Commenting on a recent Rasmussen Poll, political strategist and former Democrat state chairman Floyd Ciruli notes that Gov. Bill Ritter’s approval rating is running nearly 20 points behind that of another western Democrat, Montana’s Brian Schweitzer.
In a Rocky Mountain News op-ed, Ciruli cites a checklist of Ritter’s missteps, miscalculations and shortcomings in his first year-and-a-half [...]

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Washington Post’s Charles Krauthammer is among a handful of must-read columnists because he virtually always has something insightful to say and because, on occasions like this, he says it so very well:
What Obama does not seem to understand is that the Brandenburg Gate is something you earn.  President Ronald Reagan earned the right to speak [...]

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Never mind that the law says you can’t use taxpayer dollars to do homework for an ill-prepared (or well-prepared, for that matter) ballot initiative — or that the courts have said the same.
The Denver Post, in an editorial that reads like a Supreme Court ruling, has given its dispensation for the Governor’s minions to flout [...]

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Like Barack Obama, Gov. Bill Ritter has trouble articulating when he can’t follow a script. On Monday, the O’Reilly Factor showed an on-the-street interview with Ritter, asking whether he would sign “Jessica’s Law,” a mandatory 25-year minimum sentence for sex offenders who prey on children.
Ritter at first tried to ignore the O’Reilly Factor reporter, [...]

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Former Boulder congressman David Skaggs, now Gov. Ritter’s higher education chief, replied to my June 18 open records request, seeking documents explaining the extent to which state employees were doing policy development work for the governor’s proposed ballot initiative campaign.
Mr. Skaggs noted that providing correspondence between his staff and the Governor’s staff on Initiative 113 [...]

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Although state law seems to forbid it, Gov. Bill Ritter’s administration is using your tax dollars to design and promote his ballot initiative to increase energy taxes and promote his “Colorado Promise Scholarships.”  Higher Education director David Skaggs confirmed my suspicions with his letter in the June 18 Rocky Mountain News:
Regarding the proposed Colorado Promise [...]

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Even if Entering Iraq was a Mistake, Leaving would be WorseDennis PragerThe people we are fighting, including Osama bin Laden and all the variations on al Qaeda, know that the battle for Iraq is the battle for their future — that if they win in Iraq, they win all over the Middle East and beyond; [...]

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Hysteria trumped reason yet again at the State Capitol when a senate committee killed the so-called "Make My Day Better" bill on a party-line vote.
Responsible gun owners regularly find themselves subjected to this kind of treatment by wet-diaper, nanny-state liberals who believe that any Colorado citizen with a gun is barely capable of suppressing some [...]

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Rocky Mountain NewsOn PointBy Vincent CarrollFebruary 15, 2007
Desperate supporters of Amendment 41 are arguing, some even with a straight face, that their attempt to rewrite their monstrosity after voters enshrined it in the constitution is no different from what occurred after passage of Amendment 27 a few years ago.
Early in 2003, they point out, the [...]

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Source: ColoradoSenateNews.com
A former Senate Republican leader, who carried legislation to enact a campaign-reform amendment approved by voters in 2002, says his bill was fundamentally different from a now-pending attempt to exempt large groups of people from voter-approved Amendment 41.
Mark Hillman, who served as Senate majority leader in 2003-04 and as minority leader in 2005, was [...]

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