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Littwin: Trump, the rally king, doesn’t seem to care if half...

If you watched Donald Trump’s victory-lap speech Wednesday morning, you know why so many Americans will never rally around him, even in a time...

Littwin: Findings may be bad for Trump and bad for Cohen,...

The more I think about the latest shocks from the Mueller Russia probe, the more I realize how great a disaster the findings represent. And...

Littwin: In the Trump-Comey spitting match, is anyone winning or is...

In the midst of the longest run of self-inflicted wounds known to man, Donald Trump caught a huge break. And then, of course, he tossed...

Wiretap: Now even some Republicans are saying to listen to Moore,...

For those keeping score at home, two prominent Republican politicians bucked Donald Trump on major issues Sunday. One of them even works for him....

Wiretap: The question now is what will Trump say about Rocket...

Now that Donald Trump has called Kim Jung Un "Rocket Man" in a  tweet, the question is what he'll say about him when he...

Littwin: Taking down the Confederate flag and racist pride, too

It's not the end of racism, any more that electing and re-electing Barack Obama was the end of racism. But it might just be the end of pretending that racism doesn't exist, the end of pretending that somehow talking about race is the real racism, the end of the idea that all we have to do to end racial discrimination is just announce that we'll stop discriminating.

Rick Perry is running, says Aspen Institute’s Isaacson

More than halfway through a panel discussion before Republican rainmakers in Aspen, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, while extolling his own foreign policy credentials, referred to himself “as the president.” Recognizing his mistake, he repeated it, this time with a head-bobbing cackle straight out of former President George W. Bush's playbook. Then he shot the crowd a knowing look and corrected himself.

Obama mines riches of Aspen in re-election bid

Barack Obama's reelection campaign is off to a strong start, thanks in no small part to Aspen Skiing Company managing partner Jim Crown, who raised tens of thousands of dollars for the president.

James Dobson’s endorsement could be key in GOP primary

If you're a Republican and you want to be president, there are a number of people around the country considered king makers, and one of them is in Colorado Springs.

Amazon puts screws to South Carolina, wins another battle in retail...

Amazon.com won another battle in its e-commerce war against Mainstreet retailers last month. South Carolina gave the online giant a $5 million building site, a property tax break and a series of other tax credits and exemptions worth tens of millions in exchange for the jobs Amazon promised to bring in setting up a distribution center there. The wrangling over the deal pitted business interests against business interests and conflicted state lawmakers, including GOP Governor Nikki Haley, who in the end backed off early opposition. It's a battle that has been waged in states around the country over the past few years and, in a lesser form, here in Colorado.