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Mike Littwin

Columnist

Mike Littwin writes a news column. He came to the Rocky as a sports columnist from the Baltimore Sun, where he wrote a sports column for seven years and a general column for five. Check out his blog, Fair and Unbalanced, where he promises to write regular reports, many of them from the Election 2008 campaign trail.

Recent stories

LITTWIN: Not just closing doors, but dying

February 27, 2009

I've been thinking all day, for weeks really, how to describe what it means for a newspaper - my newspaper, your newspaper - to die.

LITTWIN: GOP footing is teetering on the edge

February 26, 2009

Sometimes political analysis is almost too easy, but I try not to let that stop me. So here goes: Colorado's Republicans, reeling from a rash of crushing defeats, face two readily identifiable problems:

LITTWIN: Talk on gay rights is wild bash

February 24, 2009

I give you today—and please hold the applause until everyone has been introduced—your Colorado Senate. In case you missed it, there was a, uh, debate there Monday on Sen. Jennifer Veiga’s bill to offer health benefits to the same-sex partners of gay and lesbian state employees.

LITTWIN: On race, what more can we say?

February 21, 2009

In possibly the funniest story of the week, Eric Holder, America's first African-American attorney general, has excited serious outrage in certain precincts of the reliably humorous (and reliably outraged) right-wing commentariat. Holder's offense apparently was having had the nerve to say we are "a nation of cowards" when it comes to discussing race.

LITTWIN: So far, GOP no match for Obama

February 18, 2009

If we weren't in the midst of an actual people-crushing economic meltdown - one that, as most economists will tell you, is far more dangerous than we imagine - it would be amusing to watch the political standoff between Barack Obama and the loyal opposition.

LITTWIN: Making sure 'aye' trumps 'nay'

February 14, 2009

As you may have heard, Barack Obama is coming to town Tuesday, apparently in order to take his case for the $787 billion stimulus package to the Colorado branch of the, uh, American people.

LITTWIN: Take me out to the blame game

February 12, 2009

We have a crisis. We have a brain-numbing crisis. We have a multi-trillion-dollar crisis, as in a 12-zero crisis.

LITTWIN: Obama ready or not for prime time

February 10, 2009

If nothing else, we can agree - as one TV pundit put it - that Barack Obama has brought the dependent clause back to the presidential news conference.

LITTWIN: GOP looks back to the future

February 7, 2009

Bill Owens is back in the news. It was sort of an awkward reappearance, in which Owens was heard expressing his thanks that the good people of Colorado have often, and wisely, ignored his counsel. (Campaign slogan: Pay no attention to that man behind the governor's desk!)

LITTWIN: The black hole of BlackBerry

February 5, 2009

I am here to confess. I am guilty. In fact, I am more than guilty. I'm a danger to society — and, no, not for the reasons you've probably guessed.