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Both policy realities and military realities were shortchanged in today’s Denver Post editorial, “The Reality of Closing Gitmo.” (more…)

In a dramatic break with longstanding U.S. government policy and established interpretations of the laws of war, the Obama (more…)

Here’s more on the issue of detainees in the Global War on Terror, the story that just won’t die. After railing for years against (more…)

Colorado Media Matters can’t get the facts straight on the Guantanamo detainees. That must be why they go off on tangents (more…)

Seems I hit a nerve with my post about Gov. Ritter’s collision with international law if Gitmo prisoners are moved to Colorado (more…)

Slight problem with Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter’s proposal to bring the Gitmo detainees to Colorado’s SuperMax federal prison complex. (more…)

You thought the nanny state had run out of ridiculous ideas? Colorado legislators are now regulating the sex lives of dogs. (more…)

One of the very few benefits of the Obamanaugurasm is the anticipated decline of rampant cases of Bush Derangement Syndrome. (more…)

For a supposed foreign policy guru with 35 years of senatorial experience, Joe Biden embarrassed himself in the Vice Presidential debate (more…)

Hearing of the sex scandal involving government employees of the Minerals Management Service, my first thought was “Are they hiring?” (more…)

Now this one is just delicious. The Obama campaign has accused Sarah Palin of “first being for the Bridge to Nowhere (more…)

First we were treated to the sublimely ironic reality that Al Gore, champion (and prize-winning) crusader against global warming, (more…)