Danish Plan

Last message from Myachka

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I’m writing this week’s rant on Sunday evening, April 28, which this year was the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah in Hebrew...

Roger Sherman and the 210,328 complications

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

Anti-fracking initiative uses, uh, unpaid petition circulators

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Anti-fracking activists have got their shorts in a knot because pro-fracking activists have been shadowing some of their Initiative 97 petition circulators and urging...

Could the plague bring reform to Congress?

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The latest China Plague (at least the fourth to originate in the People’s Republic since 1957) has set off discussion in Congress as to...

The secret sauce

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In the 228 years since the United States Constitution was ratified there have been dozens of attempts to emulate it. Nations all over the world...

Cain’s manager inhales

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A lot of politicos, left and right, seem mystified by an ad produced by Herman Cain, the former pizza CEO who — to their amazement and bemusement — is leading in most of the recent polls for the Republican nomination for president...

Mitt and the Bain thing

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About Mitt Romney and the Bain Capital thing: I’ve always admired venture capitalists. But not all venture capitalists are equal...

Random thoughts on the Democrats’ thrillas in Vegas and Charleston

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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...

Scotland’s burning! Greenland’s melting!

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The song goes back 450 years, give or take. You may even have sung it as a round in elementary school (assuming your teacher...

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...

Nixon explains the election

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The Idea Fairy and I were testing out a new batch of edibles we’d baked when there was a knock on the door. It was...

Boulder’s suit against ExxonMobil is based on a pack of lies

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The Boulder City Council has done some astonishingly stupid things when it steps outside of its core areas of incompetence, which include managing growth,...