Danish Plan

The toxic hell of fracking (children welcome)

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The anti-fracking activists who demonstrated at an oil rig on Boulder County open space last Saturday obviously don’t think fracking is very dangerous. How else do you explain the fact that they brought their kids to the demonstration...

John Calhoun, call your office

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According to a recent poll, taken over the Fourth of July holiday of all times, nearly four out of 10 likely voters are so...

Floods and the city, CU edition

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According to the Daily Camera, the Boulder City Council last week “voted to move forward with a flood mitigation plan that ignored expert advice,...

Could the plague bring reform to Congress?

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The latest China Plague (at least the fourth to originate in the People’s Republic since 1957) has set off discussion in Congress as to...

Obama, Spain and Kitty Genovese’s neighbors

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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...

Dirty money and the coronavirus

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Money makes the world go ’round — and the coronavirus goes around with it. Can the virus be spread by dirty money? According to CBS...

Cops in the schools, gun control and race

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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...

A gentleman’s C for the pot task force

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I’ve been reading the recommendations of the Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force. They mostly remind me of Mark Twain’s description of Wagner’s music: “It’s better than it sounds.” But just barely...

Who wants a big, cool rocket?

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A couple of days after Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully flew its Falcon Heavy rocket last week, a USA Today headline asked: “SpaceX Falcon Heavy —...

A question of citizenship

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The Trump administration may be about to toss The Resistance a New Year’s hand grenade. The left-leaning website ProPublica last week reported that the U.S....

The Grim Reaper and the Charmin squeeze

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The Idea Fairy and I were kicking back — banana nut bread is the gift that keeps on giving — when there was a...

The anti-Electoral College compact may come with a nasty surprise

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The Colorado legislature approved a bill on Feb. 21 to cast Colorado’s electoral votes for president for the candidate who gets the most popular...