Danish Plan

Here are a few factoids to contemplate as we head into 2019: • In the past dozen years, Colorado’s population has grown by about 1...

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...

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,...

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 ...

Wow! That was one awesome piece of politicking. New Era Colorado, the millenial-oriented activist organization that all but single-handedly saved the muni, did a terrific...

A couple of days after Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully flew its Falcon Heavy rocket last week, a USA Today headline asked: “SpaceX Falcon Heavy —...

There are at least two groups that intend to put marijuana legalization initiatives on the Colorado ballot in 2012, but neither has as of yet put forward an actual proposal. Here’s mine...

You’ve probably heard about Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.” Ever wonder what they were? Alinsky, who died in 1972, is sometimes seen as the father...

Harold Hamm, the multibillionaire oilman who is president of Continental Resources, the company that is the biggest player in North Dakota’s Bakken shale oil patch, raised some eyebrows last week when he said the Russians were financing the anti-fracking movement in ...

The United Nations is holding a global climate conference in Durban, South Africa, this week and next for the purpose of breathing new life into the Kyoto Protocol or, short of that, forging some other international agreement to cut global greenhouse gas emissions...

Ding, dong. The snake is dead...

By 1975, Robert K. Brown had 1) ridden the rodeo, 2) been a Golden Gloves boxer, 3) raised money for and tried to run guns to Fidel Castro’s guerrillas while they were still in the jungle, 4) broken with Castro after he came to power and joined multiple abortive ...