Author: Doug Lamborn
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GUEST COLUMN: Parental power goes back to school
After years of the left controlling education, the November elections showed the sleeping giant in Colorado and across the country is now awake. No longer will parents sit on the sidelines while leftist teachers and their school board allies push a racially divisive curriculum on students. Parents across the country made it clear — they…
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GUEST COLUMN: Parent power goes to school
After years of the left controlling education, the November elections showed the sleeping giant in Colorado and across the country is now awake. No longer will parents sit on the sidelines while leftist teachers and their school board allies push a racially divisive curriculum on students. Parents across the country made it clear — they…
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GUEST COLUMN: Mandate is the latest overstep by the federal government
America was a country built on fundamental truths and liberties. Of these, one of the most important is individual freedom and the ability to make decisions for oneself. That is what makes President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate so unconscionable. His mandate goes against the will of the Founders to create a limited federal government with…
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GUEST COLUMN: Rescue Act won’t save American people
Democrats are doing a disservice to this country by attempting to label the gargantuan “American Rescue Act” as helping America. While claiming to fund coronavirus health care needs and revive the economy, the act does neither. Democrats’ efforts to mislead the American people through this bait and switch must be exposed. Coronavirus relief should include…
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GUEST COLUMN: Reopen small businesses, the backbone of society
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The approval of two COVID-19 vaccines is an outstanding achievement of modern science, innovation, and research. President Donald Trump and his administration have worked diligently and effectively through Operation Warp Speed to develop multiple vaccines in record time. In fact, Colorado has received shipments of…
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GUEST COLUMN: Reopen small businesses, the backbone of society
The approval of two COVID-19 vaccines is an outstanding achievement of modern science, innovation, and research. President Donald Trump and his administration have worked diligently and effectively through Operation Warp Speed to develop multiple vaccines in record time. In fact, Colorado has received shipments of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Millions more doses are on…
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GUEST COLUMN: What Biden’s America would look like
It is now November 2021, one year after Joe Biden was elected president after a razor-thin election. We have been given a glimpse into the future to see Biden’s America. Summer 2021 was another scorcher. The rolling brownouts California suffered in 2020 spread throughout the West. Record demand for air conditioning combined with the closures…
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GUEST COLUMN: Colorado Springs is the place for Space Command
In 1947, congressional and military leaders recognized that the air domain would continue to grow in strategic importance, and they separated the Air Force from the Army Air Corps. In further recognition of the growing importance of air power, the Air Force Academy was then founded in Colorado Springs in 1954. Colorado Springs, much smaller…
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GUEST COLUMN: Border security shouldn’t be a partisan issue
Last week, I visited the southern border to meet with Border Patrol agents and review our national security needs. I heard directly from these brave men and women on the front lines about what they need to do their jobs. I got a firsthand look at the security and humanitarian crisis at the southern border.…
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GUEST COLUMN: Offering compassion to those facing pregnancy decisions
For 45 years, tens of thousands have gathered in the nation’s capital around the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision to express support for the pre-born and their mothers. The March for Life can be a sober reminder of a broken world where many women and men believe their only option…