Recent Headlines
HICK OPPOSES METRO STATE MOVE: Colorado Public Radio Picks Up Governor’s Tuition Opposition
Governor Hickenlooper has popped his head out of his hidey hole to take a position on the move by Metro State to provide discounted tuition for illegal immigrants, opposing the unilateral move by the college, yet saying he understood the need for it. Per Colorado...
UNAMBIGUOUSLY AWFUL OPPONENTS: Top 4 Examples Of Gessler’s Political Enemies Self-Imploding
Secretary of State Scott Gessler is a lucky man. It seems every time his opponents attack him for one issue or another they end up self-imploding along the way. In that spirit, here are four examples of Gessler's opponents making fools of themselves in their...
BACKPEDAL: Denver Clerk Cries Voter Suppression…Then Quietly Removes Allegation From Statement
Denver Clerk and Recorder Debra Johnson is back in the news again; making a fool of herself, again. The Denver Post's Sara Burnett reports on Johnson's empty allegations of voter suppression by Secretary of State Scott Gessler, which she quietly retracted...
HIDING JOBLESS CLAIMS: Obama Admin Revises Numbers, AP Misses Discrepancy
The weekly jobless numbers came out this morning, and the Obama administration’s bean counters are, again, playing a shell game with the numbers. According to a Department of Labor press release issued today, “in the week ending June 16, the advance figure...
CPAC COMES TO COLORADO: American Conservative Union Announces October Conservative Confab In Denver
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is coming to Colorado. This morning, the American Conservative Union (ACU) announced that they are bringing their popular conservative confab to Denver on October 4, 2012, only a day after the first Presidential...
BIG GREEN BOONDOGGLE: Congressional Testimony Reveals Green Energy Stimulus Spent $1.2M Per Job
In a Congressional hearing yesterday, Congressman Cory Gardner questioned a staffer from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) about green job creation through the so-called 1603 grant program and got an interesting reply. Turns out as of November 10,...
ETHICS LESSON: Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Under Investigation, To Keynote Democratic Unity Dinner
The Denver Democratic Party has scored one of the most prominent members of the U.S. Congress, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), for its House District 7 “unity” dinner this Saturday. Unfortunately, she’s better known for her ethical missteps and...
LEFT BEHIND: New RNC Web Ad Hits Obama On Most Important Hispanic Issue — Unemployment
Much has been made of Obama's election year gamble to ignore immigration laws selectively to seek some of his lost Hispanic support. But Hispanics are no different than any other subset of America -- the economy is still the overriding issue. On that front, the...
Udall Pretends “Small Donor” Doesn’t Mean Union Money
U.S. Senate Mark Udall waxed poetically today about how unfair our presidential campaign finance system is. Apparently, he remains under the impression that before the Citizens United decision, corporations and other big spenders were prevented from participating...
BREAKING: OGI Calls On Rep. Max Tyler To Repay Hotrod Funds
Following an exposé by the Peak, the center-right watchdog, Open Government Institute has sent a letter to Rep. Max Tyler (D-Lakewood) requesting that he repay his campaign the funds he used to pimp his ride.The letter, which acknowledges that the statute of...