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CARROLL: Taking on the big boys

Judge Christina Habas is no pushover when confronting a powerful movement that would casually trample on the Constitution.

ROSEN: Better choices for GOP

It's rare that incumbent officeholders are denied their party's nomination for re-election. But there are times when such an action is both likely and appropriate.

BLAKE: Unusual suspects help cabbies

Some conservative Republicans hooked up with a labor union for a one-night stand as the legislative session ended.

CARROLL: Trial lawyer triumph

Trial lawyers are great ones for invoking the principles of fairness and justice to explain the litigious society they've helped to create.

CARROLL: Playing tag with tuition

Will the governor's scholarships really make college more affordable?

CAMPOS: Blogs are the future

The science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon famously observed that "90 percent of everything is crap." This aphorism was intended to defend science fiction from the charge that most of it is bad.

REDBLUEAMERICA.COM: Wright ... or wrong?

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has struggled to explain and then overcome his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the controversial ex-pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. .

KOPEL: Barr, Limbaugh go too far

Rarely does a radio listener hear convergence between the views on Rush Limbaugh's right-wing Excellence in Broadcasting network, and the left-wing Air America network. Unfortunately, they did achieve consensus recently - in favor of riots at this summer's Democratic National Convention in Denver.

ROSEN: Limbaugh needn't worry

Rush Limbaugh has stirred the pot once again with his remarks about violent protests at the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August. While Limbaugh said on his radio show that he's "dreaming of" riots in Denver, he's denied encouraging such acts. Limbaugh supporters take him at his word, understanding his comments to mean that he was envisioning (perhaps a better term than "dreaming of") ugly demonstrations by left-wing radicals in Denver that would reflect poorly on Democrats and

CARROLL: A more primitive life might be required

Some readers recoiled at my depiction last year of Gov. Bill Ritter's Climate Action Plan as a "faith-based document" that barely hints at the "grueling acrobatics" needed to reach its goals of a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050. How dare I suggest that the path to whopping reductions in greenhouse emissions might be anything other than painless and smooth?

BLAKE: Shock and awe, lawyer style

In the 2008 initiative game, the best defense is not just a good offense but an overwhelming one.

CARROLL: Smeared with oil

Has it really come to this: that working for an energy company is now a liability - an actual badge of shame - for a candidate for public office in Colorado?

CAMPOS: A nation of hysterics

Lenore Skenazy, a columnist for The New York Sun, caused quite a stir earlier this month when she wrote about letting her 9-year-old son take a subway and bus by himself across Manhattan. The boy had been begging her to allow him to test his big city commuting skills on his own, and she finally agreed, handing him a map, a subway token, some quarters, and a $20 bill.

CARROLL: Fret level: elevated

If President Obama, Clinton or McCain wants to free Americans from a minor but annoying interruption of their lives, he or she will pick up the phone next year and order the new Homeland Security chief to shut down the color-coded warnings in airport terminals.

REDBLUEAMERICA.COM: Fair pay and fair play

Women should receive equal pay for equal work. A simple concept, but is it enforceable? Maybe not.

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