Letters: 7/6/17

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Democratic autopsy

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Opinion

The rise of the green-talking climate change deniers

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We hear it all the time: “climate denier.” We spit the term like a swear word at the Koch brothers or countless Republican politicians. It’s a label we attach to oil and gas industry executives, coal barons and those who run our power generation plants. But what does...

Get a whiff of ‘synthetic biology’

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It’s always inspiring to see global corporate giants crush small farmers, stomp on nature, circumvent our laws by hook or crook, and deceive and gouge consumers...

Will you enlist in ‘Trump’s War’?

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President Trump might have dodged military service in his youth, but he certainly is militaristic — he is bellicose, likes to issue commands, and...

The ‘Soldier of Fortune’ memoirs

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By 1975, Robert K. Brown had 1) ridden the rodeo, 2) been a Golden Gloves boxer, 3) raised money for and tried to run guns to Fidel Castro’s guerrillas while they were still in the jungle, 4) broken with Castro after he came to power and joined multiple abortive ...

Addressing racism is a mental health priority

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her...

The sneak attack on Amendment 64

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The drug war dead-enders and nanny-statists who want to recriminalize marijuana in Colorado think they have hit on a cunning new strategy to do the deed...

The president’s astonishing chutzpa

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President Obama has been flitting around the country intimating that U.S. natural gas reserves have tripled in the last three years as a result of his administration’s policies. His chutzpa is astonishing...

Moneyed elites get richer the old-fashioned way: Stealing

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Get ready to swallow your “Statistic of the Day!” But first, to help you absorb the big one, here’s a preliminary statistic for you:...

What one Republican would do about climate change

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Kelly Sims Gallagher, director of the Center for International Environment & Resource Policy at Tuft University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, recently told Public Radio International that if the Republicans don’t like President Obama’s approach to curbing ...

Another crank out to save the children from themselves

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Dr. Tim Farnum, a Denver anesthesiologist and father of five, has come up with an exciting new way to “save the children” from a...

The other epidemic we must fight is white supremacy

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Twenty years ago, as a senior at Boulder High School, I led a small collective of students in a walkout to protest the murder...

Ostracism: A better option than impeachment

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Congress shouldn’t decide whether Trump remains in office. The American people should. It’s time to get rid of the toxic process of impeachment and replace...