Our Platform for Outlining Colorado’s Future

    A Different Christmas Poem    The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,  I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.    My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,  My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.  Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,  Transforming the yard to a winter delight.  The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,  Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.    My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,  Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.  In perfect contentment, or so it would ...

Can supporters of same-sex marriage and those protesting the Mormon Church's involvement help me with something? President-elect Barack Obama won the election by 6.5 percent nationwide. This is being described as a "landslide" and a "mandate" by the media, Obama supporters and other prominent democrats. Conversely, the legality of same-sex marriage was on the ballot in three states, two of these states won by President-elect Obama. Of the nearly 20 million votes cast in these three states on the same-sex marriage issue, legal same-sex marriage was defeated by a margin of 56 percent to 44 percent. An 8 percent margin of defeat, larger than Obama's margin of victory. Should logic not command that this result be defined as a mandate against same-sex marriage? If not, why not? And instead of blaming "confused" Black voters and the Mormon Church, why are supporters of same-sex marriage avoiding the real culprit? Barack Obama! Yes, the head of you...

Whatever you tax, you punish. Why would you punish people for working and making money? Remember that I am not saying that the government should collect any more money. Just that we should eliminate the income tax. In order to replace the revenue loss each city, and state will have to decide which usage fees, and "sin taxes" they will use to replace the income tax. Republicans have good principles, but they rarely follow them. One of the good principals that republicans talk about, but never seem to follow threw is the principle of rewarding good behavior and punishing bad behavior. We should lose taxes that tax good behavior, like income tax and increase sin vastly increase sin taxes. The Republican Party is typically seen as your father's party. The democrats are like your mom. They care about your feelings, but the republicans have tough love, and tell you to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and get to work. Parents tend to learn, that if you do stuff for their kids al...

Reasons to agree We live in a world were millions of middle-age minded people would like to destroy America. We could throw away all our weapons, and fight them with bronze spears. However diverse modern populations, with equal rights for minorities, that promote civil rights, a free press, the rule of law, and invests in education, health-care, etcetera... these societies are going to have a technological advantage. Those societies that work hard, educate their public, that work efficiently, and allow their women to be productive members of society... those societies that embrace science, reason, law, and education... these societies are the best care-takers of the future. Human histories are full of war. We live in a time when dictators still build statues to themselves, and enslave their populations. Therefore it is important that modern societies have modern weapons.  Societies that use irrational extremism to motivate their geneses to build weapons fo...

This is a great article by Michele Obama. It is unfortunate that we have a double standard. If a republican woman was to say something like that, they would be looked down upon. People would call them Stepford Wives. But it is great for Michele to say it. Exit question: What would you say to someone that Michele Obama (a democrate) is a more devoted mom than Sarah Palin? Does it matter how much time Mr. Palin spends with the kids?

This is a great article by Michele Obama. It is unfortunate that we have a double standard. If a republican woman was to say something like that, they would be looked down upon. People would call them Stepford Wives. But it is great for Michele to say it. Exit question: What would you say to someone that Michele Obama (a democrate) is a more devoted mom than Sarah Palin? Does it matter how much time Mr. Palin spends with the kids?

Reasons to agree We don't choose where we are born, so it is kind of silly to be proud of it. People aren't all that different, in different states.  Their are liberals in Alaska, and conservatives in New York. Sarah Palin accuses those who live in New York of being "elite", and then when asked what she means by "elite" she says people who think they are better than others. Sarah Palin seems to think she is better than New Yorkers because she is from Alaska.