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Human life suddenly became less valuable when a "constitutional right" to abortion was created by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973. Part of the worry from critics was that that very standard would be applied to seniors, too. In Colorado. which was a leader in the race to turn abortion into a national industry, the move to get rid of seniors also surged at that time. In fact, it was Colorado's governor, Dick Lamm, who shortly later proclaimed to senior citizens, "We've got a duty to die and get out of the way…" Now a report from The DCPatriot is...

Former liberal governor of Colorado Dick Lamm and full text of his speech. Dick Lamm (left); Mike McGarry of the Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform (center) and me, Jan. 8, 2003, Denver, Colorado. I have had the pleasure of speaking and debating alongside former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm. In Colorado five years ago, we took on an open-borders contingent that was pushing for the illegal alien ID card known as the matricula consular (which I’ve blogged about extensively here.) He’s a true maverick–a Democrat who has long presaged the self-destructive impact of open borders. Text of his speech: I have...

This is the original audio file of Dick Lamm's now rather famous and very short "My Plan to Destroy America" remarks from October 18, 2003. This audio has never been published or released anywhere.

Think how much money we could save! In his June 13 New York Times op-ed, Tyler Cowen wrote, “Medicare expenditures threaten to crush the federal budget.” The title of the article was “Something’s Got to Give in Medicare Spending.” Got it. Old people cost too much money to keep alive—and you younger disabled people on Medicare, you’re not helping either. So, what’s Mr. Cowen’s solution? Let’s limit health care benefits to old and disabled people. Boggles the mind. One of the proposals coming out of the Obama administration is to limit end-of-life care. What exactly does that mean? In 1974,...

Health Costs: Lawyers are responsible for more unneeded procedures than "greedy" doctors. But instead of capping malpractice awards, bureaucrats will soon decide which treatments are OK and whether you're worth it.Health Costs: Lawyers are responsible for more unneeded procedures than "greedy" doctors. But instead of capping malpractice awards, bureaucrats will soon decide which treatments are OK and whether you're worth it.

<p>Open-borders adversaries sued to kill the initiative, but Colorado's Supreme Court approved it in early May of 2004. Herron, ex-Gov. Dick Lamm, CAIR's co-Chair Fred Elbel and other insiders chose not to seek the required 68,000 voter signatures to place it on the November 2004 ballot, claiming it was too late to guarantee success. By law, this tabled the initiative for two years, during which time a growing cabal of open-borders legislators, mainly Democrats, aligned with globalist Gov. Bill Owens (RINO) to kill similar legislation.</p>

... a speech spreading like wildfire online. Its purported author was ex-Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm, and it is titled "I Have a Plan to Destroy America." Lamm began his remarks by saying to a Washington crowd: "I have a secret plan to destroy America. ... "We must first make America a bilingual-bicultural country. History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. "I would then invent 'multiculturalism' and...

Think something like this isn’t happening? Scary. It is happening as you read this. What makes matters even worse, is the fact that our so called “Leaders” are standing by and letting this happen right under our very noses while they piss and moan over who will control the legislature and the White House. Our very own Department of Homeland In-Security has even stooped to what I believe is treasonous behavior by supplying the corrupt Mexican government with information as to the locations of the MinuteMen who are trying to secure our borders from the sewage like flow of illegal...

Former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm doesn't shy away from controversial subjects, but he acknowledged during a presentation Friday in Aspen that immigration reform is a tough topic to tackle. "There is a political correctness in America that makes it difficult to discuss some of these problems," he said.

Former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm recently wrote an essay in Academic Questions, published by the National Association of Scholars. "Let me offer you, metaphorically," he wrote, "two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettoes and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning, and ambition. "But, alas, you can't wave both wands. Only one." What a beautiful intellectual construct, I thought, to discuss...