“We Honor Those Who Serve” – elementary school kids salute Military Veterans

by Captain Arapahoe | 2:23 pm, November 11, 2009

A moving counterpoint to all of those “praise Obama” cult of personality videos making the rounds… This morning, I attended one of my usual breakfast club groups, who put on a special “Salute to Veterans” edition in honor of Veterans Day.  A few days earlier, a colleague had convinced me to attend in my military [...]

More Media Anti-Gun Bias – ABC “News” story conceals the facts on “concealed-carry” in restaurants

by Captain Arapahoe | 5:56 pm, August 24, 2009

Coincidentally (?) airing on the same date as the infamous MSNBC “Racists with Guns” story – a broadcast which intentionally used video showing a man with a (legally carried) gun at a rally against government takeover of healthcare to bolster false accusations of racism and “hate” speech among protesters (unfortunately for MSNBC, an unedited version of [...]

Denver Post editorial backstabs Colorado Soldiers

by Captain Arapahoe | 12:17 pm, July 25, 2009

The Denver Post Editorials board has reached a despicable new low. This Saturday’s editorial, “The Reality of Closing Gitmo“, is bad enough from a strictly policy perspective.  The Post’s admonition that “there should be no excuses” for failure to quickly shut down Gitmo is quite simply ridiculous, and flies in the face of both logic [...]

Ritter vetoes bipartisan Gun Check simplification bill, putting politically correct pandering ahead of 2nd Amendment rights

by Captain Arapahoe | 11:30 pm, May 17, 2009

Governor Bill Ritter announced the veto of House Bill 1180, passed with a strong bipartisan majority (including 19 Democrats), “which would have allowed law-abiding gun owners to purchase firearms without jumping through hoops and waiting for additional criminal background checks” late Friday afternoon.  In what is becoming a pattern for “Backdoor Bill” Ritter, his veto [...]

CU Regents reject responsible and licensed Concealed-Carry, effectively declaring “open season” on students

by Captain Arapahoe | 11:45 pm, May 8, 2009

Last week, two events occurred with significant implications for the safety of students on college campuses, specifically on the various campuses and property of the University of Colorado.  First, the CU Regents succeeded in getting a lawsuit, brought by students seeking to responsibly exercise their constitutional rights and secure their own safety, thrown out on [...]

“A Think on Cleve Tidwell”

by Captain Arapahoe | 6:30 am, April 22, 2009

Cleve Tidwell at the RNC Chairman Michael Steele dinner. I’ve been observing with somewhat detached amusement the various “astroturfing” attempts (here, here, here, and even here) by supporters of presumed (as yet officially unannounced, although quite active) Senate candidate Cleve Tidwell.  I had seem him speak at the GOP State Central Committee and at the previous night’s dinner with [...]

Support common-sense background check reform bill (HB1180)

by Captain Arapahoe | 1:17 pm, March 27, 2009

What should be a slam-dunk, common-sense good-government reform and streamlining bill is being opposed and mischaracterized by the usual suspects. House Bill 1180, sponsored by Rep. Steve King (R-Grand Junction) and Sen. Greg Brophy (R-Wray) would reduce the burden on the already overloaded Colorado Bureau of Investigation background check hotline by waiving the additional background [...]

Obama, Holder shift on Guantanamo detainee policy incoherent, inconsistent, and dangerous

by Captain Arapahoe | 8:20 pm, March 15, 2009

In a dramatic break with longstanding U.S. government policy and well-established interpretations of the laws of war, the Obama administration (Holder Justice Department) announced Friday afternoon (a time when government officials announce policy changes they hope will be ignored or buried by the news media) that it will abandon the use of the term “enemy [...]

Bill Menezes and Colorado Media Matters still can’t get facts straight on alleged U.S. – Mexico “Assault Weapons” smuggling

by Captain Arapahoe | 3:03 am, March 9, 2009

One-bit mega-hack Bill Menezes (yes, he gets paid one-eigth of a million dollars to be professionally outraged) and/or his legion of paid minions (Bill, I hope you’re at least paying them minimum wage with Tim Gill’s money, and not just exploiting unpaid interns – leave that to the poor underfunded Independence Institute) still can’t get the facts straight on the alleged “U.S.-Mexico Connection” supposedly smuggling a “flood” of “assault weapons” to Mexican drug cartels.

It’s Official – Gitmo complies with Geneva rules

by Captain Arapahoe | 2:09 am, February 27, 2009

Latest developments on the issue of detainees in the Global War on Terror (GWOT) The story that just won’t die…  After railing for months (if not years) against the Bush Administration policies on detention of enemy combatants captured during operations in Afghanistan and other battlegrounds of the Global War on Terror (GWOT), the Obama Administration [...]

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