Danish Plan
When it comes to sustainability, roads are more important than compost
As a matter of full disclosure, Paul Danish is currently running for County Commissioner. Should any other candidates for County Commissioner or current Commissioners...
Iran and the math of the final countdown
How close is Iran to getting the bomb? A lot closer than you might think and a lot closer than the Obama administration has let on. The truth is hiding in plain sight. It’s in the arithmetic of uranium enrichment. The arithmetic shows that the Iranian nuclear ...
The secret sauce
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...
Obama should talk to Douglas Bruce
Since President Barack Obama seems clueless on how to go about getting government spending and debt under control, he ought to consult someone who’s done it. No, not Bill Clinton or Newt Gingrich or Tim Pawlenty or Mitch Daniels...
Pot legalization day in Colorado more orderly than Black Friday
On Nov. 9, 1989, BW marijuana columnist Leland Rucker and I kicked back on his couch, cracked a couple of Buds, fired up a spliff, and waited for the Berlin Wall to come down...
Think globally, and fry locally
Heh. According to a paper published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Climate Change, windmills can cause global warming...
The dawn of the new era in Boulder politics
Wow! That was one awesome piece of politicking.
New Era Colorado, the millenial-oriented activist organization that all but single-handedly saved the muni, did a terrific...
Orwell got it backwards
Recently someone in Iran or Turkey had an insight: Just as war is too important to be left to the generals, peace activism is too important to be left to the pacifists. As a result, Islamists around the Middle East are getting in touch with their inner peace ...
Think globally and frack locally
Think globally and act locally? Some do it better than others...
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...
Why the latest climate report will be ignored
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...
