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Pocket card politics: What your Dems will be saying to you...

With visions of last year's shout-fest health-care town halls dancing in their heads, House Democratic leaders rallied the troops this week for the August...

Rove rejects ‘birtherism’; hits back at Tancredo

Colorado conservative talk radio has been on fire of late considering the birther conspiracy, spurred by Greeley native Lt. Col. Terry Lakin's coming court...

Rove on the Bush years: It’s everybody else’s fault

Washington memoirs are all about settling scores. Karl Rove’s “Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight” takes that tradition to new and self-parodying heights. To read Rove’s recollections of George W. Bush’s White House is to believe that, for eight years, men of “courage and moral clarity” governed the United States and were beset by critics who refused to give them any credit. On page after page, Rove names the naysayers and picks apart their claims. He’s most at ease — his delight jumps right off of the page — when he’s able to recount times he shoved the criticisms back in their faces.

Alleged Norton comments on ‘workable’ immigration system draw Tancredo wrath

U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton reportedly spoke at a Colorado Restaurant Association Political Action Committee meeting in Denver Thursday and told the audience that the country needs a "workable immigration system." The comments spurred Tom Tancredo's American Legacy Alliance to send out the kind of watchdog-style press release that seems to increasingly follow Norton speaking events, this time coming not from a Democratic Party organization but from a champion of the state's grass roots right.

Michael Brown awarded ‘heckuva job’ at KOA radio

Michael "heck of a job Brownie" Brown, the generally accepted incompetent head of FEMA who fiddled as New Orleans drowned under Hurricane Katrina, appears...

The George W. Bush Presidential Center ask: This is not satire

The Honorable Mark Langdale, President of the George W. Bush Foundation in Dallas, sent out a fundraising email today. He's asking for donations. "Become...

McCain admits Bush Administration violated law

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said on “Face the Nation” Sunday that — like most Republicans and even some Democrats, including some in the president’s...

Aspen cycling politics: On the budding Armstrong-Ritter ‘bromance’

Only in Aspen, where liberal political bickering has been elevated to an art form, could a proposed day to honor cancer survivor and seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong devolve into name calling and too-cool-for-school disinterest.

Attorney general directs U.S. marshals to protect abortion clinics, providers

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder dispatched the U.S. Marshals Service to protect "appropriate people and facilities around the nation" in the wake of the...

White House press secretary doesn’t read blogs, but her dad talks...

Colorado progeny Dana Perino — in the waning days of her latest stint as White House press secretary — admits it was tough speaking...