Jon Caldara Archives - Page 3 of 12 - Independence Institute

Win a gun, need I say more? Oh, and save lives.0
- November 29, 2018
We’re raffling off a gun. Read on. There is a lot of handwringing over what should be done to stop school shootings. Many politicians think disarming YOU will make schools safer. But we at Independence Institute wanted to do something that could actually save lives. So we did what we always do —we sprung into
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What happened to good liberals?0
- November 27, 2018
I keep asking myself, what happened to the good liberals? And yes, there were good liberals. They seemed to be all around when I was growing up. You know, the ones who would say things like, “The ends don’t justify the means.” Think of the ACLU fighting for the First Amendment rights of ugly neo-Nazis
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Don’t think of us as turning into California 0
- November 20, 2018
Don’t think of it as Colorado turning into California. Think of it as Colorado turning into Berkeley, California. Our new governor is from Boulder, the Berkeley of the Rockies. Our new attorney general was the Dean of the University of Colorado law school, in Boulder. The majority leader in the state senate, the speaker of
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What Sesame Street can teach us about Colorado Gives Day 0
- November 13, 2018
I remember watching Sesame Street as a kid, and other than thinking that Cookie Monster and I were brothers separated as infants, I’d loved their little game, “one of these things is not like the others.” You’d get to choose which thing didn’t belong in the same group with the other things. You know, they’d
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Colorado now California?0
- November 7, 2018
We have been warning that Colorado is being transformed into California for years. Tuesday’s elections will only speed the Californication of our once liberty-loving state. Colorado has for generations been a magnet for those who wish to write their own biography, to risk their wealth and talents, and to work in free association with others
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Colorado or California, find out tomorrow 0
- November 5, 2018
In one day we’ll know the future of Colorado politics: Four statewide offices, including governor, thirteen ballot issues, the state senate hanging by one vote, and one of the hottest US Congressional races in the country, the 6th. Will we take a step toward or away from becoming California? I’ll keep my predictions to myself
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