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Littwin: The impeachment process may not remove Trump, but it might...

The conventional wisdom — which I’ve repeated often enough — is that although the House will now almost certainly impeach Donald Trump, the Senate...

Littwin: The Donald’s madhouse candidacy will implode, right?

I don't know what date you've got in your when-will-the-Donald-finally-implode pool, but there's a lot of smart money down on Debate Night, Aug. 6. As...

Western Conservative Summit: Straw polls, strawmen and underdog winners

The candidates without any experience in elected office polled best among conservatives gathered in Denver this weekend for the 6th Annual Western Conservative Summit. Dr. Ben Carson –...

Wiretap: EPA: Fracking doesn’t poison all the water…yet

Big gulp The long-awaited EPA report on fracking says that it has not had any widespread effect on the nation's drinking water. But it doesn't...

Littwin: Someone else, please, in 2016

There are many things in life I don't pretend to understand. Accretion discs. Dynamic scoring. Adam Sandler. But I've always had a pretty good handle...

Littwin: Ladies and gentleman, Not-Wingnut Bob for governor

Bob Beauprez is not Tom Tancredo. That's the whole reason Republicans nominated him to run for governor. That's the reason he was recruited. The...

Shock: Texas officials in no hurry to provide new required voter...

  Texas Senate Democrats have been wary from the start about the state's new Republican-backed voter ID laws. Their wariness grew this week when they...

Wiretap: Jacksonian hellhound on ISIS trail

Joe Biden said it - pursuing ISIS "to the gates of hell." Peter Beinart writes in the Atlantic that the beheading of two American journalists has transformed American foreign policy.

Littwin: So much money, so little speech

  This may be the year in which we finally say enough is enough. (Actually, it won't be. But if you buy the premise, you...

Wiretap: Justice thwarted?

  There are fresh doubts over the 2004 execution in Texas of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was convicted of murdering his three young daughters. The...