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From The New York Times : After a turbulent week that included new disclosures about Gov. Sarah Palin and signs that Senator John McCain was struggling to strike the right tone for his campaign, Republican leaders said Saturday they were worried that Mr. McCain was heading for defeat unless he brought stability to his presidential candidacy and settled on a clear message to counter Senator Ba...
Colorado Pols - 1:25 p.m.
The brainiac proponents of 47 are advertising on TV that unions are “different” today than before. Really? Hmm, what a stroke of genius to observe the painfully obvious. So are telephones, cars, the prices of heating and gasoline, groceries, college tuitions, clothes, books, and a cup of coffee. Unions today operate on a higher level of [...]...
The Truth about Colorado's Amendment 47 - 12:22 p.m.
I don't agree with Melissa McEwan that McCain saying he was going to "whip [Obama's] you-know-what in this debate" was inappropriate. While "owning the context is precisely the pity phrase I was struggling to find in my own post on the topic, I disagree with her that it's impossible to extricate a person's race and/or gender from any discussion. Like with anything, there has to be a line. Certain ...
Anne Zook - 12:22 p.m.
If McCain were a Democrat ... Basically, if McCain were a Democrat, the Right would be tearing strips off of him for flipflopping, lying, and generally being a bad choice for the White House. Congratulations, Paul Krugman. A Nobel! (P.S. Your books are fascinating.) An amusing (although very shallow) little view of the traveling with a candidate. Air Apparent The differences between Air Obama and ...
Anne Zook - 10:50 a.m.
Kim Barnes is a Moscow, Idaho-based novelist and memoirist who teaches at the University of Idaho. Her first memoir, In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country, was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize. Barnes recently published her second novel, A Country Called Home, and I spoke to her over the phone about her inspiration for the book, how some of the events of her life have informe...
New West Boulder - 6:01 a.m.
This is a major setback for our infamous Republican commissioners here in Jefferson County, whose Byzantine cronyism and culture of payback against citizens has embarrassed us for too long. Check out the latest from the Columbine Courier: A judge has approved the addition of County Commissioner Jim Congrove and former assistant county attorney Duncan Bradley as defendants in a federal lawsuit...
Colorado Pols - Sun 7:30 p.m.
From the Denver Post, Udall is best for Colorado Udall has a proven track record of bipartisan accomplishments and, we think, would best guide Colorado as it prepares to be a leader in the new (and old) energy economy. Udall worked recently with conservative stalwart Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave to stop the Army's proposed expansion of the Piñon Canon Maneuver Site. He worked with her again...
Colorado Pols - Sun 7:30 p.m. - 2 clicks 
from OpenLeft he pulled the Washington Post state status: Obama +13.8% : Battleground state (PA) Obama +10.4%: Battleground state (NH) Obama +10.0%: Battleground state (NJ) Obama +9.5%: Battleground state (IA) Obama +9.0%: Battleground state (OR) Obama +8.2%: Battleground state (MN) Obama +8.2%: Battleground state (MI) Obama +8.8%: Battleground state (WI) Obama +7.3%: Battleg...
Colorado Pols - Sun 7:06 p.m.
¶ I saw this sign in the Lamar Valley at Yellowstone. I know that when when wolves arrived, they killed coyotes . So what is happening now? I did see one set of what looked like coyote tracks along the Lamar River, but saw only one individual coyote elsewhere in the park. ¶ Now this is what I call optimistic: a large carnivore initiative for Europe . Check the link for various news items....
NatureBlog - Sun 3:40 p.m. - 2 clicks
John Lewis speaking with Politico , Civil rights icon and Georgia congressman John Lewis is accusing John McCain and Sarah Palin of stoking hate, likening the atmosphere at Republican campaign events to those featuring George Wallace, the segregationist former governor of Alabama and presidential candidate. McCain's campaign has responded with a statement in the candidate's name, urging Bar...
Steam Powered Opinions - Sun 1:51 p.m. - 2 clicks
Because the public's appetite for polls during the presidential election is nearly insatiable, large numbers of unreliable surveys are cranked out by outfits that have never earned much credibility or, like Zogby, have acquired a reputation for producing junk polls. Here's one example of an unreliable swing-state poll from among many ridiculously inadequate polls that keep popping up: the Ohio ...
