This last weekend, the state legislature held an unusual session, meeting on Saturday and Sunday, in large part to GOP filibustering of a coup…
Hal Bidlack
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Hal Bidlack is a retired professor of political science and a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who taught more than 17 years at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
What I really want to write about today is the continuing and absolute hypocrisy going on inside the GOP these days. Specifically, I’d like to…
Back in the early 1990s, when I was a young Air Force captain teaching political science at the Air Force Academy, I was also involved, in my …
These days, those loudest in the public square often get the most attention. The bold, the extreme, and well, really-extreme tend to get repor…
If there is one thing my long-suffering editor really enjoys, it is when I write a firm and clear column, focused on an issue that impacts Col…
I’m a big fan of the late and great singer and songwriter Harry Chapin. Harry was an amazing human being, donating more than half his total in…
Back when I was teaching political science at the Air Force Academy, I’d ask my students how many of them were rich? No one ever raised his or…
A recent Colorado Politics story is especially disquieting. Only in the United States do you see a story dedicated to analyzing the large numb…
You know that old axiom that says there are three subjects you should never talk with others about, because inevitably it will tick people off…