The title refers to the song, not the month, although the month of April has much to praise. I listened to Pat Boone’s April Love on the car radio during a short drive on a lovely April day last week. As with…
“It’s a good day for world peace.” – Joe Biden, April 24th, 2024 A very fine day for peace indeed! Nothing says “peace” quite like Stinger surface-to-air missiles and other air defense munitions, 155-millimeter shells, Javelin anti-tank guided missiles, cluster…
You’ve gotta hand it to the Republican-led House of Representatives. They certainly know how to put on a good show. Such was the case this week when they voted Articles of Impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security. His…
For the last six months, Americans have been complicit in an Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people. Despite empty rhetoric of two state solutions, Colorado congressmembers continue to defend the interests of Israel in contradiction of their own constituent’s calls…
Support for Donald Trump has always been unfathomable, but “unfathomability” has reached dizzying new heights with the Trump-as-Jesus phase. This week a news piece on the Jesus phase featured an interview with a woman who oozed sincerity. How could she…
“Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” This quote from John F. Kennedy, Jr’s Inaugural Address in 1961 seems rather quaint these days. Kennedy is remembered with a level…
It is hard – no, impossible – to reconcile the brilliant spring day outside my Colorado window with the brutal images from Gaza and from our southern border. We privileged Americans can escape the pain with a quick click of…
First Appeared as a Guest Column for The Boulder Bulletin By Ryan Schuchard, March 4, 2024 Look underneath many of Boulder’s challenges—homelessness, closed swimming pools and parks, families moving out of the city—and you’ll find a common denominator: insufficient funds…
Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision to hear Donald Trump’s absurd immunity case is disheartening. Among rationale observers there is little doubt about the lack of merit to the appeal. Many believe it is evidence of a Court in service of Trump’s…
Letter to the Editor by: Michael B. Menaker The recent municipal elections in Louisville portend important changes in City policies and programs. Citizens signaled a rejection of the nihilistic “anything new is bad” politics of the past and a desire…