The Colorado Independent connects the dots.

Denver officials weren't planning to reveal details about where activists would be detained in the event of mass arrests during the Democratic National Convention until after the event had started, but those plans were quickly dashed this week when CBS 4News reporter Rick Sallinger not only revealed that protesters would be locked up in a city-owned warehouse, but he also obtained clear video footage inside the facility, a building that includes barbed wire-topped cages and signs warning of stun-gun use.

Read the blow-by-blow at The Colorado Independent.

First installment:

11:20 a.m. -- It's a different day. The same protest signs against John McCain were displayed. But no one was arrested.

Members of ProgressNow and Carol Kreck, a Denver librarian who was ticketed for trespassing at McCain's last campaign stop in Denver, camped outside the Denver Grand Hyatt Hotel again this morning protesting the Republican presidential candidate's speech today.  

Holding signs that read "McCain = Bush" a group of about a dozen protesters played up their dissent mostly for gathered local media who clicked photos and asked whether Kreck was willing to be arrested again.

"I don't want to be ticketed again, no," Kreck said as she swarmed by TV cameras and microphones.

Read the rest at The Colorado Independent.

Join the Colorado Independent on Wednesday, July 16 at 10:00 a.m. MDT (Noon EDT) for a live 30-minute Q&A with Ray Rivera, Colorado director for Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

Rivera will field your questions on Colorado's growing importance in this year's presidential election and the campaign's strategy for winning the West.

Register a user name and add your questions to the conversation in a new thread that will post on the front page at 10 a.m. sharp.

Breaking news from The Colorado Independent:

Protesters with ProgressNow outside today's John McCain town hall meeting in Denver were told to throw their signs away or risk being arrested for trespassing.

Protesters are seen outside of John McCain campaign event in Denver. McCain's secret service detail told the Denver Police that if the three protesters, one dressed in a pea costume with pictures of President Bush and McCain on it, were told to shut their protest down about an hour before the campaign event began.

We have a reporter on the scene who will also be covering the McCain speech.

Read more on the "two peas in a pod" protest.

We're liveblogging Barack Obama's policy speech on national service in Colorado Springs -- smack in the backyard of James Dobson and Focus on the Family who tried to pick a fight with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee last week.

Crossposted from The Colorado Independent:

A story on NPR's Morning Edition today held an interesting nugget of information on Colorado's possible role in how a President Barack Obama would respond to the growing humanitarian and legal crisis at the controversial U.S. detention camp on Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

The first in a series of reports exploring the ramifications of a controversial state ballot measure winding its way through Colorado.

Hard-line, socially conservative activists are gearing up to enact state laws to restrict abortion since President Bush and Congress have all but abandoned the federal cause. To that end, Colorado is once again serving as a political incubator in yet another attempt to chip away at Roe v. Wade.

But for all the hue and cry, do efforts at the state level have a chance of success and what cost do they exact from the larger conservative movement in a watershed election year?

Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-Denver) will participate in a live 30-minute Q&A with Colorado Confidential readers on Friday, May 9 at 11 a.m. MDT.

DeGette will take your questions on the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, her third attempt to pass this landmark legislation following two vetoes by President Bush.

Read the congresswoman's comments from her dKos diary posted yesterday below the fold.

While you're crying at the pump, here's a little entertainment -- at the expense of House Republicans -- for your viewing pleasure.

Got primary fatigue?

Join Colorado Confidential TODAY at 12 p.m. EDT/10 a.m. MDT for a live 30 minute Q&A with Lizz Winstead, co-creator and former head writer for "The Daily Show" and ex co-host of "Unfiltered" with Chuck D and Rachel Maddow.

Thread is here.

I attended an opening night screening of Ben Stein's insipid Intelligent Design film so you don't have to.

The proof is in the tweets -- all 50 of 'em -- over the last 90 minutes at Colorado Confidential.com. Read more for random thoughts, observations and crowd reaction to "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed."

Hard-core political numbers junkies sprouted a few extra gray hairs earlier this month. The cause of their grief wasn't the perpetually suspect electronic voting machines or mind-numbing campaign finance reports. It was a sedate and relatively obscure government agency with the capacity to set off a whole lot of political mischief.

Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Fertilized eggs are not people.
So no constitutional rights for you.

This November, Colorado voters may decide if human zygotes will have the same constitutional protections as living, breathing people who go to work, put off cleaning the house and futilely try to score on the weekends.

NOTE: The Post's internet service went down unexpectedly. Haley will now join us at 2 p.m. MST instead.

Join Colorado Confidential at 10 a.m. MST today for a live Q&A with The Denver Post's editorial page editor Dan Haley on why The Post dually endorsed Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton in the Colorado caucus on Super Tuesday.

Interesting, too, is that The Post announced it's two-fer nod online well ahead of its Sunday editorial, a first for the paper. Is the MSM coming around to the power of online media?

Colorado PBS public affairs show host, Aaron Harber, is generously offering Colorado Confidential readers the opportunity to submit questions to be posed to Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker.

Colorado PBS public affairs show host, Aaron Harber, is generously offering Colorado Confidential readers the opportunity to submit questions to be posed to Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker.

Exclusive investigative report by Eartha Jane Melzer at Michigan Messenger

In December 2003, the founders of Triple Canopy, a private security firm in Baghdad, caught their first big break, signing a contract with the Coalition Provisional Authority governing Iraq. Within four months, Triple Canopy had signed six contracts worth more than $28 million to guard U.S. facilities throughout Iraq.

For Triple Canopy chief executive officer Barrett H. Moore and the military veterans who founded the company, these agreements launched the company on the path to become what it is today: one of the leading private military contractors, sharing a $1 billion contract with Blackwater USA and DynCorps to guard U.S. personnel in the Middle East.

Left-wing moonbat? Check.
Liar? Check.
Unstable? Check.
Brown Nazis? Check.

Today, Cara DeGette of Colorado Confidential published an exclusive interview with William Gheen of Americans for Legal Immigration on what Tom Tancredo's dispatch from the GOP presidential race means for the movement.

And no surprise, Gheen didn't hold back.