Danish Plan
Who killed Proposition 19?
Polls taken in California last year and earlier this year found a majority of the state’s voters favored the legalization of marijuana...
Scotland’s burning! Greenland’s melting!
The song goes back 450 years, give or take. You may even have sung it as a round in elementary school (assuming your teacher...
The sneak attack on Amendment 64
The drug war dead-enders and nanny-statists who want to recriminalize marijuana in Colorado think they have hit on a cunning new strategy to do the deed...
The Green New Deal and the mother of all Kinsley gaffes
A Kinsley Gaffe (named after former New Republic Editor Michael Kinsley) occurs when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he or she...
Underground open space
Inconvenient truth alert.
It turns out that the Boulder County property owner with the most oil and gas wells on her land is none other...
The ‘Soldier of Fortune’ memoirs
By 1975, Robert K. Brown had 1) ridden the rodeo, 2) been a Golden Gloves boxer, 3) raised money for and tried to run guns to Fidel Castro’s guerrillas while they were still in the jungle, 4) broken with Castro after he came to power and joined multiple abortive ...
Governor Brown and ‘the new abnormal’
For some reason California’s outgoing Governor Jerry Brown started his Nov. 11 press conference on the state’s wildfires by calling them “the new abnormal.”
Why...
Shakespeare, like youth, is wasted on the young. Or is it?
Had Dana Dusbiber written the op-ed piece she had in the Washington Post last week while I was in high school, I would have nominated her for teacher of the year...
Bulworth and the Honey Badger
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is a case of life following art. The art in this case is the 1998 movie Bulworth. The film is an over-the-top political comedy starring Warren Beatty as Jay Billington Bulworth, a liberal Democratic U.S. Senator from California ...
Turn Syria’s refugees into a liberation army
Never let a serious crisis go to waste,” Obama’s pal Rahm Emmanuel once famously remarked, adding that what he meant by that was “it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before...
John Calhoun, call your office
According to a recent poll, taken over the Fourth of July holiday of all times, nearly four out of 10 likely voters are so...