Tom Tancredo: National Guard at Mexico border will pull weeds, wash cars

Shocking news: Immigration critic Tom Tancredo’s not impressed by President Barack Obama’s plan to send 1,200 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. In two tweets on his Twitter feed, Tancredo writes, “Govt of Mexico just issued following statement: ‘The GOM expects that Ntl Guard..will NOT…conduct activities directly linked to the… enforcement…

Dick Wadhams-Wendy Evans wedding shakeup: Kenny Be’s Worst-Case Scenario

The anti-incumbent mood of last weekend’s state Republican Assembly may spread to this weekend’s wedding of party chairman Dick Wadhams to Wendy Evans… As seen above, Evergreen businessman Dan Maes, who cultivated Tea Party support to gain top gubernatorial primary ballot placement, will no doubt score another shocking upset when…

Bill Ritter’s baby steps toward prison reform

After the embarrasing political scrum over the sex offender bill that prompted Governor Bill Ritter to veto the mess last week, it’s easy to overlook the fact that something was actually accomplished on the criminal justice front in the legislature this year. Yesterday, Ritter signed into a law a package…

GringoMask.com wants to teach you immigrant haters a lesson

Shortly after Colorado media outlets like Channel 4 caught on to GringoMask.com, the site went from being an amusing satire of Arizona’s controversial immigration law to a much less funny protest against it. The site, created by Miami’s Zubi Advertising, originally featured very Caucasian masks that folks worried about police…

John Suthers’s connection to “American terrorist” Anwar al-Awlaki

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers’s name was recently juxtaposed with that of an extremely unsavory fellow — serial killer Scott Lee Kimball. A front-page Denver Post story over the weekend noted that Suthers, who was then a U.S. Attorney, “signed the order that transferred the habitual criminal and escaped convict…

Ken Salazar fumes, hair booms nixed: Gulf spill update

As oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster begins to stain shorelines along the Gulf Coast, beauticians across the nation are learning that one of the more feel-good (and dubious) solutions proposed in recent weeks to the spreading slick won’t be tried after all. A couple of weeks ago, stories like…

Joyce Foster audio clip about missing children not Joyce Foster

Update, 1:58 p.m.: We’ve now received a statement from Joyce Foster and interviewed Kathleen Chippi, who was identified as the senator on KHOW — and since our 12:05 p.m. update, Chippi has tracked down figures to back up her assertions about missing children. Find the new material below the original…

Tom Tancredo doubts that immigration makes crime rate go down

Yesterday, former congressman Tom Tancredo tackled accusations that the organizer of an Arizona event at which he’s scheduled to speak has unsavory ties to neo-Nazis. He argued that the impetus for the controversy was really his decision to break ties with a fellow immigration-reform advocate who’d demanded that South Carolina…

Ken Salazar’s shakeup at Interior: Where will it all end?

In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil slick disaster, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is barreling ahead in his efforts to reform the embattled Minerals Management Service, the once-obscure agency responsible for overseeing offshore drilling. Yesterday’s announcement that Salazar is splitting MMS into not two, but three separate…