Editorials
Kerry and messianism
IJN Editorial StaffJan 16, 2014
The instinct is to say that the Israel Defense Minister’s comment on US Secretary of State John Kerry that he is “messianic” and “obsessive” is stupid, wrong,...
Affluenza
IJN Editorial StaffJan 16, 2014
We’re not making this up. A teenage drunk driver in Ft. Worth, Texas — who killed four pedestrians and left a friend brain-damaged and paralyzed — got off, as a...
Isolationism is not strategic
IJN Editorial StaffJan 09, 2014
War spills. War spreads. Hatred is contagious. It is dangerous to think that the ever expanding war in Syria — now spilling into Lebanon and Iraq — will leave...
Flu shot anyone?
IJN Editorial StaffJan 09, 2014
The Colorado Health Dept. says 748 people in our state have been hospitalized with the flu since January, 2013. Most did not get vaccinated. Now the flu is rampant....
Another take on marijuana: Acting responsibly
IJN Editorial StaffJan 02, 2014
The whole world is watching Colorado to see how people change following the legalization of marijuana. Will boomers search through boxes for 40-year-old blue jeans and...
One take on marijuana: Marijuana won. Who lost?
IJN Editorial StaffJan 02, 2014
For fun. For a high. For “recreation.” Smoking marijuana is now legal in Colorado, as of January 1, 2014. Not only marijuana for medicinal purposes — that is old...
Ken Gordon, 1950-2013
IJN Editorial StaffDec 26, 2013
The Jewish tenet of social justice was embodied in Ken Gordon, the soft-spoken, mild-mannered yet driven and respected former state senator who passed away suddenly this...
Dearest Claire Davis
IJN Editorial StaffDec 26, 2013
Dear Claire Davis, of blessed memory: You were a blossoming, beautiful, caring high school student, but, shockingly, no longer. It might well seem that none of us cannot...
Obama can clip NSA; he doesn’t need the courts
IJN Editorial StaffDec 19, 2013
Upon a federal judge’s ruling that the National Security Agency violates the US Constitution with its massive monitoring of the phone calls of Americans, Colorado Sen....
How did Pierson get in the school with weapons?
IJN Editorial StaffDec 19, 2013
How did the student killer at Arapahoe High School enter his school last Friday, armed to the hilt, without the slightest trouble? Something failed — either the rules,...
