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The push is on to dilute the climate change bills moving through Congress, and it’s not coming only from conservatives. Mother Jones’ Kate Sheppard reports today that 14 Senate Democrats are urging their leadership to amend the proposal to grant more free polluting permits to the coal-burning utilities that emit the most greenhouse gases. In [...]

WATERTOWN, N.Y. – Dozens of activists from Generation Joshua have made the trip to New York’s 23rd Congressional District, and on Monday they organized into groups of four to eight people and canvassed the district for Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. In between canvassing trips, they gathered in this small city’s busy intersections to wave [...]

Aurora, Colo. Councilman Ryan Frazier, an African-American Republican I spoke to for this piece on 2010 candidates, has dropped his Senate bid and launched a congressional campaign. Frazier’s new target: Rep. Earl Perlmutter (D-Colo.), who captured the state’s 7th District, which includes Aurora, in 2006.
The 7th District is considerably bluer than the rest of the [...]

Stung by losses in states that either refused to authorize their high-rate, short-term loans or moved to limit finance charges, the industry isn’t ready to give up.

Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams is positioned to become a credible Obama critic, if he picks up Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s seat.

By refusing to allow Guantanamo detainees to be transferred anywhere in the United States, including its supermax prisons, those representatives in Congress eagerly fighting to keep the prison in Cuba open may unintentionally be easing the lives of terror suspects.
Last Thursday, the House of Representatives voted 258-163 to refuse to allow detainees now held at [...]

Lynn Bartels has the scoop: Colorado Republicans, including state party chairman Dick Wadhams, are revolting over the discovery that the National Republican Senatorial Committee is trying to ease former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton into the race with national support. The smoking gun: the NRSC reserved www.nortonforsenate.com and www.janenortonforsenate.com.
That information is hidden behind a proxy:

The Colorado Independent’s Ernest Luning passes along this rather remarkable quote from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), speaking earlier today at an event in Colorado.
“This cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it [...]

The Colorado Independent has a reaction to the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller, from one of the only other doctors who performs late-term abortions in the United States.

Wendy Norris of TWI’s sister site, The Colorado Independent, caught up with former Vermont governor, presidential candidate and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean at a health care reform event in Denver on Wednesday. During an interview before his speech, Dean had this to say about a so-called mandatory “public option” — a government-run health [...]