by Peter Boyles | Nov 17, 2025 | Blasting with Boyles
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OPINION
Once there was a shining spot which was Colorado in the 1970s — a type of Camelot. It’s worth noting that most historians believe in epochs or eras. The one that I’ve always been drawn to is what Jackie Kennedy dubbed Camelot. The very short presidency of John F. Kennedy. Also, again most historians see the sixties as not really beginning until Kennedy is assassinated in 1963, and the sixties don’t end until Richard Nixon resigns. I see a similarity that just occurred in the first week of November.
Dick Cheney dies but reappears in the speech by the newly-elected, Ugandan born, east Asian, democratic socialist Zohran Momdani. He’s the new face of the Democrat party as Cheney was a reflection of the past for Republicans.
Camelot, if you don’t know, was a legendary bright shining moment in Britain that the Kennedys attached themselves to. Jack Kennedy’s clearly King Arthur, Jackie fancied herself Guinevere, and Bobby was Lancelot.
I see Colorado in these terms. Many of us came here and came of age in what was once the bright shining spot, Colorado in the 1970s. It was a place for everyone whether Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or anything else.
In Boulder you would find 1960s like hippies and Soldier of Fortune magazine. We had John Denver making music in the mountains with Coors beer as the real champagne of beers. Ski tickets were affordable. Plenty of young men and women came here seeking their fortunes like the young knights came to Camelot. We were all sitting at the Round Table.
Today, Colorado is little more than a progressive hell hole which will eventually sink into a primordial quagmire. In the British legend Camelot was ruined by the deception of Lancelot and Arthur’s wife, and the devious actions of Arthur’s illegitimate child Mordred, out of wedlock, with his half-sister.
If anyone was our Arthur in the 1970s in Colorado it was Democratic Governor Dick Lamb. Just like Arthur who fought off the invading Angles and Saxons, Lamb fought off the real estate developers who hoped to overrun the state with hordes of yuppies using the lure of the Winter Olympics. But the Democrat voting masses from New York, Illinois, and California still seeped in even though Lamb had slayed the Winter Olympics dragon.
The final death knell for Colorado Camelot was Republican Governor Bill Owens who, in 2005, supported Referendums C and D to give billions to the government rather than the citizens of Colorado. Referendum C passed and fueled the population boom and the growth of government. This in turn propelled Ted Trimpa’s Blueprint for Colorado and the eventual total Democrat takeover of the state with the crushing of any and all dissent.
Now the darkness has taken over the state. If you remember the Colorado Camelot that was Hal Moore in afternoon drive screaming, I love you Denver, the Phipps, and the Broncos. The Mile High Miracle Broncos season of ’76-’77.
I know we’re speaking in allegories and symbols about a Camelot that we all loved turning into a place where now we rank in some of the lowest economic measurements, highest crime, and horrible traffic. We seem to be the epicenter of shootings. The ridiculousness of the Denver Mayor’s policies on homelessness. The historians who study the Arthurian legend call it the Matter of Britain. Now we have the Matter of Colorado.
When Arthur throws the sword, it was caught by the Lady of the Lake symbolizing a waiting for the return of the king. Who are we waiting for? Do you see anyone on the horizon? Barbara Kirchmeyer? Victor Marx? Michael Bennet? If we’re waiting for Michael Bennet we’re waiting for Godot.
So, like the Britons in their darkness we wait now for the next king to pull the sword from the stone.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Oct 20, 2025 | Blasting with Boyles
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OPINION
We’re now facing a Supreme Court decision on a Colorado law that we should see the answer to sometime in June. The case is called Chiles vs Salazar. Kaley Chiles is a licensed Christian counselor and argues that the 2019 ban on conversion therapy for minors infringes on her freedom of speech. The Court isn’t quite certain about conversion therapy if it’s speech or conduct.
Now let’s get into the way-back machine. I challenged everyone of our intelligentsia that reads our publication, can you recall the name of the first girl you kissed or the first boy who kissed you? I was playing baseball summer of 1956 on a team of older guys. And when the game was over there was a young woman, her first name to protect her, if she’s still alive, was Judy. And Judy let all the boys kiss her. I can remember the players on the entire team. I had no desire to kiss Terry Martin the third baseman or Chuckie Neff who played short stop. I only wanted to kiss Judy, and my entire life changed on that spot.
Now these Christian counselors believe that they can take a young gay boy or girl and make them straight. So, if it works one way it’s got to work the other. Do you think if a bunch of people threatened you with exorcism, making you stand in front of a congregation and confess your sins, wear a dress, boys only, and in some severe cases electroshock therapy was used, they would have changed you? You could have done all of those things, including putting a gun to my head, and I wouldn’t be gay.
Why does anyone in their right mind think that you can take a burgeoning young gay boy or girl and embarrass them into being straight. This pseudo-science has been outlawed in much of the known world. So, this really truly is insanity. Twenty-three states in our Union have outlawed this form of child torture. The civilized world also has turned this back. I would urge you to go to Doctor Google and read faith-based and religious practices, psychological techniques, physical and medical “physical intervention techniques” that these people want to perpetrate on age of awareness young Colorado boys and girls.
