mike littwin
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Littwin: The Bernie Sanders pope praises and rebukes Congress
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Maybe the most telling moment of Pope Francis’s address to Congress came when he finally got to abortion. This would be, at last, the Republicans’ turn to glow in the papal light. Sure, the pope had come to chide them – if in the gentlest of tones – on immigration, on climate change, on poverty,…
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Littwin: Who knows how to deal with Donald Trump?
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Let’s all agree on this much after the opening night of the GOP debates: Donald Trump, the star of the show, did not disappoint. He was at his Donaldian best, or worst, depending on your world view. The thing about Trump is that his best and worst are exactly the same, so it’s hard to…
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Littwin: Cory Gardner and the GOP adopt abortion politics and a government-shutdown showdown … again
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OK, it wasn’t like we weren’t warned. But here was the U.S. Senate not only voting on whether to defund Planned Parenthood, but promising that this is just the beginning of a long fight, maybe one that would last even longer than Congress’s summer recess. As expected, Democrats successfully filibustered the bill, but the defunding…
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Littwin: The Donald’s madhouse candidacy will implode, right?
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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 The New York Times put it, Thursday’s Debate Night is – in a word – huge. Huge for Trump, and maybe for the other guys, too. The thinking is that…
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Littwin: After the Lafayette shooting, the jury is still out on us
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The shooter, we’re told, was a drifter, a word you rarely hear outside Hollywood westerns. But this couldn’t be a western, because in the West, they took your guns at the town limits. Or at least that’s how they did it in the movies. Anyway, the drifter, a 59-year-old man named John Russell Houser, had…