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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: 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…

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…