Tag: glenn beck

The Daily Show's Lewis Black deconstructs the oh-so-helpful advice on how to save the planet on Earth Day with solar-powered poop buckets and Elmo, the Glenn Beck of children's daytime television.

Fox News star Glenn Beck will kick off a six-city comedy tour in Denver, The Associated Press reports. "[We] might as well laugh a little before Comrade Obama has us all wearing fur hats and waiting in line to buy toilet paper," announces Beck's Web site. Beck says he's decided to hit the road this summer because President Barack Obama has his "head feeling like it's about ready to explode each and every day."

Faced with unprecedented budget shortfalls that could tank higher education in the state, forcing campus closings and steep tuition hikes, Colorado lawmakers are leaning on pragmatists Al White, R-Hayden, and Don Marostica, R-Loveland — both of whom labor on the Colorado Legislature's Joint Budget Committee, which has got to be one of the most difficult and thankless jobs in government.

Self-described budget hawk Doug Lamborn not only wants to hang on to taxpayer dollars he wants to ensure that they are always and forever greenbacks.

U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey -- the unlikely Democratic newbie from Colorado's 4th Congressional District -- seems still fresh enough in her politics to actually be acting from conviction. This week she made news for unabashed strong stances on two controversial issues: She defied the president and attorney general by publicly opposing the reintroduction of an assault weapons ban. Then she defied the business lobby and co-sponsored the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).