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Bob Beauprez is a former Member of Congress and is currently the editor-in-chief of A Line of Sight, an online policy resource. Prior to serving in Congress, Mr. Beauprez was a dairy farmer and community banker. He and his wife Claudia reside in Lafayette, Colorado. You may contact him at: http://bobbeauprez.com/contact/
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Bob Beauprez (May 14, 2012)
As millions of citizens become ever more desperate, they do what they must to survive. That's understandable, and the depth and prolonged nature of the current... more
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Bob Beauprez (May 10, 2012)
Barack Obama is going to get another shot at getting the decision of the Keystone XL Pipeline right. The Canadian company, TransCanada, seeking to build the massive... more
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Bob Beauprez (May 05, 2012)
Barack Obama's bragging about taking out Osama bin Laden has blown up in his face. The recently released campaign video that includes a lengthy adulation of the... more
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Bob Beauprez (May 02, 2012)
The Obama re-election campaign has moved on from the 2008 campaign slogan, "Change we can believe in." Yesterday Team Obama introduced the 2012 version – "Forward" – complete... more
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Bob Beauprez (May 01, 2012)
Remember the shell game? The magician keeps up a steady stream of patter and diversions to make it difficult or even impossible to know where the pea is hiding. Our... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 29, 2012)
The outrage continues to grow over the revelation by EPA Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz that the "general philosophy" of the EPA regarding regulations of oil and gas... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 27, 2012)
Long ago most of us came to the conclusion that the Obama Administration was waging a war on the fossil fuel industry. Although the President denies this, of course,... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 26, 2012)
An official for the State Department made it official, "The War on Terror is over."
It would seem that Barack Obama would have wanted to make the rather... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 24, 2012)
Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats don't even bother with a budget – even though they are in the fourth year of trillion dollar plus deficits. Apparently,... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 21, 2012)
President Obama is betting his re-election chances on convincing enough people that Americans are not taxed enough. His designated villain is millionaires - a class... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 18, 2012)
"Now, I want to emphasize, this is not simply an issue of redistributing wealth. That's what you’ll hear from those who object to a tax plan that is fair. This is not just... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 15, 2012)
In recent days, if he hasn't been pitching "fairness" and adoption of higher taxes with his so-called Buffet Rule, President Obama has been pandering to women voters. ... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 13, 2012)
A public trustee appointed by President Obama to oversee Medicare and Social Security has issued an extensive research report finding that ObamaCare will increase government... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 12, 2012)
James O'Keefe is back, this time exposing the ease of voter fraud in the nation's capital. On primary election day April 3, O'Keefe was offered the ballot for U.S.... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 07, 2012)
High gas prices may be hitting the economy right in the gut. For the month of March, the pace of new job creation was cut by more than half compared to the last several... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 06, 2012)
New information about the approval process for the $535 million Department of Energy loan to the failed California solar energy company Solyndra contrasts sharply with the... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 05, 2012)
During his campaign for re-election, don't expect Barack Obama to bring up the national debt. By the time Americans are voting, Obama will have added more than $5.5... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 03, 2012)
Most people understand that the federal government controls a lot of land, but few know just how vast the holdings really are. The map above is courtesy of Investor's... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 02, 2012)
If only it was a very bad April Fool’s Day joke, but it’s not. As of April 1, the U.S. will have sole possession of the highest corporate tax rate in the developed... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 01, 2012)
“The United States will always have Israel's back when it comes to Israel's security.”
Barack Obama, March 5, 2012
The Israeli back that Barack Obama likes to talk about... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 31, 2012)
During a recent committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) asked Energy Secretary Stephen Chu if he thought a $50 light bulb was “affordable” for... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 29, 2012)
You’ve heard the stories about the millions of dollars squandered by the Obama Administration on green energy projects supposedly to create vast numbers of new jobs in a... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 28, 2012)
Mistakenly believing the microphone was off, Barack Obama confided to outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he needed a little “space” to get through “his last... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 26, 2012)
It is a common cliché; "You changed my life." But, how many people really do?
