The Denver Post has ordered police to stop using their photo to help catch a suspect from the flag desecration event at the Aurora ICE facility.

There was a time when newspapers would have considered sharing as a public service. 

But newspapers today would probably get a Pulitzer Prize nomination for doing this:

After receiving a cease & desist letter from @denverpost about the picture of the man with the US flag, we must delete the above tweet. We still need public’s assistance in identifying these individuals. Please see new tweet coming shortly. pic.twitter.com/WZ9MQx2FsI

— Aurora Police Dept (@AuroraPD) July 17, 2019

At the very least, the Denver Post could have used the photo on the front of their own publication so the public didn’t have to pay for it.

But no, you have to click on the story.

So if you want to help catch a criminal, you’ll have to use one of your free clicks or buy their subscription to identify one of police’s suspects.

Some might question whether the Denver Post is on the side of thugs in this case.

Ironically, when police refuse to share information with newspapers, editors demand lawsuits.

Moving the Beltway-minded BLM headquarters to the heart of the Western Slope where the federal agency’s decisions literally impacts their backyard every day is an amazing achievement for some of our congressional delegation.

For more than 70 years, Washingtonians have attempted to divine the needs of westerners, without having to actually step foot there.

But with the official announcement expected Tuesday from Interior Secretary David Bernhardt that he’s bringing the agency home to Grand Junction, that all changes. 

This is huge for the Western Slope and the entire state of Colorado and the key players — U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton and Sen. Cory Gardner, who have lobbied tirelessly for the agency’s relocation for the past three years.

From the local county commissioners to the highest levels of the federal government, getting the BLM HQ to Grand Junction was a remarkable example of collaboration. I hope this sets the precedent for how the BLM will continue to operate moving forward.

— Rep. Scott Tipton (@RepTipton) July 16, 2019

I am thrilled to announce the @BLMNational headquarters is coming to Grand Junction! Today is a historic day for our nation’s public lands, western states, and the people of Colorado. pic.twitter.com/e8ErI85Ftr

— Cory Gardner (@SenCoryGardner) July 15, 2019

Gov. Polis, who it appeared was trying to undermine the whole effort and relocate the BLM from one metropolitan area to another, Denver, was so “thrilled” he forgot to actually mention that Grand Junction was the winning choice.

Another sore winner was U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, who had to rain on everyone’s celebratory parade with this:

We need to learn the specific details of this move but this is great news for Colorado! https://t.co/n6nt1QlsYc

— Rep. Ed Perlmutter (@RepPerlmutter) July 15, 2019

The rest of the Democrats, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, Reps. Diane DeGette, Joe Neguse and Jason Crow, had no congratulatory words, no recognition at all of this great achievement, while Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn applauded the move.

That was fast.

The effort to repeal Gov. Polis and the Democratic legislature’s misguided efforts to appropriate our presidential votes to the likes of California and New York has drawn enough petition signatures to take the question to the voters.

That’s according to organizers, who say they’ve validated more than 150,000 signatures — far above nearly 125,000 needed to make the 2020 ballot.

And they’re still gathering more supporters, hoping to get 200,000 signers by the Aug.1 deadline.

Polis is so desperate to stop it, he’s actually spreading this whopper of a tale:

“Due to the growth that we have had, we are now more in the large state category so we are penalized by the Electoral College,” he told a luncheon of business leaders.

Ahem. No, we’re not.

Electoral votes are based on the fixed number of U.S. Senators plus one vote for every congressional district allocated per 500,000 people.

Colorado has 9 electoral votes, California has 55, New York has 29.

Unless Colorado has grown from 5 million to 15 million people, we are most decidedly NOT in the large state category, and Polis knows that.

The National Popular Vote scheme is just that, a tactic by states with 20 to 40 million voters to control who is elected president.

How embarrassing. 

That’s the only way to describe the Friday night anti-ICE rally at the Aurora federal facility.

For those totally tuned out over the weekend, thousands of protestors were at the facility to protest the planned arrests Sunday of illegal immigrants who were denied asylum or didn’t bother to show up for their hearings. 

About a hundred protestors trespassed onto the facility property while Aurora Police watched and did nothing as the American flag was lowered, burned and spray painted with the message “Abolish ICE.”

