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From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #5, 10/30/12

From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #6, 12/04/12

From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #7, 01/08/12

From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #8, 06/12/13

From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #9, 06/18/13

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Mark A. Cohen is a member of and helps run the Parker Writers Group (Check out their Facebook page here)

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Mark A. Cohen currently sits on the committee which hosted the previous Castle Rock Writers Conference on October 13, 2012. He is currently their Vice-Treasurer. The group, whose motto is Rock Solid Writing, is seeking its 501c3.

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Mark A. Cohen will soon be a published author, as the Castle Rock Writers are under contract to write and publish The Chronicles of Douglas County, Colorado, in 2014.

Mark A. Cohen spoke for about 20 minutes at the Coffee4Conservatives meeting at the Firehouse on State Road 83, in Franktown, CO, on Oct. 21, 2012.

Mark A. Cohen spoke for about 30 minutes at the Douglas County Republicans’ First Friday Breakfast in Parker, CO, held at The War Horse Inn, on Dec. 2, 2011.

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1. Headlines on the GOP solution.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Stephen Dinan, A Pundit in Reporters’ Clothing

Written : Sep. 18, 2013

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Stephen Dinan, appearing on Washington Journal, Sep. 16, 2013.

I once thought the Washington Times tilted right, but no more. If pundit Stephen Dinan is a good sample, The Times is now left-wing. I don’t begrudge anyone’s right to be a liberal. However, someone who professes to be a reporter (not pundits Chris Matthews or Sean Hannity) should remain politically detached. Mr. Dinan appeared on Washington Journal this past Monday, and, as Mr. Spock said, I could hardly believe my ears! Mr. Dinan is in no way objective. He spouted many of the left’s talking points while speaking with host Greta Brawner.

The left doesn’t want you to know about the Republican ideas on health care.

Here are Mr. Dinan’s Democratic talking points, as discussed on the Journal: 1. The Republicans have no health care plan of their own to replace Obamacare. This is palpably false. All Stephen Dinan had to do was perform a little research. Here are some URLs I found quite easily on Google. If I spent more time, I’m sure I could have presented dozens here, but these are only a sample:

2. Four pages on the GOP solution.

3. Article detailing the GOP solution.

4. Paul Ryan proposes solution.

5. Roadmap for America.

So, for my liberal friends out there, please don’t say that Republicans have nothing to offer. Instead, why not be honest, and say that you don’t like any of them? I'd buy that. But don’t accept the lie fed to you by the media and say there are none.

2. Stephen Dinan stated Republican failures, but never those of Democrats. This is childish, doesn’t discuss the issue, and falls flat. 3. He called the Republicans, “crazy” (name-calling) for trying to pass a bill funding and another defunding Obamacare. Dumb, maybe, but not ‘crazy.’ 4. Mr. Dinan made a big deal over the government shutdown. My liberal friends would agree with him (this is, after all, a list of liberal talking points). And I’m not saying this to argue, I merely object to this guy’s bias while at the same time passing himself off as a non-partisan reporter.

5. Mr. Dinan kept saying that the economy is getting better. True, but as the president has repeated, not fast enough. 6. Republicans and Democrats strategize to blame each other for various decisions, he said. I hope not, but this is something many on the left love to stress. 7. Dinan points out that there are many “big tests” coming for Republican Speaker John Boehner. Okay, but never did Dinan say anything about the president being tested. 8. He questioned Boehner’s leadership and said we need to keep an eye on it during debt limit talks and upcoming immigration debates. He never mentioned the president’s leadership.

Boring! I agree with the reporter.

9. Mr. Dinan used the phrase “Republican stagnation” and called Republicans, 10. “tricky.” 11. A caller pointed out that Dinan mentioned how much spending we’re doing. In defense of President Obama, as many on the left do, the caller, solving nothing, told us about how much Presidents Bush and Reagan spent. While not nearly as much as the current president, Dinan agreed with the caller, in principle. I guess if Bush did it, then overboard, outlandish spending is defendable for Obama. Remember the kid on the playground, “He did it first. So there.” 12. Stephen Dinan used the left’s argument on spending which goes like this: “It’s gotten worse in the last 10-12 years. Perhaps, but it’s gotten much worse in the last 5.

Give up the silliness. There are Republican solutions.

13. Dinan defended recent government cutbacks on spending without praising Republicans, who have been for this for years. Typical of some on the left. 14. He knocked Speaker Boehner’s statement that the American people are ready for a serious conversation on spending. Dinan said that the people want their Social Security, Health Care, education and FBI spending instead. But, friends, the Republicans don’t want to cut those areas. Don’t be misled by such pundits hiding in reporters’ clothing!

