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No tax returns? No name on ballot…

Two days after an estimated 7,000 people took to Denver’s Civic Center Park to demand that President Donald Trump release his tax returns, a...

Homebrew: GOP candidates respond to Planned Parenthood shooting

Statements made Yesterday most Republican presidential candidates began responding to Friday's Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting. Trump blamed it on mental illness, Carly Fiorina implored protestors...

Wiretap: Xenophobia rising after Paris attacks

Darker mood In France, after the Paris attacks, The New York Times reports a "darker mood toward Islam." In America, meanwhile, at least 25 Republican...

Littwin: What’s next in a post-Paris world?

We now live in a post-Paris world. And the question, after the unspeakable horror of the attacks, is just what that means. It must be...

Littwin: Taking down the Confederate flag and racist pride, too

It's not the end of racism, any more that electing and re-electing Barack Obama was the end of racism. But it might just be the end of pretending that racism doesn't exist, the end of pretending that somehow talking about race is the real racism, the end of the idea that all we have to do to end racial discrimination is just announce that we'll stop discriminating.

Prohibition Party Prez Hopeful: Oprah, But No Booze

He's no Carrie Nation, but her torch flames on. Presidential candidate Gene Amondson's Prohibition Party plank is straightforward: no booze.If you go to Amondson's...

Magazine Calibrates Presidential Candidates’ Stands on Science

"It's pretty hard to find a candidate from either party who's gung ho for science," U.S. Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-Mich.) told the journal Science...

YK: Don’t Count John Edwards Out

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards was well received at the Presidential Leadership Forum held Saturday at the "Yearly Kos" Convention, the Superbowl for bloggers....

A View on the Presidential Race

Colorado Confidential spoke with Democratic National Committee person, Debbie Marquez from Eagle, on her impressions of the presidential candidate speeches at the DNC general...