Danish Plan
Goodbye to the five-year ‘timeout’
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...
A question of citizenship
The Trump administration may be about to toss The Resistance a New Year’s hand grenade.
The left-leaning website ProPublica last week reported that the U.S....
Stopping massacres: What won’t work and what will
What can be done to keep whackos like Jared Loughner from trying to assassinate congressmen, senators and presidents...
The intriguing David Walker
And now, the next president of the United States! David Walker...
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...
Obama’s happy dance with Iran
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...
Putin and anti-fracking activism
Harold Hamm, the multibillionaire oilman who is president of Continental Resources, the company that is the biggest player in North Dakota’s Bakken shale oil patch, raised some eyebrows last week when he said the Russians were financing the anti-fracking movement in ...
First, they came for the ice cream
H. L. Mencken, the great 20th century iconoclast, defined “Puritanism” as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.”
Boulder is chock-full of puritans...
Soldier of Fortune’s 35th anniversary
Soldier of Fortune Magazine, liberal Boulder’s favorite mad aunt in the attic, will put out its 35th anniversary issue next month. So in honor of the occasion I thought I’d share some SOF stories...
30 years later, why Otrona didn’t compute
It didn’t come as a shock when I turned 70 last summer. I had seen it coming for a long time...
Hug the children, bill their countries
Editor’s note: In this week’s editorial pages, columnist Paul Danish and BW editor Joel Dyer tackle the same subject: children illegally crossing the U.S./ Mexican border. As you may have guessed, they come at this growing immigration crisis from somewhat differing ...










