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Energy-guzzling incandescent light bulbs win congressional reprieve at eleventh hour

Congress didn't just agree to keep the government's lights on through the rest of the fiscal year. It is also ensuring it has the option of doing so with energy-sucking incandescent 100-watt bulbs.

Bush appointees politicked for Musgrave on taxpayer dime

When Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave was running a close reelection bid against Democrat Angie Paccione in 2006 all of the big guns from Washington, D.C. came to help her. President Bush made an October campaign appearance with Musgrave in Greeley and the National Republican Congressional Committee helped with television ads blasting Paccione.

State of U.S. Latinos has Suffered in Bush-led Union, Hispanic Leaders...

George W. Bush won the White House in 2004 with the help of large numbers of Latino voters. But his failure to push through...

Book Beat: Drew on Nixon

Illegal wiretapping. Searching for executive office leakers. Pitting intelligence agencies against one another. A top executive competing with the president for power. An unpopular war defended as...

On the Campaign Trail: An April Fools Week for the Starboard...

The first week of April wasn't the best of times for the Republican presidential candidates. How are they going to get respect from a war-weary...

Running Diary of the State of the Union

President Bush delivered his State of the Union address tonight, so I decided to keep a running diary of the event. I'm glad I...

Iraq War Dominates Greeley Protest

UPDATED 11-9-2006: With the newly announced resignation of Defense Secreatary Donald Rumsfeld, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will become the central focus for Colorado's...

The Only Way to Win in Iraq Is…Uh…Um…

President Bush was in Greeley today to stump for Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, and he had a little trouble explaning the company line on...