…It’s good to remember that the states created the federal government and not the other way around. As Obama Care becomes closer to reality, we in Colorado have the right to say “No.” This is a chance for freedom loving people from across the state to come together and send the Colorado General assembly a simple message: Defend Colorado against Obama Care in the legislature, or we the people will do it at the ballot…

Rally @ the Capitol to Exempt Colorado from Obama Care!

When: January 19th @ Noon

Where: West steps, Capitol building

Why: To defend state’s rights against Obama Care!

Speakers: Jon Caldara, President of the Independence Institute, Representative Cindy Acree, and more to be announced later!

At the rally, we will be introducing language for a ballot initiative to amend the Colorado Constitution to excempt Colorado from Obama Care. We need to send a very strong and unified message to lawmakers that while we want them to say yes to defending Colorado, we are also ready, willing and able to move forward with the citizen initative process should the legislature fail us.

Join our movement on Facebook here!

Can 2,000 plus pages of new and increased taxes, mandates and regulations really insure the uninsured, reduce health care costs and bring down the deficit? There are a lot of big promises coming out Washington D.C. these days. On this week’s Independent thinking, Colorado Congressman Jared Polis joins me to talk about the health care bills being reconciled in Congress, and what the result might mean for Americans. That’s 8:30 PM tonight on KBDI Channel 12, Denver. Re-broadcast the following Monday at 1:30 in the afternoon.

In Senior Fellow Penn Pfiffner’s last podcast with Constitutional Law professor Rob Natelson, they came to the conclusion that Obama Care, with all its federal regulations and mandates, is absolutely unconstitutional.  Evidently, the legendary George Will agrees.  In “That Rock in the Health Care Road? It’s Called the Constitution,” George says,

Unless the commerce clause is infinitely elastic — in which case, Congress can do anything — it does not authorize Congress to forbid the inactivity of not making a commercial transaction, of not purchasing a product (health insurance) from a private provider.

Senator Orrin Hatch notes that if Congress can force citizens to buy products that will help the economy, then the Keynesian stimulus disaster “Cash for Clunkers” was not needed. Congress could have simply forced people to buy cars with the help of subsidies.

Show your support for state’s rights and come on out to our Free Our Health Care Rally next Tuesday!  After all, George Will would.

Our very own gun-toting, Second Amendment junky, and legal scholar Dave Kopel recently published a fantastic book (for you crazy people who read) called Aiming for Liberty: The Past, Present, and Future of Freedom and Self-Defense. Here’s a quick synopsis:

David Kopel’s book covers topics ranging from the origins of the Washington, DC gun ban to the Heller decision. He discusses the genesis of modern American gun control, the KKK, the true anti-gun agenda and the deceptions and errors used to promote anti-gun laws. He covers the right to self defense from Judeo Christiran perspectives. Other chapters explore United Nations and International gun control attempts and failures, law enforcement abuses and solutions, the culture of the right to keep and bear arms and the gun control movement. He concludes his book with a chapter on several prominent American gun owners from Thomas Jefferson to Eleanor Roosevelt.

If you’d like to learn more, listen to this podcast and/or watch this episode of Independent Thinking.

To celebrate, Dave is holding a meet and greet book signing at the Highlands Ranch Tattered Cover bookstore this Friday, January 15th at 7:30pm.

RSVP online here or call Mary @ 303.279.6536.

Welcome to the new year! I can’t believe it’s only 2 weeks into 2010 and I’ve managed to make and break all my resolutions, one of which was to not break anymore resolutions.

But there is one resolution that we at the Independence Institute made as a whole and will not break under any circumstance: We pledge to defend Colorado from Obama Care. Despite what the big spenders in DC seem to think, we believe in state’s rights, and wish to opt Colorado out of all the mandates, regulation, and corporate welfare that is the core of Obama Care. To help kick off our struggle to free our health care, we are hosting a rally at the Capitol next Tuesday, the 19th.

We are meeting at 11am on the Capitol building’s west steps. I will be speaking along with Representative Cindy Acree. Other speakers will be announced later.

Please come out and support our movement to exempt Colorado from Obama Care! Let’s show the rest of the states that they too can defend themselves against this government takeover. If you’re on Facebook, join our Defend Colorado Facebook group!

I promise to do everything in my power to defend Colorado from Obama Care. Will you help me?

Is State Senator Chris Romer’s bill to regulate medical marijuana in Colorado just a government solution looking for a problem? Or has the medical marijuana business grown beyond what voters originally intended? On this week’s Independent Thinking, Senator Romer and Denver attorney Rob Corry join me to hash out their differences over medical marijuana regulation. Tune in tonight at 8:30 on KBDI channel 12, repeat viewing this Monday at 1:30pm.

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