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Tune in Sunday night to KNUS AM 710 from 5 to 8 pm for Backbone Radio. Matt Dunn and Krista Kafer will hit the airwaves with fresh commentary on all things political and cultural.

If there is one core conviction that holds the Republican Party together, it is the view that the private sector — not the government sector — can save the economy. If there is one prevailing certainty in the Mainstream Media, it is that no matter what happens in the approach to the Fiscal Cliff, Republicans shall take the blame for whatever happens next.

In our view, the above revelation should liberate the Republicans to just go ahead and be Republicans. In the choice between hanging together, hanging apart, or hanging tough on taxes — we know what we recommend.

Additionally, we’ll have two terrific guests: we’ll talk with Dave Kerber, recent candidate for Senate District 26, on the ugly campaign tactics used by the Left. After accusing Kerber and other Republicans of being pro-cancer this election, what will they do in 2014? It’s not like the Left can go any lower.

We’ll also hear from Jamie Gass of the Pioneer Institute about an important upcoming event on national education standards at Independence Institute on December 6^th: Common Core’s Race to the Middle. What exactly is going on in our state’s schools?

We’ll take a look at Susan Rice and the alleged racism of her critics, we’ll assess the fate of Liberal Arts education at American colleges, and we’ll explore the meaning of the recent boomlet in secessionistic thinking. Plus we’ll offer some reflections on the Ken Burns “Dust Bowl” documentary, the apparently inverted “gender gap” in Colorado, and recent research on “gentlemanly behavior.”

We invite your calls at 303-696-1971. Listen live on 710am KNUS in Denver -Metro, or 1460am KZNT in Colorado Springs and also iHeartRADIO on your mobile device. Politics, culture and controversy — plus some groovy bumper music. Backbone Radio, the higher ground in Colorado talk radio.

Tune in Sunday night to KNUS AM 710 from 5 to 8 pm for Backbone Radio. Matt Dunn will hit the airwaves with fresh commentary on all things political and cultural.

As we set about the task of regrouping and reconstituting amidst the realities of a “fundamentally transformed” America — in our post-Twinkie world – Backbone Radio will be joined in studio by two spectacular guests for tonight’s show.

We’ll visit with Congressman Tom Tancredo to check his opinions of Obama’s victory, Romney’s defeat and the overall trajectory of the Republican Party. Where do we go from here? Is this the hour for amnesty? And what does Colorado’s passage of Amendment 64 really mean

We’ll also talk with Professor Thomas Krannawitter, noted Lincoln scholar and author of Vindicating Lincoln, about Steven Spielberg’s new movie “Lincoln.” We’ll find out how the good professor grades Hollywood’s rendition of the noble final year of Lincoln’s life.

Matt saw the movie last night, and fully enjoyed his few hours in the company of Honest Abe. He’ll take a little look at how well (or not well) the current president-elect measures up to the standards of the 16th President of the United States.

Plus we’ll discuss Ron Paul’s farewell, Chris Christie’s verbosity, the dwindling Remnant, Minivans and more.

Listen live on 710am KNUS in Denver -Metro, or 1460am KZNT in Colorado Springs and also iHeartRADIO on your mobile device. Politics, culture and controversy — plus some groovy bumper music. Backbone Radio, the higher ground in Colorado talk radio.

Tune in Sunday night to KNUS AM 710 from 5 to 8 pm for Backbone Radio. Matt Dunn and Krista Kafer will hit the airwaves with fresh commentary on all things political and cultural.

The hosts of Backbone Radio wish you a Happy Veterans Day and a heartfelt thank you to all the men and women who have served our nation in our armed forces. To commemorate Veterans Day, previously called Armistice Day in recognition of the end of the World War I, we’ll be talking with Andy Parks of the Vintage Aero Flying Museum about his collection of WWI and WWII planes and artifacts.  

We’ll also revisit the latest battle in the war of ideas with political veteran (and US Navy veteran) John Andrews.  Though it will take some time to process the reasons for Romney’s defeat, we’ll take a cold hard look across the spectrum.

What happened on Tuesday night? And where do we go from here?

Was it amnesty? Was it demographics? Was it class warfare? Was it the war on women? Was it Sandy? Was it Christie? Was it Romney?

It is a time for soul-searching, a time to ask heavy questions. We’ll start searching, and start asking — and begin the process of regrouping.

It was a stoic Marcus Aurelius who once said: “There are many bitter pills, but we welcome them in hope of health.”

We’re not ready to conduct an autopsy on conservatism just yet — we shall rise again in good health — but we need to do some serious thinking before we do so. We invite your calls at 303-696-1971. Like us on Facebook!

Listen live on 710am KNUS in Denver -Metro, or 1460am KZNT in Colorado Springs and also iHeartRADIO on your mobile device. Politics, culture and controversy — plus some groovy bumper music. Backbone Radio, the higher ground in Colorado talk radio.

It’s tense, it’s tight, and it’s instructive indeed to compare the ways Romney and Obama are respectively closing out their campaigns.

While Obama completes his pratfall into petty Chicago politics, telling his supporters “Voting is the best revenge” — future president Romney walks the high road, encouraging voting “for love of country” and leading “America to a better place.”

