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CON GAMES: How I Learned To Love The Bomb

Given the world we Americans now live in — with assault weapons and snipers and innocent civilians and police falling like flies — it should have come as no surprise that we had a bomb in our suburban subdivision over the weekend.

CON GAMES: Life Never Better For Sheriff Bob

Fifteen hundred pounds of marijuana is a whole lot of pot, even in Pitkin County, but 1,500 pounds is not nearly enough for Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officials to alert Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis that a major drug ring is doing business…

CON GAMES: Pro Publica Wannabe Flunks Test

I’ve seen some lousy reporting at the Aspen Daily News — including the one this year about a drunken editor trying to bribe a cop — but some of the worst ever can be found in Brent Gardner-Smith’s coverage of the resignation of Hugh Zuker, a candidate for…

CON GAMES RADIO: Mick, Barwick Fireworks

Mayor Mick Ireland of Aspen and City Manager Steve Barwick meet the Con Man with controversial results.

Click here for the complete “Con Games with Michael Conniff” for Thursday June 26, 2008.

CON GAMES RADI0: Obama ‘Messiah,” Fat Like Me

The Con Man dissects the phenomenon of Obama “The Messiah,” then turns his attention to cities and even one state banning trans fats from fast-food menus.

Click here for “Con Games with Michael Conniff” for Wednesday July 21, 2008.

CON GAMES: Know Nothing Party Knows How To Say No

In politics, to quote Yogi Berra: You don’t know nothin’ — and that goes double for the Know Nothing Party.

The Grand Old Party, formerly known as “Republican,” has now officially adopted the “Just Say No” mantra in a…

CON GAMES 24/7: The Schochet Effect — Spitzer, Hillary, Obama

Click here for the complete “Con Games with Michael Conniff” broadcast from Friday March 14, 2008.

The Con Man welcomes Barry Schochet back to The Schochet Effect, and the result is the usual…

Dependent Claws

A listener writes the Con Man:
One of the ruses employed by in-the-know illegals (and they are as a group surprisingly “in the know”) is to claim a large number of dependents because this increases the net size of their weekly paycheck. This works well for them insamuch as they often have no intent…