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: 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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Nicolais: Death threats to election officials threaten democracy itself
Earlier this month two reporters from Reuters documented the death threats and violent taunts aimed at election officials across the country — and the utter indifference often displayed by law enforcement. Make no mistake: this is the greatest threat our democratic system of government has faced since its founding. Yes, we have fought two world […]
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Coloradan pleads guilty to federal offense in deadly Jan. 6 riot at U.S. Capitol
A Colorado man has pleaded guilty to a federal offense in the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Glenn Wes Lee Croy, of Colorado Springs, admitted to parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building late last month, according to federal court records. Croy is set to be sentenced Oct. 15. He faces […]
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Nicolais: Colorado court lambasts attorneys engaged in malicious election lies
Two Colorado attorneys are about to feel the full effect of espousing election conspiracy theories in federal court. U.S. Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter sanctioned Gary Fielder and Ernest Walker for their lawsuit against Dominion Voting Systems, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and a host of public officials from across the country. The two attorneys will now […]
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Littwin: The 4 cops called to testify about the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection dramatically offer their version of the Big Truth
One of the biggest lies associated with the Big Lie — one that Joe Biden still desperately wants to believe — is that the effects of that Big Lie will eventually wear away. I guess that time may come eventually. I’m just not sure I’ll live long enough to see it. This country is damaged. […]
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Littwin: Biden’s passionate speech on the GOP assault on democracy got everything right — except the solution
Joe Biden’s “Have You No Shame” speech on voting rights the other day was passionate, powerful, necessary, mostly on target and yet almost entirely useless. His speech directly addressed and correctly analyzed a critical problem — some would say an existential problem — facing our country, telling a Philadelphia audience: “There’s an unfolding assault taking […]
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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 […]