Newsletter - Independence Institute

Get Better, Tom and Pete!0
- April 8, 2022
I am the luckiest man in Colorado. I make a living working on my passion, battling bullies who use the coercive power of government to force their values on those who don’t share them and try to take from others. Or to put it more simply, I get paid to piss off socialists. I. Love.
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Which Polis Appointee Is Being Brought up on Charges?0
- March 23, 2022
Remember that Polis appointee who called me a “piece of sh*t” and said I “couldn’t tell the difference between my ass and a hole in the ground?” She was the lady on the State Veterinary Board who said Colorado ranchers are lazy and use their cattle as bait for wolves. Well, this anti-meat, vegan activist,
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Guess what initiative we just filed with the Secretary of State?0
- March 15, 2022
When politicians refuse to do the right thing, we at Independence will do it for them. Case in point, a recent bill to lower the state income tax was recently executed in committee. Fortunately, we have placed a permanent flat income tax reduction on this fall’s ballot. It will lower Colorado’s income tax to a
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Ukrainians Will Fight in the Street, Will You Fight in Your Backyard?0
- March 7, 2022
Putin just turned off access to Facebook in Russia. Never wished I was a Russian before. That said, watching the brave people of Ukraine fight in the streets to regain their freedom inspires all of us at Independence to work even harder defending the liberties we have and regaining what we have lost here in
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Guess Who’s Learning about the Cold War for the First Time 0
- February 25, 2022
You’ve heard me babble on about my daughter, Piper, who I fear is more conservative than I. I fall on the libertarian side of the fence, she falls on the conservative side of the fence. And then, well, she plans to turn the fence into a big, beautiful wall that I am to pay for.
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We Lost a Dear Friend 0
- February 18, 2022
One of the many, many great aspects of my gig at Independence is meeting, and often becoming friends with, interesting, passionate, and talented freedom fighters. I feel especially blessed to have been befriended by PJ O’Rourke, the great humorist, whose irreverence quickly matched ours. Any man who says, “Giving money and power to government is
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