Danish Plan

The New York Times columnist David Brooks wants to bring back the draft. Or at least some form of compulsory universal national service. He thinks it will bring Americans back together again...

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

Chances are the tax increases, cuts and fiddles President Obama proposed during the State of the Union speech Tuesday night are DOA in the Republican-controlled Congress. And chances are the tax cuts, increases and fiddles the Republicans will propose shortly are ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Wow...

According to a story in last Monday’s Daily Camera, the town of Erie is about to annex 230 acres south of the town for...

How close is Iran to getting the bomb? A lot closer than you might think and a lot closer than the Obama administration has let on. The truth is hiding in plain sight. It’s in the arithmetic of uranium enrichment. The arithmetic shows that the Iranian nuclear ...

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...

A couple weeks ago Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) claimed that climate change is linked to, wait for it, white supremacy. She also claimed...

“Why should I do anything for posterity...