Mike Littwin

2 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | Mike Littwin

There are many more important things than the violent end — if it is actually the end, and I’m guessing it probably won’t be — of the Trump-Elon bromance, but I can’t think of any that are nearly as funny. This is government-adjacent farce at a level that even Monty Python couldn’t have matched, although I have to admit that the Ministry of Silly Walks comes awfully close.

3 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | Mike Littwin

I can still remember when my grandmother, daughter of immigrant Jews, would ask about any global or local news, “Is this good for the Jews?” It was a common refrain among Jews — half joke, half commentary — back in the day. For my grandmother, it was half joke, half commentary from someone who had lost relatives during the Holocaust. It was half joke, half commentary from someone who knew antisemitism, in its most vile forms, up close.

3 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | Mike Littwin

You’ll be happy to know that Tina Peters, the former Mesa County elections clerk, is not simply wasting her time in prison as she serves a nine-year rap for allowing unauthorized entry into a secure elections area. If you listen to Peters’ defenders, you’d think it was just a sightseeing tour. But as a jury of her peers found, she brought someone in to make copies of computer hard drives, even as she was misleading election officials about her little jaunt into criminality.

1 month ago | coloradosun.com | Mike Littwin |Kevin Simpson

It can hardly be surprising that Donald Trump has picked a fight with Harvard. Bullying enemies has long been a central piece of Trump’s modus operandi. If anyone is not entirely sure what modus operandi means — I discovered it’s a New Latin term, which is apparently somehow different from Old Latin — I’ve got a link for you and also a piece of advice: Don’t ask for help from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who doesn’t know her habeas from her corpus.

1 month ago | coloradosun.com | Mike Littwin

It’s a weird time in Colorado Democratic gubernatorial politics. And it will get increasingly weird over the next 13 months or so, at least until we reach the June 30, 2026, Democratic primary. We’ve got a lame-duck Democratic governor in Jared Polis, who, like many lame ducks, doesn’t consider himself hobbled at all. He has a point. Polis has Republican-led cities suing him over state housing policy, punctuated by Polis’ executive order that withholds some state funds to cities that don’t comply.