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Conservative Centennial honors founder of like-minded Focus on the Family
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Focus on the Family founder James Dobson – revered by the religious right, reviled by the secular left and influential for years in national politics – will be recognized by the Centennial Institute for his advocacy of bedrock conservative stands on some of the country’s most hotly debated issues. The institute, based at Colorado Christian…
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#GetTrumpTeamToTheSummit is Centennial’s latest call to action
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The Centennial Institute – the conservative advocacy arm of Colorado Christian University in Lakewood – scored a coup last year with its campaign to lure then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to its annual Western Conservative Summit. #GetTrumptotheSummit was the rallying cry on Twitter, and it succeeded in getting Trump to make his first campaign speech in the state when he addressed the summit…
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Centennial claims ‘victory’ in Denver’s decision to dump 4/20 rally
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The conservative Centennial Institute blasted out the email equivalent of a high-five following news over the weekend that the organizer of the annual 4/20 rally in downtown Denver’s Civic Center Park will be denied an event permit for the next three years. The Colorado Christian University-affiliated thank tank and advocacy group’s director, Jeff Hunt, not only welcomed…
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Signatures, and message, delivered to Denver City Hall: End 4/20 rally
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Results are in from the Centennial Institute‘s petition drive to stick a fork in the annual 4/20 pot fest that takes over downtown Denver’s Civic Center Park every April 20, reports Denverite’s Adrian Garcia. Jeff Hunt, the director of the conservative Christian think tank based at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood, dropped off more than 4,000 signatures today at Denver…
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Q&A w/Jeff Hunt: Centennial Institute is a Christian voice in the public square
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The Denver metro area — center of government, geographical hub and crossroads of commerce — has its share of think tanks from left to right. They are where ideas are born, nurtured and then, with some luck and a lot of work, handed off to lawmakers to turn into policy. Relatively new to that scene is Colorado Christian University’s…
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Conservative think tank petitions public: No more 4/20 rallies
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Colorado Christian University’s onboard think tank, the unflinchingly conservative Centennial Institute, is circulating a petition that seeks to make last week’s annual “4/20” pot fest in downtown Denver the city’s last. The online petition reads: Denver’s 4/20 rallies have become unsafe, flaunting blatant illegal activity, and trashing a national historic landmark, and with incidents of knife…
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Ken Buck’s ‘Drain the Swamp’ book about Washington corruption names names, rips the dome off the Capitol
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When U.S. Rep. Ken Buck first arrived in Washington, D.C., after winning election to Congress in 2014, it was the most amazing thing. “You would think that you were in Vienna in some sort of fairy tale,” the Windsor Republican said. “The Army choir is singing, the filet mignon is on the plate, the speaker…
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Congressman Ken Buck’s ‘Drain the Swamp’ book about Washington corruption hits the stands
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U.S. Rep. Ken Buck goes behind the scenes and names names in his new book, “Drain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse Than You Think,” and on Tuesday readers got to see what all the fuss is about. The Windsor Republican discussed the book Monday night at a book-release launch event at Colorado Christian…
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‘Drain the Swamp’ — tonight — with Colorado Congressman Ken Buck at CCU
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We’ve noted here before that a lot of politicians may say they want to drain the swamp in our nation’s capital, but even our swamp-draining 45th president can’t exactly say he wrote the book on the subject. Ken Buck did. Literally. Buck is of course the Republican member of Congress representing Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, and his, “Drain the Swamp: How…
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A reminder that Neil Gorsuch once interned for Bill Armstrong…
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…courtesy of the folks at Colorado Christian University’s conservative think tank Centennial Institute. Naturally, they’re pleased by the Senate’s confirmation of the Gorsuch nomination. Not just because of their philosophical affinity for Neil Gorsuch, the Denver-based U.S. Court of Appeals judge now elevated to the highest court in the land. And not just because of his Colorado…
