THE OPTIMISM OF PAUL HARVEY AND WHAT REAL MORAL COURAGE LOOKS LIKE My friend and President Emeritus of the Foundation for Economic Education Larry Reed is on today to talk about the relentless optimism and softly pointed commentary of Paul Harvey, as well as some great examples of moral courage. We may time to dip into this great column on the perils of making sweeping generalization about rich and poor.

ZAC BROWN BAND'S JOHN DRISKELL HOPKINS AT 2 He's performing at the PACE Center in Parker Thursday night at 7:30 if you want to go check him out solo. Buy your tickets by clicking here! Check out his new album Lonesome High on Amazon Music if you've got it.

DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS REPLACING COPS WITH ARMED DISTRICT OFFICERS And I don't know whether to laugh or cry. DPS took the School Resource Officers from DPD out of all the schools because Tay Anderson is an idiot and they went along. Now that they realize that kids are still jerks and bringing weed and stuff to school they are trying to get the armed district cops to able to write tickets if the kids get caught doing something dumb. How, exactly, is this different than having a police officer in schools? Is it because the kids have not been taught to be terrified of these different kid of armed guards? How have they been trained? What certifications do they have? Does anyone know? And this paragraph almost made my head explode:

Student interactions with police can be traumatizing, according to students and their families who’ve experienced it. An 11-year-old Denver boy who has had more than 30 interactions with armed officers at schools told Chalkbeat this summer that he’s had nightmares — sometimes more than once a night — about the police coming to his house and harming him and his mother.

Am I the only one who thinks this needs a follow up question? Like what the heck were you doing or around that lead to 30 interactions with cops? Anyone? No? Just me then.

CALDARA HAS SOME GREAT IDEAS FOR LEGISLATION Assuming the GOP doesn't manage to snap defeat from the jaws of victory perhaps we can bring some semblance of balance to this state. Jon Caldara has a bunch of stuff he'd like to see the GOP jump on.

GOOD GRIEF THIS ARTICLE ON CIVIC CENTER PARK IS DEPRESSING AS HELL And it seems that the City believes that they are going to clean up Civic Center Park and it's not going to turn back into a craphole again. This part made me chuckle in horror:

Cyndi Karvaski, spokesperson for the parks department, says the city has a plan to keep Civic Center Park from returning to its present state of disrepair by adding new security and lighting systems. There are plans to increase the number of park rangers patrolling the area from three to eight.

Park rangers, who carry Narcon to administer to people who have overdosed, do not have the power to arrest people, but will be working hand in hand with the Denver Police Department “as a sort of watchdog” to handle complaints, Karvaski said.

So now we have people with no police authority to actually STOP any illegal activity running around the park dosing addicts with Narcon and asking them nicely to go OD on the state's property across the street. Y'all. There has to be a better way.

IT'S NOT JUST THE TEACHERS UNIONS RUNNING THINGS AT THE WHITE HOUSE The labor unions also get to decide policy too! It must be nice to be able to make policy for the entire country because you run a union. And yet, that's where we are. Read this story about how Joe Biden reached out to the heads of the various labor unions BEFORE announcing the mandate. And how the Postal Workers Union was powerful enough to get a pass on the mandate. Because covid does NOT infect postal workers, c'mon man! Also, covid does NOT infect members of Congress or their staffs, they are exempt too. Shocking.

WE ARE NOW IN A TIME WHEN A MAN BEATING UP A WOMAN IS CONSIDERED ENTERTAINMENT At least when a former Special Forces operator who also used to be a man decided to start fighting MMA as a woman. I firmly believe that a woman is going to be killed because of this. Transgender MMA fighter Fallon Fox already fractured the skull of a woman she was fighting. Now we have another case of a woman with 33 years of testosterone and skeletal structure of a man fighting a woman with none of those advantages. It is not and will never be a fair fight. This is beyond an issue of fairness, this is an issue of life or death and the MMA world better figure this out quickly.

I'M TOO OLD FOR YOUNG WOMEN TO DRESS LIKE THIS Years ago Rose McGowan appeared on a red carpet damn near naked with Marilyn Manson. It was an attention getting move and it worked. She now says that it was a political statement in a time before social media. Whatever. Fast forward to last night's MTV awards and it was a race to the naked. So many of these young, very successful women are parading around with all their naughty bits being protected by little more than double stick tape. Why? Do they need to the attention they are getting from this? That is really, really sad. I talk to Q about this stuff all the time. There is a line between sexy and trashy and I don't care how much these women's dresses cost they are trashy. And on top of that they aren't all very flattering to the wearer. There, I'm done being my Nana.

GEORGE W BUSH'S SPEECH ON 9/11 WAS A DISAPPOINTMENT And I say this as a fan of the former President. Watch it here.

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