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Photos: Motorcyclists rally at State Capitol for individual rights -- and against gun laws

Roaring engines announced their arrival and wailing sirens accompanied their departure. Approximately forty motorcyclists from the Colorado Coalition of Independent Riders and the Confederation of Clubs lined their bikes along Lincoln Street in front of the Capitol building before crossing the stree ... More >>

Marijuana: Jeremy Usher, Navy vet, could go to jail for treating his PTSD with cannabis

After returning from tours in Afghanistan and Iraq ten years ago, Navy veteran Jeremy Usher experienced symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder according to the Greeley Tribune. He subsequently tried treating his condition with alcohol, resulting in multiple DUIs and a probationary sentence. But ... More >>

Pinon Canyon expansion battle: Will troop reductions help or hurt?

As the Pentagon contemplates different ways to achieve reductions in force in the ramp-down from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, business leaders in Colorado Springs are pushing for a plan that would actually bring more troops to Fort Carson -- while ranchers battling expansion of a maneuver site in s ... More >>

Colorado Springs native TNT Maddox on how she became a Harlem Globetrotter

When TNT Maddox became the first female Harlem Globetrotter since 1993, she wasn't sure how she'd be received by her fellow players. But the Colorado Springs native says her teammates are now like her brothers, and that she's had nothing but a positive experience since donning the red, white and blu ... More >>

Video: Gary Johnson, Libertarian presidential candidate, turns Boulder upside-down

Our recent Gary Johnson Q&A found the Libertarian presidential candidate focusing heavily on Colorado. But he expanded his scope during an appearance at CU-Boulder last night, which turned the audience on its head -- at least judging by a video of his speech that we found, which is shot upside-down. ... More >>

GI Joe Fest 2012 canceled!

The vicious international terrorists of COBRA could never stop GI Joe, but he's finally met his match, at least temporarily. This year's GI Joe Fest -- an annual film festival of stop-motion animation starring everyone's favorite military action figure -- that was scheduled for Saturday, September 2 ... More >>

Stoner MacGyver marijuana book review: Super Charged

Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games to books. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? Super Charged: How Outlaws, Hippies and Scientists Reinvented Marijuana

Dear Mexican: We need a Mexican Marshall Plan

Najibullah Zazi, beauty-school bomber, helps convict his co-conspirator

Eric Holder called it the most serious terror threat to the United States since 9/11. And the bombs that could have blown up New York's subway system got their start in Denver beauty-supply stores, where Najibullah Zazi bought the ingredients to make homemade detonators. But that plot exploded, and ... More >>

Reader: I find matchmaker Rachel Greenwald's business appalling

Ten weirdest Denver Broncos cheerleaders photos

The Internet is filled with forgotten pages -- cyberspace cul de sacs filled with oddball content. Take Procheerleader.blog. It was folded in to UltimateCheerleaders.com several years ago, but content from 2004 to 2008 continues to linger, including lotsa quirky pics of Denver Broncos cheerleaders. ... More >>

Sarah Palin vs. Lady Gaga: Battle of the attention-grabbing sideshows

Flickr photo​Flickr photo​Sarah Palin: You Betcha!, Brit filmmaker Nick Broomfield's documentary-slash-hatchet job, opens today at the Denver Film Center. In the film, Palin is seen as a polarizing, sideshow personality in the world of politics -- the equivalent of Lady Gaga in the rea ... More >>

The Hidden Internet

Plastic army men struggle with PTSD in British artists' ode to Colorado Springs soldiers

​We've all seen those molded green plastic soldiers; they're a staple of every kid's childhood and, thanks to the Toy Story series, heroes of the big screen. But we've never seen plastic soldiers like this -- begging for money, assaulting women, placing a rifle under their chin. It's the arr ... More >>

Loveland Tax Day Tea Party: 3rd annual event growing -- which is why Ken Buck will be there

​Anyone who doubts the continuing influence of the so-called Tea Party movement need only look at the guest list for tomorrow's third-annual Loveland Tax Day Tea Party. Speakers constitute a who's who of conservative political power in Northern Colorado and beyond.

