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Report: Obama to outline health care requirements, without a public option

Politico’s Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei report that the Obama administration is preparing to roll out a new strategy to advance its health-care reform...

Conservatives now outright supporting health-care status quo

Two conservative leaders in Colorado, Archbishop Charles Chaput and state Senator Greg Brophy, R-Wray, are advancing the position that no health reform is better...

Ted Kennedy on health-care reform

Senator Edward Kennedy, liberal lion, lawmaker icon, passionate politician, touchstone in the country's collective memory of the Kennedy years, has died of brain cancer....

Gardner feeds the Obama citizenship beast at health-care town hall

State Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, in his bid to oust Democratic U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey next year and become former Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave’s...

Polis takes progressive health message to a conservative corner

EDWARDS — The question put to Congressman Jared Polis by a man at Wednesday’s health-care town hall in Edwards drew a loud cheer from the majority of clearly conservative mountain-dwellers feeling disenfranchised by the ultra-liberal freshman Democrat from Boulder.

Grand Junction health care: Can it go national?

The Denver Post reprinted an AP article on Sunday that proclaimed: "Democrats say Grand Junction is a model for learning how to lower health...

National anti-health reform campaign shapes Pelosi protest in Denver

Among the cacophony of protesting screams and the jumble of signs decrying government-controlled health care, few noticed the woman and her three children as they locked hands and ran through the screaming crowd that gathered Thursday to protest the proposed House overhaul of health care in the United States.

Clear out the kids; stay away from hospitals; teabaggers want to...

This is the way it is with the Malkin / teabagger wing of the conservative movement. The intent to aggressively confront lawmakers holding health...

News Nuggets: 23 July 2009

Dug up fresh, daily. GUNS AND GAYNESS: CNN has done something really right. Its show, Freshman Year, available on the web is something like a...

Best health-care attack-ad of the week

It’s got to be this one from OurCountryDeservesBetter PAC. It cites “Obama’s own doctor” as an opponent of President Obama’s health care plan, even...