Jerry Fabyanic

It’s been one hell of a party. – Augustus McRae’s final words in Larry McMurtry’s “Lonesome Dove” Augustus is the archetypal adventurer. Carefree, yet noble, responsible, loyal, and trustworthy. Still, even…

Two traditions in the American experience can be traced to our origins: Mistrust of government and dislike of taxes. Both should be seen in context. After their experiences with King George…

Do you know what the toughest job is? The pay is low if not non-existent. You’re always under pressure. You don’t call your own shots, at least until you’re vested after…

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader. – Toni Morrison Since Aristotle, who founded the Lyceum, a public school in that everyone was welcome, nothing has changed in the…

Warning: The following contains adult language, which was bleeped out in the print edition. It might cause you to gasp, clutch your pearls, and go into a twitter, so continue at…

Those of an age remember the days of “duck and cover.” Incoming Russian missiles were imminent. Their missiles in Cuba confirmed it. We kiddos practiced self-defense by hiding under our classroom…

A good perspective to keep in mind when someone is jabbing his/her finger and hurling invectives at you is that it’s not about you, but the hurler. Like baseball pitchers that…

As I was doing a run through Georgetown, I noticed a woman staring at me as I circled the roundabout. When I looked back inquisitively, she asked, “You crazy?” I was…

This is a heady time. Future historians might look back at this period as a time of seminal shift in Colorado’s political trajectory. We recently elected Jared Polis, a Jew and…

A theme in my recent columns is about the need for Republicans of good character to speak out about what is happening in and to their party. It is disconcerting to…

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends than that good men should look on and do nothing. – John Stuart Mill, nineteenth-century English political philosopher America’s Original Sin. Some…