The Colorado House of Representatives is considering a bill to stop school bullying (House Bill 1254).  In an effort by some legislators “to be proactive…so we don’t have a sensational suicide in [Colorado],” the core of the bill will: Create a committee to study the problem. Set up an agency to solicit funds for training [...]

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We all remember: Colorado was home to the Columbine High School shootings in 1999.  But as Jessica Fender reports in the Denver Post, “More Consistent Anti-Bullying Program Urged for Colorado,” after 11 years “good intentions have devolved into an uncoordinated approach that ignores best practices in some instances and leaves state authorities with no clear [...]

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I received a truly bizarre email this morning, in fact so bizarre that I assumed it was some elegant Phishing scheme. However a little bit of Due Diligence revealed that the email was real. As of right now, anyone that is using Amazon as a revenue stream, in other words is part of the Amazon [...]

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State laws and school policies are necessary, but they’re not enough to stop school bullies.  The third necessary ingredient is the responsible people who are paid to make schools safe.  If teachers, psychologists and counselors, assistant principals, principals, district administrators and school board members don’t create effective school programs and don’t enforce the laws and [...]

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Well, here we are. Ten years to the day since that horrific day in Littleton, Colorado. A day that forever changed history in the world of Peer Abuse and bullying. It is a day that is hard to comprehend and a day that has left many to speculate. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris came to [...]

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In the space of five days, we honor Jackie Robinson’s finally breaking into the major leagues by having every baseball player wear his number and we also memorialize Eric Harris and Dylan Klebolt’s massacre at Columbine High School ten years ago.  Looking at the similarities and differences between the three people is instructive. They faced [...]

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Whose fault was the killings at Columbine High School?  And how can we help our children resist bullies, not become bullies themselves and thrive after horrible killings? Next week will be the tenth anniversary of the massacre at Columbine High School.  A recent book by Peter Langman, “Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School [...]

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Colorado residents who are affected by autism can receive assistance through several Home and Community Based Support (HCBS) Waivers. To qualify for waiver services, children and adults must meet financial, medical and program criteria. Applicant’s income must be less than $1,986.00 (300% of the Supplemental Security Income allowance) per month and must have countable resources [...]

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Ten atheism-promoting billboards will go up in Denver over the holidays and one in Colorado Springs; the message is simple: “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone” in white letters over background that shows a mostly-cloudy blue sky. These billboards are, reportedly being paid for by a Colorado atheist group but, since the billboards [...]

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On Tuesday, the 88th anniversary of women being granted the right to vote, Hillary Clinton was the living embodiment of the dream of electing a woman to the White House deferred as she pledged to support rival Barack Obama’s bid for the White House. On Thursday, the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I [...]

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Just how did Barack Obama (D-IL), a rather undistinguished IL state senator, get elected to the U.S. Senate, and without doing anything noteworthy in that august body, go on to capture his party’s nomination for president before even finishing out his first term in Congress? A combination of heartlessness and happenstance – and some say, [...]

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While pundits and bloggers debate Senator Obama’s speech, it was the AP dispatch by Charles Babington that caught my attention. Thank God for the Internet and resources like Blogger news network, I guess the time when you could depend on an AP dispatch to express dispassionate fact with little color untainted by a correspondents personal [...]

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Senator Obama’s acceptance speech this evening begins the very difficult task of transforming from a black candidate into the candidate who happens to be black, the blue collar working class democrats and independents who have yet to express support for the party nominee, are the same kind of folks who encourage their children to emulate Tiger woods’ [...]

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To the anguished cries of, “No!,” Hillary Clinton (D-NY) released her delegates before Wednesday afternoon’s roll call vote – deliberately timed to be well out of the prime-time spotlight.  When it was NY’s turn to announce its delegate tallies – by alphabetical order 32 other states and territories had already done so – Clinton herself [...]

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When Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) took the stage to deliver her remarks before the DNC, the enthusiasm of the crowd and the applause she got rivaled that of the iconic Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), who perhaps delivered his last address to convention delegates on Monday. Hillary gave one of the finest speeches of her political [...]

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By Cynthia Ruccia, Special to The Stiletto Blog  It was with very mixed feelings I travelled to Denver yesterday. On my plane from Columbus, OH, were Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner – a woman who just might be one of the biggest figures on election night, if the results in Ohio are close – and the [...]

