When a U.S. Senate Republican candidate from Colorado attracts the attention of The Wall Street Journal, George Will and umpteen millions of dollars in directed ire from the national Democratic Party, you know he must be on to something.

A GOP theme for its candidates in Colorado is crime. Check Republican aspirants’ websites and crime is one of their three issues, along with the economy and education. So what have Republicans done up to now to attack crime, especially violent crime?

As is so often the case, I sat down to write my Friday column only to be confronted with too many interesting Colorado Politics stories to write on and so I will have to exercise some self-discipline (ed: finally…) and only talk about one story.

Whether it’s rising expenses or less taxpayer money coming back to us, Coloradans have ample opportunity to vote our way to more inflation this year.

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…

The key to most magic tricks is misdirection. Do something flashy with one hand so folks don’t look at the other hand palming the coin.