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(Denver Post, Sept. 7) Quick, who was Henry Cabbage Cod? Oops, I mean Henry Cabot Lodge. Who were Bill Miller and Sarge Shriver? Ed Muskie and Lloyd Bentsen? All were losing vice-presidential candidates of the past half-century, the first two Republicans, the others Democrats. Go to the head of the class if you knew that. Most people wouldn’t know or care. Outside the Beltway, there’s general agreement that the vice-presidency isn’t worth a bucket of warm, uh, spit, as Jack Garner, VP under FDR, memorably put it. This year we have Sarah Palin the terrific versus Joe Biden the soporific. Their debate will be a doozy. But after November, one will become a historical footnote (more…)

Editor: Are the Dems ready to fracture down the middle if attacked on the fault line between labor and environmentalists? New contributor (more…)

Today’s entertainment is a video clip from the floor of the US Senate that looks like an absurd skit, but it’s actually Sen. Ken Salazar (more…)

Mark Udall’s message to Colorado voters is crystal clear: just tell me want you want to hear, and I’ll say it. (more…)

When oil is not in the headlines, wind and solar energy gets the ink. Renewable energy is seen by some as the fix (more…)

As everyone knows, celebrity heiress Paris Hilton recently made a video response to that McCain ad likening Obama’s celebrity status (more…)

Writing in today’s Washington Post, Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) cynically disparages the idea of opening up Colorado’s vast oil shale (more…)

As the shock waves from $4 per gallon gasoline impact every segment of U.S. society the decades-old taboo against even discussing (more…)

As if paying $4-plus for gasoline isn’t bad enough, some of Colorado’s political leaders seem bound and determined to spread pain (more…)

(Denver Post, July 6) Where is “Far Side” cartoonist Gary Larson when we need him? Two prehistoric inventors stand before the tribal elders, beaming proudly. Og has discovered fire, and Zor has invented the wheel. But the ruling Democrats turn thumbs down. “Begone,” they order. “No good will come of those things.” I exaggerate, of course. The elders would decree taxes and regulation, not a ban. (more…)

Tell me again, is the problem for the polar bears too little ice or too much? It was fears of disappearing habitat, (more…)

Here comes the cavalry at last, I told a press conference at the State Capitol today. Too few powerful voices speak up (more…)

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it’s said, you treat every problem as a nail. The Democrats’ response to the oil price spike (more…)

Editor: Our columnist Bill Moloney is more influential than we dreamed. In this piece, written a week ago for Bob Beauprez’s website, he took McCain to school on offshore drilling (more…)

Rex Tillerson, the CEO of Exxon Mobil, John D. Rockefeller’s corporate progeny, shrugged off greenie attacks by the Rockefeller heirs (more…)