Tom Tancredo News

Democrats last week pounced on a report that Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton wants to abolish the U.S. Department of Education as part of her push to reduce the size of government.

Maes accused party leaders of brokering a deal to crown former 3rd District Congressman Scott McInnis as the party's candidate for governor - and of ignoring the Evergreen businessman's candidacy.

As we allow government to cast ever-widening nets over all aspects of our lives, real life-and-death issues - health care, crime and drug use, to name just a few - become little more than political playthings tossed about inside the Washington beltway and state capitals across the country.

I just got back from one of many gatherings across the country where freedom-loving citizens watched a live Webcast hosted by Americans for Prosperity.

The Denver Post says Colorado's Tea Party activists are rallying behind Dan Maes' efforts to beat Scott McInnis in the contest for the Republicans' nomination for governor next year.

Business, immigration reform and immigrant rights groups all seem skeptical of a proposal that would require all Colorado businesses to use a federal database to verify the legal residential status of new hires.

Colorado is at the center of a national debate concerning gun control, revolving around moves to ban guns at two of the state's universities.

From the Denver Post : Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo has proposed a 2010 ballot measure that would recommend to Colorado's top elected officials that they oppose gun restrictions.

Tom Tancredo talks about immigration at a 2006 town hall meeting at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Denver.

Colorado State Republicans last week unveiled a proposed blueprint for the restoration of economic sanity and legislative common sense in a document christened the "Platform For Prosperity." Purportedly styled on the national GOP's 1994 "Contract With America," the platform came on the heels of the decision by State Senator Josh Penry to pull out ...

Former Rep. Tom Tancredo, best known for his tough stand in Congress against illegal immigration, has taken up a new cause since his retirement from the House last year: defending American gun owners against international treaties.

First, the Denver Post 's Dan Haley weighed in on the Republicans' "Platform for Prosperity." Today, the story went national with coverage from Wall Street Journal reporter Stephanie Simon, and a quote from from one of my favorite grassroots activists : Republicans, however, said the platform would prompt voters to focus on the party's message, ...

Former Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo made a name for himself - and a brief presidential campaign in 2008 - feeding on Americans' fears about illegal immigration.

Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo has proposed a 2010 ballot measure that would recommend to Colorado's top elected officials that they oppose gun restrictions.

After a number of behind-the-scene meetings, state Republicans rolled out their plan this week to unseat Gov.

After Tom Tancredo declared that he fully intended to run for governor, Colorado GOP head Dick Wadhams insisted that he was okay with such a challenge to frontrunner Scott McInnis, announcing in this space , "I've always been a proponent -- and I've said this incessantly -- that primaries and competition makes people better." Since then, the ...

Colorado lawmakers will once again debate whether companies should be required to use a federal database that helps determine whether workers are in this country illegally.

Don't feel guilty if you don't find time to read the Platform for Prosperity - that roll-off- the-tongue PFP - or whatever Colorado Republicans are calling their unity platform these days.

Scott McInnis, right, was at the Colorado State Central Committee Meeting on Saturday at Douglas County High School.

One of the great questions heading into the 2010 elections is what Democrats can do to get their base motivated again.