Radio, Oct. 15: Beauprez battles back

Update during the show: John Miller's 50 Greatest Conservative Rock Songs is here. Great stuff, dig in.--------------------------------------------------------------------- Join us on radio every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver and now also on 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs To listen online from anywhere, click 710knus.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greetings from snowy Lansing, Michigan, where my great-grandfather and uncle were both state senators. I'm here campaigning against a teacher-union ballot issue modeled on Colorado's awful Amendment 23, mandating education spending increases ahead of all else. These bad ideas spread like kudzu; got to keep chopping them back.

On Sunday I'll be home again, in front of the "Backbone Radio" microphone for another show on America without apologies, America with steel in her spine. You are invited to listen in and call in. 303-696-1971 or backboneradio@aol.com gets you into the conversation.

Bob Beauprez, Republican nominee for Governor, is one of my guests on the show. Trailing with three weeks to go, he is battling for a come-behind victory, Harry Truman style. My Denver Post column on all the reasons Beauprez deserves your vote will be posted here starting Oct 14.

Other guests and topics for our Oct. 15 show will include:

** Indiana Congressman John Hostettler, chairman of the House Immigration Subcommittee, talking about that issue and the election struggle for party control.

** Al Knight, Denver Post columnist, discussing his support for Amendment 40, term limits on judges.

** Linda Seebach, Rocky Mountain News columnist, on the troubling data about civic illiteracy in our colleges.

** John Miller of National Review, recapping his hit parade article on the 50 greatest conservative rock songs. (Yes, you read that right, and don't miss this interview.)

Please tell your friends about "Backbone Radio with John Andrews." America and the West, still not fully aroused to the threat we face five years after 9/11, need a lot more backbone right now. We're committed to helping. How about you?

Yours for self-government, JOHN ANDREWS

Radio, Oct. 15: Beauprez battles back

Join us on radio every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denverand now also on 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs To listen online from anywhere, click 710knus.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greetings from snowy Lansing, Michigan, where my great-grandfather and uncle were both state senators. I'm here campaigning against a teacher-union ballot issue modeled on Colorado's awful Amendment 23, mandating education spending increases ahead of all else. These bad ideas spread like kudzu; got to keep chopping them back.

On Sunday I'll be home again, in front of the "Backbone Radio" microphone for another show on America without apologies, America with steel in her spine. You are invited to listen in and call in. 303-696-1971 or backboneradio@aol.com gets you into the conversation.

Bob Beauprez, Republican nominee for Governor, is one of my guests on the show. Trailing with three weeks to go, he is battling for a come-behind victory, Harry Truman style. My Denver Post column on all the reasons Beauprez deserves your vote will be posted here starting Oct 14.

Other guests and topics for our Oct. 15 show will include...

** Indiana Congressman John Hostettler, chairman of the House Immigration Subcommittee, talking about that issue and the election struggle for party control.

** Al Knight, Denver Post columnist, discussing his support for Amendment 40, term limits on judges.

** Linda Seebach, Rocky Mountain News columnist, on the troubling data about civic illiteracy in our colleges.

** John Miller of National Review, recapping his hit parade article on the 50 greatest conservative rock songs. (Yes, you read that right, and don't miss this interview.)

Please tell your friends about "Backbone Radio with John Andrews." America and the West, still not fully aroused to the threat we face five years after 9/11, need a lot more backbone right now. We're committed to helping. How about you?

Yours for self-government, JOHN ANDREWS

Radio, Oct. 8: Turning the page

Update, 6pm: To order Tawfik Hamid's book, "The Roots of Jihad," not yet available on other websites, send your $26 check payable to him to Roots, 700 N. Colorado Blvd. #180, Denver CO 80206. Details on his Oct. 9 lecture at DU are on www.isime.org. More about Dr. Hamid's courageous journey from radical Islam to a still devout, but more humane, understanding of the faith is at www.muslimsforhumanrights.org.----------------------------------------------------------------------- Join us on radio every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver and now also on 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs To listen online from anywhere, click 710knus.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wow, when I was a 16-year-old page (Republican National Convention, 1960), it was a strictly G-rated experience. Times have changed, and not for the better. The Foley affair is ugly on many levels, but it is far from the only thing going on that matters to conservatives and Coloradans. Our show this Sunday will focus on some of those other things, saying little of pages and perversion.

** Richard V. Allen, President Reagan's national security adviser, returns as my guest for a discussion of foreign and defense policy issues in next month's election. Dr. Tawfik Hamid, an Egyptian scholar of Islam, will also join me to preview his new book, "The Roots of Jihad."

** David Brussat, architecture critic for the Providence Journal, will tell us why the Denver's new attention-grabbing museum, may fall short of greatness. And I'll talk with producer Ken Wales about the "Amazing Grace" movie, Wilberforce's life story out soon from Walden Media.

** Plus Roland Warren of the National Fatherhood Initiative, spelling out why fathers matter so very much in children's lives. Is there a connection to school shootings, inner-city despair, and even congressional sex? Listen and judge for yourself.

