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  • Supreme Court’s gay cake case is about a lack of religious tolerance

    Supreme Court’s gay cake case is about a lack of religious tolerance0

    • November 21, 2017

    This June, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The facts of the case are similar to the Oregon one: a same-sex couple tries to buy a custom-decorated wedding cake from a business owned by a Christian baker; they were refused based on the bakers’ religious beliefs. Both couples asked their states’ civil rights agencies to prosecute the offending bakers. Both prosecutions were upheld by state courts.

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  • The sexual harassment double standard

    The sexual harassment double standard0

    • October 13, 2017

    As with the Harvey Weinstein situation, could it be that politics causes a double standard on acceptance of sexual harassment?

    The left celebrates speaking truth to power. It oozes through the smugness of every late-night TV comic and Hollywood actor turned activist. But it’s hard not to notice the power they speak to almost always seems to be on the right. Those on the left get protected.

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  • Digital killed the radio star

    Digital killed the radio star0

    • May 3, 2017

    by Jon Caldara Radio behemoth iHeartMedia, owner of more than 850 radio stations around the country, including the one I broadcast on, 630 KHOW, just announced it might not survive another year. For those of us who love radio, this isn’t a big surprise. Like watching newspapers being destroyed by disruptive new digital technologies and

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  • Transparency is for government, privacy is for people

    Transparency is for government, privacy is for people0

    • March 22, 2017

    by Jon Caldara On Nov. 27, 2015, Robert Lewis Dear Jr., a self-described “warrior for the babies,” arrived at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood armed with a semi-automatic rifle. By the time the police had him in custody, he had killed three and injured nine. So, here’s a question worth pondering. How much worse could it

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  • The symbolic problem with Donald Trump’s pen

    The symbolic problem with Donald Trump’s pen0

    • February 8, 2017

    by Jon Caldara President Barack Obama used his “pen and telephone” to get around Congress. President Donald Trump’s pen is so powerful it causes street protests every time he signs an executive order with it. So, what is this pen? Per a CNN story, the Trump White House, like every previous administration since the 1970s,

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  • Denver’s Road Home hits a dead end

    Denver’s Road Home hits a dead end0

    • December 21, 2016

    Poop. There’s a basic tenet in public policy. What you tax, you get less of. What you subsidize, you get more of…

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