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Coffman Google ads gone in wake of critical reports

“Sleazy attacks don’t work on Mike Coffman, people,” said a spokesman. “They just don’t.”

Report: Transgender Coloradans still struggle to receieve adequate health care

“To go to the place where I felt I could get care, which was the VA, and to be denied was awful. It was so awful, I didn’t step foot in a VA for the next three years.”

Wiretap: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor suffers historic blow-out defeat

Clearly, there is something terribly wrong with the way top-level Republicans are running their campaigns.

Wiretap: Austin Nimocks is the guy who will keep losing on...

How would you like to be the lawyer tasked with defending same-sex marriage in the federal courts these days?

U.S. sending traumatized troops back again and again to war

ALBUQUERQUE-- Searching to describe his Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms, Joseph Callan paused, his gaze momentarily distant.

“I see dead people,” he said, scoffing. “In crowds, I’ll think, ‘that’s Howzer!’ or somebody else,” the former U.S. Marine Corps sergeant explained. “I know they’re dead. I saw them dead. But I feel compelled to confirm it’s not them, to see them from another angle. So I’m ducking through a crowd to get another look at them and it’s always just some random (person).”

New VA Clinic, Not a Moment Too Soon

Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) announced today the establishment of a new community-based Veterans Administration health care clinic in Burlington that is expected to serve...