Something special just happened in Norway. As America has embarked on a leftward course in recent national elections, conservatives have just swept Norway’s national election in dramatic fashion. This, of course, coming on the heels of Australian conservative leader Tony Abbott’s landslide victory this past Saturday. What was so special …
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It’s a sure sign of desperation when the CEO of the consortium of foreign mining companies that want to build one of the largest open pit mines in North America claims to be defending the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) from “attack.” According to the Pebble Partnership’s John Shively, environmental …
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While the country processes the racial politics-inspired prosecution of George Zimmerman, which came to a conclusion last week, and as the calls to try him in federal court for the same events for which he was acquitted in a state court become louder each day, a case in upstate New …
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Revelations that America’s government is collecting incomprehensible amounts of data on how we exist and communicate has left us facing profound questions. For me the first is, are we free anywhere? For now we are free in our minds. Free to think anything we want. We can think awful or …
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In our deeply partisan politics of today there is one area where it is hard to find the truth spoken by either Republicans or Democrats. It is the idea that Muslim people yearn for democracy. This is a glaring shortsightedness that both sides hold in common. To be clear, many …
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In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, which saw the use of footage from cell phones and closed circuit TV cameras to help identify the suspected bombers, pundits and elected officials alike have been singing the praises of urban camera networks—and suggesting that ever more such government surveillance is …
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Sometimes little things crack open and reveal big things. For example, what started as a small dispute–over the historical record of a presidential speech from four decades ago–has now metastasized into a raging controversy over a new book about Roger Ailes and Fox News, written by the veteran author Zev …
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A century and a half ago, today, one of our nation’s greatest presidents launched this nation on a “new birth of freedom.” On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves in the rebellious South “are, and henceforward shall be, free.” In that one …
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This week, Charlie Brennan of the Boulder Daily Camera reported that a 1999 Boulder grand jury voted to indict John and Patsy Ramsey for the death of their 6-year old daughter, JonBenet, but that then District Attorney Alex Hunter declined to prosecute. As an investigative reporter who has extensively covered …
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Yep. It’s Tax Day. Not like I’m celebrating. In fact the only good news may be that for those of us paying taxes — we’re all in the same boat. So, I don’t know about you but more than ever I’m ready to join the fight to simplify our tax …
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