Mike Krause

Independence Institute: CMS should speak up on ObamaCare’s effects

September 26, 2010 at 6:34 pm

The Colorado Medical Society (CMS) had its annual meeting in early September, and the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (H.R. 3590, aka ObamaCare) was a focus of the gathering....

Independent Ideas: Colorado doing OK on asset forfeiture laws

June 27, 2010 at 4:01 pm

The libertarian public interest law firm, Institute for Justice (IJ), has put out a tremendous new report on abusive civil asset forfeiture practices in the United States called "Policing for...

Independent Ideas: How Democratic Legislature killed medical privacy in Colorado

June 13, 2010 at 9:05 pm

It's tough being the establishment. Sometimes you have to trash your principles for political purposes. Privacy and choice, ideals once championed by liberals and their progressive allies, have been reduced...

Independent Ideas: Curtail prison spending

December 13, 2009 at 5:05 pm

R epublicans often claim to be the party of fiscal conservatism and limited government, but show little enthusiasm for applying those principles to Colorado's hugely expensive prison bureaucracy. So when...

Drug war is becoming a disaster

September 20, 2009 at 9:14 pm

Colorado lawmakers' long-running devotion to the disastrous "War on Drugs" has helped to jam Colorado prisons full at a huge cost to taxpayers. In the meantime, illicit drugs remain readily...

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