Author: By Jon Caldara

Losing your job sucks. We empathize with people who get laid off, as we should, including the formerly untouchable federal government workers. What was it Ronald Reagan once said? “A recession is when your neighbor loses his job; a depression is when you lose yours.” I’m guessing you’ve lost a job or two to layoffs,…

Yes, social media sucks. Government tracking won’t make it better. As regular readers can attest, I am barely literate. If you find my work hard to read, be comforted by the fact I find, well, everything hard to read. It wasn’t until well into adulthood that I understood dyslexia. Giving me a book is like…

I was born in the wrong time. For instance, I completely missed the sexual revolution of the 1970s when people were having casual sex like it was shaking hands. As an eager young man with hopeful bad judgment and a rupturing libido, I couldn’t wait till I was old enough to join the party. Finally,…

Slowly, very slowly, Colorado environmentalists are learning basic math. Simple math is dangerous. I strongly recommend you never learn it. Those fool enough to play around with basic math realize our lawmakers have painted us into an energy-starved corner that will, quite literally, kill people in the not-so-distant future. Oh, and for God’s sake, if…

I assume you felt the magic in the air Tuesday. We all did. There’s only one day of the year children get more excited than Christmas morning. And that, of course, is Transit Equity Day! As in most American homes, we hung up Transit Equity decorations as the kids helped with baking equity cookies. I…

Racial discrimination is repugnant. Period. Our nation has made great strides during our nearly 250 years. And for that we should be proud, not ashamed. Too bad we’ve gone backward with government-sanctioned racial discrimination. I was born the same year of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, raised with our shared goal of a colorblind…

I quit smoking decades ago. I committed to smoke only after sex. The Food and Drug Administration has officially declared the Denver City Council is working to kill people. This counters the council’s stated fib they want to help people stop smoking. I know we’ve been over this before. But the timing of the FDA’s…

A warning to the left: obnoxious virtue signaling can be a two-way street. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has a nice warm office. So why instead hold a press conference out in the cold on the violence-ridden 16th Street Mall? Well, for image management, of course. What better way to show how safe and non-stabby the…

In a previous life I was on the Regional Transportation District (RTD) board of directors. This elected position paid a whopping $250 a month but it did include a free bus pass. And let me tell you, the ladies dig a man with a bus pass. In 1997, RTD (actually, the bond dealers and contractors…

Let the meaningless battle over mass deportation in Colorado begin. Watching our cities virtue-signal on immigration is the best free entertainment your tax dollars can buy. The war of words and chest beating is worthy of a reality show. On one side, you have Denver’s Mayor Mike Johnston playing a modern-day Paul Revere. With those…