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Malkin lashes out at pro-DREAM Act students in UT speech

By | 12.02.10 | 12:40 pm

Fast and loose Colorado Springs blogger and occasional Fox News pundit Michelle Malkin blasted the DREAM Act in a speech at the University of Texas-Austin Tuesday, calling undocumented students there looking to benefit from the law narcissists and incompetents.…

Video: Tancredo says U.S. last hope of western world

By | 07.12.10 | 12:54 pm

Tom Tancredo said on Saturday the United States is the last hope for the Western world after the fall of Europe to “Islamasization.”

“Why is it so important, why does everyone have to explain the importance of having other people come to keep aspects of their culture but attack our desire to retain our own?” Tancredo asked the audience while speaking the Conservative Western Summit.

Tancredo was part of a host of guest speakers inlcuding Michele Bauchmann, Michelle Malkin and other talk-radio-regulars speaking to a crowded ballroom at the summit hosted by the Centenial Insitute and 710 KNUS.

Spy vs Spy: Lefties plan to infiltrate whacko tax day tea parties

By | 04.14.10 | 10:47 am

It was bound to happen. The Tea Party movement can seem so bizarre– what with the Nazi outfits and three-corner patriot hats strung with tea bags, the misspelled signs touting the English language and the conspiracy theories that predominate– it…

Malkin’s telephone Tea Party clogs Salazar, Markey’s voice mail, email

By | 03.15.10 | 1:09 pm

Apparently one of the favorite Tea Party pastimes is hanging out with a few thousand of your best, most conservative friends and flooding the voice mail and email inboxes of out-of-state moderate Democrats who may be on the fence about…

Obama to ban sport fishing right after seizing all hand guns

By | 03.10.10 | 7:56 pm

No one is saying the alleged Obama “plot on fishing” was part of an RNC fundraising campaign, but the off-base rumor-bomb has certainly caught fire among the “visceral” small-donor crowd. Media Matters has a round up on how…

Penry passes over U.S. Senate grassroots candidate Buck, endorses Norton as ‘reformer’

By | 01.25.10 | 11:02 am

Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry was a popular candidate for governor among the grassroots right. He got pushed out of the race mid-November, however, by frontrunner Scott McInnis, a six-term Congressman, the establishment candidate and apparent top choice of…

In wake of Brown victory, Colorado GOP-Tea Party tango draws national press

By | 01.25.10 | 8:10 am

In the wake of Scott Brown’s stunning U.S. Senate victory in Massachusetts, the New York Times this weekend sought to measure the evolving relationship between the mainstream GOP and the fired-up anti-establishment Tea Party movement, largely by recounting events that have taken place in Colorado over the past year. Kate Zernike builds her story around the rocky ride GOP candidates Scott McInnis and Jane Norton have endured as they have “strained to ride the Tea Party tiger,” as the headline to the story puts it. Not included in the Times report is the latest chapters in the story, which unfolded on the floor of the state Senate and in the Colorado blogoshere this week.

Conservative activists fan out in Boston fraud-watching the election

By | 01.19.10 | 10:25 am

David Weigel from our sister site in Washington is on the ground in Boston for the neck-and-neck special election to fill the seat left by deceased Sen. Ted Kennedy, an election that could end the filibuster-proof majority the Democrats now…

‘With the facts Michelle Malkin will make them pay’

By | 12.01.09 | 1:42 pm

The tea party political movement loves its stars. This week Singer/songwriter Lloyd Marcus (of “American Tea Party Anthem” fame) re-writes the lyrics of “My Girl” to pay tribute to women tea party leaders.

Fast and loose Colorado…

Misquoted on bishops and health reform, DeGette draws ire of bloggers

By | 11.18.09 | 2:38 pm

Colorado U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette drew venom from conservative and Catholic bloggers yesterday for comments she made to ABC on the role Catholic bishops should be playing in shaping health care reform. But the venom was based on misquotes…