As far as we’re concerned, we’re with the ancient philosopher Juvenal, who wrote: “Revenge is the poor delight of little minds.” We’ll talk with political veteran Dick Wadhams about what he thinks will happen on Tuesday between the Chicago school of politicking and the more Reaganesque Romney camp.

Speaking of the higher road, did you catch Kafer’s guest commentary in the Denver Post? Turns out that economic literacy correlates with voting for conservative, free market candidates. Rather than using scare tactics (e.g., ads accusing people of being pro-cancer), educating voters to understand basic economics and government policy reaps dividends at the ballot and may even impact long term voting patterns. Who knew?

Romney came to the Denver Tech Center yesterday, filling Fiddler’s Green to its capacity of 17,000. The energy is enormous, the mittmentum is full steam ahead. If there is wisdom in crowds, then candidate Romney has a virtual monopoly on wisdom these days — as President Obama can’t help but notice his own throngs have diminished since the promises made in 2008. And for good reason.

Meanwhile, our own Steve Kelley spent about 33 hours on a swing set outside the amphitheater, setting a world record and reminding us that Colorado is a “swing state” and that every last vote counts BIG in Colorado this year. The polls have things labeled as a “toss up,” and now Hurricane Sandy has thrown plenty of sand into the gears of both campaigns. What shall be the fallout? How’s it all going to play out?

We’ll offer our own full-court-press with two days left unto election. We’re nervous but we’re ready, and we expect you are too!

We invite your calls at 303-696-1971. Listen live on 710am KNUS in Denver -Metro, or 1460am KZNT in Colorado Springs and also iHeartRADIO on your mobile device. Politics, culture and controversy — plus some groovy bumper music. Backbone Radio, the higher ground in Colorado talk radio.

Tune in Sunday night to KNUS AM 710 from 5 to 8 pm for Backbone Radio. Matt Dunn and Krista Kafer will hit the airwaves with fresh commentary on all things political and cultural.

We’ve got three terrific guests: We’ll talk with Debbie Brown of the Colorado Women’s Alliance about how the Romney Campaign has erased the gender gap this election by appealing to women’s minds and hearts, not their parts, as the other campaign has attempted with paltry returns.  Did you catch the new campaign ad by Team Obama likening voting to losing one’s virginity? Catch Krista’s blog on the topic.

We’ll also talk Debbie Manzanares of the Human Trafficking Task Force of Southern Colorado about their efforts to put an end to the tragedy of trafficking through advocacy, awareness, rehabilitation, and services for survivors. Finally, John S. Lyons, candidate for Colorado Senate District 28, will give us his take on these last two weeks on the campaign trail.

The state of the presidential race with 9 days left has Colorado dead even at 47.8 to 47.8 in the Real Clear Politics composite poll average. Right down to the decimal point, it doesn’t get closer than this.

We were blown away by Kyle Clark’s 9News interview of President Obama on Friday night. Making the most of his opportunity to speak with the President, Reporter Clark asked some pointed questions about  Benghazi, Abound Solar, and the president’s use of the word “bull**itter” to describe his opponent. Not exactly civil!  Clark gets the first annual Backbone Award for his noble example of reportage. Mainstream media take note!

We’ll also review the presidential debates en summarium, the latest gaffes from Joe Biden — Delirium Bidens — and we’ll debrief on last night’s kinetic packed house KNUS “Talkers Tour” event with Karl Rove, Hugh Hewitt and Mike Gallagher. A great time was had by all.

We invite your calls at 303-696-1071. Listen live on 710am KNUS in Denver -Metro, or 1460am KZNT in Colorado Springs and also iHeartRADIO on your mobile device. Politics, culture and controversy — plus some groovy bumper music. Backbone Radio, the higher ground in Colorado talk radio.

Tune in Sunday night to KNUS AM 710 from 5 to 8 pm for Backbone Radio. Matt Dunn and Krista Kafer will hit the airwaves with fresh commentary on all things political and cultural.

We’ve got two great guests. We’ll interview the distinguished historian Walter R. Borneman, author of the recent The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy and King — The Five Star Admirals Who Won the War At Sea. Our discussion will focus on the character and leadership qualities of these legendary individuals. We’ll also talk with University of Colorado Professor Michael Berry, co-author of the recently published research predicting a Romney win.

With 16 days unto election, things really couldn’t be more exciting — or more encouraging for Mitt Romney. Now enjoying a small lead in the polls, and even a slight lead in estimates of the electoral map, the GOP is feeling hopeful but not quite confident.

The empire is striking back, however, with vicious ads accusing Republican candidates of being pro-cancer, anti-women, and haters of the poor.  Will the unprecedented level of government welfare and an emergence of an entitled citizenry make the election a foregone conclusion for the Left as a recent WSJ editorial suggests? Which way is the wind blowing?

Now more than ever, Colorado remains crucial for both candidates. As we witness ad after ad, and appearance after appearance, it’s time to step back and take a look at the grassroots realities here in the Centennial State. The fate of the nation may rest upon the suburbs of Arapahoe and Jefferson counties.

