Danish Plan

The ‘Soldier of Fortune’ memoirs

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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 ...

Repeal the Second Amendment? How about the First?

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Editor's Note: The original version of this article misspelled Andrew O'Connor's name...

Who wants a big, cool rocket?

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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 —...

Fracking out of a recession

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Let’s begin with a short quiz...

Big Organic behaving badly (much worse than Monsanto)

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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...

The marketplace of ideas

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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 ...

Will Trump be the new Lincoln?

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Donald Trump may go down in history as the next Abraham Lincoln. No, really. And all because of California. California is seriously thinking about doing...

Roger Sherman and the 210,328 complications

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Roger Sherman says that legalizing marijuana is not a simple question...

Think globally, and fry locally

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Heh. According to a paper published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Climate Change, windmills can cause global warming...

Nixon on why I like Newt

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Harvey and I were just tucking into a new batch of Alice B. Toklas fudge when there was a knock on the door...

Was America ever great? You bet it was! And it still...

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Maybe Trump derangement syndrome made them do it. Or maybe they’re just part of the Democrats’ slime-America-first caucus. Whatever the cause, at least three prominent...

Putin and anti-fracking activism

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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 ...