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Wiretap: UN dove, Senate ham

It was a big day for talking Tuesday. Pres. Obama went into give-peace-a-chance mode in his United Nations speech, and Ted Cruz read Green Eggs and Ham to empty seats in a faux-filibuster of Obamacare on the Senate floor.

Defund fail: A Capitol Hill strategy Colorado’s Frank McNulty can endorse

Right now U.S. Senate Republicans are strategizing on how to get Democrats to help them defund Obamacare. Observers have been calling the plan "desperate," which doesn't quite get at its quixotic nature.

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.

Littwin: Republican mission creep on Obamacare

This is a difficult period for many Democrats. They don't know quite what to do.

Cruz Lights Up Colorado Conference Crowd Hungry for Confident Conservative Message

DENVER -- Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz was the star speaker Saturday at Colorado Christian University’s fourth-annual Conservative Western Summit -- the first-term firebrand rallying the roughly 2,000 Republican voters here with an aggressive and unapologetic speech celebrating the power of the far-right message and detailing a plan through which he hopes to rewrite the nation’s tax code, abolish the IRS and sink the “Obamacare” health-care reform law by leading a move to starve it of funding during its crucial implementation phase.
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