OK, it's a bit non-intuitive. First of all, forget about 24-hour security details, Kevlar body armor or even teaching Congressmen defensive shooting skills. They're not cost-effective, and they serve to sow the seeds of distrust between the member and his or her constituents.

What can be done to keep whackos like Jared Loughner from trying to assassinate congressmen, senators and presidents? It’s easier to say what won’t work.

Embracing the START treaty required the Obama administration, the U.S. Senate and most of the country's foreign policy establishment to ignore an ugly little fact that while Russia may be agreeing to reduce its own nuclear arsenal under START, it is...

Interesting idea, that. But for what? Chemistry, of course. Why chemistry? Thats because Assanges accomplishment was in keeping with historys first example of Nobel-quality work on the planet, which was in the field of chemistry: It was when...

The truth is that when it comes to running the United States, you don't have to be much above average in terms of smarts. The genius of the Constitution is that it created a government that doesn't require a genius to run it.

First, when it comes to ballot proposals generally, the tendency is to vote no. When voters are uncertain about what a ballot measure will do and they often are they usually conclude that the safest course of action is to maintain the status quo by voting no.

Boulder Weekly deadlines are such that in order to write an analysis of Tuesdays election for todays paper, I would have had to hand it in two days before the polls opened. Analyzing why things happened two days before they actually happen is a tough gig.

At the time I was a freshman reporter for the Colorado Daily. Brown, a CU alum who at age 29 was 11 years my senior, was back on campus to talk about the invasion (it didn't collapse for another day or two) and drum up support for the rebels. Then, as now, he gave a terrific interview.

1) Repeal Obamacare. That will save, depending on the estimate, $1 trillion to $3 trillion over the next 10 years, or $100 billion to $300 billion a year. (Actual savings would be somewhat less, because some aspects of Obamacare, like the ban on refusing coverage for a prior condition, would survive any serious attempt at repeal.

1. When it comes to youthful experimentation, which is more dangerous to yourself and to society: experimenting with witchcraft or experimenting with Marxism? (Hint: Over the past 100 years Marxists have killed about 100 million people. Witches cant hold a bell, book or candle to them.