Danish Plan
The list and who’s off it — first cut
I don’t for a second doubt that any of the 22 candidates currently running for President — 17 Republicans and five Democrats — could run the country if they happened to get elected. This isn’t because they are political geniuses. It’s because the genius of the ...
Mitt and the Bain thing
About Mitt Romney and the Bain Capital thing: I’ve always admired venture capitalists. But not all venture capitalists are equal...
Why the latest climate report will be ignored
I spent some time last Sunday reading news stories about the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was formally unveiled in Berlin the same day...
If you don’t like fracking, hope you like global warming
So you don’t like fracking, huh...
The Democrats don’t get the Tea Party
It`s pretty much settled Democratic Party theology that the Tea Party movement consists of little more than racist, angry white male knuckle draggers. Inconveniently, the stereotype is wrong...
The president’s astonishing chutzpa
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...
What should we do with Edward Snowden?
I’m of two minds as to what we should do with Edward Snowden...
Prohibitionists want Colorado voters to recriminalize marijuana in November
Like rust, marijuana prohibitionists never sleep.
Earlier this month a couple of anti-pot activists filed a proposed initiative to amend the Colorado Constitution to repeal...
Obama, Spain and Kitty Genovese’s neighbors
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...
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...
