I've never been good at math, but if a sucker is born every minute, as P.T. Barnum suggested, then at least two non-suckers also are born every minute, which is good because, shockingly, you can get one out of every three Americans to believe anything.  

All last spring, Colorado lawmakers wrestled with legislation to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries that had sprouted up by the hundreds in late 2009. Had the Justice Department objected, it could have killed the bills at any time.  

What does a guy have to do to be called a terrorist these days?  

Now that the birther episode is behind us — we pause here for a knowing chuckle; of course it's not really behind us — it's fair to ask what it all means.  

Now that President Barack Obama has released a copy of his long-form birth certificate, I figure the birther movement will soon fade away. But it's hard to be sure about these matters, so I called my favorite inside source, Ananias Ziegler, media relations director of the Committee That Really Runs America.  

A half-century after its publication, Ayn Rand's signature masterpiece, "Atlas Shrugged," has finally made it to the silver screen.  

"To the Colorado renaissance." That's the oilman's toast to the steelmaker and the railroad mogul in the new film version of "Atlas Shrugged."  

The race to be Denver's next mayor is on. Ten days ago, ballots arrived in mailboxes, and a Post/Channel 9 poll revealed that three candidates are nearly tied: Chris Romer and James Mejia at 22 percent and Michael Hancock at 18.  

Our neighbor is a retired dentist. He got his DDS at the Northwestern University School of Dentistry, which ended its program in 2001 after 100 years of granting degrees. He was bereft. "It was like a slap in the face," he told me.  

Mayors come, mayors go. But their decisions, good or bad, can seem eternal.  

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The mayor of Denver, as Gov. John Hickenlooper is now finding out, has more power than any other official in the state, including the governor.  

As recent news reports have pointed out, the world is in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Worldwide obesity rates have doubled in the last 30 years, and today, some 500 million people are considered obese.  

Gerrymandering — the conspicuous, irregular manipulating of electoral district boundaries to give an advantage one political party or candidate — is widely considered a distasteful, if not downright corrupt, practice.  

Three million Americans live every day with what Colin Firth so painfully recreated in the Oscar winning movie.  

It's not only war heroes who get honored in the West with lasting memorials. When prodigal son Dalton Trumbo returned to his hometown of Grand Junction, he arrived on Main Street in a bronze bathtub.