With all due respect to the president’s jump-the-gun quote from a couple of years back, I’m not sure just what the answer is. And there are a couple of glaring examples in the news of cops acting: one national and one local. Obviously, the national story is the Boston Marathon bombing. There’s so much information […]
It’s risky business attempting to connect the myriad dots to catch a glimpse of what the economy looks like. It can be more risky still to predict with any certainty how actions today will affect the economy tomorrow. It’s worth the trouble, though, on the off chance a bigger picture just might emerge: By golly, […]
Much has been made of late over the issue of homosexual marriage, its embers stoked by the Colorado Legislature’s affirmation of civil unions and more recently by the U.S. Supreme Court’s tentative wading into the challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act. Proponents of marriage redefinition have taxonomized the issue as a civil right — […]
The good news is that business is terrific right now for the professionals paid to prepare tax returns. The bad news is that the tax code that ensures their success weighs down an essential sector of job creation: small business. Fully 91 percent of small business owners surveyed recently by the National Federation of Independent […]
I know I’ll hear it about this one, but that’s OK. Because when one is a fan of a team, it’s almost expected that one feels the officials are against them. And to be fair, it’s not the referees’ fault. After all, Louisville had that kid with the broken leg. I know what you’re going […]
Two disconcerting indicators continue to reflect the lag in economic recovery in Mesa County compared to other areas of Colorado. While the unemployment rate remains stubbornly high, sales tax collections trend downward. And if you surmise there’s a connection between the two, you’re likely right. The circumstances lead to a second point, and that’s the […]
Rather than governing with his business experience in mind, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg uses government to impose an intrusive regulatory agenda. There’s his ban on selling beverages with sugar in containers larger than 16 ounces in New York City restaurants, movie theaters and food carts. This follows a 2006 ban on trans fat […]
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster was not only enormously fun to watch, but demonstrated a piece of political genius to boot. If nothing else, the filibuster was a symbolic victory for conservatives sorely in need of a public show of resistance against an increasingly engorged leviathan. On the merits of Sen. Paul’s arguments, we enter […]
How else can we explain what we hear out of our state capitals and Washington, D.C.? Just how our elected leaders and entrenched bureaucrats can binge and purge so effortlessly and methodically should be a warning sign to all of us: Because if anyone should be losing control of our bodily functions en masse, it […]
One of the best lines to come from the many presentations at the latest Energy Forum & Expo at Grand Junction encapsulated in a single sentence what it’s going to take to keep pace with increasing global energy demand: We really do need everything, everywhere all the time. But even as all-of-the-above approach involving such […]