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2008 Democratic Convention Watch: Restricting Abortion

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:02:18 -0500

Do you know these guys?

Yup, actually, you do.

This is the list of the 20 ostensibly pro-choice Democrats who voted for the Stupak amendment. Over at 538, Nate did a nice chart. The Planned Parenthood rating relates to pro-choice, the NRTL ranking is anti-choice. All [...]

Peoples Press Collective: Clear The Bench Colorado continues Grassroots Revival tour - tonight at “Colorado Change the Change” in Parker, Colorado

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:56:18 -0500

The resurgence of “We The People” in the form of local citizens banding together in grassroots civic action organizations to defend our constitutional rights is THE political story of the year 2009 in America…

Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold is both proud and humbled to have been invited as [...]

Peoples Press Collective: Two excellent political photos

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:17:23 -0500

Thanks to CMR for sending these along…

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Not My Tribe: DEC 28 mile long march for Gaza

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:34:08 -0500

Bill and Genie Durland, Colorado Springs’ most vocal champions for Palestine, will be among a deluge of peace activists converging on Palestine on the first anniversary of Israel’s unrestrained attack of Gaza. With a Mile Long March to break Israel’s blockade [...]

Peoples Press Collective: Market-based alternatives to big-government health care reform

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:30:35 -0500

Congress to Healthcare Market: Drop Dead, economics Professor Mark J. Perry summarizes “market-based healthcare solutions have gone largely unnoticed, despite the fact that they have successfully lowered medical costs and improved both access and quality of service.” He describes the success of:

Retail clinics Retail clinic-hospital partnerships
“full range of [...]

Haley's Comment: Craig Anderson material from the cutting-room floor

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:19:42 -0500

I’m finishing this up after making it home on the snowy streets after covering the Avalanche’s 8-2 loss to Vancouver Saturday night. The combination of a late start (8 p.m., for Hockey Night in Canada) and the weather meant the game story had to be filed for the final edition [...]

Haley's Comment: Expecting, the First Time Around

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:01:38 -0500

Guest Blogger Gwen is expecting…for the second time. And once again, no baby bump or stretch-marks will grace her with their pending bambino. Step inside their world of growing a family through adoption. Follow along ... [...]

Peoples Press Collective: Obama icon: the power & danger

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:30:56 -0500

From Pajamas Media TV:

“Barack Obama ran an unprecedented Presidential campaign - utilizing the power of design to help secure the seat of the President of the United States of America. However, his iconic emblem, the ever present “O”, holds more power than even Obama knows. Bill Whittle points out the [...]

Not My Tribe: Water on the Moon.

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:29:48 -0500

Number of comments: 1

Will cause an outcry from those who want to make the Moon into a missile base. Water can be made into fuel and breathable oxygen by splitting the molecule apart using a charge of direct current. Such as can be harvested from Solar Panels. On the moon there’s no such [...]

Haley's Comment: Video: An Evening with Ed Harris at the Denver Film Festival

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:26:07 -0500

Ed Harris, the actor nominated for Academy Awards for Apollo 13, The Truman Show, Pollock and The Hours, received the Mayor's Career Achievement Award last night at the King Center in Denver. [...]

Not My Tribe: Is technology science or alchemy?

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:06:19 -0500

Woman and man? The X and Y for creating life? Actually, symbols for copper and iron, designated by the alchemists; curiously, X/Y to the Bronze Age overtaken by Iron, the supremacy of technology.

Our sixth-graders are learning that alchemy was a science that is [...]

Not My Tribe: Positive action on health care

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:17:25 -0500

There’s a news story going on right now about a nationwide Free Clinic, the person featured is a man who is employed, but uninsured (in Houston) and his wife is employed as well, gets (increasingly rare, especially in Texas) health insurance from her work. The Husband hadn’t been to a [...]

Haley's Comment: Moving ahead on health care: 6 letters

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:05:46 -0500

After months of partisan division and massive lobbying from special interests in Washington, health reform finally came to a vote in the House of Representatives. Powerful interests from the health care and insurance industries pulled out all the stops to defeat this landmark bill, but with the help of Reps. Diana [...]

