Hal Bidlack

I am hoping that, yet again, my long-suffering and very forgiving editor will pardon my rambling thoughts today, as there are too many open tabs on my computer that deal with issues I want to talk about (Ed: pretty used to this, so OK). Like a lot of journalists and columnists, I am on the […]

Back when I was teaching political science at the U.S. Air Force Academy (and amazingly to me, a week from this column’s publication will mark 20 years since my retirement from active duty. Where the heck did that time go?) I used to teach my students about the Constitution, national security policy and little things […]

Well, as I often do, let me start by yet again telling you what I am not going to be writing about (Editor: sigh…). I’m not going to talk about President Donald Trump’s most recent (of many, many) attacks on a free press when he recently went after NBC’s Kristen Welker, saying the FCC (an […]

As is all too often the case, there are again too many interesting things appearing in Colorado Politics for me to comment on all of them. So let me tell you what I won’t be talking about before I get to the good stuff. I’m not going to talk about Victor Marx’s remarkably and surprisingly […]

Way back in the early 1980s, when my military career was just kicking off, we the “finger-on-the-button” missileer types underwent yet another disaster preparation exercise at my base, F.E. Warren up in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Such events usually centered around simulated attacks on a missile site, or perhaps a simulated truck bomb at the front gate. […]

I should warn you, dear readers, that today’s column deals with two subjects that are often viewed as both boring and tedious: tax policy and voter initiatives. If you find such things interesting, please read on. If not, consider watching funny cat videos. Where was I? Oh, right … Anyone who has read my various […]

Like most older folks, I’m a tad nervous about the whole artificial intelligence trend. But don’t worry, everything will be OK because our current president, obsessed with gold-trimmed minutiae, gave a speech at the United Nations, of all places, to announce we should now stop using the term “AI” and start using “SI” for “super […]

As I approach 10 years of writing these columns for Colorado Politics, I suspect that only my kindly and long-suffering editor has read all roughly 600-plus of my missives. But regular readers will likely recall I can be easily distracted (squirrel!) and that I often report on multiple items in a column that, in theory, […]

Well, if you listen to the polls and the political talking heads these days, in less than a month we will see a blue something sweep across the electoral map. Some say a blue wave and bolder predictors claim a blue tsunami is coming. Heck, I’ve even seen a prediction that Kansas might elect a […]

Way back in 2008, when I ran for the U.S. Congress down here in Colorado Springs (though, to be properly pedantic, I should say, “up here in Colorado Springs,” as we are a thousand feet higher than Denver), my opponent, the Republican incumbent Doug Lamborn, agreed to only a single debate, just before Election Day […]