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Misquoted on bishops and health reform, DeGette draws ire of bloggers

Colorado U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette drew venom from conservative and Catholic bloggers yesterday for comments she made to ABC on the role Catholic bishops...

A Palin right-wing media acknowledgments list who’s who

Colorado Independent colleague Dave Weigel at the Washington Independent offers an informed guessing annotation of the acknowledgments list that appears in Sarah Palin's memoir,...

Marilyn Musgrave in New York rallies the conservative troops

What does it look like when the arch-conservatives come to town? They're swarming places like Watertown in upstate New York, where semi-qualified Conservative...

Colorado Latino leaders work to derail proposed census boycott

As a proposed national Latino census boycott receives increased media attention, many Latino and immigrant organizations in Colorado say they’re thankful the movement hasn't taken hold so far in the Centennial State. “We’re hoping it doesn’t become a huge issue here,” said Chandra Russo spokeswoman for the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition. “Latinos gain strength in numbers. Diminish the numbers and you diminish the influence and power of Latinos. Only uninformed people would propose something of this nature. They’re not aware of the damage they might do.”

Clean-energy bill draws reasoned support, less-reasoned criticism

The Boxer-Kerry clean energy bill is still hot off the presses, but Coloradans are wasting no time weighing in—some with clearer heads than others. Following...

When is a czar not a czar?

With an assist from Politico, which has completely bought into Glenn Beck’s campaign against “czars” — on Monday, the publication sketched out a “GOP...

Health-care showdown brewing at Denver Stout Street Clinic

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, and Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, are touring the Stout Street Clinic for the homeless...

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: 3 August 2009

Dug up fresh, daily. QUEENS AND COPS: In the war over welfare benefits in these recession-ravaged times, there's even more than usual at stake....

Forget the noise, spend our tax dollars already!

Awash in the sound and fury of today's anti-tax crusaders -- the refusenik governors, the tea party attendees, the screamers of "socialism," the Ayn Rand-loving libertarians "going Galt," the op-ed writing de facto leaders of the Republican party, the just plain fools -- you would think there was significant disagreement among the U.S. population on the big tax-spending stimulus package. There's not.