Author: Mark Hillman
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GUEST COLUMN: Progressive Democrats contempt for voters is disgusting
Lawmakers and special interests routinely ask Colorado voters to raise taxes so they can spend more of our money. Most often, voters say, “No!” Now certain “progressive” Democrat lawmakers plan to use our own tax dollars to sue us for limiting their power to raise our taxes. That’s disgusting even by the gutter standards of…
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OPINION: ‘Fiscal tailgating’ caused Colorado’s budget woes
Headlines from the state Capitol might cause a reader to believe Colorado is in a deep recession. Legislators say they must cut more than $1 billion in spending to balance the 2025-26 budget. Still, state government has $687 million more to spend than last year in a $19 billion budget. So why all the histrionics…
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GUEST COLUMN: This is not your father’s Colorado
If you’re 40 or older, today’s Colorado is very different politically than the state where you grew up – assuming you grew up here. Except for Lyndon Johnson’s landslide win over Barry Goldwater in 1964, no Democrat won more than 45% in Colorado between 1952 and 2000. When Bill Clinton won Colorado in 1992 (with…
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GUEST OPINION: Debt is the silent threat to American security
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save With the election mercifully behind us, Americans should expect those we’ve elected to get to the less-pleasant task of governing responsibly. While hot-button issues such as immigration, inflation and foreign affairs will garner most headlines, a more pressing concern is too often overlooked: America’s staggering…
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OPINION: Trump’s political comeback cultivated by his opponents
No cat has more lives than Donald Trump’s political fortunes. To be sure, he is as skilled at retail politics as anyone since Bill Clinton, but he also benefits from being habitually underestimated by his adversaries. His unprecedented political rehabilitation wasn’t merely a product of Republican support. Democrats and the dominant liberal media must ask…
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GUEST COLUMN: Colorado’s Legislature lurches to the left
We used to joke that “no man’s life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.” That’s no laughing matter in today’s Colorado. The collective sigh heard across our state when 100 legislators finally went home to mind their own business reflects the growing sense of dread that accompanies the Colorado General…
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Remember when Democrats were the party of free speech?
Remember when Democrats fiercely defended freedom of speech and freedom of expression with few limitations? That was when Colorado Democrats still had to compete with Republicans for statewide elected offices and legislative majorities. Having grasped the political upper hand, Democrats are sadly in thrall to progressivism and its requisite censorship of dissenters. Instead of proclaiming,…
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Remember when Democrats were the party of free speech?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Remember when Democrats fiercely defended freedom of speech and freedom of expression with few limitations? That was when Colorado Democrats still had to compete with Republicans for statewide elected offices and legislative majorities. Having grasped the political upper hand, Democrats are sadly in thrall to…
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GUEST COLUMN: Colorado’s legislators need a lawsuit diet
Businesses that fuel Colorado’s economic engine can’t be blamed for cringing at the specter of the Colorado Legislature’s return this month. Plaintiffs lawyers, however, are not cringing. Instead, the people who pay to put their faces on billboards along our busiest highways are licking their chops. Last year, lawmakers went on a lawsuit binge, introducing…
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GUEST COLUMN: What if Biden bows out of the race?
For all the talk about President Joe Biden’s determination to seek a second term, the case against him doing so is building. Numerous polls now show him decisively trailing former President Donald Trump, both nationwide and in key battleground states. Overwhelmingly Americans realize Biden is too old and no longer competent to be President. By…