Opinion
Big political donors buying elections… and public policies
Who does David Keating think he’s fooling...
Repeal the Patriot Act
It’s back. The Patriot Act — a grotesque, ever-mutating, hydra-headed monstrosity from the Bush-Cheney Little Shop of Horrors — has risen again, this time with an added twist of Orwellian intrusiveness from the Obamacans...
Massey Energy’s man-made hellhole
West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch coal mine was a disaster even before it exploded into an underground hell last year, killing 29 miners. A new investigative report by federal safety inspectors found that this mine — owned by the enormously profitable Massey ...
Trump’s dangerous rhetoric
Rapists. Murderers. Drug Dealers. Gang Bangers. Donald Trump said the clever Mexican government is conning weak and stupid American leaders by “sending” mostly “really bad” people into the U.S...
Paying the price of the Afghanistan war
boulderweekly.com/highroadThe good news is that the U.S. Senate and House are at last uniting in a truly bipartisan push to put billions of our tax dollars into the urgent national need for better schools, transportation and other essential services. Unfortunately...
Bank robbers on the loose
The popular perception is that bank robbers wear ski masks when doing their jobs, but a lot of modern-day bank robbers are wearing Armani suits and Gucci loafers...
Big Coal buys access to 4th graders
If some predator was stalking fourth graders in your community, there’d be a mighty uproar to make the predator get away and stay away from your schools...
COPOUT 21
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...
Mitt Romney’s gang of highway robbers
Look out — the Kleptocrat Gang is loose on the land...