Jon Caldara

Denver

Talk Show Host at KOA-AM (Denver, CO)

I run Independence Institute @i2idotorg, host Devil's Advocate on @PBS12_CO and YouTube @IITV3, columnist @DenverGazette, gab on @630KHOW @KOAcolorado @710KNUS

Articles

Denver's mostly peaceful protests get more 'mostly-er' | CALDARA

1 week ago | gazette.com | Jon Caldara

I got to know Jeff Hunt in his many years running the socially conservative Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University. He now co-hosts the morning talk radio show on 710 KNUS. He is a social conservative Christian; I’m a libertarian conservative. In other words, he’s wrong about a lot of stuff, but you know, in that oh-so-righteous way. And that’s what makes teasing him so fun.
Why has Boulder become the ideal soft target for violence?

2 weeks ago | completecolorado.com | Jon Caldara

By Mike RosenThe multiculturalism movement is a cancer disguised as a cure. It claims that learning more about minorities would elevate them and improve national harmony, and opening our borders to people from other countries will enrich us as they combine their cultures with ours.
Does Boulder attract hate? | CALDARA

2 weeks ago | gazette.com | Jon Caldara

What is it about Boulder? The shock of the latest pro-Palestinian violence reminded me of the magnetic field surrounding my hometown that draws in crazy assailants to make national news. JonBenet Ramsey was murdered a stone’s throw from where I was living at the time. In 2006, surveillance video from a Boulder County bank led to the capture of serial killer Scott Kimball.
House Bill 1309: Gender equity demands hair-affirming health care

3 weeks ago | completecolorado.com | Jon Caldara

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.
You will pay for my hair plugs | CALDARA

3 weeks ago | gazette.com | Jon Caldara

I have never shared this publicly, only with select friends and health care professionals. It is exceedingly personal and frankly awkward. But I know others have the same challenge. For them I share my story. I was born in the wrong body. I identify differently from what my body outwardly expresses. The world wrongly sees me as folliclely challenged. I’ll use the modern vulgarism; hateful people call me, “bald.”I didn’t ask to be this way. God put me in the wrong body.
An unaffiliated future: The case for opening Colorado's primaries

1 month ago | completecolorado.com | Jon Caldara

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.
Save Colorado with open primaries | CALDARA

1 month ago | gazette.com | Jon Caldara

This 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.
Boulder's climate virtue signaling keeps the wood fires burning

1 month ago | completecolorado.com | Jon Caldara

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.
Drill, and save the planet | CALDARA

1 month ago | gazette.com | Jon Caldara

The Colorado Supreme Court is allowing my hometown of Boulder to sue oil-and-gas companies over their culpability in climate change. It’s about time. I wish Boulder nothing but success. It is my hope Boulder takes these energy corporations to task and forces them to dramatically cut the emissions being flung into our air, choking our mother planet to death. And there’s only one real way for those corporations to do it. They must produce a whole lot more natural gas. And fast.
Veto-worthy bills put Polis in a progressive-pleasing bind

1 month ago | completecolorado.com | Jon Caldara

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.