Unbossed - Sun 1:02 p.m. - 2 clicks
To be honest, I think the McCain campaign is using much of the same kind of inflammatory rhetoric that has worked for the Republican Party in the last two elections. They're just (and this is so often my complaint about the Right), not smart enough to understand what they're doing. Their language, setting aside for the moment the context of this specific campaign and the response of their audience...
Anne Zook - Sun 10:51 a.m. - 2 clicks
I don't have a story to tell, but count me as Out as a supporter of the "homosexual agenda" of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.......
Anne Zook - Sun 10:51 a.m. - 2 clicks
This video is the funniest thing I've seen in a while. For those of you who, like me, find links to a video clip instead of a proper blog entry to be annoying? Let me tell you where the funny is, which is everywhere, but mostly in the opening music. When Johnny comes marching home again, Hurrah! Hurrah! We'll give him a hearty welcome then Hurrah! Hurrah! The men will cheer and the boys will shout...
Anne Zook - Sun 10:51 a.m. - 2 clicks
Elk wandering on the lawn of Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel . Note the bull on the left. Click to embiggen. I don't know how long that semi-tame elk have hung out around the hotel and old Fort Yellowstone grounds. I'm sure that decades ago, it was the easiest way for visitors to see them. But encouraging bears with open garbage dumps made them easy to see too, yet the Park Service abolished tha...
NatureBlog - Sun 8:46 a.m. - 2 clicks
Dave at Lawyers, Guns and Money reaches an interesting conclusion upon reading the report on Sarah Palin's abuse of power , [T]o suggest that Todd Palin had a raging hard-on for Mike Wooten would be overstating things, but perhaps not by much. ...
Steam Powered Opinions - Sat 9:49 p.m. - 2 clicks
UPDATE: Suppose a 10-point Udall lead will chill everybody out? We check in with Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza , who has profiled each month this season the Senate seats most likely to switch parties. This month's lineup keeps the Colorado Senate race between Democrat Mark Udall and Republican Bob Schaffer at #3 , but with a twist: Cillizza is starting to wonder out loud wh...
Colorado Pols - Sat 9:49 p.m. - 12 clicks
Love the Denver Post's David Harsanyi or hate him, as he opines: This election has never been about John McCain - though his candidacy is sure to revive a debate about the worst presidential candidates of all time. No, this is a referendum on Barack Obama. And many Republicans are exuding the confidence of a hopelessly quixotic sports fan - a person who watches his atrocious team struggle...
Colorado Pols - Sat 9:49 p.m. - 11 clicks
This is such a serious election - one in which nothing less than the country's fate is at stake. So, thank God for ONN - Onion Network News. Here is a sampling of two of their recent reports, one on each candidate. Sorry for the ads and watch for the extra after the other ad in the first one. On McCain: Old, Grizzled Third-Party Candidate May Steal Support From McCain And on Oba...
Unbossed - Sat 4:01 p.m. - 2 clicks
Consider the fury demonstrated at McCain rallies against Barack Obama. Consider the claim that he is unknown, with un-American attitudes, frightening. Consider why people felt so immediately comfortable with Palin, even though she has only been on the national scene for about 2 months now - while for Obama who has been a national figure since at least 2004, people claim they do not know him. ...
Unbossed - Sat 4:01 p.m. - 2 clicks
A couple weeks ago, Laughing Boy did a diary asking who everyone's favorite Founding Father is and why. I thought the conversation in that thread was highly enlightening--for intellectual reasons, but also because it gave a little bit of insight into the people who frequently post here. In that vein, I pose a similar question: who is your favorite justice ever to sit on the SCOTUS, and why? Min...
Colorado Pols - Sat 2:28 p.m. - 2 clicks
Up until 2003, I was a lifelong unaffiliated voter, loving and hating both political parties. I imagined that, if the legislative and executive branches were held by two different parties, they would watch each other and keep the country out of trouble. I suppose it was a comforting thought. Even......
Democracy in Progress - Sat 1:02 p.m. - 2 clicks
It's here. She argues that it only pertains to financial misuse of office and tells people they "Got to read it." This is just one more example of the McCain campaign standing in front of reporters and flat out lying.......
Non-Prophet - Sat 10:29 a.m. - 2 clicks
I know it isn't fair to film a few idiots and then act like they represent a larger group of people. My point here is that some idiots are facing losing, they're getting worried and quite frankly, exposing their idiocy....
