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Coloradans will soon be sick of Trump winning, says Trump

Get ready, Coloradans: Soon you’ll be calling your lawmakers to ask Trump to stop winning so much. That, of course, is according to The...

Palin on anti-immigrant rhetoric: “It’s not hate speech, it’s common sense”

Sarah Palin took on corporate politicos, the #NeverTrump movement and allegations of racism against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in a 25-minute speech...

Black Republicans slam black Democrats’ “plantation mentality”

Laurene Facey-Muench is a black woman from Boulder. That alone makes people assume she’s liberal, she said. But she’s not. Facey-Muench went to the Western...

Not all rainbows for gay Republicans at Western Conservative Summit

On Friday, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law of the land. Gay Republican Jeff Bjorlin said hearing the news that morning was...

Western Conservative Summit comes to Denver

Conservatives are converging on the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver this weekend for the 6th annual Western Conservative Summit hosted by Colorado Christian...

Homebrew: Rabid skunks, burst pipes cause rotten smells to rise across...

Cold shower A busted boiler at the Pueblo County Jail left inmates shivering in the showers when the facility had no hot water for three days this...

Statetap: Colorado GOP shares the table with ousted Log Cabin Republicans

Sharing Space The Colorado GOP is making room at its table at the Western Conservative Summit for the Log Cabin Republicans after conference organizers disinvited...

Pulse of religion still beats in conservative politics

  "AM I the only guy who’s ending sentences with ‘amen’ this weekend?” Ralph Reed, conservative political operative and born-again Christian, asked during his speech...

The Grand (Young?) Party

In 2008, and then again in 2012, young people were instrumental in electing President Barack Obama. The millennial generation, according to polling, is more...

Desperate fight to save the republic comes to the Western Conservative...

An hour after she gave a speech calling for the impeachment of President Barack Obama, Sarah Palin was only halfway across the lobby of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Downtown Denver, mobbed by many of the more than 3,000 attendees of the fifth annual Western Conservative Summit there. Walled-in by recording cell phones, tablets, and long-lens cameras, Palin gave an endless series of sometimes repeat hugs, smiled for the cameras, and thanked those around her for “having her back.”