Danish Plan

Why would anyone need a gun or an abortion?

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A frequent refrain of gun control freaks is “Why does anyone need a gun?” Good question. I’ll get to it in a minute...

A typical massacre in Aurora

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In at least one way, the Aurora movie massacre was pretty typical: The perpetrator was the only guy in the room with a gun...

The road to the Danish Plan

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It would be wrong to say that Boulder wasn’t concerned about growth until 1971. In the 1950s and 1960s Boulder was plenty concerned about growth — specifically about how to get more of it...

The Green New Deal and the mother of all Kinsley gaffes

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A Kinsley Gaffe (named after former New Republic Editor Michael Kinsley) occurs when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he or she...

No, TABOR does not make it harder to raise taxes

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In trying to explain the sound ass-kicking Colorado voters administered to Prop CC, the Denver Post’sAlex Burness offered the following reflection: “For Democrats, it was...

Hamas does not give shelter

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If there is one thing Hamas is really good at, it’s digging tunnels. Hamas, and like-minded militant factions like Islamic Jihad, have dug more than a thousand tunnels under the Gaza-Egyptian border. (Last March, Egypt said it had closed more than 1,300.) It has ...

America needs more secret meetings

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I have a modest proposal for breaking the political paralysis that grips Washington like a cold, dead hand slowly contracting around Uncle Sam’s throat...

Trump and the cry-baby media

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It used to be that the press knew how to take it in as well as how to dish it out. That was then. This...

Climate change: U.N. takes on wrong problem — again

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The United Nations is holding a global climate conference in Durban, South Africa, this week and next for the purpose of breathing new life into the Kyoto Protocol or, short of that, forging some other international agreement to cut global greenhouse gas emissions...

The sneak attack on Amendment 64

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The drug war dead-enders and nanny-statists who want to recriminalize marijuana in Colorado think they have hit on a cunning new strategy to do the deed...

A modest proposal for ending the budget impasse

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In his weekly radio address this past Saturday, President Obama called on Republicans and Democrats to make “political sacrifices” to break the budget impasse and prevent the collapse of civilization as we know it...

The hills are alive with the sound of fracking

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Bad news, anti-frackers. The hills are alive with the sound of fracking...