I never had a choice. I’ve talked to at least a dozen gay friends who also never had a choice.
Ask yourself this. Who would choose to be belittled, beaten up, made fun of, and in high school …choose it?
I know my uncle didn’t have a choice and his life was miserable. My life has also been miserable because I didn’t have that choice. God knows there were a couple of times in my life where I would have chosen gay. It would have made a lot of things easier and doubled my chances for a date on Friday night. But I was stuck with heterosexuality. And it’s very expensive, through divorce. I’m 0 for 2.
But for everything that you hold dear, logical thought, why would anyone allow this to be done to their children? And I’m beginning a study of the life of Jesus. Jesus never said anything about being gay. So, my advice to the Chistian therapist is go hit somebody else over their head with your Bible and leave these kids alone.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Sep 19, 2025 | Blasting with Boyles
OPINION
As a young man there was a so-called Freudian question you would be asked. Do you know the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? Can you name the Dwarfs? And whatever dwarf you could not name was you. To this day I can’t name the seven little suckers anyhow. But… I have seen them reemerge in the Colorado political scene.
Whether you want to believe it or not, 34 people have tossed their hat into the ring to be the next government of the Centennial State. Which dwarf can’t you name?
On the Democrat side of the ledger there are two declared candidates. Senator Michael Bennet and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser. Standing in the wings is Ken Salazar, and wisely many of the other potential democrats who have declined to run. The choice is clear; do you want someone who snuffs out the baby (ie: Colorado) with a blanket (ie: Weiser) or slowly starves the baby (ie: Bennet).
Michael Bennet, as the political rumor now has it, potentially wins and then turns around and names Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who is term limited, to replace him as Senator. So, everybody keeps a job as Democrats representing our state.
We’ve been often quoting Barry Maguire in his song Eve of Destruction, and this is when I say, “Look around you boy. It’s bound to scare you boy.” And the Democrat party seems to have us on the eve of destruction.
If Bennet wins, it’s the slow boat to China but if Phil Weiser wins, we’ll be Sacramento in a flash.
Your Colorado Republican Party
There are 34 dwarfs and Barb Kirkmeyer who thinks she’s Snow White. Whichever of the 15 or 20 of the Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidates you can’t name — you are.
I don’t know 90 percent of these people. Do you know a Republican hasn’t been elected governor since 2002 and the GOP has not won a major statewide office since 2014.
Kirkmeyer has garnered a horrendous F/48 rating from the Liberty Scorecard meaning if you elect the leading Republican candidate she will be in essence no different than Michael Bennet.
I have a couple of favorites.
Do you remember Abass Yaya Bamba? He ran for Denver mayor in 2023, and for the president of the Ivory Coast in West Africa in 2020. Receiving 24 votes in his bid for Denver mayor. And God only knows how he did in the Ivory Coast,
You gotta love him. But my real sleeper is Joshua Griffin. The oldest Division I player in Colorado football. He played for CSU as a walk-on at age 33. Also, a combat veteran in the Middle East. Why can’t we pick a guy like that?
So, what do we have?
A lot of people.
Former Congressman (for six months) Greg Lopez. And Snow White. Representative Scott Bottoms, a Colorado Springs pastor fighting against gay marriage and apparently transgender people. All you need to be is anti-marijuana and anti-abortion and you have the trifecta of how not to win here in Colorado.
I realize it’s early in the game, but I thought you’d all like to know what a lineup is coming our way.
No caped crusaders, no heroes, just a bunch of mediocre dwarfs, or worse.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Aug 22, 2025 | Blasting with Boyles
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OPINION
Do Better Denver, known as @dobetter dnvr on x.com and Instagram, began its groundbreaking work with the concept of a secret identity where an individual maintains a public persona distinct from his/her true identity. I have had private communications with the person who launched the social media sites and when I told that person I was going to do this column, she asked me to tell you this: “My mission with @dobetterdnvr is to bring Denver’s drug and homelessness crisis into the spotlight by sharing video and information. I run my social media accounts with zero monetization, driven purely by a commitment to truth, transparency, and accountability. Not chasing money.”
This person’s fear is that Denver Mayor Mike Johnston will try to destroy her. The Denver Post is giving Johnston all the help it can with a recent hit piece on @dobetter dnvr, doxxing citizens journalists who requested public records from the city. Traditionally, the media serves as a watchdog to hold the powerful accountable. As the person who runs the Do Better Denver sites told me, “The Denver Post has inverted this role targeting me as a citizen journalist instead of scrutinizing those in power.”
We have a long history in literature, history, and popular culture of individuals protecting their identities and thus enabling them to operate outside of traditional media and establishment norms. Let me give you some great examples.
Clark Kent was Superman, by the way, a mild-mannered reporter. Bruce Wayne as the Batman. Peter Parker as Spiderman. Tony Stark as Ironman.
