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Keefe: 2016 is the year of the outsider

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Talk radio: Tancredo calls on governors to ‘confront’ the feds

  Tom Tancredo loves to talk. And as time is ticking toward the upcoming June 24th Republican primary election, he's taking all the free talk...

Denver Grand Jury Rules Gessler Broke No Laws With His Spending

Depending on your point of view, there’s good news and bad in the case of Secretary of state Scott Gessler and the $1,278 in public funds he spent to attend a Republican conference in August.

WATCH: CU students gearing up for the elections?

BOULDER -- The youth vote that helped sweep President Barack Obama and a wave of Democrats into office in 2008 may not have the...

Colbert tells Congress how he tried and failed to take an...

Now that Senate Democrats have indicated that they will not vote on whether to extend the Bush tax cuts before midterm elections, the biggest...

With Congress gridlocked on climate legislation, environmental groups forge ahead

Despite the Gulf oil spill, a massive pipeline break in Michigan and broad concerns about global warming, ambitious climate-change and energy legislation is likely dead for the year. That poses a conundrum, going forward, for environmentalists: How to convince lawmakers of the need for legislation to sever the country’s decades-long ties to oil and to reform energy policy more generally?

The long march of gay marriage

Gay marriage advocates may have lost a number of battles at the ballot box this past year, but it appears they’re winning the war....

Recalling Bush-Rove Romanoff-style negotiations

Republicans are working overtime today to make political hay out of Colorado Senate hopeful Andrew Romanoff’s revelation that the White House suggested three jobs...

In fiery blog post, Clear the Bench dismisses ethics complaint as...

Firebrand anti-tax Tea Party speaker and Clear the Bench Director Matt Arnold posted a broadside at the group's website today in which he railed...

Birther Colonel Lakin posts letter to Obama

Terry Lakin, the Army Doctor who has refused orders to deploy to Afghanistan, has posted online the letter he wrote to Pres. Obama last...
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