Danish Plan

The welcome sign and a case of libel

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“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?”                      — Donald...

So you want to get rid of the cops? Here are...

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So you want to get rid of the police, huh? So then what? Who are you going to call — what are you going to do...

Fighting climate change like World War II

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a lot of snickers a couple weeks ago when she said Millennials and Gen Z “thought the world is gonna end...

Crying over spilled oil

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The Green New Deal and the mother of all Kinsley gaffes

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A Kinsley Gaffe (named after former New Republic Editor Michael Kinsley) occurs when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he or she...

The Children’s Crusades, then and now

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It’s enough to make you believe in reincarnation. Etienne de Cloyes and Nikolaus von Koln seem to have come back as Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old...

Big day in American history

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April 19 is a big day in American history, maybe even the biggest. Doesn’t ring a bell, huh? Here’s a clue. It was a cool and misty morning...

Soldier of Fortune’s 35th anniversary

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Soldier of Fortune Magazine, liberal Boulder’s favorite mad aunt in the attic, will put out its 35th anniversary issue next month. So in honor of the occasion I thought I’d share some SOF stories...

Dems should remember guys vote too

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Following the Kavanaugh confirmation, a lot of progressive pundits and Washington swampies started wondering out loud if the newly energized Republican base would stay...

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...

Quarterbacking the gummy bear trick

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Kevin Sabet, the creep who once described himself as “the quarterback” of the anti-marijuana legalization movement, is the kind of guy who gives a...

The campaign to pass the Danish Plan

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The campaign to pass the Danish Plan began in August 1976 with a panicked phone call to me from Councilwoman and future Mayor Ruth Correll. She wanted to know why the Danish Plan (officially called the Slow Growth ordinance) didn’t exempt affordable housing from its ...