Danish Plan

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 ...

A couple of weeks ago President Obama challenged Republicans who are calling for less federal spending and a smaller federal government to state exactly what they would cut...

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 ...

Sometimes you learn the darnedest things if you read a news story all the way to the end...

It’s not often that I find myself endorsing anything that the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center has its fingerprints on, but I agree...

Symbols matter. That’s why the time has come to replace the tired old bald eagle on the great seal of the United States and in other patriotic venues with a critter more in keeping with the lifestyle, values and morals of 21st-century America: The rat...

The Wall Street Journal’s story about last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down the ban on corporate and union campaign spending in federal elections contained a detail that the New York Times story managed to overlook...

Following the passage of Arizona’s new immigration law last month, Boulder Congressman Jared Polis unburdened himself of the following thoughts to the POLITICO website: “It is absolutely reminiscent of second-class status of Jews in Germany prior to World War II...

According to a recent poll, taken over the Fourth of July holiday of all times, nearly four out of 10 likely voters are so...

I couldn’t have been more than 6 or 7 years old at the time. Today I am 74, but the memory is still vivid. I...

I’ve been reading the recommendations of the Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force. They mostly remind me of Mark Twain’s description of Wagner’s music: “It’s better than it sounds.” But just barely...

I have a modest proposal for cleaning up the mess in Washington...