Non-Prophet - Sat 9:08 a.m. - 4 clicks
As the Denver Post reports : When Republican Bob Schaffer, a staunch values conservative who once compared embryonic stem-cell research to Nazi medical experiments, came out in opposition to this year's personhood amendment, the party's anti-abortion base hardly blinked. "He made a calculated risk," said Patrick Davis, a Colorado Springs consultant who works closely with anti-abortion groups...
Colorado Pols - Fri 8:25 p.m. - 14 clicks
Today I was thinking how disappointed I was in McCain. How far my opinion of him had fallen and how dangerous the tone of his campaign was becoming. Today I think McCain realized how ugly it was getting. Fearing the raw and at times angry emotions of his supporters may damage his campaign, John McCain on Friday urged them to tone down their increasingly personal denunciations of Bara...
Colorado Pols - Fri 8:25 p.m. - 2 clicks
Speaking to a townhall in Venice, California this morning, Iago made his sharpest attacks yet on Cassio's integrity and truthfulness. Iago also continued to call into question his rival's experience and preparation to lead during these troubled times. And for the third day in a row, Iago cast doubt on Cassio's description of his associations with a former radical, Roderigo, who belonged to the v...
Unbossed - Fri 7:43 p.m. - 2 clicks
from CNN Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her power as Alaska's governor by trying to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from the state police, a state investigator's report concluded Friday. The bipartisan Legislative Council, which commissioned the investigation after Monegan was fired, unanimously adopted the 263-page public report after a marathon executive session F...
Colorado Pols - Fri 7:43 p.m. - 2 clicks
Wayne Allard is no longer accepting e-mail from us. I just checked his senate site and sure enough it states: The United States Senate has effectively recessed for the remainder of the year, and will not be considering new legislative proposals. I am retiring, and so my Senate career has also ended. Accordingly, I feel that your thoughts and views on this matter would be best addresse...
Colorado Pols - Fri 7:43 p.m. - 11 clicks
I've been reading and listening to stories of the increasing levels of racial violence in this country and I'm more than concerned. There is racism in the USofA. There are a few people who are not only unable to get past the lizard-brain reaction of "Different! Dangerous!" but who are entirely unwilling to even try. Bigotry is so easy. No having to think about complex policies or accept any respon...
Anne Zook - Fri 6:03 p.m. - 2 clicks
"I'm mad. I'm really mad. And what's going to surprise you, it's not the economy. It's the socialists taking over our country," another man said. That's not a rational political position. That's ignorance, inflated with fear. Socialism is just the label he was given by a desperate, and losing, candidate. #1 - What's happening in this country, and around the world, isn't ideological, except as it'...
Anne Zook - Fri 6:03 p.m. - 2 clicks
"[McCain's campaign has gone] into the dark territory of race-baiting and xenophobia." Desperation has never looked so ugly. [A] woman, who teaches her own child, that the next president of the United States is so vile that "you need gloves to touch him" Someone save the children from the legacy of blind hate! Cindy McCain: Obama Has 'Waged the Dirtiest Campaign in American History' Do they seriou...
Anne Zook - Fri 6:03 p.m. - 2 clicks
It's almost a cry for help, with the GOP party faithful amazed McCain could possibly be losing. Seriously? With their Party in shambles, the current Administration less popular than Richard "I Am Not A Crook" Nixon, and a candidate that hasn't managed to stand for anything except getting elected, they don't know how they lost?......
Anne Zook - Fri 6:03 p.m. - 2 clicks
and Sarah Palin is headed to West Virginia . The McCain campaign is apparently trying to stave off a complete landslide on November 4th. There is no way the Republican ticket should be spending time in West Virginia this close to the election. No way, that is, unless they are in mortal danger of losing the Mountaineer state. If they really are in danger of losing West Virginia then all o...
Steam Powered Opinions - Fri 2:50 p.m. - 3 clicks
Ezra Klein nicely summarizes the arguments that demonstrate that the GOP may very well be in it's last throes . Essentially the party has isolated itself from the educated, from minorities and from every geogrpahic region save the South and rural America. It doesn't take a genius in demographics to see that such a coalition creates serious long-term sustainability issues for the GOP. ...
Steam Powered Opinions - Fri 12:28 p.m. - 3 clicks
A Financial Times op-ed comes out in favor of a full (temporary) nationalization of our banking system . His conclusion, The Fed cannot take over all bank lending operations. Only the government can do this by temporarily transforming private banks into public ones. It can then order the management of these state banks to lend to each other. Such a transformation (call it a temporary...
