*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on April 22, 2020. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. If all you’re hearing is bad news, then listen to Manitou Springs howl at eight o’clock each night. A few minutes ahead of schedule, say,…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on April 10, 2020. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. The first rounds sounded harmless enough, like pellets dinging distant tin cans. Then the bullets suddenly surrounded me in stereo. I fired back reflexively through…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on March 18, 2020. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. The glass doors parted just enough for my side-body shimmy, then I squared my shoulders and double-timed it into the store, yanked a cart back,…
*Note: This essay was originally published on the Modern War Institute’s Commentary & Analysis site. Mother Nature is the world’s greatest murderer – far better than Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and Pol Pot combined – yet the military weirdly refuses to take infectious disease and pandemics seriously. Fact 1: Global deaths caused by infectious diseases are…