It has the support of the G-7 powers. It has the support of more than 130 nations. Promoted by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, it would curb abuses by which corporations escape taxes overseas and help pay for America’s immense infrastructure needs. Only one thing stands in the…
With grimy smokestacks belching out what smokestacks do, the Southern Colorado town of Pueblo used to be known as Steel City. Now it can be known as Solar City. The town’s signature steel plant — once powered entirely by coal — is soon to be almost entirely solar-powered.…
A letter to the editor in the Denver Post asks: Is it “conservative” to resist urgings of health professionals? Responding to a story on the low vaccination, low-mask tendencies in Wyoming, the letter-writer calls the linkage to conservatism absurd. He also assails the statement that Wyoming residents resisting vaccines are…
In a New York courtroom, freedom of the press is being juxtaposed with the freedom to lie. Freedom to lie to subvert an election. Freedom to lie to aid the chief patron of a gold-digging cable network. Donald Trump’s Big Lie — and his covey of…
Waves of guilt crash over me. Summer is over, and I’m giddy. Giddy and feeling guilty. No one should celebrate the end of summer – its sights, its smells, its adventures. But this summer and the last were horrible. I wonder if it will be that…
What kind of science did Bob Enyart peddle? Whatever the strain, it killed him. It wasn’t cross-over equine science – the wonders of horse dewormer. It wasn’t Clorox tonic or one dose too many hydroxychloroquine. It was just anti-vax, anti-fact quackery. On weekly broadcasts of his…
Only in the Supreme Court does the majority consistently make policy in Washington. And most of that majority was nominated by presidents who got fewer votes than their rivals. A solid majority of Americans – 58 percent today (Gallup) — consistently opposes a ban on abortion. Yet a…
Like Afghanistan, Vietnam was a bipartisan debacle. From Kennedy to Johnson to Nixon to Ford. Wait. Ford? Gerald – yeah. The “accidental president” was the one who, like Joe Biden, made the call to end a futile and interminable war, then presided over the chaos that followed.…
Tetanus. Polio. Measles. Mumps and rubella. These are vaccinations Texas required of my sons before they started school in the ’80s. Over the years, Hepatitis B. Chickenpox and Hepatitis A were added to the requirements. Ten years ago the Texas Legislature appended meningitis to the list. …
This just in: The author of “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future” says he never said global warming was a hoax. That would be Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, who still is not interested in doing anything about the problem, even if it isn't a…