Remarks – Some observations of growing older
As I was lying around pondering the many problems of our country and of the world, I realized there is quite a difference between those of us who were born before the 1940s and the Baby Boomers born later. Too many of the Baby Boomers seem to have forgotten that first, they didn’t want to [...]
Kindling – June is a popular time for weddings
Congrats to our former intern and his soon-to-be wife June is usually a popular month for folks to get married. Couples that believe in marriage of one nature or another come together and wed where the single ingredient must be love. One of our former Villager interns Bobby Reginelli is taking the plunge this weekend [...]
Remarks – Nobody Asked Me – But:
Nobody Asked Me – But: Here is an interesting English lesson. Did you know that the words “race car’ spelled backwards still spells “race car?” And that “eat” is the only word that if you take the first letter and move it to the last, it spells its past tense – “ate.” Nobody Asked Me [...]
Kindling – Then and now
Record history but don’t rewrite it The new History Colorado building is a great structure and will be a great asset for the state now and in the future. However, at my first visit I was somewhat in awe of two exhibits, the poignant stories of the Sand Creek Massacre and the internment of Japanese/Americans [...]
Report From Congress – The growing problem of sexual assaults in our military service
By U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman The United States military is the most capable and most professional fighting force the world has ever seen. At its core are our men and women in uniform, whose selfless service and sacrifice for the cause of freedom is the main reason Americans have held the military in such high [...]
Letter to the Editor
Tancredo ‘spot on’ Tom Tancredo was “spot on!” when he wrote in today’s Denver Post, “It surprises no one that The Denver Post opposes my candidacy for governor, but why pretend to have the best interests of the Republican Party at heart? “Fortunately, the future of the Republican Party in Colorado will be decided by [...]
Kindling – Chinese bring home the bacon
I was just a kid when Communist USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev visited America and traveled to our Midwest and told us “that the Soviet Union was going to bury us…” Those headlines didn’t play well across our lands and instead of them burying us, we laid them to rest under the leadership of President Ronald [...]
Remarks – D-Day 1944 – 69 years ago
By early 1944, Hitler surmised that the Allies would attempt an amphibious invasion of mainland Europe and ordered Field Marshal Rommel to construct an “Atlantic Wall” that would defend the Germans against attempts by the Allies to achieve a successful invasion. Stretching from western France to Pas-de-Calais, an 800-mile long wall – two miles wide [...]
Remarks – Enduring words by famous Americans on liberty and freedom
“My country ‘tis of thee. Sweet land of Liberty. Of thee I sing. Land where my father died. Land of the Pilgrim’s pride. From every mountain side. Let freedom ring.” Those words written by Samuel Smith beautifully describe what America is all about, and throughout our history other people have expressed outstanding thoughts on “liberty,” [...]
Kindling – The death penalty is a lethal decision
Some friends asked me early this week what I thought the governor would do about Nathan Dunlap and the death penalty. Very quickly, I reached an opinion that Hickenlooper would reprieve the death penalty, I don’t think making this decision was within his personality or his soul to render. It is a decision that I’m [...]
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