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Littwin: Bumbling GOP senators now negotiating with Iran to defeat Obama

You've seen the letter by now, or at least heard about it, the one sent from the GOP's Tehran 47 to the Iranian mullahs. The...

Littwin: Bibi came, wowed Republicans, offered no plan

If you look past the Democratic boycott and past the GOP's fawning Bibi BFF love-fest and past the regrettable fact of a Joe Biden-free...

Littwin: Forever running against Obama

If I didn't know better, I'd say that Rudy Giuliani was collaborating with the enemy (by which I mean, of course, Hillary Clinton). Clinton is...

Wiretap: The GOP’s man in Israel

Harold Meyerson points out how curious it is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has chosen to so overtly ally himself with the Republican...

Holder wrong, Obama could pull pot out of legal limbo

Colorado's Amendment 64 made recreational pot legal in the state last year but marijuana remains an illegal on the federal level. That's a problem...

Wiretap: Productive or no? Mike Coffman pokes at new VA head,...

Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman goes head to head with VA Secretary Robert McDonald in a heated exchange. In the Washington Post's telling, McDonald comes...

Wiretap: Seeing your jihad with our religion war

Peter Beinart asks in the Atlantic whether America is at war with radical Islam. But a better question, he says, is whether saying we're...

Colorado voters clear path toward Obama’s cheap, fast internet

In Colorado, where residents in seven cities and counties this past November voted to free local government from state laws prohibiting them from offering their own internet service.

SOTU 2015: The video, the transcript, the factcheck

Barack Obama delivered his seventh State of the Union speech to Congress and the nation last night. He's a long speech-giver, his State of...

Littwin: Obama unbowed, challenges Republican Congress to step up

You can forget nearly every detail you heard in Barack Obama's seventh State of the Union speech. The speech wasn't actually about policy. Obama...