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3 weeks ago | 
completecolorado.com | Ari Armstrong
By Jon CaldaraThis column is targeted to one reader: the iconoclast businessman and politico Kent Thiry. Many believe Colorado’s best days are behind her, and understandably so as Colorado turns into a dictatorial progressive experiment of exponentially escalating regulation, spiraling property taxes and fees, and forced social engineering. We don’t feel safe on our own city streets. Young people can’t buy their own homes. Affordable and reliable energy is no more.
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1 month ago | 
coloradotimesrecorder.com | Ari Armstrong
Even as he touted the truth during his May 18 sermon, Chris Goble, lead pastor of Ridgeline Community Church, lied about the contents and implications of House Bill 25-1312, “concerning legal protections for transgender individuals,” falsely claiming that it prevents him from “deadnaming” and misgendering a transgender person in church. Why he as a self-proclaimed representative of Jesus would want to treat people that way is a different question.
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1 month ago | 
completecolorado.com | Ari Armstrong
By Jon CaldaraThere are only three jobs worth having in Colorado. The first is fortunately mine. Any person who can make a living by indulging his passion is beyond blessed. I somehow have provided for my family by fighting for personal and economic freedom in Colorado. Running Independence Institute, Colorado’s machine to promote liberty principles over party, politicians and special interests, is a dream come true.
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1 month ago | 
completecolorado.com | Ari Armstrong
By Jon CaldaraThere are only three jobs worth having in Colorado. The first is fortunately mine. Any person who can make a living by indulging his passion is beyond blessed. I somehow have provided for my family by fighting for personal and economic freedom in Colorado. Running Independence Institute, Colorado’s machine to promote liberty principles over party, politicians and special interests, is a dream come true.
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1 month ago | 
completecolorado.com | Ari Armstrong
By Jon CaldaraTABOR simply means voter consent. TABOR is democracy. Weakening TABOR is weakening democracy. Every couple of years the spending lobby orchestrates an assault on our Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. They are testing another onslaught likely for next year. I was around for the fights to pass TABOR in the early 1990s. Then- Gov.Roy Romer famously declared if it passed, it will put a “going out of business” sign on the entrance to Colorado.
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1 month ago | 
completecolorado.com | Ari Armstrong
By Jon CaldaraTABOR simply means voter consent. TABOR is democracy. Weakening TABOR is weakening democracy. Every couple of years the spending lobby orchestrates an assault on our Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. They are testing another onslaught likely for next year. I was around for the fights to pass TABOR in the early 1990s. Then- Gov.Roy Romer famously declared if it passed, it will put a “going out of business” sign on the entrance to Colorado.
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2 months ago | 
completecolorado.com | Ari Armstrong
By Jon CaldaraTABOR simply means voter consent. TABOR is democracy. Weakening TABOR is weakening democracy. Every couple of years the spending lobby orchestrates an assault on our Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. They are testing another onslaught likely for next year. I was around for the fights to pass TABOR in the early 1990s. Then- Gov.Roy Romer famously declared if it passed, it will put a “going out of business” sign on the entrance to Colorado.
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2 months ago | 
completecolorado.com | Ari Armstrong
By Jon CaldaraHollywood is coming to my hometown. By now you’ve heard the Sundance Film Festival is moving to Boulder. What a relief! Finally, some common folk are coming to town. As you know, Boulder is home to the state’s most smug elite, those who know how the rest of us should live, what we should value. And they are thrilled to use government to mandate it upon us.
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2 months ago | 
completecolorado.com | Jon Caldara |Ari Armstrong
By Jon CaldaraWith apologies to Pete Seeger, and the 5,000 acts who covered his song. Where have all the liberals gone? Long time passing. Where have all the liberals gone? Long time ago. Where have all the liberals gone? Young progressives canceled them, every one. When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn? Do you remember liberals, those principled freaks of yesteryear, out of step with mainstream society by demanding free speech for all, including those they didn’t like?
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2 months ago | 
coloradotimesrecorder.com | Ari Armstrong
Generally, conservative Christians who condemn transgender people nevertheless believe in a God who is mysteriously three persons in one; a God in whose image both men and women are created, implying that God at least in essential “image” is not gendered; a God who goes by different names and different pronouns in different contexts and who appears to people in different forms, including a burning bush and a cloud; a God who calls on followers to undergo ritualistic death to lead a new life;...
