Danish Plan
Greetings and guesses from Tel Aviv
Editor’s note: Boulder Weekly columnist Paul Danish is in Israel and will be writing several pieces in the coming weeks about his personal observations on the ongoing conflict there...
What should we do with Edward Snowden?
I’m of two minds as to what we should do with Edward Snowden...
War on fracking
Hands down easiest prediction for 2012: Boulder’s hyper-active activists will take time out from their busy schedule of sabotaging American food production to sabotage American oil and gas production...
America needs more secret meetings
I have a modest proposal for breaking the political paralysis that grips Washington like a cold, dead hand slowly contracting around Uncle Sam’s throat...
Big Organic behaving badly (much worse than Monsanto)
Bad news, anti-GMO-ers. It isn’t Big Ag and Monsanto that’s been ruining your dinner. It’s Big Organic Ag.
You don’t have to take my word...
Ratifying START was insane
The START strategic arms reduction treaty that the U.S. Senate recently approved should never have been negotiated, much less ratified...
Scotland’s burning! Greenland’s melting!
The song goes back 450 years, give or take. You may even have sung it as a round in elementary school (assuming your teacher...
Real tax reform means everyone pays something
Chances are the tax increases, cuts and fiddles President Obama proposed during the State of the Union speech Tuesday night are DOA in the Republican-controlled Congress. And chances are the tax cuts, increases and fiddles the Republicans will propose shortly are ...
Random thoughts on the Democrats’ thrillas in Vegas and Charleston
The most entertaining moment in the Democrats’ South Carolina debate came when Elizabeth Warren affixed a needle-point bayonet to her musket and with a...
Some nasty unintended consequences of Prop 112
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...