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Jensen: Don’t be so quick to laugh at Trump’s wiretap claims

Mar 12, 2017

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Rick Jensen

Trump said, “wiretap.” The national media laughed, headlines blazed, “without evidence,” and CNN flatly denied it could have happened. Then, some former intelligence agents explained to any journalist willing to listen that while “wiretap” is the wrong word, it did happen. They know this through friendships and contacts they have maintained in the various intelligence…
PHOTOS: Hundreds rally on Capitol steps in support of Trump

Mar 5, 2017

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COLLEEN SLEVIN The Associated Press

Several hundred people rallied in support of President Donald Trump outside the state Capitol in Denver on Saturday, listening to speakers including former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo and sometimes facing off with a much smaller group of anti-Trump demonstrators. Speaking on the West Steps facing the mountains, Tancredo drew cheers from the crowd when he…
Trump supporters declare pride in president, slam opponents

Mar 5, 2017

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Associated Press

From Colorado’s state Capitol to Trump Tower in New York and the Washington Monument, groups of hundreds of people rallied for President Trump on Saturday, waving “Deplorables for Trump” signs and even carrying a life-size cutout of the president. Chelsea Thomas, an accountant from Thornton, Colorado, brought her family to the March 4 Trump rally…
Bachar: Executive power needs reined in

Mar 1, 2017

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Steve Bachar

The new president declares his inauguration day a special, self-aggrandizing day and goes on to sign an unprecedented number of executive orders in his first two weeks in office … Yes, former President Barack Obama has much to answer for. Whether we are focused on President Obama’s “National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation” and his…
Trump pledges ‘new chapter of American greatness’ in speech to joint session

Mar 1, 2017

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Julie Pace

Heralding a “new chapter of American greatness,” President Donald Trump stood before Congress for the first time Tuesday night and issued a broad call for overhauling the nation’s health care system, significantly boosting military spending and plunging $1 trillion into upgrading crumbling infrastructure. Striking an optimistic tone, Trump declared: “The time for small thinking is…
Trump marks his first month with tweets, turmoil

Feb 21, 2017

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Nancy Benac

One month after the inauguration, the stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of Donald Trump’s White House still is a hard-hat zone. Skeletal remains of the inaugural reviewing stands poke skyward. Random piles of plywood and cables are heaped on the ground inside crooked lines of metal fencing. The disarray outside the president’s front door,…
Polman: On the US Supreme Court, Democrats simply lost

Feb 3, 2017

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Dick Polman

When Senate Republicans decided last year to ditch their constitutional duty – by stiffing President Obama’s eminently qualified Supreme Court nominee, denying him even the courtesy of a hearing – they took a big political risk. They gambled that the voters wouldn’t punish them on election day. Turns out, they were right. Their unprecedented power…
May: Defending the civilized world

Feb 2, 2017

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Clifford D. May

Eradicating ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ will require a long war In an inaugural address that was more purposeful than poetic, President Trump last Friday vowed to “unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate from the face of the Earth.” I hope we can agree, across party and ideological lines, that those…
In final hours, Obama administration sent $221 million to Palestinians Authority

Jan 24, 2017

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Richard Lardner

Officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours defied Republican opposition and quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress had been blocking. A State Department official and several congressional aides said the outgoing administration formally notified Congress it would spend the money Friday morning. The official said former…
New President Donald Trump greeted by Colorado well-wishers, protesters

Jan 22, 2017

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Tom Ramstack

America received a new president last week who brings to Colorado the same controversies that marked his tumultuous election campaign. The inauguration ceremonies in Washington included thousands of Coloradans who came to support or protest Donald Trump. Heather Toth, Colorado organizer of the Women’s March on Washington, said she marched in Washington to let Trump…