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Freedom of speech and religion don’t end at the AFA gates

Seth Richardson — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:38:54 +0000

Freedom of religion and freedom from religion are not the same thing at all By Seth Richardson Military Religious Freedom Foundation leader Mikey Weinstein is once again brewing up a tempest in a tea pot over a memo from the Academy’s chaplain’s office that included a link to “Judaism 101.” The memo was one of [...]

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Catching intoxicated drivers isn’t rocket science

Seth Richardson — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:02:44 +0000

Presumptive marijuana limits, like presumptive alcohol limits, are administrative shortcuts that may do more harm than good. By Seth Richardson With the decriminalization of marijuana in Colorado, prohibitionists are all atwitter over the prospect of stoned drivers flooding the highways. While drivers high on marijuana are certainly of concern, the recent kerfuffle largely ignores the [...]

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When Russians tell us to protect our gun rights, we should listen

Seth Richardson — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:18:59 +0000

Of all the unlikely compatriots in the defense of the Second Amendment, Pravda has to be the strangest. By Seth Richardson I’m going to let someone who knows whereof he speaks tell you why it’s important to resist Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi’s (along with many others) assault on our right to keep [...]

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Send the Marines

Seth Richardson — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:58:48 +0000

California Marine stands to and shows us all our duty to our children By Seth Richardson For 237 years the soldiers of the United States Marine Corps have been dedicated to protecting each and every one of us from all enemies, foreign and domestic and have honored the Marine Corps motto “Semper Fidelis“, with faithful [...]

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Colorado’s voters highlight Mexico’s hypocrisy

Seth Richardson — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:39:51 +0000

Drugs and guns have some things in common By Seth Richardson The election is over and the people of Colorado have spoken out loud and clear about recreational use of marijuana. Whatever the Drug Enforcement Agency thinks, the state constitutional amendment passed by voters achieves one important goal; it forbids state and local law enforcement [...]

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Secret Service and the public burdened by debate venue choice

Seth Richardson — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:14:12 +0000

Reasonable security for presidential debate requires moving the debate, not shutting down I-25 By Seth Richardson The Secret Service is well-known for their paranoid tendencies over security for the POTUS and its other protectees, but the shut-down of Interstate 25 through Denver to accommodate the presidential debates at DU are a ridiculous and offensive excess. [...]

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Who is responsible for Muslim outrage and riots?

Seth Richardson — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:53:40 +0000

United Nations bigots call for criminalizing blasphemy against Islam By Seth Richardson There is an insidious Islamic agenda at work in the world today. Some idiot filmmaker or preacher makes an insulting film or burns a Koran and Muslims worldwide riot and kill each other and call for killing of all non-believers and the destruction [...]

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Frivolous Political Obstructionism Will Cost You

Seth Richardson — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:04:07 +0000

Sierra Club ecozealots don’t like coal, and you will pay for their frivolous lawsuit. By Seth Richardson Cutting-edge pollution control technology being tested at the Drake power plant is threatening the ecozealot Sierra Club’s political agenda to shut down all fossil fuel power production, so they are threatening to sue Colorado Springs for alleged unpermitted [...]

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Hoplophobe University of Colorado professor needs a new job

Seth Richardson — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:15:45 +0000

Anti-gun CU physics professor Jerry Peterson threatens to defraud students if he finds a gun in his classroom. By Seth Richardson In the Denver Post today, a story by Boulder Daily Camera writer Brittany Anas says that CU physics professor Jerry Peterson has threatened to cancel classes if he finds that one of his students [...]

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UCCS concealed carry rules flout state law, again

Seth Richardson — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:19:40 +0000

When will the Regents of the University of Colorado bow to the authority of the General Assembly? By Seth Richardson When it comes to the lawful carrying of concealed handguns on campus, the University of Colorado Board of Regents has been stubbornly resistant to either abiding by the law, respecting the constitutional rights of students, [...]

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Who owns the rain?

Seth Richardson — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:58:36 +0000

Stormwater control is necessary, but who should pay for it? By Seth Richardson On June 6th, an epic thunderstorm squatted ominously over Colorado Springs and dumped more than four inches of rain and hail in a few hours in places, causing localized flooding and lakes of hail four feet deep near the Citadel Mall. The [...]

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Fat-cat bankers want to have their cake and eat it too

Seth Richardson — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:49:28 +0000

Proposed Colorado constitutional amendment initiative would restore fundamental fairness to home foreclosures By Seth Richardson Tired of waiting for the Colorado legislature to do the right thing instead of the wrong thing, citizens are proposing to amend the state Constitution to require banks that foreclose on property to first prove that they have the legal [...]

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Manitou schoolchildren are in real danger

Seth Richardson — Wed, 02 May 2012 02:15:10 +0000

What the “experts” won’t tell you about what to do in an encounter with a mountain lion By Seth Richardson On Monday morning, a mountain lion was seen hunting near Manitou Springs Elementary School. Although school officials and police used extra vigilance during the day and police removed the raccoon the lion had killed, hoping [...]

