Michael D. Brown

Somehow I’ve gotten placed on a mailing list from someone in Boulder who is supportive of the OccupyWallStreet (OWS) movement. I try to read as many of them as I can in order to learn as much about these groups as possible. Yesterday I received one with a link to a magazine I had never [...]

In 1988 when I ran for Congress a friend of mine, Philip M. Stern, wrote the book The Best Congress Money Can Buy and even though a Democratic activist, Stern was on to something. Today, 60 Minutes and Peter Schweizer, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, are revisiting the reality of soft corruption within Congress [...]

By now you’ve heard the cries of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement that they represent the 99% of the country that is suffering while the other 1% eats up all the wealth in this country. Income inequality has become a rallying cry for these groups, and it is easy to fall prey to their [...]

Twenty years after the fall of the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics (USSR) the remnants of socialism and communism can still be seen in the country. I remember vividly individuals with only one or two cows, still herding them in a field without fences, because they’re still not accustomed to private property. The cinder block [...]

Will the United States continue down the road of becoming more and more of a collectivist society, or will we continue to maintain our stature as a country that celebrates individualism? Over several decades the country has slowly slipped more and more into a socialist society, with Democrats (and willing Republicans) pushing more and more [...]

Over the weekend I stopped at Broadway and 14th Street in Denver since I couldn’t drive down Broadway. Once again, the OccupyDenver protestors had violated the law, this time blocking southbound Broadway at Civic Center Park. So, being the curious person I am decided to stroll through these protestors who, I am told, are just [...]

Egypt is offering an insightful lesson in how revolutions are almost always, if not always, co-opted by those who have ulterior motives than the original instigators of the revolution. Coptic Christians in Egypt are the latest victims of this maxim, and there are lessons for those in the Occupy____ movement. First, what happened in Egypt [...]

I’ll have more on Occupy Denver tomorrow. But watching 9News in Denver tonight I was struck by the sense of panic in Governor Hickenlooper’s voice as he was interviewed on the late news. He is clearly torn between the Democratic politics that has completely adopted this movement, and the questions of following the rule of [...]

While demonstrating for everything under the sun, exercising their right of free speech and assembly, the Occupy Wall Street protestors march in Philadelphia, of all places, carrying a Communist Party flag of the old Soviet Union. How ironic, or ignorant. Clearly, useful idiots. I fully support the right of these people to protest – under [...]