A biased media reduces freedoms.

15. Dinan mentioned at least twice that the Republicans would “hold the government hostage.” Regardless of whether you believe this or not, it is a talking point of the left. 16. He said that Republicans have made their questioning in Congressional hearings regarding Benghazi, more political by trying to tie it back to the White House. I disagree, of course, but a defender of the president would/should agree with Mr. Dinan. 17. He actually said that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) made a great point by saying that only 5% of Americans agree that entire government spending should be held hostage. That may be true, but the Republicans want to fund the entire government while holding back funding for Obamacare. Schumer also asked, “How far Republicans will go without being blamed?” I’m sure most liberals agree, but a reporter shouldn’t argue for any side.

Always watch for bias in the news, and point it out. When we have a one-sided, opinionated media, and we nearly do, freedoms easily dissolve and the country is doomed.

ANTI-AGENDA 21 WEB SITES

From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #1, 2/28/12

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From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #4, 7/10/12

From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #5, 10/30/12

From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #6, 12/04/12

From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #7, 01/08/12

From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #8, 06/12/13

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Mark A. Cohen is a member of and helps run the Parker Writers Group (Check out their Facebook page here)

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Mark A. Cohen will soon be a published author, as the Castle Rock Writers are under contract to write and publish The Chronicles of Douglas County, Colorado, in 2014.

Mark A. Cohen spoke for about 20 minutes at the Coffee4Conservatives meeting at the Firehouse on State Road 83, in Franktown, CO, on Oct. 21, 2012.

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

The Syrian Deception – Look Over Here and Pay No Attention to the Lack of Jobs or the Scandals

Written : Sep. 11, 2013

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We found WMDs? Let’s react differently this time.

I admit that I supported the war in Iraq due to Saddam Hussein’s horrific use of chemical weapons against his own people. These were called, “weapons of mass destruction,” or WMD. Many on the left now ask, “Why not now?” Sometime around 2010 I realized that with the poor condition of the American economy, we could not afford another conflict. The vastly radicalized Middle East, public opinion, the lack of progress in Iraq - and the left - all convinced me that our best interest lay in staying out of it. Peace, man. Many said that the people in Iraq didn’t learn anything from our presence and insisted that we were not the world’s police force.

Axis of WMD. Can’t read it? Google ‘Axis of WMD’

Our Nobel Peace Prize winning president now wants to lob a few missiles Syria’s way because Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. The question I ask is, “Why now?” What caused the change of heart, and how is it even possible when the left protested so vehemently against “Bush’s War?” President Obama promises the strike will be small, swift, won’t bog us down for years in a new conflict (how do we know that?), but will teach Syria a lesson. What will Syrian President al-Assad learn that the radicals in Iraq didn’t?

Were you convinced that the U.S. should use military force against Syria?

”What kind of a world will we live in if the United States of America sees a dictator brazenly violate international law with poison gas, and we choose to look the other way?” No, that’s not President George W. Bush justifying the war in Iraq, it’s a quote from President Barack Obama’s Sep. 10, 2013 speech! President Obama addressed the nation and tried to convince us that his choice to strike Syria is the right one. In the next breath he urged Congress to delay voting their support for his decision. Isn’t this lack of direction (or is it misdirection?) stunning? President Kennedy (D-MA) once said that a few advisors in Vietnam would be all we’d need. President Johnson (D-TX) escalated that war (which, by the way, took a Republican president to end it). After so many said we would not get involved in global conflicts, how can we believe the current president?

Now and Later.

President Obama said a year ago that if Syrian’s president used chemical weapons against his own people it would cross “a red line.” He doesn’t want to appear weak by doing nothing, but I maintain that he does not wish to strike Syria at all. I think he wants to distract Americans from the poor economy (lack of jobs). He’d like you to not pay attention to the myriad of scandals - his administration’s failure to protect our people in Benghazi, the IRS’ targeting of conservatives, and the massive data collection – the ‘spying on Americans’ discussion.

It’s possible that al-Assad used WMD…

While the magician waves one hand, you don’t notice that something else is happening in the other. So, take your eye off the lack of jobs, the massive over-printing of money, and the second Obama administration’s incompetence. Look at Syria, instead. Ignore the significance of the 12th anniversary of 9/11, the glory of the new World Trade Center Tower, and for heaven’s sake, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

ANTI-AGENDA 21 WEB SITES

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Friday, September 6, 2013

The Liberty Amendments by Mark Levin, Part II

Written : Aug. 28, Sep. 6, 2013

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Continued from last week’s post.