We’ll review the past three debates and we’ll offer our advice on “foreign policy” pursuant to tomorrow night’s final presidential debate. Here’s a hint: It’s time for Romney to set the record straight on Obama’s sub-optimal Libyan fiasco, and also offer some real Republican contrast with the old, often unhelpful policies of George W. Bush. Barring a surprise cameo intervention from Candy Crowley, these tasks should be more than manageable for the challenger.

Plus, we’ll discuss why Barbara Streisand and Bruce Springsteen are stepping it up for Obama, the death of Newsweek and why the socialists in France are trying to ban “homework” in French public schools.

We invite your calls at 303-696-1071. Listen live on 710am KNUS in Denver -Metro, or 1460am KZNT in Colorado Springs and also iHeartRADIO on your mobile device. Politics, culture and controversy — plus some groovy bumper music. Backbone Radio, the higher ground in Colorado talk radio.

Tune in Sunday night to KNUS AM 710 from 5 to 8 pm for Backbone Radio. Matt Dunn and Krista Kafer will hit the airwaves with fresh commentary on all things political and cultural.

Another week and so much to discuss! We’ll have three terrific guests: Ben DeGrow, senior policy analyst for the Education Policy Center at the Independence Institute, will give us his take on the movie Won’t Back Down. We’ll talk about what real health care reform looks like with Nina Owcharenko, the Director of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Health Policy Studies. It’ll be good information for when the disastrous Obamacare law is chucked into history’s dustbin (hopefully a few months from now). We’ll talk with our old friend Jimmy Sengenberger about his upcoming event at the State Capitol.

We’ll also review last week’s VP debate. In what can only be described as an angry, disrespectful and wholly inappropriate performance in Thursday night’s debate, Joe Biden proved himself the veritable poster child for what’s wrong with politics in America today. Shouting, flailing, sneering, interrupting and awkwardly grinning — it makes us aware that sometimes age does not confer wisdom upon the aged.

We were impressed with the way the cool, civilized and presidential Paul Ryan stood up to the hyena tactics of his opponent.

Meanwhile, President Obama — who oft expresses concern about the “smallness of our politics” — decided to spend the past week laser-focused on the travails of Big Bird. Heading into the home stretch, with 23 days unto election, the President wants America to know that a vote for Obama is a vote to save Sesame Street.  Big Bird, however, asked Team Obama to stop running those ads about him. No one likes to be a political puppet.

With Romney rising in the polls, recent events in Libya looking ever worse for the Administration, and the budget deficit surpassing a trillion for the fourth year, we’ve got plenty to talk about.

We invite your calls at 303-696-1071. Listen live on 710am KNUS in Denver -Metro, or 1460am KZNT in Colorado Springs and also iHeartRADIO on your mobile device. Politics, culture and controversy — plus some groovy bumper music. Backbone Radio, the higher ground in Colorado talk radio.

Tune in Sunday night to KNUS AM 710 from 5 to 8 pm for Backbone Radio. Matt Dunn and Krista Kafer will hit the airwaves with fresh commentary on all things political and cultural.

What a week! Heading into Wednesday night’s debate in Denver, Romney was a man already on the ropes, bruised and battered by the polls. President Obama was flying like a butterfly. The stakes were as high as Republican morale was low. The match was on.

Emerging from his corner, Romney gloved up and spent 90 minutes ever-so-politely drubbing President Obama — in front of no less than 67 million viewers. It was an epic performance. Indeed, the result may have been almost as lopsided had Romney been debating an empty chair.

Matt and Krista were a stone’s throw away from the debate at the media center aka Spin Room where Krista was live blogging for the Denver Post. Afterward they hung out in the Spin Room among the stunned and somewhat dejected press corps, celebrity pundits, and campaign staff. We’ll offer our full debrief of the evening, in all its glorious detail. Let’s just say Axelrod was looking a tad grim.

It was pure jubilation the next day at CPAC. A speaker at the event, Krista drank in the enthusiasm.  She still can’t stop smiling.

What’s up next? The Biden-Ryan debate. Will the silver-tongued Joe Biden step up and save the day for Team Obama? Hmmm… We’re betting Axelrod is growing even grimmer at the prospect.

We’ll also consider the case for privatizing Big Bird, the spiritual dimension of an iPhone (or lack thereof), the poetry of Yeats and Arnold, illegal manatee riding and some novel uses for bear spray.

Don’t miss the hard-hitting commentary and groovy bumper music. Tune in to 710 KNUS or 1460 KZNT Colorado Springs or online at http://www.710knus.com/ from 5 to 8 PM. Your smart choice for Sunday night radio.

We had a great show tonight. I promised I’d post the websites mentioned during the show:

http://whosaidyousaid.com/video/the-democrats-cynical-exploitation-of-women-voters-may-not-work/

http://www.coloradowomensalliance.com/my-colorado-view

http://www.mycoloradoview.com/

http://www.mypursepolitics.com/

www.coloradosfutureproject.com

http://www.mycoloradoview.com/who-loves-you-baby/

http://www.economyvoter.com/