Colorado moms applaud Pope’s climate-change stance
Pope Francis released an encyclical today today warning of the environmental, social and moral consequences of climate change — saying that countries with resources have...
Denver’s black churches unite after Charleston shooting
"Where are we safe? Our children are victimized at school. Our young men are being killed by the police over, and over, and over again. Now we go to the house of God, a house of prayer, a place of worship, and we are attacked in the house of God because somebody wants to kill black people. Where are we safe?"
Family Research Council releases anti-transgender report
Lately, the evangelical right has been obsessing over transgender identity. A lot of the rhetoric has been Bible-based and emotionally charged.
These anti-trans activists have...
Fracktivists: Oil and gas group’s new rule blocks opponents
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission plans to change its rules regarding how the public can challenge the group’s decisions – a change...
Wiretap: History of racist terrorism echoes in black church shooting
At large
The white gunman who walked into a black church in Charleston, SC and killed nine during evening prayer services has still not been...
Homebrew: Pot activists plot next move
Public consumption
The same forces behind marijuana legalization in 2012 have their sights set on a new goal: public pot consumption. Wednesday, Mason Tvert and Brian Vicente proposed...
Trans-Pacific Partnership delayed while Obama and Boehner hunt votes
President Obama’s signature trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, has been given a six-week reprieve while he and Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-PH,...
Mutiny: Colorado GOP Chairman Steve House burns – but does not fall
Colorado GOP Chairman Steve House played the transparency trump card last evening, outing three high-level members of the Party and former supporters who he says tried to extort him. Tuesday was tindered with rumors that House had been strong-armed by the no-compromise wing of the party, that he was resigning, that he may have tripped over his family values, etc. His evening letter struck like a match.
Bennet ranked fifth most bipartisan Democrat in Senate
The Washington Post crunched the numbers on the votes of the 114th Congress so far and came up with a list of the ten most...
Wiretap: Donald Trump joins the elephant pack
Mencken mention
P.J. O'Rourke does the perfect writerly thing in describing the Trump candidacy. (We first stop for laughter, and then proceed.) O'Rourke quotes the...