Danish Plan
The Donald (a whining loser) and the caucuses
Donald Trump is howling like a stuck pig over getting his ass kicked by the Cruz campaign last weekend, which won all 34 of...
The campaign to pass the Danish Plan
The campaign to pass the Danish Plan began in August 1976 with a panicked phone call to me from Councilwoman and future Mayor Ruth Correll. She wanted to know why the Danish Plan (officially called the Slow Growth ordinance) didn’t exempt affordable housing from its ...
Anti-GMO activism is evil
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, 88 percent of the 2011 U.S. corn crop consists of genetically engineered varieties — either herbicide-tolerant types like Monsanto’s Roundup Ready corn, or insect-resistant types ...
After Mueller – how Trump might get even
Now that the two-year, $25 million Mueller investigation has determined that the Trump-Russian collusion narrative was, at best, a bunch of delusional bullshit, the...
Putin and anti-fracking activism
Harold Hamm, the multibillionaire oilman who is president of Continental Resources, the company that is the biggest player in North Dakota’s Bakken shale oil patch, raised some eyebrows last week when he said the Russians were financing the anti-fracking movement in ...
Nixon’s negative campaigns
Harvey and I were chowing down on an excellent plate of Alice B. Toklas fudge when there was a knock on the door. It was Richard Nixon...
Forget Nablus and mediation — there’s a better choice for sister...
About 20 or 30 years ago, some local peace and justice activists decided to resolve the conflict over abortion by bringing representatives of the...
How to stop illegal immigration
I have a modest proposal for solving the problem of illegal immigration from Mexico without building a fence along the border or granting amnesty to those here illegally. Conquer Mexico. You know. Kind of like conquistadors, only north to south this time. Get ...
2016 and the demographics of social issues
Republicans are feeling pretty good about their chances of winning the presidency next year. They’ve got a strong (if currently overcrowded) bench of candidates and a lot of the likely issues are breaking their way...
Dems should remember guys vote too
Following the Kavanaugh confirmation, a lot of progressive pundits and Washington swampies started wondering out loud if the newly energized Republican base would stay...
If you can count a crowd and keep your virtue %uFFFD
If you can count a crowd and keep your virtue...
Floods and the city, CU edition
According to the Daily Camera, the Boulder City Council last week “voted to move forward with a flood mitigation plan that ignored expert advice,...