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In a brilliant move clearly aimed at appeasing the Christian Far Right, John McCain stunned the political world by announcing that Bigfoot will be his vice presidential choice. The surprise announcement brought unified praise from Bush/Cheney Republicans, Pavlovian evangelical extremists, and knuckle-dragging pundits in what is being dubbed a bold political stroke. Rush Limbaugh expressed [...]

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With Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) as Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) running mate, you have a two-senator ticket – all talk, no executive action; no “favorite son” advantage in a key swing state with a huge chunk of votes in the electoral college; and a man whom voters resoundingly rejected when he was running for the [...]

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 … But he’s going to make the media and punditocracy wait until he declares his choice via  text message on Saturday, after which he plans a joint appearance with his running mate at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, IL, where he announced he would run for president. [Update: It’s Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), according [...]

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In what both Dem frontrunners are describing as a “symbolic tribute” to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s “historic campaign,” she and presumptive nominee Sen. Barack Obama jointly announced an agreement to formally place her name in nomination at the DNC convention:     Since June, Senators Obama and Clinton have been working together to ensure a Democratic victory [...]

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Insiders have been quietly saying for months, in fourth paragraphs, that Kansas Governor Sebelius is on Obama’s short list. But she is unknown to nearly everyone in the country. It seems entirely possible that Senator Obama is trotting out all kinds of men for public vetting, leading the media by the nose and misdirecting them so [...]

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Analyzing a spate of recent polls, political analyst Michael Barone finds that even with Obama’s whirlwind trip around the world and the MSM’s relentlessly favorable coverage of every breath he takes, every move he  makes and every vow he breaks (second item), “the basic dynamics of the race haven’t changed”: [H]e doesn’t come close to [...]

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It was a story that held the headlines and spawned a thousand discussions. A little girl found murdered, a mother distraught, and the shadow of suspicion placed on the mourning parents. And to make things worse, it happened at Christmas time. Well, Patsy Ramsey is now dead of cancer, but even though it happened 12 [...]

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New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.” According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,” in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim. Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw [...]

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Since May 2007, Absolut Vodka has been running an ongoing ad campaign created by TBWA/Chiat/Day/New York, “In an Absolut World,” described by The New York Times as: [A] fanciful, even surreal, place where common sense prevails and just deserts are always on the menu. On Planet Absolut, for instance, men can get pregnant, the Curse [...]

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February 5, 2008 may go down in political history as the day Rush Limbaugh lost his grip on Republican voters – and the day Ann Coulter may have lost her grip altogether. Despite a concerted effort by the conservative chattering class to tar Sen. John McCain as a “liberal” or a “phony Republican,” and Fmr. [...]

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Barack Obama won more than half of the 22 Super Duper Tuesday states (12 to Hillary Clinton’s  8) – but Hillary’s wins came from such delegate-rich states as her adopted home state of NY, as well as CA, MA and NJ. Overall, 49 percent of voters supported Hillary, 46 percent supported Obama. Since none of [...]

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(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday [...]

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Early Results from the Maine Caucuses Show Romney ahead, Paul 2nd Seven Quotes from Ron Paul’s Denver Speech yesterday Paul to be Represented at WV GOP Convention Tuesday; WV GOP Paul Delegate Totals Is Ron Paul the Anti-McCain? UPDATE: SATURDAY, February 2, 2008 2:15 pm Mitt Romney took an early lead in presidential preference voting [...]

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    ALONG THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL Will A  Year of Firsts Yield  More of The Same Old, Same Old?   January 30, 2008   By RB Scott Boston, Massachusetts   Note:  RB Scott, a former staff writer and editor at Time, Life, People and Sports Illustrated, frequently writes about national politics.   As  the barrow [...]

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Four people have just been shot at New Life Church, a large Christian megachurch located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Police have not yet released the condition of the shooting victims. It is believed that the shootings may be related to an earlier shooting today at a Christian missionary organization in Denver. UPDATE: Outstanding coverage of [...]

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This is a story that everyone in America should care about, even though the action takes place in Colorado. It shows a justice system manipulated by a corrupt governor (former district attorney) persecuting one of our best Immigration Agents for objecting to plea bargains which allowed drug-dealing illegal aliens to avoid prosecution. Please read “ICE [...]

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Much like the Christmas shopping season, the ACLU's War on Christmas begins earlier and earlier every year. This year in Fort Collins, Colorado, the city council decided to revise their policies to honor appropriately the holiday that almost ninety percent of America celebrates as Christmas. A task force was drawn up, given their task, and [...]