Adding insult to injury, the Colorado flag was taken, and replaced with the flag of a foreign nation, Mexico.

Protest organizers insisted afterwards the incident was caused by a handful of radicals, who they say belonged to some mysterious other organization no one has named. Does this look like just a few stray protestors? 

Protesters took down the GEO Group, American, and Colorado flags and put up the Mexico flag. They left the POW/MIA flag. pic.twitter.com/AiPnivHRtk

— Conor McCormick-Cavanagh (@ConorMichael28) July 13, 2019

Does this sound like only a small number of people involved support the flag removals?

Anti-ICE protesters rip American flag off flag pole, raise Mexican flag at ICE facility in Aurora, Colorado pic.twitter.com/aK0FGY5l4P

— Terri Green (@TerriGreenUSA) July 13, 2019

Aurora Police made shockingly lame excuses why they didn’t stop the illegal action — they were protecting the safety of the officers. 

Beyond the removal, attempted destruction of the US flag, replacement of the flags, and some signs and poles being put on the main doors and windows, the protesters did not engage in behavior that warranted immediate intervention.

Police must have forgotten that trespassing is also illegal. 

Police actually blamed the facility for not putting up Jersey walls to protect their own property, as if protestors could not easily step over them. 

Not to be outdone in irresponsible actions, Gov. Polis refused to condemn the actions, and instead demanded we be angry with the federal government for holding non-citizen detainees in cages a federal holding facility for breaking the law, or entering the country illegally. 

Of course I condemn the desecration of our flag, who wouldn’t? Now will you condemn the ongoing and even more serious offense to our flag and values of putting children in cages and tearing families apart? @GregAbbott_TX @cologop pic.twitter.com/u2IrqFc11A

— Jared Polis (@GovofCO) July 13, 2019

Adding the shocking photo of a dead father and daughter who drowned while trying to cross illegally into the U.S. was beyond disgraceful, Mr. Governor.

To suggest the U.S. or its citizens are in any way responsible for this tragedy, is shameful. 

John Hickenlooper practically embraced the actions as our American right to desecrate the American flag, steal the Colorado flag, and hoist the flag of a foreign country over a federal facility as “part of our core freedom.”

According to our governor, it’s okay to break the law if you’re upset over a tragic drowning.

The man who would be president is okay doke with burning American flags at federal facilities and recognizing foreign country flags instead. 

And the police, they’re not willing to risk their own safety to arrest angry protestors breaking the law.

The shaming of Colorado, indeed. 

Environmentalists are upset (but we repeat ourselves) with U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner for joining a GOP caucus dedicated to conservation issues including climate change.

Conservation Colorado, one of many groups complaining loudly and constantly that Republicans are no friend of the environment, actually used the phrase “all hat and no cattle” in expressing their dismay.

Because greenies now think they’re cowboys, or something.

Anyway, their vegetarian beef with Gardner is that he doesn’t take real action to fight climate change by locking up public lands from public use or outlawing energy production.

All he can do is pass laws to protect the environment, unlike Conservation Colorado, which does all the heavy lifting of fundraising to pay themselves to judge Republicans.

The Republican Roosevelt Conservation Caucus, named for the Republican Roosevelt president and founder of the National Park Service, will also focus on efforts to preserve the environmental well-being of our lands and water.

The Democratic state legislature this year dropped the idea of legalizing drug dens for heroin and meth users after a public blowback.

But now, Colorado’s attorney general has decided our taxpayer dollars should be spent in a court battle to legalize public drug houses — in Philadelphia.

Phil Weiser filed friend of the court briefings along with Oregon, Michigan, D .C., Delaware, Minnesota, New Mexico, and Virginia this week in favor of the first non-profit injection site in the U.S.

Why? Because they all want opium dens in their own back yards, despite overwhelming objections by law enforcement and sane people, who say it will draw drug dealers and violence to their neighborhoods.

Weiser’s spokesman Lawrence Pacheco, says, “States are laboratories of democracy and should have the flexibility to develop appropriate public health solutions.”

Enabling drug users with medical staff, burners, clean needles, and overdose medication is not providing public health.

It’s just a slower method of killing drug addicts.