Steam Powered Opinions - Fri 12:02 p.m. - 4 clicks
William F. Buckley Jr's son, Chris, endorses Barack Obama today. Definitely give it a read , This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget “by the end of my first term.” Who, really, believes that?...
Steam Powered Opinions - Fri 12:02 p.m. - 2 clicks
Jonathon Martin at Politico has a good wrap up of the increasing rage on display from the GOP base . Here's the key take-away, John Weaver, McCain’s former top strategist, said top Republicans have a responsibility to temper this behavior. “People need to understand, for moral reasons and the protection of our civil society, the differences with Sen. Obama are ideological, based on clear d...
Steam Powered Opinions - Fri 12:02 p.m. - 2 clicks
As the Denver Post reports: Secretary of State Mike Coffman said today that a published report was "way off" in asserting that Colorado had purged almost 37,000 people from voter registration rolls. At a press conference today to respond to a New York Times article which said that Colorado is one of six battleground states that may be illegally purging thousands of voters from registration ...
Colorado Pols - Fri 12:01 p.m. - 10 clicks
Gotta love this story from The Associated Press , including the headline: "Palin Pre-Empts State Report, Clears Self." Trying to head off a potentially embarrassing state ethics report on GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report Thursday that clears her of any wrongdoing. Sen. John McCain's running mate is the subject of a legislative investigatio...
Colorado Pols - Fri 12:01 p.m. - 2 clicks
"If he's our candidate, then Hillary's gonna be our girl, Sean, because she's more conservative than he is." --Ann Coulter on John McCain ...
Colorado Pols - Fri 12:01 p.m. - 2 clicks
Last night on AC 360 on CNN David Gergen expressed his concern over the ugly rehtoric that John McCain has been spewing , COOPER : There’s also the question of ruling after this, and bringing the country together. It’s going to be all the more harder to do that whoever wins with all this anger out there. GERGEN : This—I think one of the most striking things we’ve seen now ...
Steam Powered Opinions - Fri 10:23 a.m. - 2 clicks
With energy prices rising like the stock market used to, oil companies have taken a lot of criticism for the record profits they have made in recent years. Somebody has to make profits, and it hasn’t been the banking circles or investment circles according to our “bailout” mess. Oil companies, known collectively as Big Oil, [...]...
The Truth about Colorado's Amendment 47 - Fri 9:24 a.m. - 2 clicks
With the report looming, this piece in the NY Times seems to really put the nails in the coffin for Sarah Palin. It truly looks like she's guilty of much wrongdoing in trooper-gate. It's a good piece. It will be......
Non-Prophet - Thu 9:30 p.m. - 2 clicks
Three southbound flights of sandhill cranes went over us today, as many as 40 in a group, at medium altitude -- loose V's and W's of birds, pale grey flickers as their wings moved. I can't help but think that their call must preserve the sound of some dinosaur or other. The local newspaper's "Peaks of the Past" (reprinted news items from earlier times) offered this item from its equivalen...
NatureBlog - Thu 8:08 p.m. - 2 clicks
At 2:15PM today, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey of the arch-conservative advocacy group FreedomWorks will be giving Rep. Marilyn Musgrave an award highlighting her agreeing with him 95% of the time. From their press release: Heading into the November election, Coloradans are focusing on the economy and pocketbook issues. Voters are faced with a clear choice between lower taxes and...
Colorado Pols - Thu 6:08 p.m. - 6 clicks
As Politico reports: Three weeks of historic economic upheaval have done more than just tilt a handful of once reliably Republican states in Barack Obama's direction. Democratic strategists are now optimistic that the ongoing crisis could lead to a landslide Obama victory. Four large states John McCain once seemed well-positioned to win - Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio and Florida - have in r...
Colorado Pols - Thu 6:08 p.m. - 2 clicks
A blog at the Moonie-owned Washington Times has a revealing document from March 1986 showing the extremely close relationship between Charles Keating and then Representative John McCain. That was a year before McCain as a new Senator attended two meetings intended to pressure bank regulators to go easy on Keating's failing bank. McCain wrote warmly and with deference to Keating about a smal...
Unbossed - Thu 4:05 p.m. - 2 clicks
What does it all mean? Robert Reich explains , The central fact is this: consumers in the real economy are coming to the end of their capacities to keep spending. They can't take on any more debt. And with the costs of energy, food, and health insurance all soaring, they're doing the only thing they can. They're pulling in their belts. They're leaving the malls. They're not buying a new car...
