VALENTINE’S DAY … Once I left the seminary back in the Sixties, I got to be full-on romantic. Poetry, not the priesthood, held me in thrall. Riding around San Francisco on a Honda 250 with my opera jacket, long beard, and flowers in my hair, my wife’s scarf floating Isadora Duncan-style behind us down San Francisco’s Mission Street, as we wove our way in and out of traffic towork downtown …
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Hunters & Anglers Are Trump’s Kryptonite
On Jan. 24, I attended a regional gathering of hunters, anglers, and other public lands advocates on northern Minnesota’s Pelican Lake. It was the same day Federal immigration agents shot and killed Veterans Affairs nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
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Deep Canvassing in Colorado’s Tossup District Could Be What Gives Rep. Evans the Boot
Colorado’s 8th Congressional District (CD8) is one of the most competitive races in the nation. Rep. Gabe Evans, a Republican, won the seat by just 2,449 votes in 2024, and in 2022, the Democratic candidate won by an even slimmer margin. This year, organizers are hoping to give Evans the boot with a canvassing strategy that might sound obvious: sitting down with voters and asking them what matters most.
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DAVIS: Barefoot and Pregnant – A Heritage Foundation Plan for the Family
The Heritage Foundation is back with a new plan for remaking America in its own image. The think tank which masterminded Project 2025 released a new issue paper last month, this time focused on, as the title puts it, “Saving America by Saving the Family.” Where Project 2025 focused on dismantling and rebuilding public structures and government institutions in a bid to strengthen conservative, Christian nationalist political power, the group’s new initiative establishes a roadmap for remaking a more personal institution: the family.
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Evans Doesn’t Deliver on Promise to Grill ICE at House Hearing
At a U.S. House hearing today on oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, Colorado Rep. Gabe Evans tried to shift the blame from immigration agents to “sanctuary cities” for the violence between federal law enforcement and communities.
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BRIEF: For First Time, Top Democratic Group Puts CO Springs House Seat on Target List
For the first time since congressional Democrats set up an organization to oust vulnerable Republicans in key districts, Colorado Springs is on the target list.
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El Paso County Residents Protest Against Mosque
Nearly 20 people gathered along Woodmen Road in El Paso County on Saturday to protest a potential mosque in the undeveloped area just outside of Colorado Springs city limits. According to the Islamic Society of Colorado Springs, the mosque will consist of a 14,680-square-foot facility on 5 acres.
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At Douglas County GOP Governor Forum, Conspiracy Takes Center Stage
One candidate explained with a straight face how Elon Musk sent a strike team to Serbia to save American democracy.
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Colorado Catholics Move to the Left? Pope Leo Replaces Right-Wing Archbishop Samuel Aquila
After months of speculation, the Denver Catholic Archdiocese announced this morning that Pope Leo replaced right-wing Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila with Bishop James Golka, who was elevated to bishop by Pope Frances in 2021 and appears to embrace the more moderate politics that Francis and Leo have promoted for the church.
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GOP Senate Candidate Blames ICE Protesters for Violence, Says ICE ‘Effectively Rescued’ 5-Year-Old Boy, Who Was Arrested
Speaking at the Colorado Capitol last week, State Sen. Mark Baisley (R-Woodland Park) blamed protesters for the violence in Minneapolis, calling it a “horrible idea” for protesters to “get involved in legal law-enforcement activity.”