http://www.redstonereview.com News for all the rest of us Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:16:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/12/protest-wall-street-protests-are-just-the-first-step/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/12/protest-wall-street-protests-are-just-the-first-step/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:24:47 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=2780 LYONS – The Wall Street protest movement is sweeping around the globe gathering followers and strength. Despite differences from place to place the protests share frustration with banks, corporations and the widening gap between rich and poor. No one knows where it is all headed but it seems certain to affect us even here in sheltered little Lyons. At the risk of sounding unpatriotic, this once again raises the age-old debate between capitalism and socialism; individualism and collectivism. And, it comes at a time when the traditional role of local government in economic development is being seriously challenged.]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/12/protest-wall-street-protests-are-just-the-first-step/feed/ 0 http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/12/it%e2%80%99s-simple-cut-federal-spending-waste/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/12/it%e2%80%99s-simple-cut-federal-spending-waste/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:11:39 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=2776 PUEBLO — I awoke in a cold sweat one night last week. I’d had a terrible dream about federal spending cuts vs. tax increases on millionaires. What made the dream terrible and brought on the cold sweat, however, wasn’t the still-rotten state of the economy or the trench warfare each party has adopted with regard to how to make things right. Nor was it the “occupy” protestors across the nation, or all the millionaires and corporations that pay no income taxes. Rather, it was that, in the dream, I found myself agreeing with Bill O’Reilly. Yes, that’s right. I was agreeing the often-obnoxious Bill O’Reilly, the guy who tells other people to shut up rather than acknowledge that their opinions are equal to or in any way superior to his own.]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/12/it%e2%80%99s-simple-cut-federal-spending-waste/feed/ 0 http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/10/satellite-could-fall-from-the-sky-anytime/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/10/satellite-could-fall-from-the-sky-anytime/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:15:17 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=2645 PUEBLO – If you own a combat helmet, you might want to dust it off and keep it nearby. It won’t save your life, but it may make you feel more secure when the refrigerator falls from the sky late this month or in early October.]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/10/satellite-could-fall-from-the-sky-anytime/feed/ 0 http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/09/the-afghanistan-war-is-accomplishing-nothing-except-to-repeat-history/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/09/the-afghanistan-war-is-accomplishing-nothing-except-to-repeat-history/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:30:55 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=2610 LYONS – A long time ago, in fact when the Russians were still raping and pillaging Afghanistan, we had a visitor here in Lyons. This visitor was a European world traveler and had recently come from Kabul through the Khyber Pass. We talked about the Hindu Kush Range and the Paropamisus Mountains as I showed him around Lyons. He kept shaking his head at how much these foothills reminded him of Afghanistan. Sure enough, it turns out that we are roughly at the same altitude, same latitude, same geology, same weather and just as landlocked as that most foreign of all countries.]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/09/the-afghanistan-war-is-accomplishing-nothing-except-to-repeat-history/feed/ 0 http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/09/governor-rick-perry-enters-the-race-for-president/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/09/governor-rick-perry-enters-the-race-for-president/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:13:03 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=2596 Now that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination, I think he has to be the odds-on favorite. Conservative Christians and Tea Party Republicans alike have expressed support for him, and if he wins the nomination, he’ll likely pull most, if not all, the votes from independents who identify with those labels. ]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/09/governor-rick-perry-enters-the-race-for-president/feed/ 0 http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/08/small-town-character-means-different-things-to-different-people/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/08/small-town-character-means-different-things-to-different-people/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 02:29:31 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=2518 LYONS – “This is a small town.” How you utter that phrase tells me a lot about you. Most people I know are clearly divided between those who yearn to live here and those who think of small towns as mini-federal disaster areas that politicians should fly over in a great show of pity and sympathy. ]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/08/small-town-character-means-different-things-to-different-people/feed/ 0 http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/08/congresswoman-bachman-signs-the-marriage-vow-pledge/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/08/congresswoman-bachman-signs-the-marriage-vow-pledge/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 01:32:11 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=2502 PUEBLO – Score one for Congresswoman Michelle Bachman (R) Minn. – maybe. On the heels of the New York Legislature’s historic June 23 vote to recognize gay marriage in that state, she became the first presidential candidate to sign the FAMiLY LEADER pledge, titled “The Marriage Vow – A Declaration of Dependence Upon Marriage and Family,” a.k.a. the “Marriage Vow” pledge.]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/08/congresswoman-bachman-signs-the-marriage-vow-pledge/feed/ 0 http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/07/colorado-state-patrol-gets-high-marks-and-deserves-our-support/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/07/colorado-state-patrol-gets-high-marks-and-deserves-our-support/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:14:08 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=2442 PUEBLO – I spent a good portion of Friday, June 10, driving from Pueblo to Denver and back. It’s not my favorite journey on Colorado’s roads. I’d much rather use those hours exploring the places few vehicles and people go.]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/07/colorado-state-patrol-gets-high-marks-and-deserves-our-support/feed/ 0 http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/05/diversity-of-thought-by-conservatives-and-liberals-can-create-balance/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/05/diversity-of-thought-by-conservatives-and-liberals-can-create-balance/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 05:12:05 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=2353 PUEBLO – As I write this, the entire nation is breathing a sigh of relief. That’s because Republicans and Democrats have hammered out a compromise funding a budget extension that will keep the government running for another week – until April 15.]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2011/05/diversity-of-thought-by-conservatives-and-liberals-can-create-balance/feed/ 0 http://www.redstonereview.com/2010/08/oil-has-been-leaking-into-the-gulf-for-many-years/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2010/08/oil-has-been-leaking-into-the-gulf-for-many-years/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:06:30 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=1963 By Richard A. Joyce Redstone Review PUEBLO – Back in the late 1980s, give or take a couple of years, I took my daughter, Shannon, to Galveston, Texas, to spend some time with my former in-laws, with whom I had good relationships despite my recent divorce. Shannon lived with her mom during the school year and with me [...]]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2010/08/oil-has-been-leaking-into-the-gulf-for-many-years/feed/ 0