Please tell your friends about "Backbone Radio with John Andrews." America and the West, still not fully aroused to the threat we face five years after 9/11, need a lot more backbone right now. We're committed to helping. How about you?

Yours for self-government, JOHN ANDREWS

Radio, Oct. 1: Red hot politics

Update, Sunday afternoon: On today's show, Brad Jones and I will also discuss Col. Dave Grossman's article, "Preventing School Violence." See http://www.killology.com/school_notes_preventing_violence.htm. Grossman has been my guest in the past, and we'll try to get him next week for a full analysis of the Bailey school tragedy and the lessons Colorado still hasn't learned, seven full years after Columbine.----------------------------------------------------------- Join us on radio every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver and now also on 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs To listen online from anywhere, click 710knus.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TERM LIMITS ON TV TONIGHT... Amendment 40, term limits for judges, is ahead in the polls and gaining endorsements from district attorneys, who ought to know. Friday evening, tonight, see me debate No. 40 with Bar Association spokesman Bob Miller. We face off at 730pm on "Colorado State of Mind," Channel 6, and again at 9pm on "Colorado Decides," Channel 12. Check listings for repeat showings if you miss us on 9/29. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SHOW PREVIEW... Once a reliable red state in politics, Colorado voted a lot more purple in 2004. Is a red comeback in the making on Nov. 7 -- or will Republicans be left with the election blues by hard-charging Democrats? Current polls favor the Dems, but much could still change with 40 days until the votes are counted.

Our topic will be all politics, all evening, this Sunday on "Backbone Radio with John Andrews." The discussion will be hot, and we invite your participation in turning up the heat -- as well as turning on the light. Too little truth and too much myth is part of the reason for blue political momentum right now. Our show aims to change that.

** I'll talk with three Republican candidates... Rick O'Donnell running hard for the open 7th congressional seat... Scott Tipton challenging 3rd district congressman John Salazar... and Bob Schaffer, the former congressman seeking election to the State Board of Education, where he recently took a vacancy appointment.

** Ryan Sager, New York Post columnist, will tell us about his new book, "The Elephant in the Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians, and the Battle for the Republican Party."

** And I will quiz Mike Littwin, Rocky Mountain News columnist, about why his usually GOP-friendly paper endorsed Democrat Bill Ritter for governor, and how Mike's fellow Dems might use the lock they hope to gain on state government. (Ugh.)

Please tell your friends about "Backbone Radio with John Andrews." America and the West, still not fully aroused to the threat we face five years after 9/11, need a lot more backbone right now. We're committed to helping. How about you?

Yours for self-government, JOHN ANDREWS

Radio, Sept. 24: Black conservative in Hollywood?

Join us on radio every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denverand now also on 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs To listen online from anywhere, click 710knus.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lots was covered on our 9/24 show, including today's book signing party with Joseph C. Phillips (details at bottom), the momentum for term limits on judges (grumpy governors not withstanding), Claremont's conservative summit in Washington where I spoke, and the chances for a big TABOR win in Maine where I've just been.

And if you thought there was no such thing as a black conservative in Hollywood, Denver's own Joseph C. Phillips, formerly of "The Cosby Show" and now playing on Fox TV's "Vanished," has news for you. He's exactly that, as witnessed in his powerful new book, "He Talk Like a White Boy."

Phillips is eloquent, touching, funny, and fearless as he talks about why he supports Bush, loves cowboys, rejects victimology, and is raising his three sons to identify as Americans, period. I'm delighted he'll be with me for an hour in studio, this Sunday on "Backbone Radio with John Andrews." I urge you to tune in. Other guests and topics include:

** Richard Viguerie, the direct mail wizard of the Right who helped make Reagan president, also has a book you need to know about. The title says it all: "Conservatives Betrayed." He too will be my guest on 9/24.

** So will right-to-life champion Eve Sanchez Silver, who broke with the Komen Foundation over their coverup of the abortion/breast cancer link.

** So will Kyle Fisk, the young GOP challenger to El Paso County's only Democrat legislator, and state Sen. John Evans, sponsor of the disabled veterans tax break, Referendum E on your ballot.

Please tell your friends about "Backbone Radio with John Andrews." America and the West, still not fully aroused to the threat we face five years after 9/11, need a lot more backbone right now. We're committed to helping. How about you?

Yours for self-government, JOHN ANDREWS ------------------------------------------------------------- INVITATION: Joseph C. Phillips book signing and author conversation, this Monday the 25th, 6-730pm at Borders Books on County Line Road, just west of I-25 and north of Park Meadows mall. Joseph will meet and greet Backbone listeners, and he'll sign your copy of the stirring, startling new black conservative testament, "He Talk Like a White Boy." Come on out, bring a friend. -------------------------------------------------------------- Govs' Quartet Whistling Dixie? Good ol' Roy Romer, who in 1990 beat me but couldn't stop the term limits juggernaut, hopes to stop it this time as he and three peers (including the current, term-limited incumbent) sound dire warnings against Amendment 40 / Limit the Judges. But the people, in contrast to the politicians, favor the proposed limit 54-37 in polls.