Join us on radio every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, DenverTo listen online from anywhere, click 710knus.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday will be another day of massive demonstrations and boycotts by illegal aliens and their sympathizers, aimed at legitimizing some of the most widespread lawbreaking our nation has ever seen. But on Sunday evening our show will look at how patriotic Coloradans are pushing back with a petition drive to affirm the rule of law, a movement called Defend Colorado Now (DCN).

This issue transcends ethnicity or party. Dick Lamm, a Democrat and former governor, said at yesterday's DCN kickoff rally that a country without borders is no country at all. Speaking at the rally as a Republican and former senator, I framed the petition's goal as "No Taxation without Documentation" -- in other words, if you broke the law to come here, don't look for government subsidies in staying here.

Join us on radio every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, DenverTo listen online from anywhere, click 710knus.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Boston University Prof. Angelo Codevilla, my colleague at the Claremont Institute and one of its founders, wrote his new book "No Victory, No Peace," to counter facile optimism in our war against Islamofascism. US military action in Afghanistan and Iraq has been less a real war than a police action, he argues, and victory isn't appreciably closer as a result.

Codevilla makes a somber analogy between the current Bush presidency and that of Richard Nixon, when sporadic toughness in word and deed served to mask, in his view, a deeper pattern of appeasement and retreat that weakened America and emboldened our enemies. He spells this out in the latest American Spectator (link shows contents page, not full text).

Join us on radio every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, DenverTo listen online from anywhere, click 710knus.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The celebration of Easter and Passover sharply cuts our political issues down to size. Biblical faith, in the words of C. S. Lewis, holds that the individual is "incomparably more important" than any nation or civilization, "for he is everlasting and [its life], compared with his, is only a moment."

The timeless impact of God's intervention in history through Moses and Jesus, commemorated this week, outweighs all such concerns as immigration, taxes, or property rights. Yet the latter still have a claim on us. Render to Caesar and to God, Christ taught.

Join us on radio every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, DenverTo listen online from anywhere, click 710knus.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You had to be there. George Washington University, a few blocks from the White House. Thursday evening, an auditorium full of opinionated college students. Conservative organizer David Horowitz debating radical CU professor Ward Churchill. It was gasoline and matches, figuratively speaking, though civility was well maintained.

To the main question of the debate, "Can and should politics be taken out of the classroom?" Churchill said flatly no. "There is no truth," he asserted, merely a dominant orthodoxy enforced by power, which results in there being no real democracy in America today. Hence teachers at all levels are not merely allowed but obligated to aggressively question the status quo, Churchill argued.

By this standard, what Jay Bennish said regarding Bush and Hitler was therefore for the classroom, Churchill insisted near the end of the hour-long exchange. His dogmatic Marxist worldview was defiantly (if implicitly) evident throughout.<!--

Join us on radio every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, DenverTo listen online from anywhere, click 710knus.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit us on the web at BackboneAmerica.net To get off this list, reply with "delete" in subject line ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The consent of the governed in a republic, said Abraham Lincoln, means resolving public issues with ballots rather than bullets. Lacking that, even if actual violence doesn't break out, the sense of injustice grows, faith in democracy fades, and "government for the people" loses credibility. The ballot is that important!