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JWF: “Transparency rules, apparently, prevent Obama from ever being transparent, while demanding it from others.”

In regards to a recent campaign stop in New Hampshire where the town asked the Obama campaign to pick up the tab… “This scheme raises more questions for the Obama campaign than it resolves, but aside from any potential legal … Continue reading

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Chicago: A nice place to be from

Investors Business Daily: Decline In Obama’s Chicago Clue To His Second Term Chicago lost 200,000 people from 2000 to 2009. The only one of the nation’s 15 largest cities to lose people. Of all cities, it fell between Detroit, reigning … Continue reading

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Tomorrow’s my birthday and I definitely will NOT be doing this…

Good grief, you can’t make this stuff up.

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“The biggest problem with DVD and YouTube exposure is that it has damaged the skill of learning through asking, and it has created the mistaken assumption, perhaps, that all knowledge and all wisdom is available to buy,”

We’re talking magic! “And there’s so much difference between those two acts, because asking involves a human experience, while buying is just sitting in your coach and passively absorbing countless secrets that you think constitute magic.” Although I believe the … Continue reading

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Google Ignores Flag Day, while rival Microsoft celebrates

No surprise if you follow such things.

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“Private Sector doing just fine”

Oh really. Private Jobs Down 4.6 Million From January 2008; Federal Jobs Up 11.4% President Obama’s statement Friday that the private sector is “doing fine” drew so much ridicule that he was forced to backtrack hours later. But it’s clear … Continue reading

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Smoke from High Park fire

Looking to the west. The intersection slightly blocked by the evergreen is Left Hand Canyon and Hwy 36.

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“The private sector is doing fine”

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Howard Dean likens Mitt Romney, GOP to Ahmadinejad during liberal ‘Netroots’ conference

Okay… Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean wasted no time comparing GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the Republican Party in general to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during the progressive Netroots Nation 2012 conference Saturday in Providence, R.I. “When people say … Continue reading

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“But these factual errors are secondary to the real problem with the Julia ad….

…which is that it works to erase the social stigma of being a moocher and promotes a culture of dependence on government.” Nothing to see here. Any problems can be fixed with more legislation. Isn’t that right Boulderites?

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Glenn Reynolds: “You gotta love Texas”

Yes indeed! 85 Mile Per Hour Speed Limit Seen on State Highway 130

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Tough Love

High school teacher tells graduating students: you’re not special “Yes, you’ve been pampered, cosseted, doted upon, helmeted, bubble-wrapped,” McCullough said in his speech. “Yes, capable adults with other things to do have held you, kissed you, fed you, wiped your … Continue reading

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“Time is short and here’s the damn thing about it…

you’re gonna die, gonna die for sure!”

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Just so you know: GW Status

Warming nears point of no return, scientists sayFive scientists, led by UC Berkeley biologist Anthony Barnosky, forecast… The Earth is reaching a “tipping point” in climate change that will lead to increasingly rapid and irreversible destruction of the global environment … Continue reading

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You need a photo ID for THAT?

The John Hinderaker photo ID required list includes… …you need a picture ID for just about everything you do–buy beer or cigarettes, board an airplane, cash a check, drive a car, buy a fishing license, check into a shooting range, … Continue reading

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In the 2008 Election President Obama best John McCain by 8 percentage points.

Was that called a close election? So why does the legacy media refer to Scott Walker’s victory as a “close” election? Paul Mirengoff comments: The headline in the print edition of today’s Washington Post reads: “Wisc. governor Walker survives recall … Continue reading

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Federal Debt to double in 15 years

So says the CBO. “In the past few years, the federal government has been recording the largest budget deficits since 1945, both in dollar terms and as a share of the economy. Consequently, the amount of federal debt held by … Continue reading

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EPA Overreach

Sackett v. EPA: the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously said that the EPA was “strong-arming” regulated parties (VOTE 9-0) Luminant Generation Co., et al. v. EPA: the Fifth Circuit ruled that EPA had “overstepped the bounds” of its authority Mingo Logan … Continue reading

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A small dose of sanity inside the 24 square miles

Boulder councilman George Karakehian: Global warming only partially caused by human activity “Now therefore, be it resolved that the Boulder City Council on behalf of the residents of the City of Boulder, declares that climate change is not an abstract … Continue reading

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Burlington Northern/Warren Buffett have RTD exactly where they want them.

RTD stunned by BNSF’s charge for use of northwest rail lines “That $500 million made us sit back a little stunned,” said RTD chairman Lee Kemp, who wasn’t at the meeting but learned the price shortly afterward. “It was a … Continue reading

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