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Colorado’s controversial former U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo spun an edifying Thanksgiving yarn over the holiday week. It was, you might say, an alternative reading of the story of the Pilgrims and the Indians. Among other things, listeners to his show Wednesday learned that, although slavery was not good, African Americans are better off for having been brought out of Africa to live in America and Native American culture is not environmentally friendly, that the trash piled up on reservations tells the real story!

The conservative national paper of record, the Wall Street Journal, reported on the Colorado Republican Party “Platform for Prosperity” today, describing it as a “bold move” to win over the “restive tea party activists.” The tea partiers interviewed by the paper weren’t so impressed. Platforms mean little next to “gut feelings about whether a candidate [...]

David Weigel at The Washington Independent reports on the latest resolution being pushed by Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp, the Indiana RNC member who admonished Chairman Michael Steele to embrace the word “socialists” in referring to Democratic lawmakers. Steele at the time was using the word “collectivists” and Bopp insisted that that word just [...]

The political achilles heel of lawyer-lobbyist and expected U.S. Senate candidate Scott McInnis got tweaked this morning when Rep. Mark Udall (D-Eldorado Springs) announced his support for the Candidate Anti-Corruption Act, a bi-partisan bill that would prohibit the use of campaign funds for the payment of a salary to a candidate running for federal office [...]