KIDS DESERVE CHOICE IN SCHOOL And I've got school choice advocate Ryan Walters, who is also Oklahoma's State Superintendent, former Education Secretary, and former teacher, on to propose a few things we can do to get our education system back on track and help our kids succeed. He joins me at 1.
VOICE OF THE ROCKIES JACK CORRIGAN IS ON TO TALK TODD HELTON I should say Hall of Famer Todd Helton that is. Jack joins me at 2:30 to talk about Todd and if his elevation to the hall changes the perception of players who play in Coors Field.
GO VISIT THE EUROPEAN CHRISTMAS MARKETS WITH ME AND CHUCK! We're doing the next Mandy Connell Adventure and cruising up the Danube visiting the most spectacular Christmas markets in Austria and Germany! Visit this link to find out more but watch below for all the details. Call Cruise and Tour at 1-800-383-3131 to secure your spot before we sell this out too!
DEMOCRATS ARE BACK TO MAKE CRIME MORE ENJOYABLE AGAIN And George Brauchler writes about some of the bills working their way through the Legislature right now, including one that would put 3 grand into the pockets of felons getting out of jail. I'm not kidding.
THIS IS WHY REPUBLICANS CAN'T WIN STUFF I'm not saying that the Chairman of the GOP in Arizona did the right thing by trying to bribe losing gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake into not running for the US Senate. But if you think this isn't done EVERY year in Democrat politics you are insane. How do you think they run so many candidates unopposed in the primaries? Do you think that's just magic? No, it's because Democrats run things with an iron fist and if a Democrat did this they would be ex communicated from the party. Read it here, but who is going to trust Kari Lake after this? She recorded a conversation without permission and then shared it. That's dirty pool.
OREGON BACKS OFF DECRIMINALIZATION And I'm intrigued to see how far they go. Voters decriminalized drugs in a voter initiative in 2020 but the resulting flood of addicts and overdose deaths along with rampant homelessness that has taken over parts of major cities has everyone rethinking that choice. Now Legislators are working to recriminalize drugs, though they would still be a misdemeanor, to give cops SOME tool to fight back. Read it here.
THE NEWS MEDIA STILL DOESN'T GET IT This entire article about the dire straits that the news media is in right now does not mention ONCE the perception that many of these news outlets are hopelessly left wing and that is one reason why they are failing. Yes, the economic headwinds have shifted and yes, people consume their news differently now, but that is a HUGE issue. In the last two years I have canceled my subscriptions to both the Washington Post and the New York Times because I got tired of reporting that openly hates me and the way I think. That matters because I am not alone. I'm sorry people are losing their jobs but they have no one to blame but themselves.
AN NYU ADJUNCT SAYS HAMAS DIDN'T RAPE WOMEN AND KILL BABIES And he does so without any proof but says it with total certainty. This liar and scumbag is holding a rapt audience with idiot college kids who probably believe him. Read more here.
THE MOST DANGEROUS CONSERVATIVE Charles Murray has been a lightning rod since he published a work that argues there are IQ differences based on race. Since then, he's been attacked while no one has bothered to do more research on the subject. John Stossel sat down with him for a visit.
NO, THE CONSTITUTION DOESN'T PROTECT YOUR RIGHT TO SLEEP IN THE STREETS And the Supreme Court will rule on a case that could upend the generous expansion of benefits granted over time to homeless people by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. This column does a good job of explaining how absurd their rulings are.
HAVE YOU RUN INTO THE SQUEEGEE FOLKS YET? A friend was talking about this the other day as happening on Santa Fe Drive but it seems to be spreading across the area. Illegal immigrants, who can't work legally, have now taken to becoming super annoying squeegee men at intersections, squirting your car window with cleaner before wiping it off and then asking for payment for this unwanted service. What do you do in this case?
BOULDER VALLEY SCHOOLS IS RETALIATING AGAINST A 12 YEAR OLD At least according to her Dad who says the district has come down hard for something other kids do all the time. However, she recorded with her cell phone something that embarrassed the school, so they have made her life difficult and enforced rules banning cell phone use selectively against her. What did she record? A bunch of kids being idiots pretending to summon the Devil while a kid twitched and convulsed on the ground.
A RESORT TAKES REAL ACTION TO HELP EMPLOYEES WITH HOUSING Hats off to Winter Park Resort for taking action when it comes to employee housing. We all know finding a place to live for the hundreds of young people who want to spend a winter working and boarding or skiing in the mountains is a huge challenge. Winter Park Resort tackled the issue with housing built just for them and other resort towns should take notice.
HERE ARE THE FREE DAYS AT DENVER CULTURAL SITES And some of these require advance tickets but others are just walk ups. Read them here.
CALIFORNIA LOST MORE JOB GROWTH THAN ANYWHERE ELSE There are lots of signs the Golden Days of California are over, and this is one of them. Though they still created a ton of jobs, they have long held the top spot and now they don't. Read this:
Lansner’s analysis found that employment growth shrank in 25 of the 29 California job markets he tracked. Hiring in Los Angeles County slowed by 71% compared to the pre-pandemic period, while San Francisco’s declined by 81% and the Oakland — Berkeley area by 88%. Across the country, he found that in the other 49 states plus the District of Columbia, the number of jobs added in the last four years was about 4.6 million, while the comparable pre-pandemic period saw gains of about 7.7 million jobs.
That amounts to a job creation slowdown of about 40% nationally with a relative shortfall of about 3.1 million jobs.
