Danish Plan

Some nasty unintended consequences of Prop 112

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Back in the early 1970s someone asked Colorado’s then-Senator Gordon Allott if he would favor moving the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons plant because it...

Climate science — and why the world won’t listen

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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 ...

Why the chattering classes don’t get Trump

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America’s political and journalistic establishments still can’t figure out the Trump phenomenon...

The marketplace of ideas

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Whatever else it did, the Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission — that’s the campaign finance case — has prompted a lot of Boulder lefties to take pen in hand and hyperventilate that the American republic, and possibly ...

Gaza: The usual suspects and the usual lies

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Whenever Hamas’s excitable boys in Gaza pick a fight with Israel — as they did in 2008, 2014 and this spring — it plays...

2016 and the demographics of social issues

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Republicans are feeling pretty good about their chances of winning the presidency next year. They’ve got a strong (if currently overcrowded) bench of candidates and a lot of the likely issues are breaking their way...

After Mueller – how Trump might get even

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Now that the two-year, $25 million Mueller investigation has determined that the Trump-Russian collusion narrative was, at best, a bunch of delusional bullshit, the...

Who killed Proposition 19?

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  Polls taken in California last year and earlier this year found a majority of the state’s voters favored the legalization of marijuana...

The Boulder County black hole

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As a matter of full disclosure, Paul Danish is currently running for County Commissioner. Should any other candidates for County Commissioner or current Commissioners...

Why fracking is here to stay

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If you want to know why fracking is here to stay, consider what’s been going on in Weld County...

Think globally, mine locally

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Good news. At last there’s a way for Boulder to think globally and act locally to stop genocide. No more of that “put up a yard sign and feel holy” crap. Now we can do something that really makes a difference. First some background. According to a story in...

Macron and les deplorables

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French President Emmanuel Macron returned to Paris from the G20 Summit, where he reaffirmed France’s commitment to the Paris Climate Accord, to discover a...