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Obama presses to pass Jobs Bill as unemployment hits crisis level

Despite improving economic indicators in GDP, consumer spending and business optimism, the United States’ unemployment rate remains high — flirting with double digits. Fifteen...

Top-Notch Denver school wins Obama cabinet-member commencement speaker

The Denver School of Science and Technology, not used to be a runner up for anything, made it to the final round but lost...

J Paul Brown is new GOP ‘moderate’ running for 59th House...

J Paul Brown is a rancher in far south-eastern Colorado and the Republican Candidate for the 59th District of the Colorado House, the seat...

Massey Energy: Making the case all over again for unions and...

Two weeks ago, twenty-nine West Virginia men died in an explosion at a Massey Energy mine. It was the worst mining disaster in 40...

Obama apologetically announces commitment to offshore drilling

President Obama, speaking at Andrews Air Force Base, just announced his decision to expand the country’s offshore drilling for oil. But his speech sounded...

Report: Colorado job loss to China in the tens of thousands

Colorado has lost 45,100 jobs to China since that country entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI),...

Markey YouTube explains and celebrates health reform vote

She may be getting threatening phone calls because of her vote in favor of health reform Sunday, but U.S. Rep Betsy Markey is standing...

Global warming skepticism continues to rise in the U.S.

Americans continue to grow more skeptical of the threat of global warming, with a new Gallup poll showing that nearly half of all Americans...

Why does Obama hate strippers and card sharks? They got mortgages...

A latest dispatch from the the land of political foolery comes from Mike Lillis today at the Washington Independent. It involves Pres. Obama in...

Gay Task Force to Obama: Don’t say it; do it

A little more than an hour into his State of the Union speech, Obama glancingly addressed the fact that he has done nothing notable...