Given the hyper-charged rhetoric and sheer level of irrationality surrounding the violence in Ferguson, Mo., I suppose we ought to consider ourselves fortunate if the principle lesson drawn from the whole sad affair is there are some people who like to break and throw things and set cars and stores on fire. Because it seems […]
Kelly Sloan, The Business Times More than six years after oil and natural gas drilling leases first were issued, production soon could begin on at least parts of the Roan Plateau in Western Colorado. A settlement between the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and a consortium of environmental groups was announced during a press conference […]
Conservative disappointments were blessedly rare this Election Day. That doesn’t lessen the sting felt by those involved in individually lost races, however anomalous they might have been. Suffice to say, though, that Nov. 4, 2014, was an overall good day for Republicans. The big news of the night, of course, was the GOP takeover of […]
I think two things are fairly clear about Ebola: there isn’t a catastrophic deadly virus outbreak in the United States, and the federal government wouldn’t have the first bloody clue what to do about it if there was one. America has an advanced, western-style medical system that largely precludes the sort of calamitous outbreaks that […]
An educational battle in Colorado shapes up to be the most entertaining sideshow in a state already replete with entertaining politics. The brouhaha that’s taken center stage is happening in Jefferson County, where the teachers unions have orchestrated what amounts to a strike in response to the elected school board proposing a review of the […]
At the end of the day, Great Britain remains a United Kingdom. By a 55 percent to 45 percent margin, Scottish voters elected to remain part of the realm rather than have a go at it on their own. The result was met by many, myself included, with great relief. In large part, it must […]
Plans by Burger King to purchase Canadian coffee-and-donut chain Tim Horton’s would have generated little interest outside the business-watching world — or even in Canada, where devotion to Tim Horton’s is almost religious, which doesn’t make any sense to me either, but just trust me on this one — were it not for the fact […]
Ferguson, Mo., has filled the airwaves these past few weeks. While the main reason it has done so is because rioting makes for good video, it would be a mistake to think there aren’t real issues at play — although they’re likely not the ones on the minds of the wielders of Molotov cocktails. Any […]
I’m not used to quoting a Canadian government official in the course of citing an example of steadfast and principled foreign policy, but I came across this gem last month from John Baird, Canada’s foreign minister: “The scourge of terrorism must be wholly rejected by all peace-loving people around the world. We must never allow […]
The heart-breaking and, one would hope, unintentionally manufactured crisis of thousands of unaccompanied children crossing America’s southern border illegally is both symptomatic of the problems in government and suggestive of nongovernmental solutions. A non-American myself, I’m acutely sensitive to issues involving immigration. It’s a complicated issue, but it boils down to this: As long as […]