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The U.S. Has A Lot Of Shale Oil, So What?
Quite a few conservative commentators are making waves about a Government Accountability Office statement (PDF) which says that 1.5 trillion barrels of shale oil in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming m ...
16 May, 2012
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My City Council Experience With a Public Sector Union in Colorado
In November 2001 I was elected to my local city council. In January 2002 I journeyed to the state capitol where I attended a training session for newly elected municipal officials. At the coffee and d ...
12 May, 2012
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Swing States Crucial for Presidential Race
One of the enduring oddities of the American political landscape remains the electoral college, the antiquated system that makes selective states disproportionately important to the election pro ...
11 May, 2012
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9 min read
Mexican Immigration Reverses: More Mexicans Leaving The US Than Entering, Study Finds
According to a new study from the Pew Research Center, Mexican immigration has slowed dramatically over the last decade, and net migration may have even gone negative. That’s right, Mitt Rom ...
10 May, 2012
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3 min read
Same-Sex Marriage Meets the Jim Crow South
There was an amazing list of things that a white boy growing up in Virginia wasn’t allowed to do – not in the 1950s. You couldn’t use the same restrooms as blacks, couldn’t eat at the same resta ...
09 May, 2012
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3 min read
Independents Hitting the Opt-Out Button
Republicans versus Democrats, liberals versus conservatives, Hayek versus Keynes, religion versus spirituality– unlike an independent mindset, the “us versus them” mentality and modality can be quite ...
09 May, 2012
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3 min read
A Ron Paul Delegate's Insider View of the Republican Primary Process
Last month, I left my perch on the top of the Continental Divide to attend the Colorado GOP convention in Denver. I went as one of those "unpledged" Ron Paul delegates, and as near as I could tell, mo ...
07 May, 2012
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3 min read
Water Wars: Green River Nuclear Power Plant
Blue Castle Holdings, an ambitious Utah company, wants to build the 3 gigawatt (GW) Green River nuclear plant in Utah. This would be enough power for about 2 million homes and would increase Utah ...
04 May, 2012
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2 min read
The Youth Vote: Unemployment Among College Graduates
According to Pew Research Center data, 66% of individuals under the age of 30 voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 election. Republican Senator John McCain received only 32% of votes from the same ...
03 May, 2012
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2 min read
Forget The Nomination: Ron Paul's "Revolution" Is Taking Over The Republican Party
What little commentary we've seen from the media on Ron Paul's silent coup presently underway in the Republican Party has focused mostly on its implications for the 2012 Republican Primary and whether ...
01 May, 2012
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5 min read