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This is a contemporary American story if ever there was one; if only because it’s hard to imagine it occuring at any other time in American history. It says a lot about America today–what it says is up for grabs. “Sex Offender Seeking Seat on School Board” A Horatio Alger story–kinda–from the Denver Post: A [...]

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The Rule by a few Unelected Officials Upsets Millions of Americans “I had to rant and get some of this off my chest to someone so I figured who better to rant to than you?” What would upset such placid(!) soul as RidesAPaleHorse? The same thing that upsets millions of Americans–Left, Right or Center–across the [...]

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Republicans in California are trying to change the way electoral votes from California are distributed. Veteran GOP consultants said Monday that they were relaunching a drive to change the way California allocates its electoral college votes, aimed at helping the 2008 Republican presidential nominee capture the White House. Political strategist David Gilliard said he was [...]

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  Robert Daniels the 27 year old tuberculosis patient held for months in a room draped to block out the sun and denied appropriate treatment by sheriff Joe Arpaio. Until mounting National media pressure forced county health officials to allow travel for medical treatment in Colorado has fled to Russia, unable to “take the abuse” any more, his lawyer reported. Declared by Maricopa county Arizona health officials to [...]

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On Today’s Lunch, Rob and Will cover the usual Friday 10-in-3, including Chris Dodd’s trip to the ballpark, Fred Thompson’s paychecks, Mitt Romney’s rocky trip to the Rockies, and Al Gore’s upcoming smash-hit single. Watch now!

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So much wisdom for one so young! On Friday, the Rocky Mountain Collegian published what they called an editorial. Here it is, in its entirety: “Taser this … F*** BUSH” Yep, that’s all of it. That’s the entire thing. Four little words. (Note: I have tried repeatedly to load an actual image of the page, [...]

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Writing about farm subsidies in The Washington Post, Robert J. Samuelson observes, “most of today’s farm programs are simply income transfers from consumers and taxpayers to farmers … Farming has become the economy’s most pampered, protected and subsidized sector.” In 1933 FDR signed the Agricultural Adjustment Act under duress, notes Samuelson: “The head of the [...]

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In the video Usama bin Laden released last week, he attempts to rebut the “neocon” assertion that immediate withdrawal from Iraq will precipitate a genocidal bloodbath with a history lesson that could have been delivered at any number of college campuses in the U.S.: “[T]he morality and culture of the holocaust is your culture, not [...]

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Though Fred Thompson finally ended his dance of the seven veils and revealed his candidacy to Jay Leno in a taped appearance on NBC’s “Tonight Show,” it’s Mike Huckabee – who has always made the most of his limited time in the spotlight as a second-tier candidate – who’s looking sexy after Wednesday’s “The First [...]

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We’re eating up the ads today on a Political Lunch special edition. Romney comes back to earth, Biden boasts experience, and Richardson gets serious. Watch it now at PoliticalLunch.com!

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Aerial News Gathering: Is It Worth It? Reading about the fiery mid-air collision involving two Arizona news choppers in which four people died brings back a lot of memories. As investigators try to sort out whether competition for the best shot of a police chase in progress contributed to the fatal crash that took the [...]

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If you are a snake, especially a mean rattlesnake , you might know enough to back off when you see a hounddog or Rottweiler, but a Chinhuahua? So today’s story of dog heroism comes from  Masonville, Colorado, where a one year old who was playing with the water in her grandparents birdbath disturbed  a nearby [...]

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Denver has recently announced a policy that plans to remove 500,000 cars from the road in an aggressive attempt to curb the effects of global warming. This follows on the heels of other plans nationwide to reduce emissions as well as commentary from elites who encourage the further increase in gas prices so fewer people [...]

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The Push to Preserve Biodiversity By Carol Bogart    Unless you garden, you probably don’t think much about seeds – except to wish raspberries and watermelon had fewer of them. Although my parents were big on gardening, even before we moved to a farm when I was 10, it wasn’t until later in life that [...]

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Shannon Malloy, 30, from Fremont, Nebraska was involved in a serious car accident on January 25. When the car crashed near Tecumseh, about 50 miles outside of Lincoln, the force of her head hitting the passenger’s side dashboard separated her skull from her spine, causing what doctors call atlantooccipital dislocation, or internal decapitation. Amazingly, she [...]

