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Pictures and short video of the Tancredo Republican Round-up, Aurora, Colorado, October 16, 2010. I'm assuming this car that was in front of the Stampede belongsto a conservative. Tancredo for Governor The Entertainment State Rep. Kent Lambert (R) and a Tancredo supporter

'Not left or right; right or wrong!" That's the current marketing slogan of a local talk radio station (not mine). It's a clever turn of a phrase and an interesting approach to establishing product differentiation from competing talk stations that promote the conventional split between liberals and conservatives. This imaging strategy is designed to convey the impression that the programmers, personalities and producers on that station somehow rise above the limitations of ideology and the pettiness of partisan politics. The station and radio show (Caplis & Silverman) that Mike is talking about - http://www.khow.com/pages/shows-caplis_silverman.htmlIn theory, this might attract listeners that...

Pictured below in the dark jersey is DePaul hoopster Raymon Caplis, playing shortly before Christmas in 1951 under legendary Blue Demon Coach Ray Meyer. Caplis is fighting for the ball with Kentucky's Clifford Hagan. Hagan, like Ray Meyer, would later be enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame. It looks like Caplis got the ball, but Kentucky won that game. And what does that picture have to do with DePaul and Churchill? On Tuesday, a very well-poised blogger Nick Hahn, a DePaul political science major and Republican, was interviewed by KHOW Denver's Dan Caplis, son of ex-Blue Demon basketball player...

The charge: Fabrication Did Ward Churchill falsely accuse the U.S. Army in small pox epidemic? Our findings: His claim isn't supported by the sources he has cited. By Kevin Vaughan, Rocky Mountain News June 6, 2005 The year was 1837, the place was the Upper Missouri River Valley in present-day North Dakota, the disease was smallpox, and the effects on American Indians were devastating. None of that is in dispute. One key fact is: how the disease got there. Numerous historical accounts put the blame in the same place - infected travelers on a steamboat bound for a trading post...

Radio talk show host Dan Caplis on Wednesday filed a defamation lawsuit against a Longmont city employee who has emerged as a vocal supporter of embattled University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill. Caplis, who co-hosts an afternoon program on KHOW-AM with fellow attorney Craig Silverman, sued Glenn Spagnuolo, 34, in Arapahoe District Court. Spagnuolo made the comments Tuesday night during a speech supporting Churchill at a campus rally in Boulder, and they were broadcast Wednesday on the Peter Boyles Show, another KHOW program, Caplis said. He declined to reveal the comments he cited in his lawsuit, saying it was filed...