Since November 8, 2016, many progressives have been pitching a collective hissy fit. Unable to believe that the shoo-in for office, that unsinkable-as-the-Titanic candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton, lost the presidency to a “loser” like Donald J. Trump, they’ve lived in a perpetual state of denial—a state without a single electoral vote. Many see no irony […]
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In the first of a three-part series, guest author Mary Stevens highlights the accomplishments of America’s 10th Mountain Division, a specially-trained Army unit that succeeded in combat in ways no one else had before. Post-war veterans set about changing Colorado’s image and economy well into the future. Look for “Part 2: Ski Towns and Industry”
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I have to give Donald Trump credit. His presidency is truly historic, and future academics will be riding the Trump train through graduate schools in record numbers. Of course, he and his supporters disagree with me on why his administration is historic. They point to what he has done as success stories while I think
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The Widefield Aquifer serves as a cautionary water pollution tale for Southern Colorado and beyond. It supplies drinking water to over 80,000 people in Widefield, Fountain, and Security, or Southern El Paso County. The first documented case of water pollution in the Widefield Aquifer occurred in 1982. Since then, humans have contaminated it incessantly. This
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I love video games. They allow me to connect with friends, talk on a headset, strategize to eliminate the opposition, and so on. But there’s trouble in paradise. A recently adopted business model involving microtransactions mixes poorly with video gamers. Microtransactions are small online financial transactions. They’re useful to some industries, but in the world
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Denis Leary had a song in his one-man show “No Cure for Cancer” called Asshole. In it, he details examples of people he considers eligible for the tainted designation. A lot of observational standup comedy is devoted to complaints about assholes. Anal oriented individuals certainly don’t appear to be an endangered species. Which is too
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