Donald Trump is still president, say cultists. So where is that infrastructure plan? That “beautiful” health care plan – “insurance for everyone.” Where? Balancing the federal budget? He said he’d do it “fairly quickly.” (Or, he’d add $7.8 trillion to the national debt in four years, one…
DetailsWhat’s that you hear? The sounds of hammering and pounding, sanding and carving. It’s the Republican Party, hard at work constructing myths and phantoms. At the Build-a-Myth workshop, the GOP builds the wedges it hopes will boost it back to national power. Like in Virginia, where…
DetailsColorado fired John Eastman right around the time America fired Donald Trump. Trump's employers gave him notice in November. In Eastman’s case, it was, “Hit the road” in January. Actually, it was the University of Colorado that told Eastman his services were no longer needed. This after…
DetailsIt 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…
DetailsWith 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.…
DetailsA 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…
DetailsIn 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…
DetailsWaves 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…
DetailsWhat 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…
DetailsOnly 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…
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