Politigal Colorado

I recently finished reading Upstream:  The Ascendance of American Conservatism by Alfred S. Regnery.  Every conservative who didn’t participate in the movement in its early years should read this book.  I had no idea of the influence of Barry Goldwater until I read this book.

While reading the book I also learned that neoconservatives aren’t conservative.  They’re really big-government Republicans–like George W. Bush–unless they belong to another party.

This is the ad the North Carolina GOP is running against Democrat candidates for governor, the one McCain has “repudiated”:

from www.youtube.com posted with vodpod

Thanks to the Independence Institute for this video:

from www.youtube.com posted with vodpod

In addition to all the lies he told in his schlocumentary, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore used “a computer-generated image from the 2004 science fiction blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow“ (”Gore Used Fictional Video To Illustrate ‘Inconvenient Truth“).  Is anyone really surprised?  More importantly, did he have permission to use the image, or did he commit plagiarism, theft, copyright violation?

Here’s a video from YouTube showing the footage from the two films:  “A Real Inconvenient Truth.”

I read that sentence in reference to John McCain for the first time this week.  When I did an internet search to find it again, I ran across a site where you can buy yard signs and bumpter stickers with the following:  “McCain? No! The lesser of two evils is still evil.” 

Some busybodies in Wheat Ridge are trying to dictate what a property owner can do with an old house near Wadsworth and 32nd Avenue.  The city council voted 6 to 2 to allow the property to be rezoned for a restaurant, which would require demolition of the “Olinger Mansion.”  Now a couple of residents are complaining and accusing city officials of “skullduggery.”

Wheat Ridge Mayor Jerry DiTullio has it right:  “I believe in property rights. If the developer wants to save it (mansion), fine. If he doesn’t want to save it, fine.”

Bravo, Jerry!

For more information, see “Fate of Olinger Pending.”  The Wheat Ridge Transcript also printed a column by the mayor explaining the situation and his views, “Property Rights Process Works To Help All Involved.”

According to Ben de Grow, a “New Poll Shows McCain Upsetting Left’s Plans to Turn Colorado Blue.”  If he’s going along with the media’s association of the color blue with the left or Democrats and red with the right or Republicans, then he’s mistaken.  As a liberal himself, McCain is helping to “turn Colorado blue”–though maybe not quite as deep a blue as Clinton or Obama.

Of course, it’s the left that should be red, since that’s the color traditionally associated with Communism.

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According to an article in this morning’s Rocky Mountain News, McCain brought Romney to Colorado with him “to help woo conservatives.”  That won’t happen.  Romney’s association with McCain will only demonstrate that Romney isn’t a conservative rather than that McCain is one.  No true principled conservative would support a liar and liberal like McCain.

According to Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs, in an article in The Australian, “The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) . . . talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued.”

Now the environmentalists can’t even use the phrase “climate change” instead of “global warming” because the climate isn’t changing.