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How Colorado’s congressional delegation voted this week
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H.J.Res. 99: Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2017, and for other purposes This was a vote to pass H.J. Res. 99 in the House. The House passed a resolution Thursday night to continue federal spending at last year’s levels while Congress wrangles over a new budget. The only other alternative was a government…
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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: The problem with globalism
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And why isolationism is not the solution Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.” That line from Donald Trump’s long and emphatic speech to the Republican National Convention jumped out at me. I think I know what he meant: that he prioritizes America’s national interests above those of the wider world. If so, most Americans…
