Time has come for a Balanced Budget Amendment
Ken Buck spoke yesterday at a Centennial Institute forum on the federal–level Balanced Budget Amendment. While Congress debates raising the debt limit yet again, the long–term strength of our economy...
View ArticleNo ‘czars’ needed, thank you
(’76 Contributor) In the June 2011 issue of Natural History, Stanford University biology professor Deborah Gordon explains, “Ant colonies work without central control … No ant gives instructions to...
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Summit Diary of a Tea Party Patriot
Editor: Peg Brady of Centennial, Colorado, a tireless grassroots worker for constitutional government and conservative reform, is first to file again this year, as she was in 2010, with a comprehensive...
View ArticleImmigration favoritism mocks the rule of law
Again the Obama administration announced that bureaucrats may decide when they will ignore laws. This instance involves illegal immigrants. But that’s not the point. The true problem is inconsistent,...
View ArticlePrager & Hewitt energize Coloradans at ‘Obama 365’ rally
Editor: Five hundred Colorado conservatives filled the Douglas County Events Center in Castle Rock on Nov. 7 for the “Obama 365” rally sponsored by Salem radio stations KNUS and KZNT, one year out from...
View ArticleThe myth of ‘government money’
Another bailout—mortgage banks, this time. Issuing and taking loans requires careful, fact–based deliberation by both the lending agency and the loan recipient. Instead, those making irresponsible...
View ArticleWhat I saw at Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day
You recall that Emanuel Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s pal and the smarmy mayor of Chicago, wants to ban Chick-fil-A from doing business in Chicago because its CEO proclaimed his allegiance to traditional...
View ArticleUnchecked government, once England’s nemesis, now threatens America
Government’s responsibility “is to preserve the independence of property, on which is founded all human liberty and all human excellence,” explained Princeton history professor Lawrence Stone in his...
View ArticleCan we keep America exceptional?
President Obama insists that America is not exceptional. Yet for his flawed economic policies to work, he must rely on an amazing degree of exceptionalness. Like any nation, we are not exempt from the...
View ArticleEight centuries of the magnificent Magna Carta
(’76 Contributor) June 15 commemorates the affirmation, 798 years ago, of our fundamental rights. Magna Carta, the Great Charter, confirmed “for us and our heirs in perpetuity” that the government,...
View ArticleWestern Conservative Summit recap: Three days of empowerment
Editor’s Note: Peg Brady of Centennial CO, a Western Conservative Summit delegate since our first year in 2010, annually contributes her exhaustive program notes for the benefit of fellow summiteers as...
View ArticleAmendment 66 would waste your tax dollars
Referendum C set TABOR’s tax baseline at the highest amount collected between 2005 to 2010. Ref C’s big-spending advocates promised that its tax burden would last only five years. But Coloradans still...
View ArticleDo elections matter? Ask Coloradans
For this month’s Issue Monday on Oct. 14, Centennial Institute hosted a mixed panel to discuss current issues in Colorado, addressed through the larger lenses of policy and public attitude. Radio...
View ArticleAmendment 66 fails basic arithmetic
Every day we see that TV ad claiming that Amendment 66, the proposed income-tax increase for schools, will cost an average Colorado family only $133. Just do the math! According to the US Census...
View ArticleWestern Conservative Summit recap: Three days of empowerment
Editor’s Note: Peg Brady of Centennial CO, a Western Conservative Summit delegate since our first year in 2010, annually contributes her exhaustive program notes for the benefit of fellow summiteers as...
View ArticleAmendment 66 would waste your tax dollars
Referendum C set TABOR’s tax baseline at the highest amount collected between 2005 to 2010. Ref C’s big-spending advocates promised that its tax burden would last only five years. But Coloradans still...
View ArticleDo elections matter? Ask Coloradans
For this month’s Issue Monday on Oct. 14, Centennial Institute hosted a mixed panel to discuss current issues in Colorado, addressed through the larger lenses of policy and public attitude. Radio...
View ArticleAmendment 66 fails basic arithmetic
Every day we see that TV ad claiming that Amendment 66, the proposed income-tax increase for schools, will cost an average Colorado family only $133. Just do the math! According to the US Census...
View ArticlePeg’s amazing journal of WCS14
Editor: Peg Brady of Centennial CO has attended every Western Conservative Summit since the series started in 2010, and each year she keeps the most thorough and comprehensive journal of the...
View ArticlePeg’s meticulous minutes of Summit workshops
Editor: How does she do it? Peg Brady not only journals nonstop through the Western Conservative Summit main sessions. She also takes in the citizen action workshops and breakout sessions by great...
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