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SLOAN | Free trade vs. national sovereignty? Or, is that a false choice?
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Colorado’s Steamboat Institute arranged and hosted a fascinating debate at CU Boulder last Monday between Nigel Farage, the British MEP and former leader of UKIP who is touted as the architect of Brexit, and former Mexican President Vicente Fox, on the respective merits of nationalism and globalism. Both gentlemen were impressive and handled their respective…
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CPAC to broadcast annual conference live at Colorado Christian University
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In a first for the world’s premiere gathering of conservatives, portions of February’s Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, will be broadcasting from its main stage live to Colorado Christian University, Jeff Hunt, director of CCU’s Centennial Institute, announced. In addition to audiences at CCU’s campus in Lakewood being able to hear speakers at…
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Brexit leader Nigel Farage urges Trump to combat ‘pure obstructionism’ with national speech
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Nigel Farage, co-founder of the UK Independence Party and leader of the Brexit movement to withdraw the United Kingdom from the European Union, told Colorado Politics it could be time for President Donald Trump to address the American people in order to counteract what he called “pure obstructionism” by establishment forces in the wake of…
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Sloan: Has Colorado found its Jeremy Corbyn?
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Britons dodged a bullet last week, only inasmuch as they managed to merely shoot themselves in the foot rather than in the heart. Prime Minister Theresa May’s failed gamble to expand her Conservative Party’s parliamentary majority – resulting instead in the Tories being reduced to relying on the tender mercies of a handful of Democratic…
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Webb: Looking back on Election 2016
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As we begin to digest the 2016 election results, let me begin with our successes. First, I want to congratulate Denver voters on our 80 percent turnout, which is outstanding. I also want to congratulate Emmy Ruiz for running a great campaign in Colorado for Hillary Clinton. She helped make Colorado blue and bring Hillary…
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May: The ideals of 1776
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Should we return to them – and can we? Andrew Roberts, one of the world’s great historians, took America to task just over one week ago. Let me rephrase that: He took Americans to task for what they – or rather we – are doing to these United States during an election season that often seems like a…
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Trump rebukes racism claims as Clinton warns of radicalism
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Donald Trump confronted head-on allegations that he is racist on Thursday, defending his hard-line approach to immigration while trying to make the case to minority voters that Democrats have abandoned them. His poll numbers slipping behind Hillary Clinton’s with less than three months until Election Day, Trump tried to get ahead of the Democratic nominee,…
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Leader of Brexit movement joins Trump at rally
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Republican nominee Donald Trump is linking his “movement to take back the country” to Britain’s surprising vote to leave the European Union. The architect of the withdrawal campaign, known as Brexit, joined the GOP presidential nominee on stage during a rally late Wednesday in Jackson, Mississippi. “If I was an American citizen, I wouldn’t vote for Hillary…
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May: Rule Britannia
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For better or worse, Britons reject post-democratic governance Whether you think the United Kingdom exiting the European Union is cause for alarm or celebration, you have to concede this: Britons engaged in an open, lively and mostly peaceful debate, they turned out in droves, they cast their votes freely and fairly and, by so doing,…
