Jon Caldara Archives - Independence Institute

President Trump wrestled a logo and won. Thanks, media!0
- July 10, 2017
Fake, petty conflict is the mainstay of reality TV, and our president is a master. He uses the media to delivery his message directly to the people, sadly, in a language modern Americans understand.
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Caldara’s Newsletter 06-28-17 0
- June 28, 2017
We are so excited about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the Trinity Lutheran case, and what that could mean for the students in Douglas County and throughout the nation.
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Caldara’s Newsletter 06-27-17 0
- June 27, 2017
The state has enough tax money to give film subsidies to multi-millionaire film directors like Quentin Tarantino, to give cash to rich guys to buy Teslas, and to give free health insurance to healthy men with jobs. Yet somehow, we don’t have the money to fix our crumbling roads.
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Note to gentrifying Denver: You can’t always live where you want, but…0
- June 27, 2017
by Jon Caldara Hey millennials. Pardon my penchant for old fogey music, but as The Rolling Stones said, “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, well you might find, you get what you need.” That includes housing. So stop whining. Yes, I get it. If you’re young and childless, it’s
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Which enviros not to take seriously 0
- June 13, 2017
by Jon Caldara The bad news: President Donald Trump’s pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord will cause ocean levels to rise. The good news: It will be from all the crocodile tears of progressives. Those of us who are skeptical of the politics of global warming are labeled “deniers” as an ugly pejorative to
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The grand betrayal of Colorado Senate Republicans 0
- May 16, 2017
by Jon Caldara In 2005, the political fight over Referendums C and D was an epic battle, one for the Colorado history books. Sold as a “five-year timeout” of our Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, Ref C was narrowly approved by Colorado voters. Its debt-package companion, Ref D, was narrowly rejected by voters. I fought Ref
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