“Colorado” on The Daily Caller

Well, this is one way to try and keep high school dances squeaky clean. (more)

Democratic Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper introduced his lieutenant governor, Joe Garcia, as a “sex star” at an elementary school literacy event and quickly amended his remark, saying he meant to call him a sex “symbol.” (more)

On Tuesday night, Rick Santorum swept, winning all three contests in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado, and pulling ahead of Mitt Romney in the number of states won. But will it do him much good moving forward? (more)

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum‘s presidential campaign is seeing a significant resurgence in the polls for the first time since his Iowa caucus win in early January. (more)

After former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty bashed Rick Santorum’s record Monday on behalf of Mitt Romney, the Santorum campaign went after both men, reviving Pawlenty’s “Obamneycare” attack on Romney from July. (more)

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Charlie Sheen’s ex-wife, Brooke Mueller, says she’ll fight Colorado assault and cocaine possession accusations with the goal of having the case dropped once the facts come to light. (more)

President Barack Obama’s trip to Nevada, California and Colorado is a compressed version of his own 2012 campaign strategy. (more)

Have you finished your Daily Caller “Occupying Your Time” scavenger hunt yet? All it takes is a camera, some imagination and a few hours attending the consensus-building assemblies at “Occupy Wall Street” protests. (more)

President Barack Obama’s “green jobs” initiatives suffered another major blow late Monday, as the nonprofit National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden, Colorado, announced a plan to lay off roughly 10 percent of its staff through a voluntary buy-out plan. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health officials say as many as 16 people have died from possible listeria illnesses traced to Colorado cantaloupes, the deadliest food outbreak in more than a decade. (more)

LONGMONT, Colo. — A 17-year-old girl lost both of her legs after trying to climb aboard a moving train with three friends on Monday, authorities said. (more)

Terrorists, are we? How banal the left’s invective has become. Fiscal responsibility is no doubt a terrifying prospect to the irresponsible spenders and entitlement addicts. But really: In their horror of sobering up, can’t Vice President Joe Biden, Congressman Mike Doyle and The New York Times’s Joe Nocera do better than equate Tea Party patriots with suicide bombers? (more)

Mitt Romney isn’t spending Monday in Iowa, New Hampshire or South Carolina. (more)

Nearly two decades ago, Colorado voters had had enough of politicians spending money, growing government and raising taxes to pay for it. We passed the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR), a state constitutional amendment that requires lawmakers to ask Colorado voters for any tax increase and prevents the state government from growing faster than the private sector. (more)

Imagine waking up and checking the Sunday paper to find that you’ve won the lottery, but then learning that the newspaper printed the wrong numbers. (more)

Colorado, a state where Democrats have seen numerous victories in recent years, could be ready for a swing in 2012. CivicForumPAC has moved Colorado to the “toss up states” category for the 2012 presidential election, thanks in large part to the fact that Hispanics are beginning to sour on President Obama. The president’s weakening connection with independents doesn’t bode well for him in Colorado either. (more)

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Washington (CNN) – Michelle Obama is taking heat from talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh after a report in the Vail Daily that she consumed a not-so-healthy-meal of ribs for dinner while on a recent visit to the Colorado resort, the latest example of conservative angst directed at the first lady’s healthy-eating initiative. (more)

Last week the federal government released its official 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the last step in a process that’s repeated every five years. (more)

It’s not yet even February, but lawmakers are already dumping an armload of bad ideas onto their respective state governments. The sheer ridiculousness of a few proposed laws has resulted in some legislators quickly abandoning their efforts with a shrug and an excuse. “Haha! J-K. I didn’t really think it would actually GO anywhere.” (more)