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TOYS FOR BOYS & GIRLS: Background Checks Surge on Black Friday
Have you been good little boys and girls, PeakNation™? If so, there's a possibility that, come Christmas morning, there might be a firearm under the tree for you. The Denver Post reported this weekend that Black Friday caused firearm background checks to surge. On...
UNDER THE GUN: Open Carry Threatened in Castle Rock
Politicians in Castle Rock, Colo. may be shooting themselves in the foot this week by attempting to further restrict the Second Amendment rights of their constituents. In an act demonstrating an acute case of tone-deafness to the state's current political...
HONEY BADGER NUKES BROOMFIELD VOTE RIGGERS: Gessler Takes No Prisoners in Fracking Funny Business
If you missed it over Thanksgiving, Secretary of State Scott Gessler unloaded on the hapless (or is it corrupt?) vote counters in Broomfield. After some serious election night shenanigans, an initiative to ban fracking pushed by this guy went from defeated to...
SHOT DOWN: Colorado Sheriffs Unable to Proceed in Suit Against Colorado Gun Control Measures
On a slow news day before Thanksgiving, a federal judge in Colorado ruled that the sheriffs who brought the lawsuit against the unpopular gun control measures jammed through the state legislature by the Democrat majority earlier this year had no standing to proceed...
PeakFeed: Local 7 Sponsored Walmart Protests
If you ventured out to Walmart on Black Friday, you may have seen protests. What you may not have known is that many of these protesters were paid by the very union who would most benefit from unionizing Walmart. Revealing Politics sent a camera crew to Walmart on...
BACK FOR MORE? New Issue Committee Seeks Ballot Initiative to Ban Concealed Carry on College Campuses
UPDATE: We cited a Westword story that claimed Toltz's family owns the Dependable Cleaners. While this is technically true as the Toltz family does own the Dependable Cleaners chain, Ken Toltz is estranged from the Toltz family. You can call off your boycotts of...
AGAIN SEN UDALL? Embattled Senator’s Not So Accurate (NSA) Obsession
Sen. Udall, why do you make us write these posts every three months? We're tired of it, you're tired of it, why must we do this again? Did Democratic spokeswoman Denver Post reporter Allison Sherry put you up to this? Once again, after finding himself in hot water...
HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE: Distracted Davita Has a Bad Quarter
On its third-quarter earnings call, DaVita CEO Kent Thiry had a handful of excuses for his company’s 14.7% drop in earnings per share from the third quarter of 2012 and a drop in three-month net income by 5.6 percent from 2012. Some explanations, such as the...
THE BIG DANCE: Colorado GOP to Bid for 2016 Republican National Convention
The Denver Post last night confirmed scooped that the Colorado GOP is preparing to bid for the 2016 Republican National Convention. In the article, Colorado GOP Chairman Ryan Call promised a more sensible approach to the convention than that of the Democratic Party in...
WHAT THE FRACK? Ballot Mayhem In Broomfield, As Clerk Considers Counting Boulder Ballots Received After Election
There has been a sudden uptick in chatter from Peak Nation™ about irregularities in the recount over the fracking ban in Broomfield. The Broomfield ban, as we wrote before the election, was the one proposed ban on hydraulic fracturing that was worth watching because...