They call him ‘The Great One.’ There’s a reason.

Left-wing radicals would have you believe that Constitutionalist and talk show host Mark Levin is a radical. He’s nothing of the sort. An author of five books (an intellectual and thinker), he believes that the U.S. is in “an age of post-constitutional tyranny.” Levin believes that the public is not being informed, but misled by its leaders. This is why he is gaining ground with so many.

Levin on radio.

Mark Levin calls the U.S. Department of Energy the Department of No Energy because items that produce vast amounts of real energy (oil, coal, nuclear) are generally diminished and opposed by the Obama Administration. The things that don’t produce much energy - if any - are touted as great (wind turbines, solar, and bio-fuels such as algae). An administration such as this is for “no energy.” Even open-minded Democrats and environmentalists can understand the irony and appreciate the humor.

Ameritopia, by Mark Levin.

”The system is broken because we’re unmoored from the Constitution,” he said, on Hannity, on August 16, 2013. (Yes, on Hannity! The other networks won’t let him communicate his ideas to you.) Levin cites the imploding and yet expanding federal government (think about that for a minute), and an out-of-control national debt, with unfunded liabilities now approaching $90 trillion – only a few years ago just under $70 trillion. “The notion of limited government was all swept away with a big exclamation mark with Obamacare and so many laws before it.”

Will you make wise-cracks, or take notice and consider these ideas?

Don’t take my word for it, Read Cal Thomas’ assessment of Levin’s new book.

Just so you don’t say I ignore the other side, or get my news from only one source, you’re free to read some criticism of Levin by Ana Marie Cox, who writes about “politics and whatever” (not my words) at The Guardian. Her outrage, when confronted with new ideas is entangled with the usual paranoia, closed-mindedness, and name-calling, as she says his objectives are to “disempower anyone” who disagrees with him. [In my travels From the Left to the Right, I found out that this is a fallacy in left-wing thinking; no one on the right is out to oppress anyone!] Levin never uses race in his arguments, but Cox sure does, and without much intellectual grounding, I might add. She drips with sarcasm and ridicule, without using any substantive arguments against his, as she calls them, “zombie ideas.” Ana Marie Cox, like many, won’t ever seriously consider Levin’s concepts. What would you expect from a mostly-brainwashed populous, thoughtfulness?

The Unmaking of America.

No, I am not a Constitutional scholar – and this is not a book review. However, I like Mark Levin’s ideas for amending the Constitution. According to lawyer and author David Limbaugh (not Rush, but his brother), Levin attempts to revitalize, not destroy the Constitution. His idea to limit the terms of Supreme Court Justices makes sense. So does the call for a national convention to amend the Constitution.

Here’s David Limbaugh’s recent article on Levin’s Amendments.

Who can argue with Mark Levin when he states that America is no longer a federal, constitutional, or representative republic, and points out that our crushing out-of-control debt is so high, and says that the past and current presidents have threatened to rule by executive order? He says we are being manipulated by Washington. No kidding! He asks, referring mainly to Obamacare, “How the hell can you have a representative republic and an informed republic, with the manner in which they’re passing these massive bills?” Good question.

Check out the Terrence P. Jeffrey Interview of Levin at CNS News

ANTI-AGENDA 21 WEB SITES

From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #1, 2/28/12

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From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #5, 10/30/12

From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #6, 12/04/12

From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #7, 01/08/12

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Mark A. Cohen is a member of and helps run the Parker Writers Group (Check out their Facebook page here)

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Mark A. Cohen will soon be a published author, as the Castle Rock Writers are under contract to write and publish The Chronicles of Douglas County, Colorado, in 2014.

Mark A. Cohen spoke for about 20 minutes at the Coffee4Conservatives meeting at the Firehouse on State Road 83, in Franktown, CO, on Oct. 21, 2012.

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

The Liberty Amendments by Mark Levin, Part I

Written : Aug. 28-29, 2013

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Radio talk show host Mark Levin.

Mark Levin, a lawyer, author, constitutionalist, and a witty commentator, believes that the people who favor federalism (a centralized government), have been running the political show for about a century while conservatives sat back and watched. He thinks it’s time for the right to express itself and stand up to the progressives, whom he calls, “regressives.” Mr. Levin insists that we live in a post-constitutional era due to the left’s century of successes.

