Danish Plan
Mitt and the Bain thing
About Mitt Romney and the Bain Capital thing: I’ve always admired venture capitalists. But not all venture capitalists are equal...
The marketplace of ideas
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 ...
Reports of the death of the oil industry are greatly exaggerated
A year ago, a lot of green- washed Luddites were wondering out loud about whether the global collapse of oil prices would accomplish what...
Some facts about GMO crops Jones and Gardner tried to hide
The County Commissioners’ March 17 decision to ban GMOs from Boulder County open space was rigged. Commissioners Elise Jones and Deb Gardner had their...
A modest proposal to prevent meddling in our elections
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...
Dad’s insecticides and Proposition 105
Editors note: Paul Danish’s views are his own and do not represent the views of Boulder Weekly, which is endorsing a yes vote on Proposition 105. Paul Danish would like to state that the Boulder Weekly’s views are its own and do not represent the views of Paul Danish...
Blacks, police and marijuana
There are three simple things President Barack Obama can do to reduce the sort of confrontations between cops and young black men that occasionally get the latter killed and much more often get them arrested...
The president’s astonishing chutzpa
President Obama has been flitting around the country intimating that U.S. natural gas reserves have tripled in the last three years as a result of his administration’s policies. His chutzpa is astonishing...
Marijuana along the Rio Grande
The Arizona Republic printed a terrific story last Sunday on the on-going war on marijuana smuggling being waged along the Rio Grande River in Texas...
Pot at the tea party
The Boston Tea Party, the original one, occurred on the night of December 16, 1773, when the Sons of Liberty, some cunningly disguised as Ward Churchill, threw 342 chests of British East India Company tea into Boston Harbor. But truth be told, as a date to hold ...
What to do about the mosque near Ground Zero
Do the Islamist raisins with legs who want to build a 13-story mosque a stone’s throw from the late World Trade Center in New York City have a constitutional right to do so? Is the Pope Catholic? Of course they do. If you think they don’t, what part of the First...
The great flatulence of 2016
The Idea Fairy and I were nibbling on a new batch of edibles when there was a knock on the door.
It was Saul Alinsky.
“Saul,...
