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Wiretap: Universal health care saves lives, capital punishment does not

Mortality rates in Massachusetts fell by 3 percent in the four years after Romneycare began. Steepest declines came in counties with the highest proportion of previously uninsured people.

Wiretap: Gotta have more Benghazi

The House Republican Benghazi "inquiries" will end the day Hillary Clinton decides not to run for president.

Wiretap: The continuing Tea Party-Republican uncivil war

The Tea Party is a kindergartener. It was born five years ago. As ABC News puts it, it's an unhappy birthday.

The Flip Side: Recall redux

As a coordinator for the final ground game in the effort to recall state Senate President John Morse, the leader of the gun-control effort, I organized a rally a week before the recall election for Colorado sheriffs who opposed the gun control laws.

Love it or hate it, consensus is Colorado Prop AA pot...

It's not just about forcing marijuana customers to pay more, it's also about setting precedent for legalization around the country, say advocates opposed to a proposed consumption tax here.

Wiretap: The Boulder rains-and-flood tick-tock story

"'We're doing OK,' for annual rainfall, said National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Kalina." Boulder County needed rain. Then 9.08 inches fell in 24 hours. And then came more.

Anti-tax pot activists host spliff-giveaway for flood victims

BOULDER, Colo. -- Activists opposed to a state initiative aimed at taxing recreational marijuana, has organized a flood-damage relief event Monday on the Pearl Street Mall at which they'll hand out free joints, from 11 a.m. "until they run out."

Obama taps energized Boulder supporters for crucial last-stretch turn-out-the-vote drive

BOULDER-- In a speech that alternated between conversational asides and full-throat exhortations, President Obama rallied roughly 11,000 supporters at the packed Coors Event Center on the University of Colorado campus here Thursday. It was the latest but not the last scheduled event in the high-intensity swing-state get-out-the-vote effort his campaign here has orchestrated for the final short stretch to Election Day next week.

VIDEO: Colombia President Santos calls for new look at War on...

Another Latin American president has called for a conversation about the U.S.-sponsored war on drugs during the sixth Summit of the Americas, which takes place next week in Cartagena, Colombia.

Biden enters post-Weiner-era Twittersphere

As Silicon Alley Insider reported today, Vice President Joe Biden officially opened a Twitter account this weekend. This is Joe "big f*#king deal" Biden, of course, so it could either be one of the best political Twitter feeds of all time or one of the most heavily edited, most-often ghostwritten Twitter feeds of all time. Judging by its 23 hours of life, it's the latter, unfortunately! @VP has tweeted once. He has 11,700 followers but he follows no one.
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