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On Saturday, just a week after the suicide in SoHo of Mark Madoff, Vail’s Sonnenalp Hotel will host a “Bernie Madoff Auction of fine art, jewelry, rugs, bronzes and more due to losses causes by” the infamous Ponzi schemer now serving 150 years in prison.
As someone who was fortunate to twice win Electoral College elections, I took great interest in Denver Talk Radio host Mike Rosen’s recent defense of the current system. His attack on the principle of “One Person, One Vote“ embodied in Democrats’ attempts to secure a majority of Electoral College votes for whomever wins the national popular vote borders on bizarre as he attempts to defend a system based, in part, on concepts of the privilege of royalty (e.g., the U.S. Senate paralleling the English House of Lords).
Gov. Bill Ritter's office pulled no punches Tuesday morning responding to a report that the communication arm of the Colorado Senate Minority Office edited a radio interview to make it seem as though Ritter had changed his position on housing Guantanamo detainees in Colorado. "They're just making stuff up," Ritter spokesman Evan Dreyer wrote in an e-mail to the Colorado Independent. "Nothing new for them, though."
Mike Rosen may think he has a friend in Santa and the polar bears but climate scientists? Eh, not so much.
From our friends at Colorado Media Matters, Newsradio 850 KOA talker Mike Rosen's gone off a polar ice cap once again when it comes to global warming.