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Wiretap: ‘Such an attack is perfect revenge’

The Pakistani Taliban tried to justify their horrendous school massacre -- in which they killed more than 100 children -- as an act of...

Beauprez banking success not such a success

The bank sale looked like a win-win. But the end result was unexpected losses, both for the bank and for Beauprez’ political future.

Beauprez ’47 percent’ video no surprise to Tea Party politics watchers

Conservatives had been harping on the "47 percent" for years; it was just the latest version of the "welfare queen" line of attack popularized on the right in the Reagan era.

Littwin: Bob Beauprez, welcome to the general election campaign

  GIVE Bob Beauprez credit. He did his bit. He saved the Colorado Republican Party from Tom Tancredo. But now he faces an even tougher task....

Wiretap: The return of the ’47 percent’

On the right, they never really went away. In a video from 2010, GOP candidate for governor Bob Beauprez says nearly half of Americans are "perfectly happy that someone else is paying the bill."

Wiretap: Lots of college debt, no college degree

The real problem is not the barista poet. It's the person with school debt who doesn't finish school. According to Brookings, the average amount of debt in those households has doubled over the last two decades.

It’s Tuesday!!!! Littwin’s Weekly GOP Governor’s Race Rankings

Here we go again. It's time for the latest GOP gov rankings. Last week's rankings are in parentheses. 1. (1) Tom Tancredo. The question facing...

Littwin: Still stuck at ‘self deport’

  If you want to understand the brief life and painful death of the House Republican plan for immigration reform, you don't have to travel...

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.

Inequality report: Colorado income gap steadily widening

Colorado places among the top ten states in the nation when it comes to measuring the pace of income inequality growth over the past three and half decades. It's nothing to brag about.