Danish Plan
The race question
The U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to expedited consideration of a case challenging the constitutionality of adding a citizenship question — Are you...
Who is a civilian?
During the Afghan and Iraq wars, stories would occasionally move on the wires announcing the deaths of “contractors.” The stories usually went to pains to point out that the deceased were “civilian contractors...
Real tax reform means everyone pays something
Chances are the tax increases, cuts and fiddles President Obama proposed during the State of the Union speech Tuesday night are DOA in the Republican-controlled Congress. And chances are the tax cuts, increases and fiddles the Republicans will propose shortly are ...
Obama’s happy dance with Iran
Obama is riding hell-bent for leather toward a nuclear deal with Iran which — if the leaked outlines of it are remotely accurate — will turn the United States into the principal enabler and legitimizer of Iran’s nuclear ambitions...
A costly inconvenient truth
Here’s an inconvenient little truth that keeps getting lost in the shuffle when local activists start hyper-ventillating about fracking: If you want to ban fracking, you may end up paying through the nose...
A typical massacre in Aurora
In at least one way, the Aurora movie massacre was pretty typical: The perpetrator was the only guy in the room with a gun...
Think globally, mine locally
Good news. At last there’s a way for Boulder to think globally and act locally to stop genocide. No more of that “put up a yard sign and feel holy” crap. Now we can do something that really makes a difference. First some background. According to a story in...
Pot at the tea party
The Boston Tea Party, the original one, occurred on the night of December 16, 1773, when the Sons of Liberty, some cunningly disguised as Ward Churchill, threw 342 chests of British East India Company tea into Boston Harbor. But truth be told, as a date to hold ...
The road to the Danish Plan
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 return of the ferret
Good news. The Black-footed ferret, once called the most endangered mammal on the planet, is coming to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal...
Obama’s silly Keystone Pipeline veto
The main beneficiary of President Obama’s decision to veto construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline is neither the climate, nor the environment, nor even the knee-jerk Greens who have been conducting their delusional vendetta against it...
The dawn of the new era in Boulder politics
Wow! That was one awesome piece of politicking.
New Era Colorado, the millenial-oriented activist organization that all but single-handedly saved the muni, did a terrific...