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TAX DAY IS UPON US And I've got Mark Steber, Chief Tax Officer, Jackson Hewitt Tax Services and he's got advice for last-minute filers and debunk misinformation about extensions and estimated taxes. He joins me at 1pm to talk taxes.
CHECKING IN WITH CINDY ROMERO Cindy Romero and her husband were the couple who reached out to Danielle Jurinksy for help when a Venezuelan gang took over the apartment complex they had lived in for years without incident. She just got back from testifying before Congress and I'm chatting with her today at 2:30 about all of it. Follow her on X here.
DON'T EXPECT CONGRESS TO CHECK THE PRESIDENT ON TARIFFS And this column explains the political reasoning behind Congress refusing to reassert their Constitutional power over tariffs. The long and short of it is they are afraid of primary voters in their heavily gerrymandered districts. You know, ranked choice voting in primaries would take care of this.
DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO MAKE COLORADO EVEN MORE SANCTUARY-Y By passing yet MORE legislation to put roadblocks up when it comes to working with the feds on illegal immigration. What does the bill do, in addition to all the other ways we've made being an illegal in Colorado attractive?
Senate Bill 276 builds on many of those provisions by extending the ban on information sharing to all levels of government within the state. Under the bill, municipalities, counties, boards and commissions, and the state’s judicial and legislative branches would all be barred from providing personal information to federal officials unless presented with a valid warrant.
Restrictions on data sharing would also include information related to student visa sponsorships and financial aid for higher education.
The bill also seeks to limit deportations in sensitive spaces like schools, hospitals and child care centers. Those spaces would be prohibited from giving federal immigration officials information about enrolled children or patients, as well as access to areas that aren’t open to the public, unless a warrant is provided.
Violators could face $50,000 in fines, which would go to the state’s Immigration Legal Defense Fund.
But I'm sure it will be fine.
COLORADO IS KILLING ITS DAYCARE INDUSTRY And this is all fun and games until parents can't find any place for their kids to go while they work. From state funded competition in the form of universal pre-K to the onerous regulatory structure created by our Democratic overlords, the industry is reeling and day care centers are shutting down. We're down about 1,000 spots from a couple of years ago. This is yet another "crisis" created by government.
WHY GRISWOLD WOULD BE A NIGHTMARE AG Jimmy Sengenberger writes here about the hapless Jena Griswold, who is running for Attorney General, would politicize the office the same way she's politicized the Secretary of State's office as she marches on towards the Governor's mansion, which is what she wants. Read it here, but then watch Kyle Clark explain how she is going to be very, very tough to beat. He's not wrong. The Republicans need a great candidate without a ton of baggage here.
PLAY STUPID GAMES, WIN STUPID PRIZES, CU-BOULDER EDITION Two idiots decided to disrupt a class at CU-Boulder to cosplay Hamas and they were met with a less than sympathetic response. Watch this.
Ha! I love this so much. This professor is a national hero. Note how the "activists" hide and blur their own faces because they are so proud of their support for a murderous regime that terrorizes the Palestinian people.
PLAY STUPID GAMES, WIN STUPID PRIZES, MICROSOFT EDITION I love that companies have finally had enough. Two Microsoft employees are whining about being fired for disrupting the company's 50th anniversary celebration with their stupid Pro-Hamas protest. Good.
THE POWER GRID IS SAGGING And this is something that we all need to demand action on. Making sure we can turn on the lights and have them actually go on SHOULD be a top priority and yet this article seems to indicate it is pretty far down on the list of things to take care of for too many. Between AI power needs and the increasing push for electrification nationwide our energy demands are set to dramatically increase. Our power lines are aging and need a huge injection of cash to build out the required infrastructure. Read this:
The report notes that meeting those needs nationally would require adding about 884,000 miles of transmission lines to the existing 183,346 miles. Those 884,000 miles of new lines would potentially cost about 4% to 6% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product through 2050, or $1 trillion to $1.6 trillion.
