Category Archives: Opinion

Why the flame is eternal

By Steve | Published: August 31, 2009
The Chicago Tribune’s John Kass writes that with the death of Teddy Kennedy, perhaps we can now put the Kennedy / Camelot myth to rest. Sorry, Mr. Kass. Myths don’t work that way. Did Jacqueline Kennedy and a fawning press create the myth? Kass makes a pretty good case for that. But no matter how [...]
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Newspapers just don’t listen

By Steve | Published: August 26, 2009
“I’m embarassed to say this,” the 30-something working mom told the focus group. “But as I’m pushing the kids out the door in the morning, I see that newspaper all wrapped in plastic and I pick it up and set it on the pile of other newspapers wrapped in plastic in the hallway. Eventually, I [...]
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Story of the week: Memorial service for a “baby killer”

By Steve | Published: June 14, 2009
Maybe sticks, stones and names can hurt you. Denver Post columnist Mike Littwin went to a memorial service for murdered abortion doctor George Tiller last week and came back wondering whether poison words lowered the barriers to violence. Might the value of Tiller’s life eroded in the eyes of anti-abortion activists who tagged him “Tiller the baby [...]
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Bioscience vs. PETA: The told story

By Steve | Published: April 29, 2009
A researcher once called me to his lab, spitting mad at PETA. His inbox was filled with nasty-grams, spurred on by a PETA campaign against his research, which involved killing small animals. He wanted me to help him publish an op-ed in which he methodically laid out the reasons for using animals in research that [...]
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Freedom isn’t free

By Steve | Published: March 24, 2009
The students lined up at the front of the lecture hall to take a crack at the professor. He had the audacity to argue that annihilation of the Native American cultures was inevitable. Two weeks of this Colorado History class at CU-Boulder was consumed by students trying to jar the professor from his position. But [...]
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