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Conservative conference attendees bask in recent success

By | 08.18.09 | 9:44 am

PITTSBURGH – Scott and Anna Allegrini founded The Children of Liberty shortly after the inauguration of President Barack Obama. It was a small group that would meet at the local library in Sylvania, Ohio, bringing in guest lecturers to talk about economics and the words of America’s founders. What they learned made them ever more concerned about the state of America.

News Nuggets, 14 Augut 2009: Penry’s Karl Rove

By | 08.14.09 | 8:01 pm

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MINI KARL: Senate Minority Leader and gubernatorial candidate Josh Penry has pitched himself as a new kind of Republican, one seeking a return to true conservativism. He has tried to distance himself from the…

News Nuggets, 7 August 2009: Anti-health reform demagoguery in Pueblo

By | 08.07.09 | 4:49 pm

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SENIOR CARE: Concerning the GOP/ health industry-backed misinformation and rabble rousing campaign on health reform, it really doesn’t get any more damning than the anti-reform rally held in Pueblo yesterday. The soap-box speaker captured…

Health-care showdown brewing at Denver Stout Street Clinic

By | 08.06.09 | 2:32 am

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, and Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, are touring the Stout Street Clinic for the homeless Thursday afternoon. Following the tour, the Representatives are scheduled to speak to the press and…

News Nuggets: 5 August 2009

By | 08.05.09 | 5:52 pm

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HEALTH-CARE RICHES: Colorado anti- health-care reform protesters are being rallied and bused around tomorrow by “free-market” group Americans for Prosperity. On its “Patients First Bus Tour,” AFP will be hauling the group to Fort…

News Nuggets: 28 July 2009

By | 07.28.09 | 5:02 pm

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DUELING RALLIES: Old Town Fort Collins could be plenty crowded during the lunch hour Wednesday. The Obama-oriented Organizing for America reoriented what it’s dubbing the “biggest health care reform rally in Colorado yet”

‘Tea Party’ tax day protests brewed by lobbyists, corporate interests

By | 04.15.09 | 7:43 am

Teabagging just isn’t what it used to be.

And with new revelations that the much anticipated April 15 anti-tax protests are being co-opted by establishment Republican groups and Washington, D.C.-based corporate lobbyists, the term “teabaggery” may well join “douchebaggery” in the pantheon of political recriminations.

Global warming deniers cancel meeting over storm

By | 08.20.08 | 10:33 am

In an irony of ironies, the pro-oil, anti-tax advocacy group Americans for Prosperity was forced to cancel an Aug. 19 meeting in Florida due to … Tropical Storm Fay.