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Welcome, all, to what I hope will be a great year...and far better than 2007. I'm having surgery at the end of the week and will be recovering for some time, which will limit the amount I'll be able to write. Also, our second child is due later in th… more »

2007 was a year I could have done without. Other than the joy of watching my daughter turn into a real little person with a real personality, 2007 didn't bring a lot of good to me or my friends. In the last month, an acquaintance has died, a very c… more »

I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving, and I hope we'll all take a moment to thank the men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan who are risking everything so we don't have to. more »

As I fill out a federal government form (for what purpose I will respectfully decline to disclose), I come across the following quandary: It asks for hair color and eye color. For eye color, the choices are: Brown, Blue, Green, Hazel, Gray, Blac… more »

Hello readers, As I've been in Mexico all week, and made the mistake of trading a little bit of CROX before the earnings (at the moment I'm writing this on Thursday...even though this note will be published Friday, it's down more than $25, or 1/3 of i… more »

My father, who went to Columbia University about 25 years before I did, recently asked me to respond to an email that was being circulated among his class members. The initial question was about any "military experience" at Columbia, but as I didn't ser… more »

In response to a piece I had written about some local Colorado politics, a person named "Dave" who seems to have an obsession with 9/11 conspiracy theories had the nerve to call me and leave two rambling, slightly insane messages talking about how the Tw… more »

It is with great sorrow that I report that my friend John Berthoud, President of the National Taxpayers Union, has passed away. John was a tireless champion for liberty and for the protection of taxpayers from our ravenous government. But beyond that,… more »

I'll never forget September 11, 2001. I was sitting in my office in Chicago, waiting for the stock market to open, when suddenly I saw the first news stories come on television, when newscasters thought it was a small private plane which had made a terr… more »

I had the opportunity to appear on Jon Caldara's television show "Independent Thinking" in an episode that aired last Friday and again Sunday, the subject of which was the state of political blogging in the US and Colorado. If I can find a way to get th… more »