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Granada school teacher, students help enshrine Camp Amache’s legacy
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When John Hopper, dean of students for the Granada School District, began teaching his history students about Camp Amache in the early 1990s, the site was a sage-brush strewn prairie dotted with concrete foundations. Now, after Hopper and his students spent decades preserving the former Japanese American internment camp from World War II, advocating for it,…
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Supporters rally to roll out Colorado states’ rights anti-registry, anti-detention bill
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The press conference convened to roll out House Bill 1230 – the Ralph Carr Freedom Defense Act – was held in the blazing sun Thursday at noon and drew a crowd of supporters who lined up on the west steps of the Capitol behind the speakers. The press conference acted like another rally for multi-cultural…
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May: Trump’s first 100 days
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A unique opportunity to start making America sovereign, secure and economically dynamic again It’s apparent that Donald J. Trump was – to employ a neologism coined by President George W. Bush 16 years ago – misunderestimated. But those who gave odds that he couldn’t transform from a successful businessman into a successful politician are now betting he…
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A history lesson: Joe McCarthy and communism in America
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“I have here in my hand a list of names,” Joe McCarthy is famously quoted as saying in the 1950s. The senator from Wisconsin is well storied in the history books as the public face symbolizing fears of communist subversion in the U.S. during the Cold War and leading charges that Soviet espionage was widespread…
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May: Curb your socialism
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Moderate Democrats should not let Bernie Sanders pull their party to the left Groucho Marx famously said he wouldn’t join any club that would have him as a member. Bernie Sanders last week turned that on its head, saying he wouldn’t remain a member of any party that wouldn’t have him as its leader. Sanders…
