Danish Plan
Nixon and Beelzebub explain how to form a more perfect union
The Idea Fairy and I had just polished off an excellent plate of edibles when there was a knock at the door. It was...
The prince who read the instruction manual
The Washington press corps is shocked, shocked that Saudi Prince Mohammad bin Salman (aka MBS) may have ordered the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, a...
The cost of killing nuclear power
”For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’”
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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t’s been obvious for a...
Is this the end of Boulder as we know it? Yep
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...
Climate science — and why the world won’t listen
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued the executive summary of its latest report on global warming on Sept. 26. It stated, among other things, that hundreds of scientists are more certain than ever that the planet is warming up and that ...
Climategate: Forget Denmark, something is rotten with CRU science
Those who have been reading this column for awhile know that my views on global warming are a bit askew of the traditional fault lines on the subject...
The anti-Electoral College compact may come with a nasty surprise
The Colorado legislature approved a bill on Feb. 21 to cast Colorado’s electoral votes for president for the candidate who gets the most popular...
Prohibitionists want Colorado voters to recriminalize marijuana in November
Like rust, marijuana prohibitionists never sleep.
Earlier this month a couple of anti-pot activists filed a proposed initiative to amend the Colorado Constitution to repeal...
Biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history? Hogwash!
In the course of reporting that BP had finally stopped the flow of oil in its Macondo well, a CNN reporter casually referred to the blowout as “the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.” Obama said the same thing a couple of months ago. They are both full ...
Putin and anti-fracking activism
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 ...
What one Republican would do about climate change
Kelly Sims Gallagher, director of the Center for International Environment & Resource Policy at Tuft University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, recently told Public Radio International that if the Republicans don’t like President Obama’s approach to curbing ...