Steam Powered Opinions - Thu 4:05 p.m. - 2 clicks
When she went outside on a brisk morning in mid-September, Mary Randall got a rude surprise. "I noticed the windshield wiper was hanging down and I went, 'Hmm, that's odd.'" Odd doesn't begin to describe it. Along with a broken wiper, the interior of Randall's car -- parked outside her home in the Sugarloaf area in the canyons above Boulder -- had been completely destroyed by a scavenging bear....
New West Boulder - Thu 2:40 p.m. - 6 clicks
Today ABC reports that the NSA warrantless surveillance program is every bit as far-reaching as critics have always predicted it would turn out to be. Independently of each other, two whistleblowers from the military assigned to help with the spying since 2001 have described it as obnoxious in the extreme. The revelations will be detailed in Jim Bamford's latest book on the NSA, The Shadow Fa...
Unbossed - Thu 1:29 p.m. - 2 clicks
From the site 270towin, an Electoral Vote Tracker, the likely results of November 4th's vote: Who still needs how many electoral votes, to win? What chance does McCain have? Of course, sites like this fail to take many things into account, not the least of which is the potential for another Ohio or Florida. Still, barring unforseen and catastropic events? McCain's goose is very cooked. To be hones...
Anne Zook - Thu 12:31 p.m. - 2 clicks
We're living in a world where the gap between Real People and the wealthy is becoming--almost inconceivable to me. Ingrid Zaharris moved to a smaller home, her daughter had to give up after-school gymnastics, and Ingrid is trying to decide whether or not she can live without a car. Richard Garriott, who made a mega-fortune designing computer games, is spending thirty million dollars on his next va...
Anne Zook - Thu 11:51 a.m. - 2 clicks
On Friday, Senator Lindsey Graham declared that he would do his utmost to obstruct anything Barack Obama might try to achieve if he's elected president. It was unnoticed by bloggers, pundits and the national media, and I owe this information to Robert in a comment here at unbossed . Graham told the Charleston Post and Courier that he would serve out another full term in the Senate because ...
Unbossed - Thu 10:46 a.m. - 2 clicks
Kevin Drum speculates , If McCain loses, as he's almost certain to, we're going to see two reactions. First, Steve Schmidt wasn't nasty enough. In the future, Republicans need to return to their Lee Atwater roots and really teach Americans what liberal treachery is all about. Second, we told you a RINO couldn't win. The conservative base will be convinced for years that the big pro...
Steam Powered Opinions - Thu 10:46 a.m. - 3 clicks
The increasingly disturbing McCain campaign rehtoric and the subsequent outbursts of truly violent cries at their rallies is something that has been worrying me quite a bit this week. I understand that the McCain campaign is in desperate straits and that they feel their only option is to attack. That said their attacks are so reckless that I honestly fear that they are on the cusp of provoking som...
Steam Powered Opinions - Thu 10:46 a.m. - 3 clicks
Here's a New York Times article about several swing states -- including Colorado -- in which voters have been removed from the rolls prior to the election. The Times is questioning the legality of the actions in Colorado. Mike Coffman's comment? No comment. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10... Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls ...
Colorado Pols - Thu 9:30 a.m. - 10 clicks
The Rocky Mountain News reports: The plethora of ballot measures this year has even the politicians confused. In a U.S. Senate debate this week, Democrat Mark Udall said he would vote against a tax to help the developmentally disabled. He actually supports Amendment 51, Udall said during a meeting Wednesday with the Rocky's editorial board. "It should have been a 'yes,' " Udall said. Udal...
Colorado Pols - Thu 8:10 a.m. - 7 clicks
Some union members have the top pay in their respective fields. The bottom line each week is what they bring home. Many union workers are getting paid top wages in Colorado. In addition, they have full family healthcare coverage. They pay nothing out of their pocket. This benefit was negotiated with the employer to create the [...]...
The Truth about Colorado's Amendment 47 - Thu 6:50 a.m. - 5 clicks
One of the most startling moments during the otherwise tedious presidential debate last night has garnered surprisingly little attention . Maybe I'm easily amused but I laughed out loud at John McCain's answer to Tom Brokaw's question about whom he'd appoint to take over the vastly expanded powers of the Treasury Secretary. McCain hastily anticipated what he imagined might be Barack Obama's cho...