Tom Tillapaugh not only changes lives; he literally saves them. Lots of them.
In... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 25, 2012)
The President has taken to bragging about the 3.7 million new jobs that have been "created" on his watch, but he conveniently has forgotten to mention that he's still 10.4... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 24, 2012)
I've long lamented the careful tip-toeing by religious clergy around anything that leftist politicians might construe as "crossing the line." Organizations like the Freedom... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 23, 2012)
Sitting atop approximately one trillion barrels of oil and roughly 10 percent of the nation’s total reserve of shale gas, Colorado is poised to become a significant energy... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 21, 2012)
A 180 degree difference from what they say and what they do has become standard-operating-procedure at the Obama White House. Take government regulation, for... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 17, 2012)
Rapidly rising gas prices at the pump have turned up the heat on Barack Obama. Interestingly, the Administration that just three years ago said it was committed to... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 16, 2012)
Whether you agree with a President or not, any administration should at least be consistent and predictable.
Here's how Obama answered criticism of his decision to... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 14, 2012)
If you had any lingering doubts about the Obama Administration’s lack of respect for the Constitution or for the sovereignty of the United States of America just watch this 7... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 13, 2012)
What do you get for $193 million? A dead battery.
Consumer Reports tried to test the Karma, a $100,000 electric car creation of Fisker Automotive, but it died and... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 11, 2012)
Back in February, 2009 Barack Obama said, “today I’m pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.” Not only has he not... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 10, 2012)
The Congressional Budget Office says that the government provided $24 billion of tax credits and direct subsidies to the energy industry in 2011. Here’s how it... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 06, 2012)
An axiom of economics is “if you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less, tax it.” As near as I can tell, that pretty much sums up Barack Obama’s... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 05, 2012)
Still in his twenties, James O’Keefe is already a very well established investigative journalist having blown apart ACORN and embarrassed Planned Parenthood and NPR.... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 04, 2012)
In December, 2008 Steven Chu, the man who was to very shortly become Barack Obama’s Secretary of Energy, told the Wall Street Journal that, “Somehow we have to figure out how... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 03, 2012)
Starting with his State of the Union address last month and carrying into his University of Miami speech, the President has been raising eyebrows and hopes with his seemingly... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 02, 2012)
See if this sounds familiar. A solar energy company with a principal investor who is a huge supporter Barack Obama and Democrat causes got a Department of Energy loan... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 01, 2012)
President Obama says he is for an "all of the above" energy policy, and likes to take credit for domestic production being up. But, as Steve Forbes says, the Obama... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 27, 2012)
As if it were his private stash of fun-money, Barack Obama set aside $80 billion of the Stimulus boondoggle to artificially pump up the green-energy industry through a DOE... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 24, 2012)
Too often it seems that any news coming from the African continent is bad. Famine, disease, tribal warfare, abject poverty, political and economic turmoil, warlords and... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 23, 2012)
It isn't the first time on Capitol Hill that a paid hack starts signing a different tune once the money dries up, but this might be one for the record books given the... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 21, 2012)
As a life-long Catholic, the often blind loyalty of many in my faith to the Democrat Party has befuddled me for years. Regardless of the promotion of a social agenda at odds... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 20, 2012)
As mentioned in a feature earlier this week, February 17 marked the third anniversary of President Obama’s signing into law of his infamous economic Stimulus. The ceremony... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 19, 2012)
Late last month Chesapeake Energy Corp. quietly tested a new method of horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” on two well sites in Ohio. The new process uses... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 18, 2012)
Three years ago yesterday Barack Obama signed his $800 billion Stimulus into law in Denver, Colorado.
