Bug Bites & Gun Control

by Prospector | 1:28 pm, March 15, 2013

I just received a Jefferson County Public Health Department “public service announcement” forwarded by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department telling me: 1) “Wild or Domestic Animal Bites Should Be Reported” 2) “…that all wild animal or domestic pet bites or attacks must be reported…” 3) “…everyone is asked to have their cats, dogs, ferrets, and [...]

Second Amendment Attack

by Prospector | 9:10 am, February 20, 2013

As most Coloradans have noticed over the past few weeks, our second amendment rights have been under attack – nationally as well as under our Capital’s dome. Monday, four ill-conceived, poorly written, and somewhat confusing bills were passed in the state House. Voting was along party lines with a few Democrat dissenters joining all Republicans [...]

Amendment 64 Panel Debate at R Block Party

by T.L. James | 4:20 am, October 10, 2012

Backers and opponents of Amendment 64 (marijuana legalization) square off at a special R Block Party event, September 27, 2012.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal at CPAC Colorado

by T.L. James | 8:18 pm, October 6, 2012

Bobby Jindal’s appearance at CPAC Colorado on Thursday afternoon. My apologies for the shakiness in spots – the mounting plate on my tripod was loose and I didn’t have tools with which to fix it.

Twitter and the 2012 Election

by T.L. James | 9:46 am, May 12, 2012

AdWeek has a must-read overview of the importance of Twitter in the 2012 election cycle – The 140-Character-or-Less Campaign: Take Ben Smith, the politically engaged editor in chief of the social site BuzzFeed. Smith averages 19.4 daily tweets and uses the information stream to stay in front of each day’s news cycle. For Smith and [...]

Rep. Mike Coffman Town Hall Meeting, Featuring MoveOn Hecklers

by T.L. James | 10:19 pm, August 28, 2011

Here is the full video from yesterday morning’s town hall meeting in Littleton. A local MoveOn.org organizer was trying last week to get people to show up and ask questions featuring the inane mantra “Jobs Not Cuts” — as you’ll see, a couple people worked it into their questions/statements, and the rest just heckled in [...]

2011 GOP Central Committee Meeting: Ryan Call vs. Ted Harvey

by T.L. James | 8:41 pm, March 28, 2011

From the GOP Central Committee meeting on Saturday, here are the nomination speeches for new state Chairman Ryan Call and his main competitor for that post, State Senator Ted Harvey.

ProgressNowCO’s Alan Franklin is Colorado Pols, according to SquareState

by elpresidente | 12:09 pm, February 11, 2011

So says “Fong” of SquareState: I used to work at ProgressNow and as far as I can tell, a lot of people already know that Alan Franklin is Coloradopols. He’s the web guy at ProgressNow. I also used to do the books at Soapblox and he pays the bill. For a long time I thought [...]

CCCAP: Registered Sex Offenders in Same Addresses as Subsidized Day Care Facilities?

by T.L. James | 12:11 pm, February 4, 2011

Todd Shepherd at Independence Institute reports today on his investigation of registered sex offenders and CCCAP-subsidized day care facilities: Convicted sex offenders are registering addresses with the state, which, in some cases, are identical to locations for state-subsidized child care providers, database research by Independence Investigates shows.  Whether the offender is actually under the same roof [...]

Whatever Happened to War Protest Rallies?

by T.L. James | 3:00 pm, January 22, 2011

Michael and I have been discussing lately the sudden evaporation of an active anti-war rally movement in Colorado following the 2008 elections. The last major event that I remember seeing from that quarter was the Ayers-Churchill event at CU [live-streamed PPC video at the link] back in March 2009…and that was really a praise Churchill/hate [...]

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