Danish Plan
Obama’s silly speech
The most charitable thing that can be said about Barack Obama’s graduation address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy is that it was silly...
Last message from Myachka
I’m writing this week’s rant on Sunday evening, April 28, which this year was the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah in Hebrew...
My persons of the year
Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” this year was a collective award: The Ebola Fighters...
Democracy dies in darkness — among other places
Early last year the Washington Post, after vetting about 500 candidate slogans, adopted as its motto the phrase “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”
An interesting choice,...
Why would anyone need a gun or an abortion?
A frequent refrain of gun control freaks is “Why does anyone need a gun?” Good question. I’ll get to it in a minute...
Dems should remember guys vote too
Following the Kavanaugh confirmation, a lot of progressive pundits and Washington swampies started wondering out loud if the newly energized Republican base would stay...
Want to bring back the draft? Here’s how.
There he goes again. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, has reintroduced his perennial bill to bring back the draft...
Boulder’s latest green dreams
The Boulder City Council has formally adopted a series of climate targets that, among other things, call for Boulder getting 100 percent of its...
Marijuana along the Rio Grande
The Arizona Republic printed a terrific story last Sunday on the on-going war on marijuana smuggling being waged along the Rio Grande River in Texas...
Total elapsed time: 80 seconds
On Dec. 13, Karl Halverson Pierson, a disgruntled student, entered Arapahoe High School in Littleton in a murderous frame of mind...
The road to the Danish Plan
It would be wrong to say that Boulder wasn’t concerned about growth until 1971. In the 1950s and 1960s Boulder was plenty concerned about growth — specifically about how to get more of it...
Another horror story from the Weld County oil patch
Here’s another environmental horror story from the Weld County oil patch...






