leon panetta
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Colorado judicial conference features legal, security updates and appearance by ex-Cabinet secretary
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The annual conference for Colorado’s judicial branch featured legal updates, trainings and an appearance by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, revolving around the theme of “Justice for All: Judging with Integrity in a Divided Climate.” “We make a point of making sure that when we have attorneys teaching these classes, we have attorneys…
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May: Curb your socialism
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Moderate Democrats should not let Bernie Sanders pull their party to the left Groucho Marx famously said he wouldn’t join any club that would have him as a member. Bernie Sanders last week turned that on its head, saying he wouldn’t remain a member of any party that wouldn’t have him as its leader. Sanders…
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BARTELS: Former Sen. Bill Armstrong: The guy who went from saying “no” to saying “maybe”
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As Congress was fighting the debt ceiling in 2013, Dick Wadhams, Colorado’s political historian, passed on a New York Times story he knew I would enjoy: a 1983 feature on U.S. Sen. Bill Armstrong and his brand of conservatism. “In one sense the Senator is a missionary, preaching the gospel of fiscal rectitude to…
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May: Obama’s ‘boy wonder’
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How Ben Rhodes helped the president manipulate the media deceive the public Among the most serious charges that President Obama and his supporters have leveled against President Bush and Vice President Cheney: They “cherry-picked intelligence.” The phrase suggests that, while in office, they sorted through the information provided by America’s spy agencies, selecting the tidbits…
