In comment #11, Post blogger Mitch Mulhall continues a conversation he started last August regarding Homeland Security’s decision to reclassify knives that can be opened with one hand as switchblades. Read More →
Fear And Loathing In Taos
Post blogger Keith Hemstreet found himself on lockdown while on vacation in Taos, New Mexico, seized by the fear that he and his family would become victims in an ongoing wave of violent crime – or was it all in his head? “There was a noise at the back door,” writes Hemstreet. “A sudden... Read more →
On Lockdown In The High New Mexican Desert
There was a noise at the back door. A sudden crack. My muscles tightened. My heart was racing. My mind buzzed frantically. I looked at the clock. It was 2:47 a.m. I reached under the bed and grabbed the hammer I had stashed, the only decent weapon in the house. Might I actually have to... Read more →
Democratic House leaders throw Speaker Pelosi under the bus…
…House Democrats have elected the leaders who will help take our nation in a New Direction. We will work together to lead the House of Representatives with a commitment to integrity, to civility, and to fiscal responsibility. This leadership team will create the most honest, most open, and most ethical... Read more →
He’s No George W.
Bruno Kirchenwitz, the 7-11 clerk who was fired upon, claims he did not say “bring it on” as police reported, and a recent polygraph backs his story. Was his termination justified? “7-Eleven is claiming in large part that Burno was fired because he in his verbal exchange with the attempted... Read more →
Vigilantes In Our Midst
Recent shootings in the valley have given residents flashbacks of the crime-riddled cities from which they once fled. “Since everyone is so hip on guns these days,” writes Post blogger Keith Hemstreet, “let’s take a page from the Wild West and enact a policy that would make Wyatt Earp... Read more →
Vigilantes In Our Midst
What in God’s name is happening to our mountain utopia? This used to be a safe place where the idea of a shooting was preposterous, but it seems that even Aspen is not immune to gun toting delinquents. July was probably the wildest month this valley has seen since the days of Doc Holiday. A man fired... Read more →
Mitch.Mulhall Bears All
In comment #19, Mitch.Mulhall puts forth a masterful analysis on the meanings gleaned from the Second Amendment’s “right of the People to keep and bear arms…” “Without boring you with too much English history,” he blogs, “suffice it so say that during Britain’s... Read more →
Alpha 6 Throws The Old Flag
“OK…I gotta throw up the bullshit flag on ‘ol Jon there,” Alpha 6 tells B. Jon Traylor in comment #18 about buying a gun at a gun show. Read More →
Target Practice
Reckless G, AKA Sue Gray of Carbondale, a relentless liberal, believes nonetheless in the ownership of guns. “Hey guys,” she writes in comment #16 about the white-hot debate about guns and civil order, “even though I’ve never been in combat like some of you, I do own guns and enjoy... Read more →