Books and Periodicals

A Conservative's Reading List
Heritage Foundation's list of essential works every serious conservative must read. Provides a wide education in politics, history, economics, law, and religion.

The Founder's Almanac, Heritage Foundation

Colorado Reapportionment and Redistricting

State of Colorado Redistricting Page
Every ten years, the boundaries of legislative districts are redrawn based upon changes in population. This process is usually referred to as "redistricting" or "reapportionment". It affects election districts for the state Senate and the state House of Representatives, as well as election districts for the federal House of Representatives in the United States Congress. The process will start sometime after April 1, 2001, when Colorado receives final block-by-block population figures from the federal census...

Conservative Environmental Org

NCBA
NCBA enthusiastically endorses Free Market Environmentalism as the most effective means of establishing environmental protection that emphasizes private ownership, and will undertake action based alliances with organizations that promote this policy.

Conservative Ethnic Orgs

African American Life Alliance
The mission of the African American Life Alliance AALA), a non-profit organization, is to educate the black community about how sexual promiscuity and illicit moral activities have invaded our communities and are eroding our families, organizations, schools, and churches.

BAMPAC
BAMPAC is a federal non-partisan political action committee. We affirm the traditional values that have served the Black American community so well in the past reverence for God and country, and a belief in the sacredness of all human life. We are committed to excellence in education, less government intrusion in our lives, and an agenda for economic self-empowerment.

BOND The Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny
B.O.N.D., the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, is a national, non-profit organization dedicated to "Rebuilding the Family By Rebuilding the Man". B.O.N.D.

Issues & Views
The hard copy edition of this newsletter was founded in 1985 by black Americans who are dedicated to the Bill of Rights. It is a forum for dissidents, conservatives, and plain old mavericks--all those who are concerned about the cultural decline now under way in our country and the erosion of our constitutional liberties.

Toward Tradition
Toward Tradition is an educational foundation dedicated to creating a national movement of Jews allied with Christians who want to apply traditional values to America's cultural, political, and economic life.

Conservative Healthcare Orgs

The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
The Center of Bioethics and Human Dignity exists to help individuals and organizations address the pressing bioethical challenges of our day, including managed care, end-of-life treatment, genetic intervention, euthanasia and suicide, and reproductive technologies.

Simple Care
SimpleCare educates and encourages health care providers to charge a fair and reasonable fee to patients who are willing to pay in full at the time they are seen when there is no billing or coding involved. The American Association of Patients and Providers (AAPP) is a grassroots non-profit association open to all patients and health care providers creating common-sense solutions to our nations health care problems. The SimpleCare program is one of those solutions.

Conservative Legal Orgs

The Rutherford Institute
The Rutherford Institute is an international legal and educational organization dedicated to preserving human rights and defending civil liberties.

The Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute - a think tank - whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.

Conservative News Orgs

The Federalist
The Federalist is a concise, highly acclaimed email journal of anecdotal rebuttal to contemporary political, social and media liberalism.

WorldNetDaily
The World's largest Conservative on-line daily news.

Grassfire
Equipping hundreds of thousands of citizens with tools that give citizens a real impact on issues. Through online petitions and breakthrough media efforts, Grassfire.org is building a proactive Alliance of conservative citizens who can make a difference in our nation.

Conservative Policy Orgs

American Conservative Union
The American Conservative Union is the nation's oldest conservative lobbying organization. ACU's purpose is to effectively communicate and advance the goals and principles of conservatism through one multi-issue, umbrella organization. The Statement of Principles makes clear ACU's support of capitalism, belief in the doctrine of original intent of the framers of the Constitution, confidence in traditional moral values, and commitment to a strong national defense.

CATO
The Cato Institute is a very well respected Libertian think tank in Washington DC.

Claremont Institute
The mission of the Claremont Institute is to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life.

Family Research Council
The Family Research Council exists to reaffirm and promote nationally, and particularly in Washington, DC, the traditional family unit and the Judeo-Christian value system upon which it is built.

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
FIRE is a nonprofit educational foundation devoted to free speech, individual liberty, religious freedom, the rights of conscience, legal equality, due process, and academic freedom on our nation's campuses.

Free Congress Foundation
Paul Weyrich's foundation which is not only politically conservative, but culturally conservative. Publications and policy research on a wide range of topics.

Heartland Institute
Organization aiming to help build social movements in support of ideas that empower people. Such ideas include parental choice in education, market-based approaches to environmental protection, privatization of public services, and deregulations in areas where property rights and markets do a better job than government bureaucracies.

The Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation is committed to rolling back the liberal welfare state and building an America where freedom, opportunity, prosperity, and civil society flourish.

Independence Institute
The Independence Institute is established upon the eternal truths of the Declaration of Independence. Founded in 1985, the Independence Institute is a non-partisan, non-profit public policy research organization dedicated to providing timely information to concerned citizens, government officials, and public opinion leaders.

Mackinac Center for Public Policy
A nonpartisan research and educational organization devoted to improving the quality of life for all Michigan citizens by promoting sound solutions to state and local policy questions.

Conservative Women's Orgs

Concerned Women For America
The nation's largest public policy women's organization.

Conservative Youth Orgs

The Young America's Foundation
Young America's Foundation is committed to ensuring that increasing numbers of young Americans understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values.

Freedom and Liberty Orgs

Institute for American Liberty
The Institute for American Liberty is a non-profit corporation established for educational and literary purposes. Its mission is to present to the public literature, facts and viewpoints related to American Liberty, its virtues, principles and history based primarily upon the Constitution of the United States of America, the Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, Washington's Farewell Address, the writings of the "Founding Fathers," the writings of other U.S. Presidents, statesmen and patriots, and other historical writings and analyses.

Leadership Institute
Organization providing training and job placement for conservative leaders for over 20 years.

Reason Foundation
Reason Foundation is a national research and educational organization that explores and promotes the twin values of rationality and freedom as the basic underpinnings of a good society. In advocating public policies based upon individual liberty and responsibility and a free-market approach, the Reason Foundation turns to practical policy research and insightful commentary -- not idealistic rhetoric.

Pro-family Org

Focus on the Family
America's leading comprehensive pro-family organization.

Rocky Mountain Family Council
Colorado's leading comprehensive pro-family organization.