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Wiretap: The latest NRA position is that guns don’t kill, they...

As the gun-violence argument seems to taking hold, the NRA seems to be shifting its argument. If you watched the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre at...

Littwin: DNC Day 2 – Billary, the love letter

To begin with, let's agree that Bill Clinton did not give the speech of his life. For once, he gave the speech of Hillary's life....

Wiretap: Bombing Tikrit; Horrible Longmont crime not murder

Bombing Tikrit The New York Times editorial board calls Obama's decision to bomb the Iraqi city of Tikrit a dangerous escalation "without providing a shred...

Wiretap: Climate change is here; wildfire season around the corner

The new study is comprehensive and unequivocal: dry regions are getting drier, wet regions wetter, heat waves more frequent, wildfires covering more ground, insects killing more trees.

Radio hosts call Tipton answers to Broadnet ethics questions ‘Clintonian’

Steamboat Springs talk radio hosts Cari Hermacinski and Rob Douglas were clearly unsatisfied with answers Colorado Congressman Scott Tipton provided on their show this morning in response to questions about potential ethics violations committed when Tipton's daughter used his name to solicit business on Capitol Hill as part of her "government relations" job with tele-townhall firm Broadnet. The hosts probed and Tipton parried. Afterward, Hermacinski and Douglas lamented that the congressman seemed intent to fudge on the issue. They said his reaction to the story was evasive, that he gave the kind of parsing non-answers Americans have grown accustomed to hearing from politicians in trouble.