Just 10 states managed to accelerate the pace of hiring in their economies in the 2019-2023 period compared to the 2015-2019 window.
Texas led the way by adding 191,900 more jobs in the 2019-2023 period than in 2015-2019, followed by Montana with 11,200 and North Dakota with 10,300.
When you create an unfriendly environment for business this is what you get, and Colorado Democrats have been rushing to copy California here for years.
DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS LOVES THE IMMIGRANT INFLUX Because it will shore up their finances which have been hit by declining enrollment. That being said I have a feeling their performance is going to suffer even more as these kids probably didn't come from great educational systems before they got here. Read more here.
DCPA IS WORKING TO FIX PARKING! The parking garage at DCPA is not fun. It's why I literally sprint out of the theater to get back to my car after a show. I've stopped inviting slow friends to go with me. Now they are upgrading the entire entrance and exit system to make things easier. I'm here for it.
NO, STANDARDIZED TESTING IS NOT THE ISSUE This column about a move by a hard left member of the Denver School Board to stop using the CMAS testing to judge the performance of a charter school serving mostly minorities is a perfect example of the soft bigotry of low expectations. Read it here.
FOURTH QUARTER GDP IS A STRONG 3.3% And I'm betting we're going to hear a lot about this from the Biden team as he tries to convince Americans that they are doing great right now. Read the data here, but the underlying data looks solid, which is good news.
UNIONS STRIKE IN ARGENTINA And this is to be expected as new President Javier Milei makes drastic cuts to the size of government to rein in the 211% inflation rocking the country. The unions are not happy about their reduced numbers and power so they took to the streets to complain. I'd love to know what their solutions to inflation like that is? For real.
COULD THE KEY TO ANTI-AGING LIE IN OUR T-CELLS? This is a fascinating study on mice that seems to show that researchers may have found the Fountain of Youth and it's in our T-cells. Read this:
As we get older, our bodies accumulate senescent cells. These cells have stopped dividing and secrete harmful substances that can cause inflammation and damage surrounding tissues. They’re like the bad neighbors of the cellular world, causing trouble in the neighborhood (our bodies). Over time, this can lead to various age-related diseases, from diabetes to decreased physical fitness.
Enter CAR T-cells, a type of therapy initially developed for cancer treatment. These cells are engineered to seek out and destroy specific targets. In this case, the target is a protein called uPAR, found on the surface of senescent cells. By targeting uPAR, these CAR T-cells can effectively locate and eliminate senescent cells.
How cool is that? In mice it actually made the mice younger and healthier and one treatment seems to last for a long, long time.
MORE VACCINATIONS SEEM TO MAKE YOUR MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO COVID And this isn't some right wing study, this is from the Cleveland Clinic, who are very highly esteemed. This column breaks down the numbers and includes some pretty shocking graphs. I'm not getting another vaccine, are you?
TWO MINUTE DRILL!
PLEASE DON'T RAPE ON TRANSIT The new rules posted by the Twin Cities Transit in Minneapolis are beyond nuts. Read them here but know that rules exist because someone did a thing or they wouldn't need a rule. So apparently sexual assault was common enough to make the cut, and peeing and pooping on the train are prominently forbidden. Who do they think are going to follow these rules? The people who are already NOT doing these things will for sure, but does a new sign change the behavior of a drug addled homeless person used to pooping on the train because they thought is was a-okay before now?
IF YOU GONNA BE STUPID PROBABLY DON'T POST IT The guy who filmed himself on a motorcycle riding between Colorado Springs and Denver in about twenty minutes is now facing a warrant for his arrest. The drive normally takes an hour so you can only imagine how many laws he broke to do this. I hope they arrest him.
BUC-EES IS GETTING CLOSE TO OPENING For all you Buc Nuts out there it seems that O-Day is March 18th and they are hiring now so if you want to work there read this.
WANT TO TRAVEL BUT DON'T KNOW WHERE? This is a list of places in the state, the nation and the world this writer recommends. I've got other options if you're looking (see the top of the blog for one).
NINE FOOD AND DRINK TRENDS FOR 2024 Who knew MSG would make a comeback? Read about those trends here.
SHE'S AT THE ROLLER RINK IN THE SKY NOW Melanie, the sweet voice who gave us a song about roller skates, has passed away. I loved the song Brand New Key when I was a kid. RIP, Melanie.
POTTY MOUTHED PARROTS ARE SPREADING THE BAD LANGUAGE Maybe not yet, but who else thinks a plan to move five African Grey Parrots who have a vocabulary full of curse words in with a bunch of OTHER African Greys in the hopes they will stop cursing will backfire? I can't wait to hear that they now have a hundred parrots who swear like sailors.
DOES PORN REALLY WARP YOUR BRAIN OR IS THIS A MORAL PANIC This researcher says no but he does ignore the fact it's making a bunch of dudes bad at sex.
COLORADO POISED TO FORCE FOSTER PARENTS TO AFFIRM GENDER CONFUSION For people who sure are adamant about abortion being a medical decision between a woman and her doctor they sure are willing to interfere in a parent, or in this case a foster parent, to decide what's right for kids.
MASCULINE WAYS TO SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY This made me laugh. Watch below or click here.
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YES, IT WILL RIFF This is fantastic.
THE REALITY OF WORK FROM HOME EMPLOYEES This is pretty accurate from my experience. Watch below or click here.