When the government —local, state or federal— tries to convince voters that it needs more of our money, we are right to be skeptical. We see what government spends our money on, and in many cases we don’t agree with…
Here’s how the free market works: If you have a product people like, they buy it. If you have a product people don’t like, they don’t buy it. In the free market of presidential politics, if people like a candidate,…
In the most recent update to the Denver cake-baker saga, Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips, according to an article in the Denver Post, “cannot cite his religious beliefs or free-speech rights in refusing to make a wedding cake for a…
Just uttering the words “death penalty” evokes strong emotions, regardless of where you stand on the issue. When the jury in the Aurora theater trial was unable to come to a unanimous decision for the death penalty, and imposed a…
There are few things more sacred to Americans than a secure and secret ballot. On August 1, 2015, Vincent Carroll of the Denver Post wrote a column entitled: The high risk of e-voting pointing out some concerns with electronic transmission…
I look forward to the day when American society is facing a problem, and the first response is, “What can we do about this?” as opposed to, “What can the government do about this?” Today, we have an opportunity to…