ACLU Files DNC Lawsuit Against Feds

The ACLU announced today it had filed a lawsuit in hopes of compelling the Secret Service to release security perimeter plans for Democratic National Convention in August. At a press conference this morning, ACLU of Colorado Director Mark Silverstein, pictured, said that the Secret Service’s delay in announcing how close…

McCain Holds Town Hall in Town

The ever-popular bar/bat mitzvah location for my friends of middle school days, the Jewish Community Center on Dahlia St. takes a break from such festivities to host John McCain today starting at 10 am. McCain is in town holding a town hall meeting to discuss his health care plan. McCain’s…

Roseanne and Rush: The Dream Team

On April 28, Roseanne joined the cast of characters dreaming about riots in Denver. Guest-hosting a show on Air America, she let loose with this: But you know what, I think I am old and I’m okay with being a baby boomer being older and everything like that. ‘Cause I…

Carded: Supreme Court OKs Voter Photo ID

On Monday, the Supreme Court voted to uphold an Indiana law that requires voters to show a photo ID to cast a ballot. The ACLU and Indiana Democrats had challenged the state law, passed along party lines in 2005 by a GOP-controlled legislature, which opened the debate on increasingly restrictive…

Flag Lapels Won’t Get You in the White House Anymore

John Prine had it right. And this was back in 1971. But your flag decal won’t get you Into Heaven any more. They’re already overcrowded From your dirty little war. Now Jesus don’t like killin’ No matter what the reason’s for, And your flag decal won’t get you Into Heaven…

Delegating Denver #41 of 56: Oregon

View larger image Oregon Total Number of Delegates: 65 Pledged: 52 Unpledged: 13 How to Recognize an Oregon Delegate: Perhaps Oregonians have made assisted suicide legal in hopes that California transplants will consider it a viable option after their first nine months of living in near-constant rain and complaint. That’s…

He’s a Riot! Rush to Judgment II

Rush Limbaugh is something of an expert on the incitation of riots. Of course, he isn’t inciting riots when he dreams of them disrupting the Democratic National Convention in Denver and destroying the Democratic Party, but was he dreaming of nailing Obama with the charge of inciting riots on his…

Rush to Judgment

Denver, we have a problem. Blubbermouth Rush Limbaugh of advocating rioting in Denver during the Democratic National Convention. For the record, on his April 23 radio show (which airs from noon to 3 p.m. weekdays on 850 KOA), Limbaugh was responding to comments from Al Sharpton, a Barack Obama supporter,…

Keystone Hangover: Will the Clinton/Obama Race Ever End?

Democrats, God bless ‘em, love the underdog. Maybe it started in 1960, that magical year when the country put aside 0.1 percent of its prejudices and a few dead-body-ballots in Chicago to elect a young, idealistic Catholic to the White House. Maybe it was his untimely death, maybe the pain…

The Super Delegates Super Dilemma

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is turning up the pressure on the publicly unaffiliated superdelegates who have yet to endorse a candidate. On Thursday, Dean told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that superdelegates should start making their decisions public “starting now,” while saying the party couldn’t afford to lose two or…

Delegating Denver #40 of 56: Oklahoma

View larger image Oklahoma Total Number of Delegates: 48 Pledged: 38 Unpledged: 10 How to Recognize an Oklahoma Delegate: Ninety-eight percent of Oklahoma’s religious adherents claim to be Christian, and the vast majority of these residents identify as Evangelical Protestants. This puts Oklahoma securely in the Bible Belt. But despite…

Thanks Bob!

Thanks, Bob Schaffer, for not condemning the contemptuous ad campaign done by a 527 out of Virginia (who better to know about Colorado politics, after all?) that uses the pride that kids have for their school to make them into shills for your political aspirations, based on a record that…

Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson: Strange Couchfellows

If you were to walk down the beach somewhere and see a couch, you might think “how odd…a couch on the beach.” But if, as you got closer, you realized that upon that couch, dressed in suits, were the Rev. Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson, you might think: “Yep. I’ve…

Party Central

On August 24, the Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee will throw 24 parties for the 54 official delegations to the Democratic National Convention. If you do the math, you’ll see that some delegations are doubling, even tripling up. In some cases, the delegations requested their partying partners. In others, the…

Marinas Musical Chairs

A video recap here of the Bob Schaffer saga, as reported by Veracifier and Talking Points Memo, with a bit of refresher on the Marinas Islands labor situation, provided by a Bill Moyers documentary from 2006. The blowup over Schaffer’s dubious 1999, Jack Abramoff-funded trip to the islands, and his…

Off to a Bang

A buttock? Male, female? Muscular. Hair. More hair. Definitely male. REVEAL hard-core gay sex scene between a flawless blond bodybuilder-hooker and a bald, middle-aged 300-pound man. A cell phone rings. The fat man reaches for it, hits a button to stop the ringing. Back to sex. A hotel phone starts…

Delegating Denver #39 of 56: Ohio

View larger image Ohio Total Number of Delegates: 162 Pledged: 141 Unpledged: 21 How to Recognize an Ohio Delegate: If the state of Connecticut married the state of Kentucky, their baby would be the state of Ohio. Like no other Americans, Ohioans combine the cold-hearted industriousness of the New England…

Denver in 103

Tim Russert came to town yesterday, to collect the fourteenth annual Damon Runyon Award handed out by the Denver Press Club — and to give us just a taste of what Denver can expect in August, when the whole world will be watching. Lately, we’ve heard the word “Denver” a…

America’s Penguin

In light of John McCain handily winning the GOP nomination despite his constant on-air harangues about the collapse of conservative values at the hands of this cross-aisle-reaching maverick, Rush Limbaugh might be looking for another outlet for his frustration. After seeing this poor impression of McCain mulling Condoleezza Rice as…