Author: Wayne Laugesen
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PERSPECTIVE: Rules for radical chic
A wise man told us to hold hands, unify, and try to understand each other. He won hearts and minds with logic and words. Another man suggested we forgo sharing ideas and working together. Simply attack opponents personally and professionally. Intimidate them, disorient them, dissuade them, throw them off their game. He told us to…
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PERSPECTIVE: How to fight the teachers’ union’s racist agenda
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When it comes to fighting back against woke indoctrination and critical race theory in schools, Ian Prior is perhaps the happiest of warriors. Prior is executive director of Fight for Schools, an organization dedicated to…
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PERSPECTIVE: Fired for speaking out: Lt. Col. Lohmeier warns of Marxist indoctrination in the military
As the commander of a missile warning unit, Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier felt responsible to report threats foreign and domestic before they harm the people of the country he loves and defends. He wrote a bestselling book and spoke out against anti-American, Marxist radicalization of military personnel he has witnessed in his role as commander…
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The China Dilemma: Olympians train for games in a country known for civil rights attrocities
Colorado Springs, “Olympic City USA,” will be Ground Central for the next year in a conflict that pits a boycott-the-Chinese-Olympics movement against those who demand society separate politics and sports. It is shaping up as an international civil rights debate that comes on top of the Black Lives Matter movement and intermittent race riots reminiscent…
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PERSPECTIVE: Social media censorship: Facebook executives speak to The Gazette
Social media giants censor consumer-generated content millions of times each day, billions each quarter. Conservatives complain about Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other corporations removing posts, covering them with warnings, blocking their accounts, demonetizing them, or throttling back distribution. Liberals complain of censors allowing too much conservative content they consider insensitive, dangerous, or inaccurate. The left…
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PERSPECTIVE: Black Education Matters
Black lives matter, yet schools continue to leave Black children behind. The failure must end, say civil rights advocates, before racial justice can prevail. They hope the convergence of nationwide race riots, a pandemic that closed public schools, and Black History Month will lead to lasting and positive change. Education equity is the low-profile component…
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EDITORIAL: To support Space Command, Colorado is light years ahead
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The United States has no option when it comes to the militarization of space. We must defend space militarily as we do the land and seas. If we do not, we will lose our sovereignty…
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PERSPECTIVE: Mrs. Boebert goes to Washington
In the near future, Rep. AOC will meet Rep. LOB — Mrs. Lauren Opal Boebert. Bystanders will watch to see if sparks fly. It might be in the hallways of the U.S. Capitol, in the cafeteria of a congressional office building, or on a Capitol Hill sidewalk. Boebert, the congresswoman-elect from Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District,…
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Barret nomination exposes the left’s dark, sinister view of success
Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination exposes an ugly side of the left, and leaders of the Democratic Party probably don’t see it. An unusually heartwarming scene emerged on TV Saturday as President Donald Trump announced the nomination. This brilliant and successful federal appellate judge — who graduated first in her law class — paraded seven children…
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UNLEASHING CHAOS: Extremists commandeer a peaceful racial justice movement, threatening violence in a neighborhood near you
Be prepared, the experts tell us. The violent protests of summer 2020 alongside pervasive homelessness could be nearing their end. Or, they could be festering like a virus for another outbreak greater than the last and ready to affect populations outside large cities like Portland, New York, Minneapolis and Denver. We’ve already seen episodes of…