GUY BENSON IS A SMARTY PANTS And he's one of the many fantastic speakers at this year's Freedom Conference put together by the Steamboat Institute. This event is SPECTACULAR and if you can swing it you should go. Find the complete list of speakers here. Buy your tickets for the event in Beaver Creek here.

IF YOU'RE A DISABLED VET You need to know about the next event with the Disabled American Veterans. Jerry Squyers and Brittany Costa are on today at 1 to talk about the next event in Lakewood August 23rd where they can help you apply for benefits or change your disability rating. The event is from 10:00 a.m to 2:00 p.m. at their Lakewood office at 1480 Hoyt Street, Lakewood, CO 80215 and if please spread the word! Find out more about DAV by clicking here.

OUR BUSTED BUDGET IS NOT TRUMP'S FAULT And Michael Fields at Advance Colorado did a banger of a column here reminding us of all the ways the Democrats have squandered a massive surplus, grown the budget by 50% in five years, and otherwise mismanaged the state. We're doing to do a deep dive on it today.

AND THEY ARE COMING FOR TABOR And House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese writes here about how much the Democrats hate TABOR because it reins in their power. There is no doubt they won't rest until TABOR is done. Elections have consequences.

MARCO RUBIO KILLED IT ON THE SUNDAY SHOWS YESTERDAY And I realize that Margaret Brennan is tryingt to get a scoop, but he made her look really stupid yesterday when talking about Friday's summit between Trump and Putin.