Danish Plan
Why the anti-fracking initiatives failed
The anti-fracking petition drives did not fail for lack of institutional support from environmental organizations.
According to the Denver Post, the petitioners were backed by...
The Children’s Crusades, then and now
It’s enough to make you believe in reincarnation.
Etienne de Cloyes and Nikolaus von Koln seem to have come back as Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old...
Supreme Court gives McCain-Feingold a thumpin’
The Wall Street Journal’s story about last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down the ban on corporate and union campaign spending in federal elections contained a detail that the New York Times story managed to overlook...
Could anti-frackers derail renewable energy?
I learned a new word this week, the mere mention of which may cause the heads of anti-frackers to blow up all over Boulder County.
The...
The race question
The U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to expedited consideration of a case challenging the constitutionality of adding a citizenship question — Are you...
Who killed Proposition 19?
Polls taken in California last year and earlier this year found a majority of the state’s voters favored the legalization of marijuana...
Hamas does not give shelter
If there is one thing Hamas is really good at, it’s digging tunnels. Hamas, and like-minded militant factions like Islamic Jihad, have dug more than a thousand tunnels under the Gaza-Egyptian border. (Last March, Egypt said it had closed more than 1,300.) It has ...
Redeveloping 11th and Pearl
Karlin Real Estate, the company that bought the building at 11th and Pearl that once housed the newspaper that was once known as the Boulder Daily Camera (before it dropped “Boulder” and “Daily” from its name), recently presented its plans for the redevelopment of ...
Ratifying START was insane
The START strategic arms reduction treaty that the U.S. Senate recently approved should never have been negotiated, much less ratified...
Obama’s clueless view of ISIL
I would feel a lot better about Obama’s prospects for kicking the Islamic State’s ass if it weren’t for what he said in the fourth paragraph of his speech to the nation last week...
The Green New Deal and the mother of all Kinsley gaffes
A Kinsley Gaffe (named after former New Republic Editor Michael Kinsley) occurs when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he or she...
The Zetas and the Surfriders
Cities provide a lot of services, but only four of them are truly vital: Water, sewer, police and fire. (Add gas and electricity to the list in towns with municipal utilities...















