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Nixon comes back as a Democrat

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Harvey and I were breaking out the Doritos when there was a knock on the door...

Trump’s victory and the price of cars

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When I first saw the headline on strategy maven Edward Luttwak’s piece in the Times Literary Supplement — “Why The Trump Dynasty Will Last...

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...

Could anti-frackers derail renewable energy?

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I learned a new word this week, the mere mention of which may cause the heads of anti-frackers to blow up all over Boulder County. The...

The wrong marijuana message

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There they go again...

When Palestine declares its independence

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Odds are that this week or next the Palestinians will unilaterally declare their independence. What happens next...

Prohibitionists want Colorado voters to recriminalize marijuana in November

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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...

Why the latest climate report will be ignored

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I spent some time last Sunday reading news stories about the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was formally unveiled in Berlin the same day...

The Donald is about to enter the oil patch

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Prediction: If you want to know where the Trump administration is headed, start by reviewing what’s been going on in the oil patch for...

Why no one cares about privacy anymore — in three...

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The Cambridge Analytica/Facebook mess reminded me of a piece written eight years ago by Declan McCullagh, a journo who at the time was writing...

Goodbye to the five-year ‘timeout’

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In what must be the most predictable court decision of the decade, the Colorado Supreme Court last week struck down Longmont’s ban on fracking...

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...