Colorado the Poster State for GOP’s Problems
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 23rd, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Colorado the Poster State for GOP’s Problems
Mike Littwin, Colorado Ind.
As you’ve probably heard, Denver has made the Final Four in the 2016 GOP convention playoffs, along with Dallas, Kansas City and, yes, Cleveland.I’ve heard it, too. I just can’t figure out why.It’s not that I’m surprised someone would want to bring a convention here. In fact, in most cases, it would make perfect sense.Just not this convention.Colorado is the poster state for every troubling electoral issue facing the Republican Party. Bringing the convention here would only remind the few stalwarts who still watch conventions that libertarian-leaning, business-friendly, oil-and-gas-rich…
On Race, U.S. Needs to Look Ahead, Not Back
John McWhorter, Daily Beast
There was a time when reparations for slavery was a hot issue in race discussions in America. Randall Robinson’s The Debt was widely read, and there were endless forums on the issue nationwide. However, 9/11 broke the flow, and before long, Hurricane Katrina and then a certain senator from Illinois basically rendered reparations yesterday’s news.
The Lawyer and the Kill List Memo
Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker
On July 16, 2010, David J. Barron, a lawyer at the Department of Justice, sent Eric Holder, the Attorney General, a lengthy memorandum. Barron, who had celebrated his forty-third birthday earlier that month, was a professor at Harvard Law School, on leave for a couple years to work for President Barack Obama. Barron, like many young lawyers who arrived in Washington with the new Administration in 2009, had impeccable liberal credentials.