Unbossed - Thu 5:50 a.m. - 3 clicks
McCain called for debates - and in particular for a town hall debate format. The popular understanding is that he sees that format as one he is comfortable in and in which he does well. But did he? Did what we saw redound to his benefit? I would say no. Here is why. O ne reason given for McCains embrace of the town hall format is that he is able to achieve a good rapport with those pre...
Unbossed - Thu 5:50 a.m. - 2 clicks
Tuesday, October 7, 2008, Rep. George Miller chaired a hearing on the current economic crisis and its impact on retirement security. link In his opening statement, Rep. Miller observed: During his testimony, Lehmans CEO, Mr. Fuld, showed no remorse for his catastrophic mismanagement of the company. In fact, he repeatedly denied responsibility for running the storied Lehman Brothers in...
Unbossed - Thu 5:50 a.m. - 2 clicks
"If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side." --Orson Scott Card ...
Colorado Pols - Thu 5:50 a.m. - 2 clicks
How are the numbers looking today? Well lets take a look at ballots cast so far and the polls. And remember, while most of the measurements are of the presidential race, this is very much a Democratic (change) vs Republican (more of the same) race. McCain's only done this well so far because he's viewed as not toeing the Republican line (right!). from the Boulder County Clerk we have: 212,7...
Colorado Pols - Thu 5:02 a.m. - 6 clicks
I was very surprised on Tuesday when I saw the first ad by local furniture mogul Jake Jabs . My first thought was, "Well jeeze, I'm glad I never bought anything there." My second was to wonder if this was an independent effort or some idiosyncratic choice by the backers of the anti-union amendment. Wonder no more. The Rocky Mountain News reports that besides the two official propon...
Colorado Pols - Thu 5:02 a.m. - 2 clicks
A lot of us have been asking when Obama was going to take the gloves off and start really fighting back against the GOP's sleazy attacks. Well, they're off now. Check out this new video about McCain's intimate involvement in......
Seeking a Homeland - Thu 4:25 a.m. - 2 clicks
I think I wrote something like this a while back, but I'm sure that Chernus says it better. No, Barack Obama is not the progressive candidate of my dreams, but I have faith that he understands the real problems and that, if we keep an eye on him, he'll work to help us solve them. It's not liberalism, it's not even progressivism, but it could be a kind of participatory democracy. Once we elect him,...
Anne Zook - Thu 4:25 a.m. - 2 clicks
Crawford, Texas, usually only mentioned in conjunction with the current President--wossname. Today the press is speaking for Texans who think that a President Obama is just what we need. Equal time for the Right! Rolling Stone gives us The Real McCain. He is--not impressive. And, from what I read, he essentially slipped and said, "good-bye" to his chances of winning the race last night?......
Anne Zook - Thu 4:25 a.m. - 2 clicks
Promoters of Amendment 47 suggest they are protecting a worker’s rights with their amendment. They claim no one should be required to join a union to have a job. But they insist they are not anti-union. If it quacks, it’s a safe assumption that there is a duck nearby. They are quacking making this argument. [...]...
The Truth about Colorado's Amendment 47 - Wed 12:43 p.m. - 2 clicks
Let me first get this out of the way. ACORN is an organization with serious issues. I've worked with them profesionaly and it has not always been pleasant. There have been isolated issues of financial mis-management and, of course ,issues with the way they structure their voter registration program. That said the raid in Nevada yesterday does not in any way indicate massive voter fraud. Ada...
Steam Powered Opinions - Wed 12:42 p.m. - 2 clicks
It's literary award and festival season across the region. Colorado Humanities and Colorado Center for the Book will announce the winners of the 17th annual Colorado Book Awards tonight at the Tivoli Turnhalle on the Auraria Campus in Denver (6-10 p.m.), and tickets are available for $75. As I mentioned before, several of the books we've reviewed over the past year are finalists for awards. Mea...
New West Boulder - Wed 11:44 a.m. - 8 clicks
The Denver Post reports as a sidebar, oddly given the intense press coverage the Schaffer/Marianas scandal has attracted for months: Claim: "I'm sure (Abramoff's) not pleased with the sweatshop I helped shut down." - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer, speaking last week to The Denver Post editorial board about efforts to connect him to jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff Facts: As ...
Colorado Pols - Wed 7:49 a.m. - 5 clicks