Levin has written many books outlining his ideas, including, Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America, and most recently, The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic. In it he proposes 11 new amendments to the U.S. Constitution in order to re-establish constitutional republicanism (which we don’t have today).

In his new book, the author focuses on Article Five of the Constitution, which states that there are two methods for amendment. One, which has been used for all of the current 27 Amendments, is to apply the legislatures to a two-thirds majority vote. The other way, which has not been used yet, is to call a convention of the states for proposing new amendments. Levin argues that we should use this second method today. This is not radical, because it would require three-fourths of the states to ratify each one.

I agree with Levin’s disgust that the left slowly took over America, by removing many long-held beliefs from the American people, such as ‘limited government.’ He says, “The states created the federal government,” but now “the states live at the behest of the federal government.” I agree with the idea that the centralized bureaucracy should have less power. While his radio personality is a bit acidic for me, I like Mark’s sarcastic sense of humor, and I laugh in our mutual frustration over the way things have gone in this country and, among other things, with the timidity of the Republican Party. Mark Levin comes off as a shy, humble man on TV, and this may surprise people who only listen to his radio show.

Mark Levin’s Previous Book.

Mr. Levin proposes something I think that most Republicans, Democrats, and Independents can all agree on. Term limits for members of Congress, which includes both houses. Twelve years, tops. No more career politicians in the Senate or House of Representatives. “They [the founders] didn’t believe in a permanent legislative class.” Very good! Our re-election rate is higher than England’s House of Lords (it was known for its members rarely leaving). In the ‘tidal wave’ election in 2010, when the Republicans won many seats, 85% of U.S. Congressmen were re-elected!

Many Americans believe that ‘the system’ is broken these days. ”The system is broken because we’re unmoored from the Constitution,” Mark Levin said, on August 16, 2013. Levin cites the imploding and yet expanding federal government, and an out-of-control national debt (unfunded liabilities are approx. $90 trillion – only a few years ago just under $70 trillion). “The notion of limited government was all swept away with a big exclamation mark with Obamacare, and so many laws before it.”

To be continued.

ANTI-AGENDA 21 WEB SITES

From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #1, 2/28/12

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From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #5, 10/30/12

From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #6, 12/04/12

From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #7, 01/08/12

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Mark A. Cohen spoke for about 20 minutes at the Coffee4Conservatives meeting at the Firehouse on State Road 83, in Franktown, CO, on Oct. 21, 2012.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Who or What Do You Represent?

Written : Aug. 21, 2013

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When I drive down the street in my F150, I need to be cognizant of my 2012 Romney decal. Any poor perception of my driving by a former Romney supporter might be attributed to my brand of truck (Ford), or even ignored. However, some on the left - if they see my sticker - may assign my driving skills to Republicans. This is unfortunate, but is to be expected. Humans classify.

Not my truck decal, but similar.

My company warns us that while we wear the corporate badge we represent the employer, and bad behavior on our part can be falsely perceived by a customer or a vendor as supported by the business.

I’m not proposing for us to be goody-two-shoes adults, but anything I do in public can and probably will be unfairly associated with my appearance. I wear FDNY, NYPD, and so-called ‘patriotic’ hats, and when people see me they may think of men in general, guys with grey beards, white people, Americans, or older, middle-aged people. I understand that, but don’t always remember.

Which team’s colors do you wear?

I recently visited St. Louis and with a group of friends from all over the country, and many of us attended a Cardinals MLB game. Several wore jerseys and/or caps of other teams, as I did. For example, some of the MLB-represented teams were the Giants, Rockies, Royals, Braves, Mets, White Sox, and the Cardinals fans were terrific. However, if one of us did something stupid, it’s possible that the locals would have attributed our craziness with that of our team. I’d be embarrassed if someone hated the Rockies because of something I did! Yet, I had to live with that possibility. I can’t help what I look like, nor how anyone perceives me, but neither can anyone else.

How you act in public can reflect on others’ impressions of your image.

I’ve been picked on as a youth by all kinds of people, mainly because I was excessively short as a youngster. However, I’ve noticed that I most clearly remember those who didn’t look like me. An extremely heavy Caucasian boy bullied me in high school and I had a hard time accepting overweight people for a long time. (Some of you thought I was going to use a different example, right?) Not the fault of any obese people I met since, but my feelings were human. I eventually overcame this, but it took a lot of time, and plenty of introspection. His momentary pleasure gave me years of prejudice and anxiety.

What the bully looks like can influence the victim for years.