He said would save or create 4 million jobs and that the... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 16, 2012)
When Barack Obama promised that his non-energy energy policies would “bankrupt” anyone foolish enough to try to operate a coal-fired power plant, he talked as if he... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 14, 2012)
Barack Obama delivered his new budget proposal to Congress this morning. The document increases yet again the estimate for deficit spending for the current FY 2012 year -... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 13, 2012)
More often than not Congress needs to be saved from itself. A classic example is the STOCK Act which passed the U.S. Senate last week and comes up for a vote in the... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 11, 2012)
About three weeks ago, Barack Obama nixed the Keystone XL pipeline that would have transported 900,000 barrels of oil per day from the Canadian tar sands to the gulf coast... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 10, 2012)
A short while back I wrote of some revealing statistics that invite the question, are we becoming “A Nation of Dependents” on government benefits of one kind or... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 07, 2012)
"I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012."
Ruth Bader Ginsberg, January 30, 2012Egyptian Al-Hayat Television Interview
Even... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 06, 2012)
The recent labor reports certainly have some encouraging news. New jobs in January estimated at 243,000 and a decline in unemployment to 8.3 percent suggests that the... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 05, 2012)
Here’s a quick footnote to our commentary published last week about the bankruptcy announcement by Ener1, another of Obama’s failed green-energy “investments.” Ener1... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 04, 2012)
The Obama Administration is reportedly working on a deal to release five Taliban terrorists held at Gitmo as an “incentive” to talk peace in Afghanistan. Taliban leader... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 03, 2012)
When the Deep Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico exploded in May of 2010, the Obama Administration was quick to climb the rostrum of political opportunity and seize full... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 02, 2012)
Imagine you are a Member of Congress deeply troubled by the huge federal deficits. You would likely be fully aware that unless serious reform happens soon, the existing... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 01, 2012)
Even before he took the oath of office, Barack Obama embraced the financial crisis of 2008. In the words of his then Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel, “You never want a... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 31, 2012)
was seven when my Dad put me on the seat of an Oliver 77 tractor and sent me to the field to rake hay by myself. My Dad said he was about the same age when his... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 30, 2012)
The following graph demonstrates the dramatic growth of dependency on federal government benefits. Given the rapid increase in the established trend, any day now at... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 29, 2012)
This weekend’s Boston Globe Magazine will feature a gargantuan, 3600 word homage to rabid environmentalism in the form of a profile on 350.org founder Bill... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 26, 2012)
Barack Obama spent considerable time during the State of the Union address on jobs and the economy – both of which are in a sorry state.
As a result of the... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 24, 2012)
If it wasn’t already strange enough to have professed free-market conservatives attacking a candidate for his free-market success, the GOP presidential primary just got even... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 22, 2012)
In 1977, President Jimmy Carter warned Americans of a pending "national catastrophe" in a prime time nationally televised speech. "The Oil and natural gas we rely on for 75... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 21, 2012)
Fox News is reporting that this afternoon Barack Obama is going to kill the Keystone Pipeline Project. This stands in direct opposition to a president who says he is... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 17, 2012)
Rick Reilly is not only "one of the funniest humans on the planet," he's one of the most articulate and insightful. Rick grew up not far from me in Boulder, Colorado, where... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 14, 2012)
The U.S. federal debt has surpassed the total production of the entire country. According to a feature article in USA Today, total debt of $15.3 trillion now exceeds... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 11, 2012)
The ultra-high stakes game of chicken continues in the Straits of Hormuz – as well as in Tehran and Washington. Iran continues to escalate rhetoric and the saber... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 10, 2012)
The Obama Administration would have us believe that the newest jobs data (i.e. 200,000 jobs created in December, and 8.5% unemployment) is proof that the President’s economic... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 08, 2012)
"The math is the math. You can't lower (tax) rates and raise revenues."
- Barack Obama, December 11, 2011
When I heard the President make the above statement to Steve Kroft... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 04, 2012)
The head of the Iranian military has warned the U.S. Fifth Fleet to stay out of the Persian Gulf. The latest bluster comes on the heels of ten days of Iranian... more
