Danish Plan

The dark horses of 2016

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The best advice I ever got about running for office came from Faye Johnson, a fierce Democratic warrior and former Boulder County Democratic Party chair. It consisted of exactly three words: “Make no assumptions...

The welcome sign and a case of libel

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“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?”                      — Donald...

Last message from Myachka

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I’m writing this week’s rant on Sunday evening, April 28, which this year was the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah in Hebrew...

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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...

Another horror story from the Weld County oil patch

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Here’s another environmental horror story from the Weld County oil patch...

Trump puts a horse head in the Ayatollah’s bed

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It’s easy to over-think Trump’s motives in greasing Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. What he really did was plant a horse head in Ayatollah Khamenei’s...

COPOUT 21

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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...

The censored arguments for Proposition 64

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The sponsors of Colorado Proposition 64, the ballot proposal that would legalize marijuana and regulate it like alcohol, think these are three of the best arguments for voting yes...

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...

How to unsettle settled science (and settled scientists)

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Talk about getting hoist with your own petard. Australian climate scientists have succeeded in convincing the management of the country’s main research institution, The Commonwealth...

Russia, social media and Cold War 2.0

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About Russia using social media to meddle in the election — and undermine and disrupt American democracy and the American social fabric generally —...

The race question

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The U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to expedited consideration of a case challenging the constitutionality of adding a citizenship question — Are you...