Danish Plan
Why would anyone need a gun or an abortion?
A frequent refrain of gun control freaks is “Why does anyone need a gun?” Good question. I’ll get to it in a minute...
The Grim Reaper and the Charmin squeeze
The Idea Fairy and I were kicking back — banana nut bread is the gift that keeps on giving — when there was a...
The man who sold Mars
The most interesting man in the world isn’t the guy selling beer for Dos Equis. It’s Elon Musk.
A couple months ago Musk, the founder...
Oil wells vs. subdivisions
At a recent debate on fracking, Peter Champe of the Longmont anti-fracking group Our Future, Our Health, Our Longmont, summed up his group’s brief. Fracking is a major industrial activity, he said, and major industrial activities aren’t allowed in residential ...
Hug the children, bill their countries
Editor’s note: In this week’s editorial pages, columnist Paul Danish and BW editor Joel Dyer tackle the same subject: children illegally crossing the U.S./ Mexican border. As you may have guessed, they come at this growing immigration crisis from somewhat differing ...
Boulder’s suit against ExxonMobil is based on a pack of lies
The Boulder City Council has done some astonishingly stupid things when it steps outside of its core areas of incompetence, which include managing growth,...
Obama should talk to Douglas Bruce
Since President Barack Obama seems clueless on how to go about getting government spending and debt under control, he ought to consult someone who’s done it. No, not Bill Clinton or Newt Gingrich or Tim Pawlenty or Mitch Daniels...
Ban fracking? Why stop there?
I have a modest proposal to resolve the fractious issue of fracking in Colorado. It’s a win-win amendment to the Colorado Constitution that will pass in a landslide...
Real tax reform means everyone pays something
Chances are the tax increases, cuts and fiddles President Obama proposed during the State of the Union speech Tuesday night are DOA in the Republican-controlled Congress. And chances are the tax cuts, increases and fiddles the Republicans will propose shortly are ...
My persons of the year
Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” this year was a collective award: The Ebola Fighters...
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...
Cops in the schools, gun control and race
A week after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the National Rifle Association called for immediately assigning armed police officers to every school in the country. It also called on Congress to appropriate the money to pay for doing so...
