Danish Plan

Turn Syria’s refugees into a liberation army

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Never let a serious crisis go to waste,” Obama’s pal Rahm Emmanuel once famously remarked, adding that what he meant by that was “it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before...

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,...

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...

Is this the end of Boulder as we know it? Yep

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Former Boulder City Councilman Steve Pomerance had an op-ed piece in the Daily Camera last Sunday that appeared under the headline “Is this the...

My persons of the year

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Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” this year was a collective award: The Ebola Fighters...

Marijuana along the Rio Grande

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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...

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...

Boulder’s insane densification

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The Boulder City Council’s latest mantra seems to have been taken directly from the Vietnam War: It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it...

Another lump of coal

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NCAR is going to build a giant new supercomputer, the better to study climate change, which is cool. Indeed, the project has already provided one profound, if wickedly ironic, insight into the problem...

Obama’s happy dance with Iran

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Obama is riding hell-bent for leather toward a nuclear deal with Iran which — if the leaked outlines of it are remotely accurate — will turn the United States into the principal enabler and legitimizer of Iran’s nuclear ambitions...

China’s new cyber totalitarianism

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Human Rights Watch has released a report on human rights abuses in the world’s largest totalitarian state — the People’s Republic of China. And...

The Children’s Crusades, then and now

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It’s enough to make you believe in reincarnation. Etienne de Cloyes and Nikolaus von Koln seem to have come back as Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old...