Seventy-two hours ago, I shared news about Debe Bell’s encounter with members of her local sheriff’s office in my post, Anonymous Call to New Animal Abuse Hotline Leads to Raid on Colorado Woman’s Rabbit Farm. Twenty-four hours ago, I shared my observations about Denver media outlets failing to cover a multitude of juicy stories behind [...]
Denver Post Coverage of Rabbit Raiser Takes 180
August 13th, 2011 · 8 Comments
Tags: · Animal Rights, Bob McCarty, Colorado, Constitution, Debe Bell, justice, Limited Government, National Western Stock Show, Six Bells Farm
Denver Media Outlets Fail to Cover Multitude of Juicy Stories Behind Recent Rabbit Farm Raid
August 12th, 2011 · 6 Comments
Since breaking news about a July 21 raid on a farm 12 miles north of Denver that resulted in local law enforcement officials seizing 193 rabbits from a nationally-recognized rabbit expert, I’ve learned more disturbing details about the case. Perhaps least shocking was my discovery that members of the Denver-area news media appear to have swallowed [...]
Tags: · Agriculture, Animal Rights, Bob McCarty, Colorado, Constitution, Limited Government, property rights, Six Bells Farm
Anonymous Call to New Animal Abuse Hotline Leads to Raid on Colorado Woman’s Rabbit Farm
August 10th, 2011 · 35 Comments
Debe Bell will probably never forget Thursday, July 21. It was the day she found herself surrounded by people from her local law enforcement agency, and they weren’t there to help. Unlike John Dollarhite of Nixa, Mo., and several magicians across the country who’ve been hounded and threatened with massive fines by agents from the [...]
Tags: · Animal Rights, Bob McCarty, Colorado
Obama Front Group Recruiting Summer Organizers
February 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment
Courtesy of a friend of mine who is on the e-mail list for Organizing for America, I share below the latest electronic message he received Tuesday evening from the Barack Obama front group. Except for the caricature of the president that I added and the links I disabled, the message appears unedited below: (Salutation: name [...]
Tags: · 2012, affordable care act, becca siegel, Colorado, jeremy bird, nikki giancola, Obama, obama front group, Obama Front Group Recruiting Summer Organizers, ofa, ofa illinois, organizing for america, paras patel, president obama, south africa, Stanford University, summer organizers, summer organizing fellowship, the power of organizing
Company That Earned Millions from Gulf Cleanup Tangled in Suit That Could Cost Chevron $113B (Update)
January 21st, 2011 · 5 Comments
What do the BP Deepwater Horizon “disaster” of 2010, the $113 billion lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar have in common? Stratus Consulting Inc. of Boulder, Colo., was involved in the first two and, possibly, the third. BP DEEPWATER HORIZON President Barack Obama talked as if he was ready to lock [...]
Tags: · amazon defense coalition, Barack Obama, Big Oil, Bob McCarty, bp, chevron, Colorado, Company That Earned Millions from Gulf Cleanup Tangled in Suit That Could Cost Chevron $113B, deepwater horizon, drilling bans, ecuador, Environment, EPA, federal elections commission, forbes, harvard law school, industrial economics, interior secretary ken salazar, j russell deleon, justice department, Ken Salazar, kohn and swift, national oceanic and atmospheric administration, New York Times, NOAA, obama for america, oil patch, oil spill, partygaming, red tape, richard cabrera, steven r donziger, stratus, stratus consulting, texaco
African Immigrants Express Support for Tom Tancredo in Colorado Gubernatorial Race
October 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Simon Deng was enslaved as a child after being abducted by an Arab. He escaped after three years and is now a leading voice against slavery. He is the leader of the Sudan Freedom Walk and is an associate of the American Anti-Slavery Group. Freelance photojournalist El Marco phoned Deng at his home in Harlem, [...]
Tags: · African immigrants, African Immigrants Express Support for Tom Tancredo in Colorado Gubernatorial Race, american anti-slavery group, anti-slavery, Colorado, el marco, governor, gubernatorial race, harlem, looking at the left, simon deng, Sudan, sudan freedom walk, sudan peace act, Tancredo, Tom Tancredo
Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Play Promises 212K Jobs in Pennsylvania During Next 10 Years
May 25th, 2010 · 5 Comments
Imagine 212,000 new jobs during the next 10 years in Pennsylvania alone. Contemplate generating $1.8 billion in state and local tax revenues during the next 18 months. Think about the energy security provided by a natural resource that has the potential to produce 13.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. Now, go beyond [...]
Tags: · Colorado, Congress, drill, drill congress, drilling, economic impact, energy information administration, energy security, jobs, kathryn klaber, marcellus shale, marcellus shale coalition, Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Play Promises 212K Jobs in Pennsylvania During Next 10 Years, natural gas, penn state, penn state university, Pennsylvania, piceance basin, rosemarie swanger, tax revenues, western colorado
