Danish Plan

Eight reasons to arm Libya’s rebels

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There seems to be a big debate going on in the Obama administration over whether we should arm and train the Libyan rebels...

The sneak attack on Amendment 64

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The drug war dead-enders and nanny-statists who want to recriminalize marijuana in Colorado think they have hit on a cunning new strategy to do the deed...

A typical massacre in Aurora

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In at least one way, the Aurora movie massacre was pretty typical: The perpetrator was the only guy in the room with a gun...

What to do about the mosque near Ground Zero

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Do the Islamist raisins with legs who want to build a 13-story mosque a stone’s throw from the late World Trade Center in New York City have a constitutional right to do so? Is the Pope Catholic? Of course they do. If you think they don’t, what part of the First...

Fight terrorism by creating a gas glut

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Coal is a hydrocarbon that, to the profound annoyance of a lot of people, sustains civilization as we know it. It’s mainly used to generate electricity, and nearly half the electricity used in the U.S. comes from coal-fired power plants. Another 20 percent comes from...

Greetings and guesses from Tel Aviv

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Editor’s note: Boulder Weekly columnist Paul Danish is in Israel and will be writing several pieces in the coming weeks about his personal observations on the ongoing conflict there...

Copenhagen was a success — for the Chinese

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It would be wrong to say that nothing came out of the Copenhagen conference. Just ask the Chinese...

The marketplace of ideas

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Whatever else it did, the Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission — that’s the campaign finance case — has prompted a lot of Boulder lefties to take pen in hand and hyperventilate that the American republic, and possibly ...

Boulder’s lifestyle depends on the use of fracking

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A couple of weeks ago the price of natural gas dropped below $2 per thousand cubic feet, the lowest it has been in more than a decade before rebounding somewhat. For that, the 99 percent — the 99 percent of Boulder residents who heat their homes with natural gas, ...

Mitt and the Bain thing

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About Mitt Romney and the Bain Capital thing: I’ve always admired venture capitalists. But not all venture capitalists are equal...

A modest proposal to protect members of Congress

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I have a modest proposal for increasing the security for U.S. Congressmen without isolating them from their constituents anymore than they already are...

Nine ways to run a computer

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A couple of weeks ago, the Weekly printed a letter from Jim Bryant taking me to task for dissing the decision by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to locate its new $500 million supercomputer in Cheyenne, Wyo. — where it can get cheap, coalgenerated...