While Gov. Polis was busy challenging New Mexico to a chile taste-off Wednesday, CNBC released their 2019 rankings for America’s top states for business, and Colorado fell from 5th to 9th place on the list.

That means states like Georgia, Minnesota and Nebraska ranked better than us.

And, we shot up from 29th to to 35th place for infrastructure, lost our standings in workforce and education, and remain stagnant in cost of doing business at 37th place.

That’s right, Mr. Free Kindergarten for all knocked us from 11th place to 17th place in education.

Most important of all, Colorado no longer has one of the top economies, dropping from 8th to 21st place.

This is what happens when Polis and his Democratic legislature starts picking off industries they don’t like, it causes a ripple effect in the economy.

(Reuters) – New environmental regulations in Colorado have chilled investment in the state’s oil and gas fields as companies grapple with how local officials will respond to a law giving them more power to restrict energy production.

Which industries will they hate on next? Banking? Construction?

Polis needs to shift his focus from New Mexico chillies and chilling our economy, and start paying attention to the effects his policies are already having on doing business in Colorado.

If the 2020 Democratic primary election for the U.S. Senate was held today, no one would win it.

That’s according to a poll paid for by supporters of Jena Griswold, who was elected secretary of state five minutes ago.

The plug, which we obviously just ignored, is supposed to be that Griswold is so popular with the masses, she’s already running in second place in the bid to oust Cory Gardner, and she’s not even running, yet!

But take a closer look, PeakNation:

42% Undecided
23% Andrew Romanoff
15% Griswold
12% Mike Johnston
2% Alice Madden
2% John Walsh
2% Dan Baer
2% Other candidate

In other words, the top three Democrat candidates were soundly defeated by Ms. Undecided, while the rest of the field tied for last place with Mr. Other Candidate.

Spinning like our dog before an afternoon nap, here’s how Griswold’s campion describes their findings:

“We were curious to see where Secretary of State Griswold would stack up in this survey,” pollster Chris Keating said in a statement. “The fact that an undeclared entrant could garner second reaffirms the fact that this race is wide open.”

Wide enough for Gardner to run through that opening without Griswold and her 15% coming within a mile of him, we say.

John Hickenlooper has finally gone viral.

Unfortunately for his presidential campaign, the attention is coming from The Onion, a satirical site only slightly exaggerating Hickenlooper’s predicament.

John Hickenlooper Sets Ambitious $250 Fundraising Goal For Next Debate Cycle https://t.co/tas3PtKqSq pic.twitter.com/eXw7cV0jgt

— The Onion (@TheOnion) July 9, 2019

Adding fuel to the fire, Hickenlooper actually responded to The Onion insisting his campaign has “already met our goal.”

Seriously? Hickenlooper has raised a drop in the bucket, a mere $2 million total ($1 million in the last filing period), which wouldn’t even fund a U.S. Senate race.

Not only that, he’s only got $1.3 million left in the bank.

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is faring just as poorly, raising $2.8 million for his presidential bid in the last period.

Bennet plans to borrow $700,000 from his Senate campaign account, which only has about $1 million to spare.

The only reason The Onion is picking on Hickenlooper, because his name is funnier than Bennetblooper.

It looks like state Sen. Angela Williams got the go-ahead from the Democrat establishment to run against U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner in the 2020 election.

Williams announced her bid Monday to join the growing number of Democrats taking on Gardner, a field that’s beginning to rival the free-for-all presidential race.

Williams’ entry is no surprise, she’s been talking about it for months.

Actually, she’s been bragging about talking about it with the likes of Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer, the powers that be at EMILY’s List, and union leaders.

PeakNation will recall those are the same establishment figures who promised not to get involved in 2020 party primaries this time, because their base doesn’t appreciate the interference.

Williams is fresh off her first legislative session as a state senator, where she failed to abolish the death penalty, and failed to raise our taxes for a massive family paid leave state fund.

So far, her failures are a win for the taxpayers.

Also running for the democratic nomination in the 2020 U.S. Senate race are John Hickenlooper, former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, former ambassador Dan Baer, former U.S. Attorney for Colorado John Walsh, former state House Majority Leader Alice Madden and former congressional candidate Stephany Spaulding, community organizer Lorena Garcia, climate activist Diana Bray, economist Ellen Burnes, and Trish Zornio.