Danish Plan

Trump’s victory and the price of cars

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When I first saw the headline on strategy maven Edward Luttwak’s piece in the Times Literary Supplement — “Why The Trump Dynasty Will Last...

The list and who’s off it — first cut

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I don’t for a second doubt that any of the 22 candidates currently running for President — 17 Republicans and five Democrats — could run the country if they happened to get elected. This isn’t because they are political geniuses. It’s because the genius of the ...

Roger Sherman and the 210,328 complications

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Roger Sherman says that legalizing marijuana is not a simple question...

The Hansen letter

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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 ...

The Danish Plan recalled

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Participants in Boulder’s current conversation about growth are starting to allude to the Danish Plan, the growth control ordinance I wrote in 1976 that was adopted by a vote of the people in the November election that year, so I thought I’d provide some background ...

The ‘Soldier of Fortune’ memoirs

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By 1975, Robert K. Brown had 1) ridden the rodeo, 2) been a Golden Gloves boxer, 3) raised money for and tried to run guns to Fidel Castro’s guerrillas while they were still in the jungle, 4) broken with Castro after he came to power and joined multiple abortive ...

Pot at the tea party

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The Boston Tea Party, the original one, occurred on the night of December 16, 1773, when the Sons of Liberty, some cunningly disguised as Ward Churchill, threw 342 chests of British East India Company tea into Boston Harbor. But truth be told, as a date to hold ...

Want to bring back the draft? Here’s how.

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There he goes again. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, has reintroduced his perennial bill to bring back the draft...

Climategate: Forget Denmark, something is rotten with CRU science

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Those who have been reading this column for awhile know that my views on global warming are a bit askew of the traditional fault lines on the subject...

Trump and the cry-baby media

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It used to be that the press knew how to take it in as well as how to dish it out. That was then. This...

Who was hiding the snake?

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Ding, dong. The snake is dead...