Commentary

  • Denver’s glossy promises of renewal have started to crack and nowhere is that more visible than in the blocks downtown where the city’s “dream team” swore they were bringing change. KDVR’s recent report peeled back the curtain on what locals have known for a very long time, that the “open-air drug markets” thriving near Colfax,…

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  • More young Republican chat members and operatives are finding themselves suddenly unemployed, shunned, or publicly condemned and not because of cancel culture or “woke mobs.” It’s because the rot that began at the top of their movement has finally trickled down. It all started on Tuesday when POLITICO published an exclusive report on the Telegram…

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  • Lately, headlines have been all too willing to paint Colorado and Denver in particular as one of the most dangerous places in America. Some rankings even place the state in the top tier of crime-ridden regions. But those labels, while grabbing eyeballs, gloss over the complexity behind crime statistics, underreporting, media bias, shifting trends, and…

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  • Let’s stop pretending Donald Trump “brokered peace” between Israel and Hamas. He didn’t. He brokered a photo op. Trump’s foreign policy has never been about peace, it’s been about projection, the theater of dominance, the illusion of diplomacy wrapped in narcissism. His tantrum over not getting a Nobel Peace Prize is laughable. To win one,…

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  • Once again, Donald Trump is describing an American city as if it were a battlefield. Portland, Oregon which he insists is “out of control,” a “war zone,” and proof that only he can restore order. But according to the people who actually live and work there, including the city’s police, that is not what is…

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  • When the law meant to defend democracy becomes the weapon that could undo it. “The real insurrection won’t come from the streets, it’ll come from the desk in the Oval Office.” In any normal era, the idea of a president deploying the U.S. military against his own citizens would sound like dystopian fiction. Yet here…

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  •     This is the second major shutdown during a Trump presidency. Federal workers are locked out. Families are  wondering if paychecks will come. National Parks are closed, or running without the necessary services to keep them open, phones are ringing unanswered, and America now has a government that feels like it’s running on fumes.…

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  • Once upon a time, Donald Trump looked at Vladimir Putin the way a high school sophomore looks at the quarterback who just threw him a wink across the locker room. It was all admiration, projection, and just a touch of dangerous fantasy. Trump thought he’d found in Putin a kindred spirit another “strong man” who…

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  •   Here we go again…the pollsters run a survey, the reporters slap on a headline, and suddenly we’re told that “Americans” think X, Y, or Z. This week’s gem? And, folks apparently, we woke up in a new country today. Not the United States of America, but the United States of Poll Respondents. The Hill…

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