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Senate anti-abortion ‘ultrasound bill’ generates heat in committee, advances for now
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State Senate Republicans introduced a sweeping bill on Monday adapted from similar efforts across the country that would establish new rules around abortion services in Colorado with an eye to lowering the number of abortions performed in the state. The bill sped into committee Wednesday, leaving opponents playing catch up. NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado called a…
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A lot of folks want to ‘drain the swamp,’ but Ken Buck wrote the book
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Its title may be well worn by now, but the soon-to-be-released book, “Drain the Swamp,” by U.S. Rep. Ken Buck – the Republican former prosecutor now representing Colorado’s 4th Congressional District – promises to breathe new life into the 2016 campaign catch phrase-turned-political meme. And Colorado Christian University’s conservative Centennial Institute has announced it will host the book’s…
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CCU’s Centennial Institute launches ‘Beauty and the Beast’ boycott over ‘gay moment’
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Colorado’s Centennial Institute is spearheading a campaign urging Christians to boycott Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” because the film purportedly includes an onscreen “exclusively gay moment” and its openly gay director has demonstrated a “hostile approach to the Bible.” “What was frustrating about this film was we clearly saw there was an attempt to drive an agenda, and…
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On that curiously timed work of fiction by John Andrews
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John Andrews is a major figure in the conservative Colorado political ecosystem. He is a former state Senate president, founder of the Independence Institute, former director of Colorado Christian University’s Centennial Institute and former chairman of its annual Western Conservative Summit. He is also now, after a fashion, a writer of short fiction. His “Susan…
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PHOTOS: Colorado Republicans toast Trump inauguration at glittering gala
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Former Colorado state Senate President John Andrews welcomed “fellow Americans, fellow patriots, fellow deplorables” to a glittering celebration of President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday night at the Marriott Denver Tech Center in Denver, promising a “rip-roaring celebration of making America great again.” The sold-out black-tie gala event – one of only a handful held…
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At CCU, Armstrong was his very best ‘happy warrior’ and ‘servant leader’
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Conservative icon Bill Armstrong, who spent 20 years as a Colorado member of Congress and who died this month, took the reins in 2006 as president at Colorado Christian University, where he worked his celebrated brand of leadership to perhaps its best effect, according to Jeff Hunt head of the college’s Centennial Institute. “This year,…
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Bill Armstrong: ‘He will be remembered’
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On Friday night, thousands who were gathered at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver paused for a few moments to share a tribute to Bill Armstrong, the father of the modern Republican Party in Colorado, whose civic work across six decades has inspired multitudes and established Armstrong as a role model for the modern conservative.…
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Trump set to speak among friends, foes at Western Conservative Summit
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The Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump will kick off the Western Conservative Summit in Denver this Friday as part of a larger effort to shore up support for his candidacy among traditional conservative voters ahead of the party’s July 18-21 national convention in Cleveland. The convention, hosted by the Centennial Institute at Colorado…