Author: Rob Natelson
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PERSPECTIVE: Higher ed’s orthodoxy
The Writing Center at Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU-Denver) no longer teaches proper English to its students. The Center’s webpages — removed from public view shortly after being publicized by the Complete Colorado news service — claim that Standard American English “privileges white communities and maintains social and racial hierarchies” and “privileges white populations…
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GUEST COLUMN: A third-world election system for America
The Colorado Legislature’s ratification of the National Popular Vote NPV has provoked outrage because it cedes Colorado’s presidential electors to other states. But that’s not the half of it: it also would import into our country the dysfunctional election systems of Mexico, Nicaragua and other Third World nations. The NPV suffers from severe constitutional problems.…
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GUEST COLUMN: Rights for a river? An effort to undermine democracy
An environmental organization is asking a court to grant a river status as a “person” with the rights of personhood, thereby launching an attack on judicial fairness, the rule of law, and democracy. The group is Deep Green Resistance, and it argues the Colorado River should have rights. On what reasonable basis Deep Green purports…
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GUEST COLUMN: The Colorado State Song: An anthem we can be proud of
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Inflamed with passion for the beautiful nymph Daphne, the god Apollo tears after her. She flees in terror. Apollo calls out, urging her to stop. “I’m not chasing you as an enemy, as the eagle…
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GUEST COLUMN: TABOR does not violate the U.S. Constitution
Some old myths never die. One of the most durable, although demonstrably false, is the claim that citizen initiatives and referenda violate the U.S. Constitution’s requirement that states retain a “republican form of government.” This myth is the basis for an ill-advised lawsuit against Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR). While serving as a law…
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GUEST COLUMNIST: Recognize current calls for ‘civility’ for what they really are
It’s a persistent pattern I’ve seen in the 46 years I have spent in or around politics: Statist politicians do, or try to do, something really outrageous to the rest of us, and when we protest, they tell us we are not being “civil.” When Bill Clinton and an overreaching Congress raised taxes retroactively, violated…
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GUEST COLUMN: Constitution’s ‘commerce power’ doesn’t permit Obamacare
The President’s new health care law is now the focus of two national debates — one about policy, one about the Constitution. Most of the attention in the constitutional debate has been about the law’s mandate that individuals buy health insurance. But the constitutional issues also include whether the federal government should be regulating health…