by Barry Fagin | May 16, 2011 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2011-05-11} Apparently there is some sort of election next week, supposedly of a historic, unprecedented nature. You could’ve fooled me. We have the usual two candidates: One endorsed by the Republican/conservative bloc, the...
by Barry Fagin | Jan 9, 2012 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 10-18-07} Shortly after my last column, the Gazette ran a series on the working poor in El Paso County. After reading all the articles, I was struck by two things: 1) For the people profiled, dating, getting married, having...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 24, 2013 | Politics & Law
It’s apparently some secret that the House of Representatives sets the federal budget and it’s Senate’s job to approve or send it back with suggestions and compromises. When the latter didn’t do this, the former was blamed. Except that’s...
by Barry Fagin | Apr 21, 2014 | Science & Pseudoscience, Technology & Futurism
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette as “Some day man should master Mother Nature”, June 20, 2013} As we grieve for all that we have lost during the fire, I urge all of us to come together as a community and rededicate ourselves to the study of the...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Feb 25, 2010 | Politics & Law, Science & Pseudoscience
{Posted on a Hobowars.Com gang forum, on my Q&A thread in December 2007} Q: Why did Al Gore get a Nobel peace prize for telling us something we already know? A: Actually, he got the prize for being an effective advocate for something we are merely convinced that...