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WATCH: Glenn Beck: Obama’s submission to Jesus is Islamic

By | 08.25.10 | 9:40 am

Tuesday night Fox News host Glenn Beck deconstructed reports that nearly 20 percent of Americans, mostly on the right, say they believe President Obama is a Muslim. Beck said Obama is not a Muslim but that Americans can’t be…

VIDEO: Obama pushes for GOP support on immigration reform

By | 07.01.10 | 10:30 am

Obama tried to carve out middle ground on immigration reform in a speech at American University’s School of International Service Thursday. Light on specific policy recommendations, the President rejected appeals for blanket amnesty for undocumented immigrants in the country while…

Recovery-busting unemployment and foreclosure crises roil on

By | 06.24.10 | 10:18 am

The Washington Independent’s Annie Lowery today drills into the deep end of the linked unemployment and foreclosure crises, contrasting a story of impending family homelessness and the so far mostly failed efforts in Washington to boost the national economy…

King doubles down on Obama as racist, mocks Gardner as spineless

By | 06.21.10 | 2:17 pm

Iowa Congressman Steve King came to Colorado this weekend and, in appearances on the ground and on the radio, rallied support for Arizona’s controversial immigration laws and reinforced an argument he made earlier in the week that President Obama is a racist. At a small gathering in Loveland on Saturday, he said Obama had placed race at the center of the debate over immigration as a way to invalidate Arizona’s new laws.

Obama presses to pass Jobs Bill as unemployment hits crisis level

By | 06.14.10 | 9:44 am

Despite improving economic indicators in GDP, consumer spending and business optimism, the United States’ unemployment rate remains high — flirting with double digits. Fifteen million Americans remain without work, and the economy is not improving quickly enough to land them…

Top-Notch Denver school wins Obama cabinet-member commencement speaker

By | 05.04.10 | 12:40 pm

The Denver School of Science and Technology, not used to be a runner up for anything, made it to the final round but lost in the White House Race to the Commencement Challenge to Michigan’s Kalamazoo Central High School,…

J Paul Brown is new GOP ‘moderate’ running for 59th House district

By | 04.27.10 | 12:04 pm

J Paul Brown is a rancher in far south-eastern Colorado and the Republican Candidate for the 59th District of the Colorado House, the seat currently held by Rep Ellen Roberts, R-Durango, who is running for Colorado Senate. According to his…

Massey Energy: Making the case all over again for unions and regulation

By | 04.22.10 | 3:47 pm

Two weeks ago, twenty-nine West Virginia men died in an explosion at a Massey Energy mine. It was the worst mining disaster in 40 years and it was no accident. Mike Lillis at the Washington Independent this week traveled…

Obama apologetically announces commitment to offshore drilling

By | 03.31.10 | 10:59 am

President Obama, speaking at Andrews Air Force Base, just announced his decision to expand the country’s offshore drilling for oil. But his speech sounded mostly like an apology to environmentalists for the move.

Report: Colorado job loss to China in the tens of thousands

By | 03.30.10 | 5:45 pm

Colorado has lost 45,100 jobs to China since that country entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a liberal think tank, and the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), a joint lobbying effort…

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