The Churn

D’SOUZA: Which dream will we carry into the 21st century: the American dream, or Obama’s dream?

DENVER–If it were a movie, nobody would believe it: A conservative writer teams up with a Hollywood producer to make a hard-hitting documentary about a Democratic president during his reelection run that breaks box-office records. Read more »

The Dark Knight Rises isn’t exactly standard Hollywood fare – which vastly improves the product

Sorry, “The Dark Knight Rises,” no Oscar for you.  Not that you don’t deserve it.

Far from it. The Dark Knight is easily the best of a pretty sorry crop of Hollywood offerings this year, but it’s completely politically incorrect and we know the Academy insists on nothing but political correctness. Read more »

University of Colorado employees donated $38,335 to President Obama’s campaign, nearly six times the amount they gave Romney (Michael Buck Image)

DENVER — If campaign donations are a measure of political orientation and enthusiasm, President Barack Obama remains intensely popular among university faculty and staff, outraising presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney by a factor of 10 or 20 on some campuses. Read more »

Michael Brown, co-host of "The Rundown with Sirota & Brown," airing weekdays from 3 to 7 p.m. on KHOW

DENVER–This week’s debut of KHOW-AM’s afternoon talk show pairing the left-wing David Sirota with the right-wing Michael Brown had to be viewed as a success, given that both hosts lived to talk another day.

In fact, Sirota and Brown were remarkably civil, avoiding political screamfests and sticking to chatty general-interest topics like the proposed Colorado State University stadium, video games, the neighbor’s lawn, movies, and whether Penn State’s football program should get the death penalty. Read more »

MEDIA TRACKERS: Colorado’s SEIU President cleared $94,486 in 2011 while members in industries such as janitorial services made just $22,288 according to labor statistics

DENVER – The Executive Director of the Colorado Education Association [CEA], Tony Salazar, was paid five times that of the average member of the CEA according to 990 filings for 2007 and 2008. The wage gap between Colorado Union bosses and Union members isn’t limited to the CEA either, SEIU bosses, United Transportation Union bosses, and Sheet Metal Workers bosses in Colorado all consistently outpace the wages of their membership by margins ranging from ~200-500%. Read more »

MEDIA TRACKERS: Based on the last election cycle, Democratic leaning 527's totaled 99% of all non federal 527 activity in Colorado political races

DENVER – The top spokesman for Colorado Democrats told a local paper that both parties in the state engaged in financing activities that resembled money laundering. Read more »

According to the report, Social Security program assets will “begin to decline in 2021 and become exhausted and unable to pay scheduled benefits in full on a timely basis in 2033”

As they have in prior years, annual reports compiled by the Social Security and Medicare trustees painted an increasingly bleak picture for America’s two largest entitlement programs.   Both reports warn that expenditures associated with the two massive federal programs continue to outstrip revenues, and that policymakers must undertake reform soon if the programs are to survive.  Read more »

"The Hunger Games" was published in 2008.

Hollywood bigwigs would sooner vote for Rick Santorum than make a movie promoting conservative themes, but whether they realize it or not, that’s exactly what they’ve done with The Hunger Games.

Released March 23, The Hunger Games notched the third-highest grossing opening in U.S. box-office history, earning $155 million in its first weekend. The movie is in many ways standard action-adventure fare–plenty of violence, a love triangle, attractive stars–but at its core is a message of individual resistance to an all-powerful government. Read more »