I’m not saying anyone is perfect, including me, but shouldn’t we think more often of the way people perceive us? Which logos, jerseys, or colors do you wear? How will someone perceive you as you move through your public life? Who do you represent?

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Rich DeVos, Founder of Amway, Selling America, Part II

Written : Jul. 31, 2013, previously unposted

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Continued from last week’s post.

Rich DeVos, co-founder of the Amway Corporation

Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel started the Amway Corporation in 1959. Mr. DeVos is known for his powerful and positive style in delivering speeches. I once tried to sell Amway products but I am not a salesman, so I gave it up. However, one of DeVos’ best speeches has stuck with me throughout the years. It is a tribute to the American free enterprise system. I transcribed the speech a few years ago from the cassette tape I still own. It is outlined in this series, “Selling America.”

Rich DeVos:

…But you see, the thing we project, the attitude we show, has as much to do with it as anything. And so, I want to talk to you about Selling America. And I include the Canadians because I maintain you are Americans because we all live on the North American continent. (applause) And, we share a common system. (more applause which makes him pause again)

Amway co-founders Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel.

I of course welcome you and I recognize you’re Canadians, and that we’ve taken words and say we’re Americans and you’re Canadians, but we all work under the same concept. And, that’s why the border goes unguarded. And that’s why we go back and forth so freely because we have so much in common.

But, when I ask you to sell America, I maintain it’s a part of a greater job. I want you to go out from this place to be successful. I want you to achieve. I want you to use the talents God has given so you can make a contribution. I want you to assume roles of leadership so you can take those people who don’t know that the opportunities are available to them – and make them see the light.

And, maybe all they’re waiting for is a word from you. And, you know sometimes that word is so simple. It goes like this:

“Hey John, you can do it!” And you know, maybe nobody’s ever told him that. You’d better think about that. You know, my dad used to say that to me. I used to say, “Oh, I can’t do this, I can’t do that.” And he’d say, “You say can’t once more, and I’ll knock your block right through that wall!” (mild laughter)

Encouragement, Rich DeVos-style.

So somebody kept saying to me as somebody has said to you – You can do it, you can do it, it does pay, you can get ahead, but you see those people never had it. Let me give you an example:

In your school right now there’s some girl or some boy who doesn’t dress quite as well as you think he ought to – but you’ve got your own little clique going over there in the corner, haven’t you? And so this poor soul who maybe is dressing as best they can walks by and somebody says (laughing at him), “Look at that.” (nervous laughter)

You don’t have to say any more than that, you know. They feel a little bad anyway that they can’t afford something better. But, you see, in that moment you helped to destroy that person. Because, you see, that little snicker might just have been the whole thing that broke that girl’s heart, or that boy’s heart. But a friendly word from you could have changed that whole situation.

Rich DeVos appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1982.

Some of you are decrying the fact that some kids in your school haven’t gone on and they’re dropping out… And you haven’t stopped to wonder the affect you had on the reason they dropped out. See, you’re the bright ones. You’re the leaders. You can afford some slop. And what I mean is that - so you skipped a day. But the problem was when you skipped you didn’t do it alone. You said, “Come on, John, go with us for a day, we’re going to this lake to go swimming. Oh, we’ll skip today. Well, when you came back it was alright, you caught up in a hurry, so you took a grade down that day – it was alright. It didn’t matter to you, but you know to John it might have just knocked the edge off it. And then he slipped just a little behind that day. He never quite caught up and when end of the semester came he flunked the course. Not because he wasn’t the greatest, because he wasn’t that smart, but he was making it until you taught him a habit that took him away. He couldn’t afford that day - you could. But you undermined his whole future because you taught him a bad habit that day.

Rich DeVos: ‘You can DO it!’

You see, the little things you do folks, affect the lives of people every day. There’s no escaping the impact you have on others. And certainly as the leaders in your community you’re just not one of the gang, you’re one they point to, they look to… And every word of encouragement can change the lives of the others with whom you live.

This is the end of Part II

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Mark A. Cohen’s web site, http://www.mark-cohen.com, is now under construction.

Mark A. Cohen will soon be a published author, as the Castle Rock Writers are under contract to write and publish The Chronicles of Douglas County, Colorado, in 2014.

Mark A. Cohen spoke for about 20 minutes at the Coffee4Conservatives meeting at the Firehouse on State Road 83, in Franktown, CO, on Oct. 21, 2012.

Mark A. Cohen spoke for about 30 minutes at the Douglas County Republicans’ First Friday Breakfast in Parker, CO, held at The War Horse Inn, on Dec. 2, 2011.

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