Mount Virtus: State of Colorado’s Republican Race for Governor: After Penry, the Deluge?

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:45:51 -0500

Chuck Plunkett is one of the more liberal members of the Denver Post’s editorial board, but he’s a straight shooter. And his Friday posting on the state of Colorado’s Republican primary for governor — “Whither Tancredo?” — is full of spot-on insights, such as:
Party insiders say the problem [...]

Peoples Press Collective: State of Colorado’s Republican Race for Governor: After Penry, the Deluge?

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:45:51 -0500

Party insiders say the problem is [...]

The Drunkablog: Hyper-something, anyway

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:50:00 -0500

Number of comments: 0
Ran across this rather OCD-ish list of 100-odd tips for "hypermiling" and was surprised at how many of them I instinctively followed. My faves: 6) Join a fuel economy forum

Join an outstanding forum to learn ways to increase your fuel economy by talking to others who [...]

Colorado Confederatarian: Obama loses a contact lens while shakin' th' hand of th' emprer

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:39:41 -0500

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Notes From a Grumpy Old Man: Yemen Again, Appeasing Chinese, Unfair 9/11 Trials

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:28:00 -0500

Alan Dershowitz
Charles Blow
M J Akbar
Rami Khouri

Balloon Boy Sprecial
Denver Post

"Don't mess with America's emotions, America has the emotional instability of a hormonal teenager." - David Lane
“They are demanding unicorns in Kabul.” - Abdul Rashid' [...]

Peoples Press Collective: Killer: National Organ Transplant Act

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:07:30 -0500

From the Institute for Justice:

Every year, 1,000 Americans die because they cannot find a matching bone marrow donor. Minorities are hit especially hard. Common sense suggests that offering modest incentives to attract more bone marrow donors would be worth pursuing, but federal law makes that a felony punishable by [...]

Mount Virtus: AFSCME Sends Union Membership Cards to Colorado State Employees

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:50:54 -0500

Reports indicate that thousands of Colorado state employees received AFSCME (American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO) union membership cards in the mail yesterday. Many of them are wondering just why they received them, as they never signed up to join any union — especially not one [...]

Peoples Press Collective: AFSCME Sends Union Membership Cards to Colorado State Employees

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:50:54 -0500

Not My Tribe: Failin’ Palin blames everybody else for her defeat

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:09:35 -0500

Number of comments: 6

Oh, if only McCain hadn’t tried to put lipstick on her pig! If they hadn’t tried to teach her the actual duties of the job she was trying to get, and had just let her go on and on and on and on with her racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and just [...]

Nature Blog: A Snowy Day for Fidgets

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:05:00 -0500

Downtown Montreal from Mount Royal's belvedere.

It's snowing here in the Wet Mountains, a wet, soaking snow that is melting in. This would be a good "desk day," especially as I am only partway through sorting out everything on my desk--the ten days' worth' [...]

Haley's Comment: Preissing in, and why Sacco calls tonight a “must win”

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:40:32 -0500

(lakings.com) Tom Preissing, who tied Nick Lidstrom for the NHL’s plus-minus award (+40) in 2006-07, will indeed make his Avalanche debut tonight against the Canucks at the Can. I believe Ryan Wilson will be the guy who sits because of his return, but am not positive. I had an article on Preissing [...]

Not My Tribe: Public art to make you feel Lilliputian

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:46:57 -0500

Number of comments: 3

COLORADO SPRINGS- I confess to being reminded regularly of a clip from Michael Moore’s movie Capitalism a Love Story. It’s the mock tourism video ad selling ">Cleveland: We’re not Detroit. The punch line accompanying this shot is “we think this is art.” Of" [...]

Peoples Press Collective: Clear The Bench Colorado continues Grassroots Revival tour - appearing this afternoon at “Ladies for Liberty” forum

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:12:52 -0500

Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold is both proud and humbled to have been invited as [...]