Danish Plan
Gaza and ‘game changers’
Editor’s Note: Long-time Boulder Weekly columnist Paul Danish has made numerous trips to Israel during times of conflict. So we asked him for his opinion of what is happening in the region at this time...
Is Nablus Boulder’s weird sister?
According to a story in last Sunday’s Camera, a group has emerged that wants to establish a sister city relationship between Boulder and the Palestinian city of Nablus...
Reports of the death of the oil industry are greatly exaggerated
A year ago, a lot of green- washed Luddites were wondering out loud about whether the global collapse of oil prices would accomplish what...
Dad’s insecticides and Proposition 105
Editors note: Paul Danish’s views are his own and do not represent the views of Boulder Weekly, which is endorsing a yes vote on Proposition 105. Paul Danish would like to state that the Boulder Weekly’s views are its own and do not represent the views of Paul Danish...
The president’s astonishing chutzpa
President Obama has been flitting around the country intimating that U.S. natural gas reserves have tripled in the last three years as a result of his administration’s policies. His chutzpa is astonishing...
Who is a civilian?
During the Afghan and Iraq wars, stories would occasionally move on the wires announcing the deaths of “contractors.” The stories usually went to pains to point out that the deceased were “civilian contractors...
Why the anti-fracking initiatives failed
The anti-fracking petition drives did not fail for lack of institutional support from environmental organizations.
According to the Denver Post, the petitioners were backed by...
Why the latest climate report will be ignored
I spent some time last Sunday reading news stories about the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was formally unveiled in Berlin the same day...
When Palestine declares its independence
Odds are that this week or next the Palestinians will unilaterally declare their independence. What happens next...
CU’s misguided 4/20 approach
CU has an interesting new strategy for dealing with the campus’s annual 4/20 rally and pot inhalation this year...
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...
A modest proposal for cleaning up the mess in Washington
I have a modest proposal for cleaning up the mess in Washington...