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As everyone reading Drudge knows, a monkey in Denver’s Zoo has died of the plague. It seems that an enterprising monkey must have caught and eaten a squirrel, and developed the disease. Zoo officials note 23 animals, mostly squirrels, have been found to have the disease, which is spread via fleas. Actually, about a thousand [...]

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What was the first thing that ran through your head when you read that headline? Did it confuse you? Maybe you were shocked? Perhaps you were even angered? I am sure a few even said something like “At last” or “about time”? It is well known that MLK hung around Communists, even “card carrying” ones. [...]

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Danny and his girlfriend Nina weren’t sure where to move so they let the public decide it for them. Danny a Florida native and Nina, an art student originally from Moscow Russia, met four years ago at a nightclub in Manhattan. They were inseparable after that. One day, while living in New York, the couple [...]

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A Texas truck driver has been convicted in what authorities are calling the “nation’s deadliest human smuggling attempt.” Tyrone Williams faces the death penalty for the smuggling attempt, in which more than 70 illegal aliens were crammed inside Williams’ “tomb-like” tractor-trailer. According to reports, they “scraped at the insulation, broke out the tail-lights and screamed [...]

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The new identity theft protection and recovery service by Truston is live. The service is unique because it doesn’t require you to give up your personal information, which could be stored in a database, and used to commit identity theft if it falls into the wrong hands. In case you’ve missed the weekly stories, databases [...]

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First gypsies impersonate Dr. Phil and now someone is selling tickets to the Oprah show that smell a little “phishy.” Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan warned the public in a official statement: In this case, e-mail recipients are asked to submit personal information and told they will receive tickets to The Oprah Winfrey Show after [...]

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This case is interesting. A judge supported a homeowners association rule that a couple cannot smoke in their own townhouse. First of all, I’m very much into smokers rights. I despise smoking bans and pretty much all “for your own good” legislation. But the issue here isn’t smoking; it’s the right of homeowners associations to control [...]

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Three inmates in Supermax are charged with crimes they committed — while incarcerated in the high-security prison in Colorado. According to reports, Ruben “Night Owl” Castro, a Mexican mafia leader, recently was indicted on charges of running a street gang’s drug sales from his Supermax cell. Two leaderrs of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang — [...]

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Three inmates in Supermax are charged with crimes they committed — while incarcerated in the high-security prison in Colorado. According to reports, Ruben “Night Owl” Castro, a Mexican mafia leader, recently was indicted on charges of running a street gang’s drug sales from his Supermax cell. Two leaderrs of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang — [...]

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I’ve had the opportunity to look at a lot of identity theft services, but until now – I’ve never run into one I considered “victim friendly.” I’ve written off most of the services I’ve seen — either because they were financial services products (created by those who had compromised victims themselves) — or they were [...]

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Same-sex marriage bans called in SC, TN, VA, WI, leads in others, trails in AZ. Eight states were voting on measures that would ban same-sex marriage. CNN.com has South Carolina, Tennesssee, Virginia and Wisconsin passing the same-sex marriage ban. The issue is too close to call in Arizona, but is trailing there with 48% voting to ban [...]

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September 6, 2006 was a day like any other for most of us, but for Jeffrey Alan Ingram it was the day he lost his memory. It was not until September 10 that Jeffrey, a 40 year old man from Washington, turned up at a Denver Colorado police station. In the days that followed an [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, I updated an earlier post about counterfeit American Express Gift Cheques and asked my readers to help me discover exactly how these items were surfacing. Prior to this, I knew they were showing up over a wide geographical area, but no one was “sharing” how they happened to get them. [...]

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One for the HDD sentence Johnathan Christopher Klinker, 21, a soldier with the 43rd Area Support Group stationed in Colorado, on Friday, October 13, was home alone for a few hours with his seven week old daughter Nicolette. When she woke up, she was “fussy.” So, he … … “held Nicolette Klinker with both his [...]

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Courtesy of the Colorado Bureau of Vital Statistics This one is priceless. Here’s the summary: In 1995, a little girl was born to a single mother. In 1998, the little girl’s mom took dad to court to seek child support. After paternity was established, dad began making support payments for a while. Then he stopped. [...]

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A baby’s mother left her child with her two younger brothers while she went off to work. The 13 and 10 year-old boys wandered off, leaving the front door ajar. The baby crawled out on to the balcony of their Shadow Wood condominium in Denver, Colorado. The baby enjoyed the three story high view a [...]

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