Littwin: Shooting blanks
A stunning thing happened Monday at the Senate committee hearing to repeal background checks for private gun sales. Nothing happened.
Littwin: Just don’t say ‘amnesty’
The big story out of the House Republican retreat is, of course, the House Republican retreat on immigration reform.
Littwin: Settling for a non-scandal
It's time we discussed the Mark Udall scandal, which, as scandals go, presents at least two very significant problems.
Littwin: Going gun-loving crazy in Castle Rock
It's one to thing to talk about liberty. Let's see if they can show the world what freedom really means in Castle Rock, Colorado, USA.
Littwin: Lucky Guv Hickenlooper loves the Manning effect
John Hickenlooper has lucked out again. And for that he can thank -- just as we all can thank -- Peyton Manning.
Littwin: Republicans deal out a hand of overreach poker at the capitol
Looking at the array of problems facing Democrats in this post-recall election year, what do the Republicans do? That's right, just what you'd expect them to do.
Littwin on Tom Tancredo as sympathetic softie
Greg Brophy has done the impossible. After days of attacks on Tom Tancredo, in which Brophy has called Tancredo a "loser" and "unprepared" and a book writer (more on that later), Brophy has very nearly -- well, almost very nearly -- made Tancredo seem sympathetic.
Littwin on a very Hickenlooper State of the State speech
That's the Hickenlooper who drives Republican pols crazy and a few Democratic pols, too. The Hickenlooper who stakes out middle ground and insists everyone join him there.
Littwin: Colorado’s coming unpredictable pre-election post-recall legislative session
Last year's rollicking session was about setting the terms for the election-year debate. Last summer's jarring recall elections assured this year's session will be about replaying those same debates, over and over and over again.
Littwin: The whistleblower blues
The New York Times publishes an editorial, and at least one thing becomes clear: Newspapers still matter, at least if the paper is the Times, which has proposed that Edward Snowden come home, with the semi-blessing of a reluctant Obama administration.