The Federalist Papers were written under the pseudonym Publius, and the actual authors were James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay. Eric Blair wrote under the name George Orwell for his famous works 1984 and Animal Farm. Theodore Geisel wrote under the penname Dr. Seuss.
We live in a world where most of talk radio no longer takes calls, and the city of Denver now owns the old Denver Post building and Channel Nine has become an extension of the state Democrat Party. They are bent on tearing this internet site down and exposing people who actually were doing the job that Denver Post and Channel Nine and text reading talk radio should be doing.
The person behind @dobetterdnvr told me they asked The Denver Post what the true purpose of the story was. “If their aim was to genuinely inform the people about @dobetterdnvr, why did it refuse to protect the anonymity of myself and my sources, putting their safety and livelihoods at risk. Exposing private citizens while shielding the powerful betrays the very principles journalism claims to uphold. The public deserves better. Denver deserves better.”
But as Kurt Vonnegut said, this is how it goes.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Jul 24, 2025 | Blasting with Boyles
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OPINION
Parallels Between Epstein And Denver’s Players And Sugar Scandal
Let’s see by a show of hands how many of you remember an infamous period in Denver history when we all discovered that Denver had four operating bordellos with a very high-class high end bold print names as clientele.
When you compare and contrast the Jeffrey Epstein story with Scotty Ewing and the rich and powerful of Denver, it amazingly lines up.
Post Watergate, when Gerald Ford was president, he held a meeting with Richard Helms the head of the CIA, his vice president Nelson Rockefeller, and Henry Kissinger. As the story goes Gerald Ford had discovered that Nixon was having the CIA open people’s first-class mail, wiretapping reporters, monitoring the anti-war efforts, and wiretapping citizens with no one’s knowledge.
Ford asked the CIA what would happen if that information got out. Helms replied a lot of dead cats are going to get out.
I always thought of that when it came to Scotty Ewing’s client list. If it ever got out a lot of dead cats were going to get out.
Since we were involved in the initial investigation, I called the Hancock number from Ewing’s list and — City Council member about to be Mayor — Michael Hancock’s voice answered. We knew we were on to something. Since then, comparing it to the Epstein story I’ve learned so much more.
Alan Dershowitz asserted at one time that he had seen the client list, but the Department of Justice and Pam Bondi say there is no such animal.
Scotty Ewing claimed his client list was stolen and there was a Denver police report that Ewing was a victim of a burglary. Stolen items did not include cash, jewelry, his iPad, his flat screen tv. Rather the burglars only made off with Scotty’s computer and the records from the former escort service.
Like the Epstein case, the Denver police announced they had also closed the investigation into the theft of Ewing’s records.
And the police cited lack of forensic evidence that there was actually a burglary. Scotty told me that he believed none of what was stolen would ever be returned. But at the same time, I talked to Channel Seven’s Tony Kovaleski who confirmed at the time that they saw the black book phone list of appointments, logs, scheduled bookings, and credit card slips of Players and Sugar.
Also recall Chief Federal Judge Edward Nottingham, naughty Nottingham. Documents in February of 2008 shut down the escort agency and the documents led to Nottingham’s resignation in 2008.
Sound familiar?
Many big Denver names were rumored to be on the stolen list, of course including Mayor-elect Michael Hancock. Now comes again parallel lives.
The present government officials who claim this is all absolutely false also remind me of Hancock’s campaign manager the legendary Evan “blow dryer” Dreyer who claimed the reports were untrue. And, that Michael, and the campaign, endured negative, false, deceptive attack after attack for months and none of us should believe it.
Again, sound familiar?
The protection, and I believe cover up, was done by The Denver Post, KUSA, and other sources.
One of the many internet rumors in the Epstein case was that the so-called client list was his insurance policy, or perhaps even blackmailing prominent world players.
I do know that when Scotty Ewing did my radio show, and management of KHOW tried desperately to stop Ewing’s appearance, including putting a little watchdog in the studio with me the day he came on, stated like Robert De Niro in Goodfellas you may know who I am, but I know who you are, and he aimed that at his johns who were listening to the show that morning.
After all of this, including charges of tax evasion and witness intimidation, Ewing did six months home detention. The woman he sold Players and Sugar to, Brenda Stewart, did six months. And Judge Nottingham will do the rest of his life.
But what does that say about the Epstein saga. Chuck Plunkett with The Denver Post wrote a column that tried to exonerate Hancock because they had spelled his name wrong in the book, and never mentioned our phone call on the air where Michael Hancock’s voice answered the phone number, and one of the working girls picked Hancock’s picture out of the lineup. The story in Denver was spiked.
And isn’t it amazing that after all these years not one of those names has ever appeared, not one customer/client has been revealed. Now will history repeat itself, and you and I never find out who flew to Jeffrey’s island, or visited him in New York or, for that matter, whether or not he killed himself.
—Peter Boyles
