The rising costs of Gov. Jared Polis’ full-day kindergarten program is part of an estimated $100 million in additional costs lawmakers will need to cover
NSRF members and guests,
Since it’s the last meeting before the November 5th off-year election, we’ll have candidates running for local school boards, city councils and mayors.
If you’re running for office, plan to attend and join us to address the Forum and bring your signs and literature.
We’ll have Nick Kliebenstein & Eric Hapner discuss oil & gas issues. We’ll also be discussing the Colorado Blue Book and its ballot questions.
Join us on Saturday, October 12th from 9am-11am for our next Forum. We meet at the Amazing Grace Community Church, 541 E 99th Place in Thornton. Admission is $5 per person and includes a continental breakfast.
Have you registered to vote?
We need your help to turn Colorado from blue to purple and then back to red. If you don’t vote, you are helping to elect Democrats and their over-reaching, big government, higher spending policies.
It’s time to get to work. Click the following links to check your voting status and learn about your ballot:
Colorado: https://www.vote.org/state/colorado/
Adams County: https://www.adamsvotes.com/
Arapahoe County: https://www.arapahoevotes.com/
Boulder County: https://bouldercolorado.gov/elections
Broomfield County: https://www.broomfield.org/153/Elections
Denver County: https://www.denvergov.org/content/denvergov/en/denver-elections-divison.html
Douglas County: https://www.douglas.co.us/elections/
Jefferson County: https://www.jeffco.us/elections
Weld County: https://www.weldgov.com/departments/clerk_and_recorder/elections_department
Ballot Information Booklet: https://leg.colorado.gov/content/initiatives/initiatives-blue-book-overview/ballot-information-booklet-blue-book
Too often we focus on short term issues. Meanwhile we are losing the younger generation to lies and indoctrination, and if we cannot deal with that, the future would seem rather bleak. That is a long term problem. Truth, particularly historical truth, and foundational principles, provide answers.
Join the NSRF on Saturday, September 14th from 9:00am-11:00am. Admission is $5 per person with a continental breakfast included. We meet at Amazing Grace Community Church, 541 E 99th Place in Thornton.
Philip W. Winkler
This award winning book corrects many textbook errors and omissions while making sound contributions to historical scholarship–written after the author spent fourteen years on the governing board of a charter school and reviewing many textbooks. It contains a unique cross reference between the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and actions of the British king, royal governors, and Parliament.
Winner of Colorado Independent Publishers Association EVVY Awards, whose judges said, “This is the first history book I have enjoyed reading,” and “A well researched book and an eye-opener on many historical points.”
Discover what other histories won’t tell you:
Why the Declaration of Independence stood on a rock solid moral and legal foundation; rights of Americans under the colonial charters, the agreement between England and Virginia from 1651, and the English Bill of Rights; the corruption in the British Parliament of the late 1700s; who raised an army of white men to defend a group of Amerindians from other white men; why the real cause of the Sioux War of 1876 was not gold in the Black Hills; the truth about the War with Mexico: why Texas and Mexico claimed different boundaries and which, if either, had been honored; Lincoln’s prophetic warning; principles of free market economics from Adam Smith, Say and Bastiat; why Reagan’s approach to a deep recession worked, while Hoover’s and FDR’s did not; what textbooks get wrong about the Vietnam War; the truth about Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda; why your property may be at risk; the threat to your right to self defense; and much more.
Information drawn from sources including Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Washington, Lincoln, Francis Parkman, Mark Brown, Thomas Fleming, Frederic Bastiat, George Sutherland, William Shirer, Walter Lord, J. Reuben Clark, Charles J. Kappler’s “Indian Treaties 1778-1883,” Howell’s “State Trials,” “U.S. Reports,” “Statutes At Large” (acts of Parliament), Francis Newton Thorpe’s “American Charters, Constitutions, and Organic Laws 1492-1908,” and the author’s original research.
By Kimberley A. Strassel
Sept. 5, 2019 6:49 pm ET
The Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services Center in St. Louis, Mo., May 30.PHOTO: SAUL LOEB/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
This year’s Democratic presidential candidates have a favorite whipping boy: “powerful interests.” Get ready to hear again in coming weeks how the National Rifle Association rules Washington, how the Koch empire dominates politics, how the right is pouring “dark money” into its agenda. And then remember that these are among the biggest whoppers of the 2020 election. One side will do battle with the aid of a huge and savvy nonprofit political empire—and it isn’t the right. Though the sooner Republicans understand that, the better.
A helpful tutorial arrived this week, “Power Grab,” a new book by Republican former Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah. Mr. Chaffetz has been digging into nonprofits since his time as House Oversight Committee chairman, and the book details how powerful the liberal nonprofit sector has grown. It may surprise many Americans—those who read daily stories about conservative “influence”—that the likes of the NRA, Judicial Watch and the National Organization for Marriage barely rank by comparison to the assets and revenue of Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union or the Nature Conservancy.
These aren’t only big political players; they’re the biggest political players. In 2018 the nonprofit watchdog Capital Research Center analyzed grants handed out in the 2014 election year by six big foundations on the right (including the Bradley and Charles Koch foundations) versus six on the left (including the Open Society and Tides foundations). Liberal public-policy charities, organized under chapter 501(c)(3) of the tax code, bagged $7.4 billion of this foundation money in 2014. For conservative charities, the figure was a mere $2.2 billion. That $7.4 billion also dwarfed total 2013-14 campaign receipts to federal, state and local campaigns ($4.1 billion) and spending that cycle by independent groups ($830 million).
Mr. Chaffetz’s contribution is to refocus attention on the way liberal charities channel their huge funds into political work that benefits the Democratic Party. We’ve long known that some of them engage in nominally nonpartisan voter registration, conveniently only in places likely to yield Democratic votes. The Chaffetz book adds new data highlighting contracts between liberal charities and overt political organizations.
The 2019 Colorado legislature session is over and in the books.
What happened? What bills were passed? How will it affect your life? What will be on the ballot this November? With Democrats in the majority in both the state House, state Senate, and Governor’s office, how bad did they overreach? What about the recall efforts? 2nd Amendment Rights? Oil and Gas industry?
Lots of questions to answer.
Kevin Priola, SD-25’s Kevin Priola will give us his ground-level take.
You don’t want to miss this NSRF meeting on Saturday, May 11th, from 9:00am-11:00am at Amazing Grace Community Church, 541 E 99th Place in Thornton.
Admission is $5 with a continental breakfast provided.
The proposal, announced Wednesday by Gov. Jared Polis and Democratic state lawmakers, would set a uniform nicotine tax at 62 percent. That would lift the taxes on a package of cigarettes to $2.49 from 84 cents.
The Colorado legislature provides money for funding your local schools. Every year there seems to be a fight whether the amount is just right, too little, or too much. But what do taxpayers receive for our tax dollars? Are students being educated? Do they have the correct materials to learn? Are the teachers doing a good job? What about changes to the curriculum? What happened after voters rejected Amendment 73 in November? Lots of questions but we have two excellent speakers to provide some answers.
Join the North Suburban Republican Forum on Saturday, April 13th from 9:00am-11:00 to hear from both Stan McMinimee and Terry Croy Lewis. Their bios are below. We meet at Amazing Grace Community Church (541 E 99th Place in Thornton) and admission is $5 per person.
Dan McMinimee
