Mayor’s gun control group that includes Hickenlooper calls for gun check changes

Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which lists as its only Colorado member former Denver mayor and current Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, is calling on Congress to strengthen and enforce background checks for purchasing a weapon. The group also is asking President Barack Obama to address gun control during his State of the Union speech Tuesday night.

Colorado GOP loses Hasan

Muhammad Ali Hasan, a member of the wealthy and influential Colorado Republican Hasan family and a past state House and treasurer candidate, said he is switching parties. Speaking at the University of Colorado-Boulder on his experience growing up Muslim in the American West and later in conversation with the Colorado Independent, Hasan said he is ending his affiliation with the party for the bigotry he believes has shaped Republican politics over the last year. The FOX News regular and founder of Muslims for Bush said he met recently with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the controversial Democratic leader won him over.

Budget hawks bafflingly idealize big spender Reagan

This morning, Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, senior House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, wondered aloud why Democrats faced with the recent recession didn’t adopt the same policies favored by Ronald Reagan during the economic downturn nearly 30 years ago.…

The Tea Party’s country on a T-shirt

One of the slogans that has dominated the year in politics comes from the Tea Parties and has crossed over to the GOP. “Take back our country!” The us-versus-them euphemistic phrase is a regular feature of the stump speeches given…

Norton launches TV ad in advance of Obama-Bennet fundraisers

U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton is countering Pres. Obama’s trip to Colorado to support U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet’s campaign by launching a slick new ad. She stands against a sandy bluff to criticize Obama’s federal spending. Norton has run almost…

GOP Senate candidate Norton goes on the record: ‘I’ve not been a lobbyist’

In an interview with a Colorado Springs radio talk show host Tuesday, former lieutenant governor and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Jane Norton said she has never worked as a lobbyist. She was responding to callers looking to feel out her conservative credentials.

“On the lobbyist thing, I’ve not been a lobbyist,” she said.

Unabashed agenda promoted in schools by unchecked president

It’s a radical political speech loaded with ideology and foisted upon schoolchildren by the president, who is so smooth, the kids surely have no idea they are being indoctrinated. It all happened in 1988, the president was Ronald Reagan and…

Jeff Crank’s Theme: Being What Doug Lamborn Is Not

Amid the strains of his theme song, “You’ve Got To Stand For Something,” Jeff Crank this week announced he wants to go toe-to-toe with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, restore discipline in Congress and abolish the Internal Revenue Service. So how…

The Elephant In The Room

They’re not only looking for another Ronald Reagan, but they are looking for the myth of Ronald Reagan.

It’s a skyscraper-sized order, for Republicans who want to keep the White House in 2008. Try finding someone who will be…

The Elephant In The Room – Part 1

Talk about a jarring GOP wake-up call.

In a free-ranging analysis to gay Republicans recently gathered in Denver, national Republican strategist and pollster Tony Fabrizio delivered a take-no-prisoners primer about the party’s face of the past and its…