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  • Micek: Griffin’s stunt the latest slide into incivility

    Micek: Griffin’s stunt the latest slide into incivility

    An anonymous reader of the newspaper I work for had a lot on his mind: “If that was your hero Obama’s bloody head, I do believe there would have been a small novella condemning every right-winger … by now,” he or she, operating under cover of an online pseudonym, chided me. My faceless friend, as…


  • May: Iran’s latest unfree and unfair election

    May: Iran’s latest unfree and unfair election

    The Islamic Republic isn’t a democracy, but a theocratic dictatorship News must be new but it needn’t be surprising. The decidedly unsurprising news out of Iran last week: There was an election (of sorts) and the winner was Hassan Rouhani, the incumbent president. An apparently mild-mannered cleric with a beatific smile, he has presided over…


  • Trump hails fallen Colorado Springs soldier, others at Arlington

    President Donald Trump expressed his nation’s “boundless and undying” gratitude Monday to Americans who have fallen in battle and to the families they left behind, hailing as heroes the hundreds of thousands buried at Arlington National Cemetery, including a soldier from Colorado Springs. In his first Memorial Day remarks as president, Trump told the stories…


  • Trump talk with Russians ‘wholly appropriate,’ adviser says

    The White House on Tuesday defended President Donald Trump’s disclosure of classified information to senior Russian officials as “wholly appropriate,” as officials tried to beat back criticism from fellow Republicans and concerns from international allies. One day after officials declared that reports about Trump’s discussions with the Russians were false, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster…


  • Sean Spicer ‘needs to go’ says Rep. Mike Coffman at town hall

    Showing no partisan love for embattled White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, told the sometimes angry, confrontational audience in his first Trump-era town hall meeting Wednesday night that Spicer should step down. “He needs to go,” Coffman said of Spicer. The comment arrived like a crescendo in the nearly two-hour long town…


  • May: Trump’s pivot to North Korea

    May: Trump’s pivot to North Korea

    It’s high time the United States deals with the most imminent nuclear threat America can do anything but America can’t do everything, at least not within a four-year time frame. That suggests that the American president – any American president – needs to prioritize. In 2011, President Obama decided that the Muslim world should no…


  • Meetup takes risky leap into the Trump resistance

    Meetup is taking a leap into the Trump resistance. The New York-based networking site will unveil plans in the coming days to partner with a labor group – under the guidance of a former Hillary Clinton aide – to coordinate protests among more than 120,000 activists already involved with anti-Trump Meetup groups. It’s a risky…


  • Smith: U.S. ties with Mexico matter now more than ever

    Smith: U.S. ties with Mexico matter now more than ever

    With all the excitement, chaos, turmoil – whatever you want to call it – that has filled Donald Trump’s first days in office, it’s easy to forget that Joaquín Guzmán, “El Chapo,” the world’s most notorious criminal and drug cartel leader was extradited from Mexico to the United States the same day as Trump’s inauguration.…


  • WOTUS order could take years to resolve

    A controversial federal rule designed to provide clarity for protection of America’s water resources, and now under a presidential order for change or elimination, could cause further confusion and take the rest of President Donald Trump’s term in office to be resolved, according to two Colorado State University researchers and news reports. The order was…


  • How a small town commissioner ends up on TV with the president

    An astute observer with knowledge of Western Colorado politics might have noticed a March 1 video clip appearing on CNN of President Donald Trump speaking from the White House, while U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-CO3, and Republican Mesa County Commissioner Rose Pugliese stand right next to him, looking on. The video clip has been used as “B-roll,” to…


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