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BUMPER STICKERS, PLEASE: Gardner for President!
Here’s a whisper campaign we can support: Cory Gardner for president! The nation hasn’t even settled on a Republican or Democratic candidate for 2016, and already Gardner is being lauded as a candidate in 2020. The American Spectator predicts that if Hillary Clinton...
BIPARTISAN BUMP: Congress Tells VA to Return Bonuses for Jobs Done Wrong
In other news that the world is about to end, the U.S. House cast a UNANIMOUS vote last night to strip bonuses away from VA officials, especially those caught up in recent scandals involving the care of their charges. Insult was literally added to injury last...
PLATFORM FINE PRINT: Colorado Democrats Want 50% Renewable Energy Standard
Another day, and another glaring example of the Democrats' cognitive dissonance under the Gold Dome. The party that claimed it wanted to focus on middle class pocketbooks as the 2015 session kicked off (that would be the Democrats) just killed a bill that would have...
NANNY ALERT: Dem’s Parental Leave Bill a Solution in Search of a Problem
Democrats really do love to legislate every single aspect of our lives ad nauseam. Their latest attempt can be seen in House Bill 15-1221, which would require employers to offer additional leave to parents in order to attend their children’s academic activities. We...
STICKER SHOCK: $13.83 One Way Tolls Coming to a Highway Near You
When U.S. 36 opened as a toll road between Boulder and Denver in 1951, there were two lanes in each direction, and one interchange between the two cities. The state agreed to remove the tolls from the road once it was completed, which happened in 1968. Fast forward a...
FRACTIVIST FUNDING: Russia’s Influence Extends to Oil and Gas Task Force Greenie
As fractivists gear up for a new battle to ban energy development, we decided to take a closer look at the Colorado players with financial links to the Russians. Western Resource Advocates, which bragged in a press release last week that oil and gas task force member...
DOUBLING DOWN ON FAILURE: Colorado Democrats Re-Elect Failed Party Leadership
In the hours before hosting the bitter and divisive U.S. Senator Al Franken as the honored guest at the Jefferson-Jackson Day fundraising dinner, Colorado Democrats faced what was either a lack of real options, or simple delusion, and re-elected State Chair Rick...
STACKING HIS DECK: CO Dem Party Chairman Palacio Appoints Supporters to Voting Pool
This week has been a testament to Democrats' Dirty Doings, and this might just be cherry on top. According to some liberal activists, the head of the Democratic State Party, Rick Palacio, is appointing his supporters to the central committee, which is responsible for...
REST IN PEACE SPOCK: As Soon As Jared Polis Stops Tweeting About You
It was sad enough that science fiction cult hero Leonard Nemoy passed away today, even ghastlier that we had to learn about it from U.S. Rep. Jared Polis's Twitter feed. My parents published Leonard Nimoy's soulful (and, yes, emotional) poetry http://t.co/DCUYXknIQy —...
BACKDOOR GUN BAN: Feds to Block Sale of AR-15 Ammo
President Obama is once again using his executive power to thwart the Constitution and impose his will on the populace, this time with a surprise ban on certain gun ammunition. Paul Bedard reports in the Washington Examiner that the administration is fast-tracking a...