
Cooke: Polis’ new PUC appointee bad news for Colorado ratepayers
Plant has been nominated because he’s a reliable rubber stamp for Polis’ forced march toward a 100 percent unreliable grid and the increasing costs that come with it.
Plant has been nominated because he’s a reliable rubber stamp for Polis’ forced march toward a 100 percent unreliable grid and the increasing costs that come with it.
Unlike the state and national levels, just one freedom-loving individual can significantly impact the decisions made at the local level.
We have a different point of view of EDI than others, including independence of thought. — Shayne Madsen, Independence Institute
Mayor Hancock has little time for passed out drunks on our property in a city of passed out drunks.
An often-overlooked aspect of school safety is teacher safety, more specifically, physical and verbal attacks against teachers by students, parents, and other teachers.
“My testimony will urge that funding be given only to states that fully respect due process. Which definitely does not include Colorado’s HB 1177”–David Kopel
Here in Colorado, only 40% of third-grade students met or exceeded expectations on the Colorado English Language Arts Assessment.
Instead of asking the citizens of Denver to pay more, perhaps the taxpayers should be asking whether or not the government is already doing too much.
Do you know how much debt you have incurred on behalf of a metro district?
Instead of funding this core function of government, the social engineers in elective office have been playing bait-and-switch with our roads.
I had two kids that went through public schools, but they went to two different schools. And they had totally different experiences. What we are trying to do, and what you are doing is empowering that choice. — Rep. Polly Lawrence (R-Douglas County).
This election has proven that while powerful interests can win elections, they cannot kill ideas.
By Mike Rosen
Early in the 2024 Republican presidential nominating process I wasn’t enthused about Donald Trump. While I approved of his accomplishments as president and his public policy agenda, I thought his brash style and the clumsy way he ended his presidency would be a drawback, and that someone like Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley was a more electable and capable choice. As it turned out, I was wrong.
Not since FDR’s election in 1932, has any American president come out of the starting gate with such a barrage of action as has Trump (which he began as president-elect even before his inauguration). This Trump bullrush was essential and I doubt anyone else would have had the balls to do it.
Trump anticipated the all-out opposition of congressional Democrats, deep-state bureaucrats, and the liberal media. He apparently learned a lot about governing from his first term, and now he needn’t worry about reelection. A quick start in the first year of a presidency is a must. By the second year the opposition digs in for the midterm election. That’s already happened with nitwit Democrat “leaders” like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Adam Schiff, Maxine Waters, and AOC making fools of themselves hyper-ventilating at confirmation hearings and protest rallies in the streets.
Our founders creatively reengineered democracy, limiting government and fashioning a constitutional Republic driven by the energy of capitalism that became the freest, most stable, and productive system of political economy the world has ever known. In the process it delivered an unheard-of standard of living to its populace.
By 2024, that vision was unrecognizable. The Biden presidency (in name only) cemented Barrack Obama’s fundamental transformation of America into a big-government, intrusive, bureaucratic, welfare-state that can’t educate its kids or balance its books. Identity politics has replaced individuality and divided the people, defining everyone by race, ethnicity, class, gender, or disability. The Democrat progressive cartel that dominates public schools, higher education, the media, and entertainment has turned many Americans against our history, religion, values, and principles.
The mission of Trump and the Republican congress is to roll all that back and fundamentally restore America to its best self. The agenda also includes cooling global warming paranoia, repealing the Green New Deal, unleashing America’s oil and gas resources, and expanding nuclear energy, which will bring down consumer price inflation. The newfound electoral coalition that swept Republicans into power in 2024 will be parlayed into an even bigger win in the 2026 mid-terms.
Why are Democrats outraged at Elon Musk for trying to make the government more efficient? Because they don’t care about efficiency. Government is their all-powerful deity that must always be enlarged to solve all our problems. No, Musk wasn’t elected, he was appointed by Trump just like thousands of other non-civil service federal officials every president is empowered to appoint without Senate confirmation. Musk’s DOGE investigators caught the public’s attention by exposing the U.S. Agency for International Development’s wasteful spending on politicized progressive projects worldwide. But Democrats have asked the court to block DOGE’s access to this kind of information. On the contrary, it’s essential to restore accountability.
USAID was created during JFK’s presidency to win the affection of underdeveloped nations. Obviously, it hasn’t. Most of those nations habitually vote against U.S. interests in the U.N General Assembly. Our generous humanitarian aid worldwide goes largely unappreciated, although perhaps half the world’s population would love to come here even as illegal immigrants.
It’s preposterous that Democrats attacking Trump pretend to represent “the public” when it was most of the voting public that turned the Democrats out, rejecting their progressive policies, choosing Trump over Kamala, and giving Republicans control of both houses of Congress. Trump is just delivering on his campaign promises as was to be expected. No, Trump isn’t “a threat to democracy” as Democrats absurdly contend. But he is a threat to their control of the country and thank heavens for that.
Colorado and Denver are microcosms of all this. The Democrats’ iron-grip on government has Californiacated our once-conservative state. The state legislature and Denver city council continue to pile on yet more intrusive, Big Brother, nannyist, progressive laws and regulations to mold our behavior, reduce our freedoms and raise our taxes. Next, they’ll put a bicycle encircled by bollard protecters on our state flag. As we watch California self-destruct, it’s hardly a model to follow.
A new Independence Institute analysis shows that coal is no longer the king of Colorado’s energy. What is the current breakdown of Colorado’s energy sources and what is that costing? PowerGab Hosts Jake Fogleman and Amy Cooke discuss this and more.
Show Notes:
https://i2i.org/fast-facts-about-colorados-electricity-sector-in-2024/
https://i2i.org/fast-facts-about-electricity-in-colorado-in-2023/
It is still possible for state legislators to have real jobs, you know, working in a factory. Representative Ryan Gonzalez, a freshman, lets us know what it looks like on the inside.