Driving while Coloradan
TweetA week ago, I posted about the 70-year-old Colorado man whose car was stopped and searched in Idaho because it had Colorado license plates. But it’s not just Idaho cops who think that a Colorado...
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Rally for Israel
TweetAmericans Against Terrorism is holding a rally in support of Israel’s right to defend itself against the Islamofascist terror group Hamas. The rally starts at 2 PM Sunday, July 27, on the west...
View ArticleUdall is losing … or not
TweetThe latest Quinnipiac poll of likely Colorado voters must have Republicans cheering. GOP challenger Cory Gardner leads Sen. Mark Udall by 8 points, 48-40%. That’s well outside the 2.8% margin of...
View ArticlePolar vortex update
Tweet11 AM: Mid-fifties, calm. About 15° cooler than the weekend, but a sweater or light jacket is plenty. 11:30 AM: Sudden strong northerly wind, temperature starts to drop sharply. 12:30 PM: 30°,...
View ArticleBring back the global warming!
TweetToday was the coldest November 11th on record in Denver, with a high temperature of 16°. That eclipses the previous record of 19° set on this date in 1916. And the worst of the cold is yet to...
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Celebrate! It’s above zero!
TweetIt’s 12:45 PM in Denver, and we’re no longer below zero! Woohoo? I don’t think we’re going to make it to that forecast high of 9°. Hey, Jimmy Buffet, here’s a new verse for that song of yours....
View ArticleWarning! Legislature in session!
TweetThe 2015 Colorado legislative session opened yesterday, so for the next four months liberty-loving Coloradans will rightly be nervous. The legislature is split this year, with Republicans...
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Most inept bombing ever, or … ?
TweetCharles C. Johnson of gotnews.com thinks a Google Earth photo from last September proves that the January 6th “NAACP bombing” in Colorado Springs is a hoax. I think his analysis is wrong, but I...
View ArticleDenver’s February snow record is more of a record than it seems
TweetOfficially, Denver set a new record for February snowfall, but just barely. Through Friday, the official total snowfall was 22.4 inches, just edging out the previous record of 22.1 set in 1912....
View Article1965 Denver flood
TweetFifty years ago last night, the Plum Creek drainage south of Denver received 14 inches of rain in just 3 hours. That sent a massive amount of water into the South Platte River and right into the...
View ArticleSkiing Red Rocks Amphitheater
TweetWe had snow in Denver Wednesday. More accurately, we had a blizzard with 30-50+ mph winds for about 12 hours. It dumped 12-18″ in Denver and 20-30″ or more in the foothills. The airport closed,...
View ArticlePaternalists push potent pot proscription
TweetThe folks who fought against legal marijuana in Colorado have been fighting rear-guard actions ever since they lost at the polls, pushing local bans on pot shops, ever tighter restrictions on...
View ArticleCastle Rock, CO, refuses federal funds
TweetThree cheers for Castle Rock, CO (population 55,000), located about 30 miles south of Denver. Its Town Council is refusing federal funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)...
View Article“If you don’t like the weather in Colorado…”
Tweet“…just wait a few minutes.” That’s the standard cliché. But sometimes you have to wait a few days. Tuesday: 99° (a new record for the date) Wednesday: 98° (1° shy of the record) Thursday: 93°,...
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Welcome to Boulder! Hope you enjoy our slippery slope!
TweetOld woke: Speech is violence! New, even more woke: Failure to speak is violence! I’d raise my eyebrows, but that would be a microaggression. A group called Showing Up for Racial Justice marched in...
View ArticleHow not to be bored by the weather
TweetLive in Denver. Yesterday, it was 74°, a record for the date. Today, it was 81°, a record for the entire month of November. Tomorrow morning, it’s supposed to be a good 50° colder and snowing....
View ArticleA surprising revelation by Walker Stapleton
TweetThe other night, Next on 9News played an excerpt from Kyle Clark’s 13-minute interview with GOP gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton in which he revealed something that surprised me. Here’s...
View ArticleHitting the Stoly pretty hard
TweetIt’s not a good night for small-government advocates (e.g., libertarians) in Colorado. Admittedly, Republicans haven’t been very good proponents of small government, but they’re still far better...
View ArticleQOTD
TweetThe quote of the day comes from the Denver Post’s daily Mile High Roundup email, which would be a useful quick news summary with links if it weren’t so tiresomely leftist. This line by Matt...
View ArticleNext on 9News: “King of the North”
TweetTravis Kauffman, the trail runner who killed a mountain lion with his bare hands on February 4, finally stepped forward and held a press conference Thursday. Kauffman was running on an open space...
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