Danish Plan

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...

How to increase Colorado’s (and Arizona’s) water supply

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Here are a few factoids to contemplate as we head into 2019: • In the past dozen years, Colorado’s population has grown by about 1...

Nixon and Beelzebub explain how to form a more perfect union

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The Idea Fairy and I had just polished off an excellent plate of edibles when there was a knock at the door. It was...

Obama’s silly Keystone Pipeline veto

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The main beneficiary of President Obama’s decision to veto construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline is neither the climate, nor the environment, nor even the knee-jerk Greens who have been conducting their delusional vendetta against it...

Ten years after 9/11

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Random thoughts on the 10th anniversary of 9/11...

The Green New Deal and the mother of all Kinsley gaffes

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A Kinsley Gaffe (named after former New Republic Editor Michael Kinsley) occurs when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he or she...

A costly inconvenient truth

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Here’s an inconvenient little truth that keeps getting lost in the shuffle when local activists start hyper-ventillating about fracking: If you want to ban fracking, you may end up paying through the nose...

Forget Nablus and mediation — there’s a better choice for sister...

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About 20 or 30 years ago, some local peace and justice activists decided to resolve the conflict over abortion by bringing representatives of the...

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...

How to stop illegal immigration

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I have a modest proposal for solving the problem of illegal immigration from Mexico without building a fence along the border or granting amnesty to those here illegally. Conquer Mexico. You know. Kind of like conquistadors, only north to south this time. Get ...

A modest proposal to prevent meddling in our elections

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I have a modest proposal for a sure-fire, 100-percent certain way of keeping Putin or anyone else from meddling in American elections. Get rid...

CU’s misguided 4/20 approach

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CU has an interesting new strategy for dealing with the campus’s annual 4/20 rally and pot inhalation this year...