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The 4th Amendment is not a bar to police intelligence gathering

Seth Richardson — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:12:13 +0000

If you don’t want the police to be interested in what you are doing, don’t do things that the police find interesting By Seth Richardson There’s a very common misunderstanding about the Fourth Amendment, particularly on the part of Catherine Roper, a Pennsylvania ACLU attorney, who really ought to know better. Roper complains in an [...]

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Your tax dollars at waste

Seth Richardson — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:10:31 +0000

Another outrageous example of government waste and pandering to PETA By Seth Richardson So there’s these 59 feral domestic cats on this scrubby little Navy missile-target of an island off the coast of California who were doing their cat-thing on cormorants, gulls and a threatened lizard… No, it’s not the latest bar joke, but it [...]

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Bill Maher is a fundamentalist religious zealot

Seth Richardson — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:46:30 +0000

Despite Maher’s denial, Atheism these days is clearly a religion, and Maher’s a religious zealot By Seth Richardson Back on February 4th, comedian Bill Maher decided on a “new rule” on his television show “Real Time with Bill Maher.” Maher’s new rule is: “Until someone claims to see Christopher Hitchens’ face in a tree stump, [...]

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Suthers’ obfuscation doesn’t cut the mustard

Seth Richardson — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:21:19 +0000

Colorado’s medical marijuana law can and should be defended by Attorney General Suthers By Seth Richardson In a guest opinion in Sunday’s Gazette, Attorney General John Suthers tries to justify his refusal to defend Colorado’s medical marijuana laws by patting himself on the back regarding his opposition to Obamacare while simultaneously kowtowing to a Supreme [...]

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Secularist’s panties in a twist over being “shunned”

Seth Richardson — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:30:29 +0000

Secularist’s at the Freedom From Religion Foundation are reaping what they’ve sown By Seth Richardson It seems the FFRF has it’s panties in a twist because a bunch of Rhode Island florists refused to take their money to deliver flowers to Jessica Ahlquist, a teenage Secularist and First Amendment activist who succeeded in having a [...]

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It’s time to stand up and fight for Colorado’s 10th Amendment rights

Seth Richardson — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:22:32 +0000

Federal intrusions into Colorado’s medical marijuana industry must be stopped, and A.G.Suthers has a duty to do so. By Seth Richardson Colorado has the most carefully-regulated medical marijuana industry in the nation. Every plant is tracked from seed to consumption to ensure that it is used only in Colorado by authorized medical patients and that [...]

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Sunshine law supporters slap down city attorney Melcher

Seth Richardson — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:11:57 +0000

Most City Council Members know that lawmaking is not an adversarial process By Seth Richardson On Monday, Council members Scott Hente, Jan Martin, Lisa Czelatdko, Tim Leigh, and Brandy Williams stood up for the Colorado Open Meetings law and open government by opposing a move by Council members Merv Bennett, Angela Dougan, and Val Snider [...]

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Mayor Bach cannot establish “free speech zones”

Seth Richardson — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:55:36 +0000

Mayor Bach’s “Free Speech Zones” are an unconstitutional solution in search of a non-existent problem. By Seth Richardson Mayor Bach is wasting taxpayer dollars and staff attorney time trying to figure out how to pander to the complaints of business owners in the downtown area who are fed up with the shenanigans of the Occupy [...]

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It’s called treason for a reason

Seth Richardson — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:11:17 +0000

Soldiers who violate their oath, endanger their fellow soldiers and give aid or comfort to the enemy must be harshly punished as an example to others. By Seth Richardson As Private Bradley Manning’s Article 32 hearing gets underway, Manning’s defense attorneys are throwing in every thing but the kitchen sink at the bench in an [...]

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How to beat the Atheists at their own game – Living Nativity Tableau Societies

Seth Richardson — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:42:54 +0000

Free religious speech is a powerful tool, but it requires dedication and ingenuity to frustrate Atheists By Seth Richardson The Blaze reports on a New York artist who has managed to beat the Scrooges of the New York Transit Authority and the Atheist cranks at their own game. Atheists sued New York for allowing Christmas [...]

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Richard Dawkins Foundation – Bastion of religious intolerance and bigotry

Seth Richardson — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:10:25 +0000

Far from being a “clear-thinking oasis,” Dawkins’ website is a seething mass of unreason, hypocrisy, religious intolerance and bigotry By Seth Richardson If anyone were to wonder why it is that Atheists are disliked, mistrusted and marginalized, one need look no further than the Richard Dawkins Foundation website for salient examples. According to a study [...]

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Common cause with Occupy Wall Street

Seth Richardson — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:36:57 +0000

New revelations of the Federal Reserve’s duplicity and secrecy justify some objections of the OWS movement, but not all By Seth Richardson We’ve always been left to wonder why the bailout of the Big Six banks, including JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup,Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley were so painless for the banks and [...]

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