Terrence Lakin: A Shmuck is born -- make that "birthed"

Terrence Lakin​Thousands and thousands of U.S. military personnel are spending the holidays far away from their families, many of them in hostile territory. They are there to serve and protect their homeland, the country where they were born. But one soldier -- now a former soldier -- will sp ... More >>

David Sirota: AM 760 host and columnist named one of 30 media heroes by The Nation

David Sirota.​It's been a big month for AM 760 host David Sirota. First, his first child, Isaac, was born. Now, he's been named one of thirty "media heroes" by The Nation, placing 21st on a roster topped by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. And, as a bonus, he's also completed his latest book, Back to O ... More >>

Medical marijuana: Will Kevin Grimsinger's false stories hurt MMJ campaign for PTSD?

Kevin Grimsinger.​Last week, Sensible Colorado's Brian Vicente decried the health department's rejection of a petition to add post traumatic stress order to conditions that can be treated by medical marijuana. Along the way, he specifically cited Kevin Grimsinger, a veteran who'd become the po ... More >>

What would it take for Mexicans to not want to cross the border into America?

Fort Carson revelations: 40 percent of soldiers may have undiagnosed brain injuries

A Flickr photo​Here's possibly the best evidence yet that something very, very wrong is occurring at Fort Carson, the giant Army base in Colorado Springs: A joint NPR and ProPublica investigation into how the military handles brain injuries has found that as many as 40 percent of Fort Carson ... More >>

The Downtown Denver Partnership may not like Pinche Tacos, but it's looking for other new vendors

Westboro Baptist Church haters threaten to picket funeral of Golden's Sgt. Grant Wichmann

Fred Phelps's evil flock is at it again.​The appalling Bible-twisters at the Westboro Baptist Church are at it again. Less than two weeks ago, the WBC horror show rolled into Colorado, targeting a variety of schools, synagogues and more. While here, they spread their usual brand of ignorance: ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church's latest target: Late Aurora soldier Sean Durkin

Courtesy of Fort CarsonSgt. Sean Durkin: Hasn't his family suffered enough?​The virulent homophobes (and anti-semites) of Westboro Baptist Church will supposedly begin protesting at various locations around our area on Thursday -- if they actually turn up, that is. They were no-shows at a Boul ... More >>

Attorney General Eric Holder: Aurora a central front in war on terror

Eric Holder.​Most of Attorney General Eric Holder's prepared remarks to the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Conference today are of the attaboy variety: At one point, he says, "I have come to Denver today with one simple message from Washington: 'We got your back.'" But t ... More >>

Glory Days

Jon Krakauer will sign copies of his book on NFLer-turned-soldier Pat Tillman.

The Denver connection to the Queens terror raids

The FBI conducted a number of high-profile raids in Queens yesterday -- high-profile enough to have prompted the CBS report above (beware; you have to watch a commercial before the story actually runs). Along the way, correspondent Bob Orr mentions a man "from the midwest" whose recent travels to A ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Week starts with a win

It wasn't just the decisive win that made last night's Nuggets victory so gratifying. And it wasn't the fact that Denver looked so good -- if very, very wet -- on national TV. What was particularly sweet about this chapter in the Cinderella story is that the Nuggets were never supposed to be at th ... More >>

Dana Perino talks for the president; her dad talks for the neighborhood

Julia Ormond comes to the Westin, talks about human trafficking

Guy Pearce, Don Cheadle can't save the ho-hum "thriller" Traitor

Gateway to Babylon

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

The Sarajevo conflict was hell, but what comes after is another battle.

Sketches

Brief reviews of current shows

Sketches

Brief reviews of current shows

Tongue Twister

Why don't more Mexican men munch muff?

Taking It to the Streets

Thousands of Mexicans and one Polack.

All Gave Some

Sir! No Sir! recounts the GIs who refused to ride the killing machine.

Listen Up

Fast reviews of recent releases

Retroactive

Band of Brothers

War is hell, but for the Bronx, so is rock and roll.

From Bad to Worse

An Afghan girl faces the terror of life under the Taliban.

War on War Songs

Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

Follow That Story

Lingua Franca

New and Improved

Changes are afoot at Ron Judish's gallery.

Bombs Away

War is fueling the star power of Colorado's -- and possibly the nation's -- ballsiest military analyst.

A Scary Picture

In a nightmarish time, these images of nightmares still work.

Busted!

When underwires are outlawed, only outlaws will give uplift.

Get Your Gold Medals Here

Syria's Eating

MOUTHING OFF