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HIT THE PAUSE BUTTON: Republican Lawmaker Wants to Re-Examine the Expensive Roll-Out of Hickenlooper’s Controversial State Logo
It looks like the future of the expensive and controversial new state logo may still be up in the air. The Denver Post's Lynn Bartels is reporting that the non-nonsense State Representative Bob Rankin, a Republican Army veteran and businessman from the Roaring Fork...
REVISIONIST HISTORY: Speaker Ferrandino Tries to Rewrite Last Session’s Testimony Time Restrictions
Another year begins and still no punctuation mark for sarcasm has gone mainstream and we assume Speaker Ferrandino is lamenting the same. How else could he keep a straight face while trying to pass off such bald-face lies he told The Colorado Statesman? In a preview...
IT’S CRIMINAL: Democrats Rely on Criminal to Advance Anti-Fracking Agenda
As first reported by The Colorado Observer, radical fractivist Cliff Willmeng, that guy who is giving the middle finger in the picture we keep posting, is more than just a fractivist - he's also a criminal. "A radical environmental campaigner with an extensive arrest...
MEDIA SHARPENS KNIVES, PART II: Durango Herald Piles On
Governor Hickenlooper is increasingly vulnerable, and media around the state and the country are starting to report it. Finally. Here’s the latest from Joe Hanel at The Durango Herald: "A year ago, the Republican candidate for governor was assumed to be a...
FEEL SAFER? Colorado Logs Record Number of Background Checks in 2013 Using Flawed Platform
Last year was Colorado's busiest year for gun sales on record, with uncertainty around controversial gun control legislation driving record purchases. As of November 30th, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation had already logged almost 20,000 more checks than it had...
PEAKFEED: Gang’s All Here, But Potter Forgot the Sandwiches…Again
Yesterday, Roxane White, chief of staff to liberal Governor John Hickenlooper, shared a photo of Team Hick plotting to strip Coloradans of their Second Amendment rights preparing for Hick's State of the State address. Just one question guys, we don't see any ham...
PEAKFEED: Colorado Springs Poli Sci Professors Get High, Pen 2014 Political Predictions
One week after weed became legal, we are starting to see the results spill into the news. The Denver Post ran an op-ed today from a couple of dim-witted Colorado College political science professors, Thomas Cronin and Robert Loevy, who make some hilarious statements...
FUZZY MATH: Colorado Loses Jobs, Unemployment Rate Still Goes Down
Don’t tell us PeakNation™ over the Christmas holiday you missed this recent report from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University; no worries, that’s why you have us. While people all around the country have been touting the ever-lowering unemployment rates in...
MEANINGLESS PLATITUDES: Magpul Departure Shows Chasm Between Democrats’ Words and Deeds
Colorado Democrats, making the nonsensical claim that the state's economy is their number one priority going into the 2014 legislative session, will start the year $80 million in the hole. That is the estimated annual hit to the Colorado economy caused by Friday's...
MEDIA SHARPENS KNIVES: Hickenlooper’s Inability to Lead has Him on Thin Ice
How bad is it for Governor Hickenlooper? So bad that Reuter’s reporter Keith Coffman implies Colorado would have advanced a more moderate agenda last session had liberal California Governor Jerry Brown been in charge here: “Unlike Democratic California Governor Jerry...