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GUEST COLUMNIST: Pelosi's health care plan would cost too much money, freedom

Doug Lamborn

Amid all the serious problems contained in the Pelosi health care plan, two stand out. The two most fundamental dangers are the attack on our personal freedom and the damage to the financial strength of our nation. President Barack Obama and... Full story

GUEST COLUMNIST: Political discourse must be more than 2 sides in disagreement

One of Monty Python’s funniest comedy routines is the “Argument Clinic.” Performed by Michael Palin and John Cleese, the skit’s premise is that a customer (Palin) walks into an establishment that specializes in verbal... Full story

GUEST COLUMNIST: Candidate Penry doesn't deserve charge of being anti-military

Don Bendell

Recently, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman opined in an editorial that Colorado Republican candidate for governor Josh Penry is “anti-military,” because he stated that Penry was against the Army’s proposed Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site... Full story

GUEST COLUMNIST: Exit strategy needed for costly, unnecessary war on poppies

Ten more Americans died this week in a senseless and pointless war in Afghanistan, fighting an enemy with allegedly supernatural powers that is impossible to kill. I’m talking about the opium poppy. Three DEA agents and seven American... Full story

GUEST COLUMNIST: Rising costs of health care must be first target of reform

John Horner

Imagine that you have cancer, and are given a choice between two health care systems that have equivalent outcomes for treatment. The only difference is: one costs 70 percent more than the other. Which would you choose? If that one doesn’t... Full story

GUEST COLUMNIST: Finally, a federal hate crimes bill that will protect victims

Bruce DeBoskey

It has been 11 years since Matthew Shepard was beaten, tied to a lonely Wyoming fence, and left to die because his attackers hated gay men. That same year, James Byrd, Jr., was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck in Jasper, Texas, a victim of... Full story

GUEST COLUMNIST: Reining in DEA will help those who rely on medical marijuana

Rod Bernsen

In all of nature, the most unnatural act is a parent losing a child. Our son, Matthew William Bernsen died on Jan. 7, after a six-month fight with a very aggressive type of cancer. By the time Matt was diagnosed, his cancer was at stage four and... Full story

GUEST COLUMNIST: Council has been poor steward of funds

Tom Gallagher

I believe the City Council is guilty of breaking faith with our constituents. In the past we have asked for, and received, additional funding. Voters have given us new taxes for Trails and Open Space, public safety, and the Pikes Peak Rural... Full story

How about trying science rather than trying science?

John Horner

Why is it that whenever scientists make a distressing discovery about our world, we want to drag them before a trial or hearing to make them account for their findings, as The Gazette suggested in a September Our View? Historically, we know that... Full story

GUEST COLUMNIST: City can no longer rely on declining sales tax revenues

RANDY PURVIS

Each year at budget time, the City Council works to answer two basic questions:  What services do the citizens want from their city government, and what can the city afford to provide. There are always many more demands for city services than... Full story

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