Danish Plan

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On Dec. 13, Karl Halverson Pierson, a disgruntled student, entered Arapahoe High School in Littleton in a murderous frame of mind...

Shakespeare, like youth, is wasted on the young. Or is it?

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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...

The March for Science and the missing protest sign

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Whatever else last weekend’s marches for science accomplished, they produced some of the best protest signs in years. (My favorite for sheer comedic creativity...

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...

Have we accidentally prevented another ice age?

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

Obama’s clueless view of ISIL

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I would feel a lot better about Obama’s prospects for kicking the Islamic State’s ass if it weren’t for what he said in the fourth paragraph of his speech to the nation last week...

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 anti-fracking initiatives failed

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The anti-fracking petition drives did not fail for lack of institutional support from environmental organizations. According to the Denver Post, the petitioners were backed by...

Prohibitionists want Colorado voters to recriminalize marijuana in November

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Like rust, marijuana prohibitionists never sleep. Earlier this month a couple of anti-pot activists filed a proposed initiative to amend the Colorado Constitution to repeal...

Reducing the budget

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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...

Boulder targets medical marijuana — and heads should roll

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Heads should roll. And for once, let us state whose: David Driskell, executive director of community planning and sustainability...