Danish Plan

Russia, social media and Cold War 2.0

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About Russia using social media to meddle in the election — and undermine and disrupt American democracy and the American social fabric generally —...

Is the age of oil about to end? This oilman thinks...

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There’s a new “Peak Oil” prediction out, and this one is worth taking seriously if for no other reason than its source. Peak Oil, you...

Ratifying START was insane

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The START strategic arms reduction treaty that the U.S. Senate recently approved should never have been negotiated, much less ratified...

The folly of compulsory national service

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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...

The race question

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The U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to expedited consideration of a case challenging the constitutionality of adding a citizenship question — Are you...

Some nasty unintended consequences of Prop 112

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Back in the early 1970s someone asked Colorado’s then-Senator Gordon Allott if he would favor moving the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons plant because it...

Obama, Putin and pigeon chess

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It is not true — as some conservative websites have recently claimed — that Vladimir Putin once remarked that “negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around like it won the...

Will Colorado come apart?

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When county commissioners get together and start to think, the fat’s in the fire. (Trust me on this...

Gaza and ‘game changers’

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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...

Reports of the death of the oil industry are greatly exaggerated

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A year ago, a lot of green- washed Luddites were wondering out loud about whether the global collapse of oil prices would accomplish what...

Blacks, police and marijuana

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There are three simple things President Barack Obama can do to reduce the sort of confrontations between cops and young black men that occasionally get the latter killed and much more often get them arrested...

Phoenix can see its future in Mexico (it’s not what you...

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On May 12, the planet’s atmosphere hit one of those “grim milestones” we hear so much about. According to data from the Mauna Loa Observatory...