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The Colorado Springs Gazette: Hickenlooper advocates for adults refusing to work
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Able-bodied adults who refuse to work cause harm for themselves and those most vulnerable. Senate candidate John Hickenlooper, a mature former businessman, must know this. Yet, he strives to sound like U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – a 30-year-old socialist media sensation short on meaningful public policy experience. It is not a good look for Colorado’s…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette: Tortured term ‘existential’ named ‘word of the year’
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Fancy words go in and out of fashion, positing an existential temptation to overuse them like salt. The late 1990s gave us “literally.” People literally used “literally” to emphasize almost any point – even one no reader or listener could mistake as a figurative gesture. Phrases like “the traffic made me late” became “the traffic…
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The Washington Examiner: Seeing the Russian threat more clearly
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In her recent testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, former White House aide Fiona Hill was unkind and unfair toward those questioning her. “Some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its spy services didn’t attack the U.S. in 2016,” she said. “I would ask that you please not promote politically…
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PERSPECTIVE: A fight to lead our cities: Councils and mayors battle for control
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Denver City Council members increasingly exude hostility toward a longstanding system that authorizes an elected “strong mayor” – now Democratic Mayor Michael Hancock – to run the city’s day-to-day operations. The council serves in a traditional legislative role, never hiring or firing key staff members or telling them how to do their jobs. The push…
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The Washington Examiner: Don’t scapegoat Trump for massacres
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So often, we have heard opponents of Islamic terrorism demand that everyone “call the enemy by its name.” In the same manner, we are glad to hear President Donald Trump unequivocally denounce white supremacist terrorism in the wake of the weekend’s mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. The shooter, who claims a long history of…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette: Buck-Mueller exchange means absolutely nothing
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Robert Mueller’s testimony was a disaster for congressional Democrats in every way conceivable. That is not just us talking. “The former special counsel seemed remarkably weak. He looked dazed and confused as he listened, mouth agape, to his questioners, often struggling to identify who was talking. He stammered, licked his lips, consulted his aide and…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette: The left promotes a culture of victims in United States
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EDITOR’S NOTE: A committee updated the Inclusive Language Guide and calls the version that made national news a “draft.” The “draft” was not identified as such by the drafters, who only explained the document as “living” and “updated periodically.” The Gazette updated this editorial at 8 p.m. MDT Sunday to reflect this development. Don’t say…
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Washington Examiner: Trump is dealing with a mass murderer
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Few aspects of the Trump administration are as fraught with peril or with promise than President Donald Trump’s relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Trump over the weekend became the first sitting U.S. president to step on North Korean soil on Sunday, crossing the 1953 armistice line between North and South Korea during…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette: Welcome Mark Kennedy as CU’s new president
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Monday marks the beginning of a new era at the University of Colorado, as Mark Kennedy takes over as president. He will spend the first day visiting all four campuses – Boulder, Denver, Aurora and Colorado Springs. All of Colorado should welcome and encourage him. Kennedy begins his job at 8 a.m. Monday with a…
