By Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press A Colorado man who told a judge that he is “guilty of being an idiot” for twice entering the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot was sentenced on Friday to 90 days of home detention. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell also ordered Glenn Wes Lee Croy to spend […]
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Littwin: Boebert is back in the news again. Meaning it’s time for everyone to duck.
Lauren Boebert is back in the news again, which is great for columnists, cable TV news pundits and late-night comics — but not so great for America, for Colorado and especially for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, which she represents. Two separate — but both entirely unsurprising — Boebert stories offer up a test for your […]
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Littwin: As culture wars rage around us, Jared Polis gets married without so much as a stir
As you may have noticed, the culture wars in America have heated up again, and, in some cases, the pressure points are so stressed that you worry something might well explode. That’s why I wanted to mention the recent marriage of Jared Polis, the nation’s first elected openly gay governor, to his longtime companion, Marlon […]
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Littwin: We haven’t forgotten 9/11, but on the 20th anniversary, we can’t help but see it differently
The 20th anniversary of the tragedy of 9/11 has been different from all the others. That’s because, after so many years, the lens we’re looking through has changed so dramatically. On this anniversary, “Never Forget” doesn’t mean simply remembering that day when the buildings fell and nearly 3,000 died, remembering the heroic first responders and […]
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Littwin: We’re still waiting for climate change to hit Colorado’s ice-cold 2022 governor and Senate races
As the great baseball philosopher, Yogi Berra, once noted, it’s getting late early out there. The midterm elections are next year, and, as you’ve probably heard, the midterms, at least in modern times, nearly always break in favor of the party not in power, in this case meaning Republicans. You could look it up. But […]
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Nicolais: Calling for the execution of political opponents should never be condoned
Less than six months ago I lambasted the bloodlust rhetoric of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert. I worried that leaders like the congresswoman could be engaged in a competitive spiral to prime their base. At the time, I wrote that those leaders were “cultivating resentment, anger and hate.” I forgot to include violence. But that is […]
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Opinion: Happy sad birthday, America
It was my son’s fifth birthday. We were having a party at the neighborhood pool with some of his friends. We asked my daughter, his older sister, to help organize some games for the kids to play in between swimming and cupcakes. The error became immediately obvious as sister seized the opportunity of her newfound […]