The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, is in on life support. The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in late March, largely centered on the individual mandate. That’s the provision that would force Americans to buy health insurance. Government attorneys claimed such federal government power is within the scope of [...]
Throughout the United States, government and quasi-government bodies are chipping away at private property rights. This is exemplified in western Colorado by property acquisitions of the Roaring Fork Transit Authority (RFTA) to build new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) stations. The Town of Basalt and City of Glenwood Springs endorsed RFTA’s tactic of condemning private parcels [...]
Glenwood Springs city council supports a plan for the Roaring Fork Transit Authority to condemn a private property parcel. This will effectively halt negotions of a business that is negotiating to buy the property from the owner. How can this happen? Besides, businesses generate tax revenue; the transit authority consumes taxpayer dollars! What is council doing? [...]
The Roaring Fork Transit Authority has the power of eminent domain! They plan to use it to acquire a parcel of private land because the can’t compete with a business that wants to purchase the property. Alarmed? Read this article from the Glenwood Springs Post Independent and you will be.
GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Glenwood Springs City [...]
Beltway politicians have identified a parade of scapegoats for the onset and longevity of current economic woes in the America. Among the favorites is Wall Street greed and “risky” investment practices. In truth, federal government expansion and interjection into the free market was the primary culprit.
Instead of being held accountable, Washington, D.C. asserted more control [...]
Newly-elected governors, like Scott Walker of Wisconsin and John Kasich of Ohio, are taking on the political Goliath of public-sector unions. Allied with Republican-controlled legislatures, they are revoking the power of collective bargaining. These elected leaders are finally telling their states’ public employees that the free ride is over. Pay, healthcare, and pension plans afforded [...]
Barack Obama says the Statue of Liberty symbolizes America’s obligation to provide citizenship to illegal aliens. That’s odd because as a kid I learned it was a celebration of the centennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In fact, the official title of the statue is Liberty Enlightening the World. But Mr. Obama [...]
When Governor Bill Ritter ratified Colorado House Bill 10-1328 on July 11th, 2010, a dreadful disease was cast upon the Centennial State. It’s been given the sanitary title of the New Energy Jobs Creation Act of 2010. But beneath the innocuous green facade is a socialist plague known as a Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) [...]
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States are likely the greatest statements of human liberty in world history. As expressed by the Declaration, the fundamental rights of all people are bestowed by God. The purpose of the government specified in the Constitution is to secure those rights. But the “truths we [...]