Jones’ e-mail was among tens of thousands released by Mr. FOIA, and there are likely more illuminating emails yet to be discovered
Big Warming, it turns out, likes to use opposition to raise money. In fact, Mrs. Sen. Mark Udall could learn a few lessons, assuming, of course, that she hasn’t already.
One of the high priests of global warming, Phil Jones, back in 2005 wrote to his fellow members of the priesthood that something profitable might be afoot. Read more »
GOING TOO FAR? Some say HB1224 could result in a ban on almost all firearm magazines (Photo by Li Tsin Soon)
DENVER – As a proposed ban on firearm magazines approved last week by the legislature inched closer to becoming law, Magpul Industries Corp. sent a detailed letter to Governor Hickenlooper asking him to veto the bill. Read more »
The Outdoor Channel’s board of directors ratified the deal at its Wednesday meeting
DENVER–The Outdoor Channel may have dodged a bullet this week, thanks to sports magnate and Denver Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke.
Kroenke acquired the popular cable channel, which specializes in hunting, fishing and camping programs, shortly after a producer jumped into the Colorado gun debate by announcing the channel would exit the state if the gun-control bills moving rapidly through the state legislature become law. Read more »
Coffman says it’s time to scale back U.S. taxpayer assistance to Egypt
DENVER – U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Aurora) blasted the Obama administration on Wednesday for suspending tuition assistance benefits for Army and Marine Corps servicemen, and called on the White House to restore funding to the program by paring back U.S. assistance to Egypt.
“We are not under any obligation to continue to provide [Egypt] with over a billion and a half dollars in aid every year. Re-prioritizing this funding to our soldiers and Marines is the right thing to do,” said Coffman. Read more »
The Senate, which hasn’t passed a budget in years, managed to find time to pass a resolution recognizing World Plumbing Day
The U.S. Senate, which likes to describe itself as the “most deliberative body in the world” – so deliberative in fact that it has proven itself completely incapable of passing a budget for three consecutive years – has thrown caution to the winds and found the time to recognize World Plumbing Day. Read more »
Some supporters of stricter gun regulations are now targeting the gun industry’s bottom line
DENVER – As the national debate over gun rights rages, gun control advocates have quietly opened a new front in the battle. It’s a battlefield far removed from the halls of Congress and state legislative chambers, and the focus of the campaign isn’t fence-sitting lawmakers, it’s dollars and cents. Read more »
The same bunglers at the State Dept. who botched Benghazi came close to giving an award to an outspoken anti-Semite who celebrated the 9/11 attacks
WWTJD? Well, we know what the ever-watchful Obama-Clinton-Kerry State Department, those observant folks who brought us the Benghazi disaster, did. Last week, the same band of geniuses was all set to give a big award to Samira Ibrahim, an Egyptian activist as one of nine International Women of Courage. Read more »
We can only imagine what obituaries the Post has in the can for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Bashar al-Assad, and Kim Jong Un
Readers across Colorado can be excused for spilling their coffee after seeing The Denver Post‘s front-page treatment Wednesday of the death of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.
The banner headline is a quote from a Chavez political appointee: “I feel a sorrow so big I can’t speak. He was the best this country had.” Read more »
If the Hickenlooper administration signs off, convicted sex offender al-Turki could soon be headed home to Saudi Arabia
DENVER – A convicted Saudi felon who was sentenced to 28 years in prison after being convicted by a Colorado jury for imprisoning his housekeeper and holding her as a sex slave could soon be released from prison.
Homaidan al-Turki, a Saudi citizen whose 2006 case made headlines and triggered national outrage when he was arrested for imprisoning and sexually abusing his maid in the basement of his Aurora home, has asked to be repatriated to Saudi Arabia under the terms of a bilateral treaty. Read more »
Kerry arrival in Egypt coincided with that of a swarm of locusts
Oh, no, he’s no Moses. Secretary of State John Kerry thinks he’s the Easter Bunny, though.
The erstwhile senator from Massachusetts, who has long hoped to tour the world via public transportation and is now living the dream, cuddled up up for a couple hours with Mohamed Morsi in Egypt and gave his new Muslim Brotherhood bro’ a cool $250 million because Kerry was assured that elections would be conducted fairly. Feel free to suppress snort here. Read more »
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