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”); Syrians have tossed out their brutal dictator and are scrambling…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Colorado maintained its position among the most Democratic Party-oriented states in the United States in the 2024 presidential election. Democratic candidate and current Vice President Kamala Harris defeated Republican candidate and President-elect Donald Trump by 11% in Colorado. She won about 54% of the vote, a little more than Obama’s…