In Colorado, Xcel Energy is building a $1.7 billion Power Pathway transmission line project in eastern Colorado. More high-voltage transmission lines, including a branch into the San Luis Valley, are being considered by Xcel and the Colorado Electric Transmission Authority, which lawmakers created in 2021 to enable the development of electric transmission facilities.
Nickell told the group that the SPP earlier had predicted that there could be a 25% increase in demand by 2030.
That last estimate is already turning out to be very, very wrong. This should be a national emergency BEFORE it becomes an actual emergency.
BERNIE SANDERS WANT EVERY PLACE TO BE AS EXPENSIVE AS DENVER Listen to this claptrap.
Showing once again he knows less than nothing about economics and is stubbornly unwilling to even check what has happened the cost of living and destroyed small business in cities that have already done this. In rural areas, this would decimate small business almost instantly. He is a complete idiot.
GET YOUR TAGS PAID FOR, PEOPLE Because we are FINALLY cracking down on expired plates, especially at the airport. Read more here.
SIX WRITING ON THE WALL MICHAEL MALONE QUOTES Should we have seen his firing with three games left in the regular season? This article says if we paid attention to these quotes we probably should have.
ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN'S LAPTOP Now that Republicans have taken over the FBI it's gotten a lot easier to get the real information about how much the FBI worked to keep the Hunter Biden laptop story out of the news cycle before the 2020 election. They became an arm of the Democrat party as they worked to tamp down the unflattering story about the laptop full of pics and videos of Hunter and hookers and drugs. Miranda Devine has done the deep dive here.
AND NOW THE FLU SHOT RAISES YOUR CHANCES OF GETTING THE FLU This is so crazy. A study of healthcare workers at the Cleveland Clinic showed that not only did the flu vaccine not seem to prevent the flu, those who got the vaccine got the flu at a much higher rate than those who didn't. Like, MUCH higher. It had an efficacy rate of -26.9%. Read this thread for more.
WHAT CAUSES SUDDEN ARRHYTHMIC DEATH SYNDROME? It's called SADS and it takes the lives of a lot of younger people. Read more here, but it's been around a LONG time and they are just starting to get a handle on what may indicate future issues.
MEDIA DISHONESTY ABOUT HEALTH CARE Of course the media is trying to make DOGE's work seem slash and burn with no context. This column provides context and of course it is not at all what's being reported.
THE SEVEN MOST EXPENSIVE SUBSTANCES ON EARTH And it's not what you might think. Consider that kind of helium comes in at #7 and we use other varieties of it to fill up balloons.
WHY WALL STREET PANIC FEELS LIKE REVENGE FOR SOME Maybe revenge is a strong word but this column does an amazing job of reminding us that Wall Street got rich on the 1980's while the men working in factories got laid off. It's a very good reminder of what's at stake. To say he doesn't care about Wall Street whining is an understatement.
DO WE HAVE A BOTTOMLESS WELL OF ENERGY? This is good interview with an author who made the case back in 2006 that we are awash with energy options and not in danger of running out anytime soon. This interview with one of the authors 20 years later is a good look at what they got right and what they got wrong.
KOA SPORTS HAS THOUGHTS ON THE MICHAEL MALONE FIRING
WHEN THAT KID KEEPS BUGGING YOU And the parents do nothing. Although I bet this was the kid's dad. Watch below or click here.
THE LINK BETWEEN GESTATIONAL DIABETES AND AUTISM This recent Chinese study does NOT say that gestational diabetes causes autism, merely that there seems to be a link between that and the possibility of neurological disorders. Read more here.
A DISNEY CHANGE COULD SIGNAL A RECESSION COMING And it's the very exclusive entry into their very private Club 33. Until now, this was a super secret, you had to know someone, sort of place, but now they are openly advertising the club in what some say is an indication of their belief a recession is coming. I believe it's because Disney took the magic out of visiting the parks a long, long time ago.
THIS IS A SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE Fried chicken flavored toothpaste sold out immediately.