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After last night’s YouTUBE debate among Democratic Presidential contenders, what was already obvious became even more so: This is a three person race. Hillary Clinton and John Edwards stood out in previous debates, and after several weak performances Barack Obama finally turned in a strong effort. What do you think? Are we unofficially at the […]

Colorado Senator Ken Salazar is drawing intense fire from liberals over his proposal to implement the Iraq Study Group recommendations. Detractors accuse his plan of being a meaningless exercise in form over substance, or worse, but Salazar can credibly make more or less the same charge in response. As the Denver Post reports: The Senate’s […]

The debate on how to end the Iraq war is heating up among Democrats, threatening to expose deep divisions between liberal and moderate wings of the party. Liberal bloggers and commentators are outraged by what they see as a “capitulation” to the Bush adminstration by certain Democrats–led by Colorado Senator Ken Salazar–who are seeking to […]

He’s running for President. Or Senate in 2010. Or he may just keep his CD-6 congressional seat. Whatever he decides to do, Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo is at the peak of his influence right now as he swings through presidential primary country in the wake of the immigration reform bill’s failure, as the Los Angeles […]

From the Marilyn Musgrave/John Salazar alliance that resoundingly stripped the Army of funding to expand its Pinon Canyon training site yesterday (making fellow Colorado Rep. Doug Lamborn look like a squeaking, toothless jerk in the process), to Tom Tancredo’s long sought anti-“sanctuary city” amendment that somehow got through a Democrat-controlled House, it’s been an unusual […]

As the Pueblo Chieftain reports: As lawmakers prepare to debate the 2008 Defense Department military construction bill, Reps. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., and John Salazar, D-Colo., have joined forces in offering an amendment that would ban the Army from spending any money next year on the proposed expansion of the Pinon Canyon training site, including money […]

A guest column in today’s Denver Post: Congress recently passed the seventh in a series of supplemental appropriations bills to fund American military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. For some opponents of the war, these votes to fund the military are the equivalent of supporting the war. For some on the other side, failure to […]