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Get Ready For Election Eve Issue Ads

Today, U.S. Supreme Court dramatically retreated from its 2003 holding that a federal ban on electioneering with corporate and union money through issue ads...

34 Percent Isn’t Parity

A report by Rutgers University's Center for American Women and Politics lists Colorado as 5th in the nation for the number of women in...

Fractured Faith: An Ex-Ex-Gay Speaks Out, Part I

Christine Bakke prayed. She prayed for the strength to live the life she believed God wanted for her. She prayed she could be a...

Need A Gift? Buy My Book

There's nothing like having a mailing list of two million people when you're in the mood to make some quick cash. Focus on the Family...

Barrasso becomes Wyoming’s New U.S. Senator

Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal has appointed Casper physician and state Sen. John Barrasso as Wyoming's U.S. Senator to replace the late Craig Thomas. Freudenthal chose...

Ethanol: It’s What’s For Dinner!

The US Department of Agriculture announced today that it has discovered a way to use an edible by-product from corn-based ethanol production, to make...

What Would Ending Affirmative Action Mean In Colorado?

If a proposal to end affirmative action in Colorado makes it to the ballot in November of 2008, and voters adopt it, Colorado can...

Colorado Anti-Affirmative Action Measure Progresses

A Sacramento based group influential in banning affirmative action in California in 1996, in Washington State in 1998, and in Michigan in 2006, has...

DNC Convention Green

Are the Democrats changing their logo color? Do they all claim to be Irish? Is Al Gore really running for president? The Democratic National Committee...

WILDFIRE!

Colorado Confidential reporter, Leslie Robinson, lives near the wildfire featured in all the statewide newspapers and newscasts today. This is her personal account of...
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