Danish Plan
OMG! The Roughnecks are coming!
Yikes! The Roughnecks are coming!
The first sighting occurred in February, when a band of them known as Crestone Peak Resources filed a Comprehensive Drilling...
Stopping massacres: What won’t work and what will
What can be done to keep whackos like Jared Loughner from trying to assassinate congressmen, senators and presidents...
Trump and the shutdown: The return of the honey badger
Don’t be surprised if Trump gets himself a bust of Ulysses Grant to go with the bust of Andrew Jackson he keeps in the...
The road to the Danish Plan
It would be wrong to say that Boulder wasn’t concerned about growth until 1971. In the 1950s and 1960s Boulder was plenty concerned about growth — specifically about how to get more of it...
The dark horses of 2016
The best advice I ever got about running for office came from Faye Johnson, a fierce Democratic warrior and former Boulder County Democratic Party chair. It consisted of exactly three words: “Make no assumptions...
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...
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...
The Hansen letter
Although it may be a bit rude to put it this way, climatologist James Hansen is the high priest of global warming alarmism. He once referred to coal trains as “death trains” that would be “no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with ...
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 ...
Trump puts a horse head in the Ayatollah’s bed
It’s easy to over-think Trump’s motives in greasing Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. What he really did was plant a horse head in Ayatollah Khamenei’s...
It’s just like the sanctuary city movement, only with live ammunition
Be careful what you wish for, because you might get it.
Good and hard.
Remember the sanctuary city movement, the strategy the Resistance (or the Democratic...















