Danish Plan

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...

Eight reasons to arm Libya’s rebels

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There seems to be a big debate going on in the Obama administration over whether we should arm and train the Libyan rebels...

A Nobel Prize for Assange? How about in chemistry?

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Someone in the Russian government last week (speaking anonymously so he could speak frankly, ironically enough) suggested that Julian Assange, WikiLeaks’ alpha drip, deserved a Nobel Prize...

The cost of killing nuclear power

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”For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’” — John Greenleaf Whittier I t’s been obvious for a...

Orwell got it backwards

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Recently someone in Iran or Turkey had an insight: Just as war is too important to be left to the generals, peace activism is too important to be left to the pacifists. As a result, Islamists around the Middle East are getting in touch with their inner peace ...

The great flatulence of 2016

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The Idea Fairy and I were nibbling on a new batch of edibles when there was a knock on the door. It was Saul Alinsky. “Saul,...

Nixon’s negative campaigns

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Harvey and I were chowing down on an excellent plate of Alice B. Toklas fudge when there was a knock on the door. It was Richard Nixon...

OMG! The Roughnecks are coming!

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Yikes! The Roughnecks are coming! The first sighting occurred in February, when a band of them known as Crestone Peak Resources filed a Comprehensive Drilling...

Russia’s war on GMOs

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According to a story in the Des Moines Register and reports elsewhere, it seems that a lot of the world’s anti-GMO propaganda is being...

Obama’s silly speech

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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...

Is Sarah Palin smart enough to be president?

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 Is Sarah Palin smart enough to be president...

CU should expand in Louisville, not on South Boulder Creek

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There’s a much better place for the University of Colorado Boulder to build its putative academic village than in the mined-out gravel pit at...