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Littwin: How do you explain climate change denial to a child?

I have a 2-year-old grandson who is fascinated by, and a little afraid of, thunder and lightning. When he wakes up in the middle of the night, he usually says he has been dreaming about “tun...

DATE: Sep 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Littwin: Trump crosses yet another line

The temptation is to say that a line was crossed on Saturday in America. But I can’t bring myself to do it. Maybe the most depressing thing about the death and chaos in Charlottes...

DATE: Aug 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Littwin: Can Hickenlooper and Kasich come up with health care plan?

I’m not sure how it happened, why it happened or even exactly when it happened, but it seems that our own John Hickenlooper and his new pal, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, are now apparently in char...

DATE: Aug 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Littwin: On health care, Gardner still doesn’t get it

The great lie of the long-running Obamacare debate has officially been revealed. The reason Republicans spent seven years without offering their own health care plan is that they don’t have ...

DATE: Jul 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Littwin: How could Wayne Williams miss that the voter-fraud panel is the real fraud?

It’s strange enough that Wayne Williams, Colorado’s Secretary of State, had to call a news conference to try to calm the political waters he had inadvertently roiled by embracing Donald Trum...

DATE: Jul 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Littwin: This could be the end of Obamacare, and Cory Gardner’s not feeling so well himself

Whatever else I’ve had to say about Cory Gardner over the years, I’ve never once said, or even thought, that he wasn’t a shrewd and able politician. But now it may be time for a rethink. ...

DATE: Jun 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Littwin: The body slammer wins – Is it all Trump’s fault?

The body slammer wins in Montana, meaning, apparently, we’re either one step closer to the apocalypse or to political reporters adopting concussion protocols. Or maybe both. The c...

DATE: Jun 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Bennet not happy with either option on Gorsuch nomination

First the news. Michael Bennet tells me he’s not going to vote to filibuster Neil Gorsuch. “I don’t think it’s wise for our party to filibuster this nominee or for Republicans to ...

DATE: Apr 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

No-show Cory stars in ballad of (paper) thin man

So now we know the answer to that oft-posed question: What if they held a Cory Gardner town hall and everyone but Cory Gardner showed? OK, it wasn’t exactly headline news that Gar...

DATE: Feb 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Been wrong before, but still boldly predict 2017 can’t be as weird as 2016

As we warily entertain the idea of political life in 2017, we in Colorado must ask ourselves two basic questions: What just happened? What is going to happen now? To answer either...

DATE: Dec 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Trump overshadows Democrats’ feud

Democrats are freaking out, which sounds about right. They were freaking out at exactly this time eight years ago. You remember. Hillary Clinton was on the losing side then, and r...

DATE: May 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

State rep defends Planned Parenthood shootings

And so it has come to this: Adams County state Rep. JoAnn Windholz has decided that Planned Parenthood is the “real culprit” in the Colorado Springs attack and not, apparently, the actual ki...

DATE: Dec 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin