Danish Plan

A week after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the National Rifle Association called for immediately assigning armed police officers to every school in the country. It also called on Congress to appropriate the money to pay for doing so...

The United Nations is going to hold a big climate conference in Paris starting next Monday (and droning on until December 11) during which the world is really gonna get a handle on this global warming thing, by golly...

Everyone knows the Galileo story...

Good news. The Black-footed ferret, once called the most endangered mammal on the planet, is coming to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal...

  Polls taken in California last year and earlier this year found a majority of the state’s voters favored the legalization of marijuana...

NCAR is going to build a giant new supercomputer, the better to study climate change, which is cool. Indeed, the project has already provided one profound, if wickedly ironic, insight into the problem...

Last Sunday’s Daily Camera contained an op-ed piece signed by all three Boulder County Commissioners explaining to their constituents, yet again, why they can’t...

This could be huge. Really huge. Let’s hope it is. There’s a startup company in Louisville that started registering on the radar this week. Its name is...

Hands down easiest prediction for 2012: Boulder’s hyper-active activists will take time out from their busy schedule of sabotaging American food production to sabotage American oil and gas production...

The Idea Fairy and I had just polished off an excellent plate of edibles when there was a knock at the door. It was...

There is a good historical parallel for the Western world’s reaction to the Syrian Civil War: The Western world’s reaction to the Spanish Civil War...

Inconvenient truth alert. It turns out that the Boulder County property owner with the most oil and gas wells on her land is none other...