Opinion

Thirty round magazines if you’re stuck on the inside?

Yes, please. I’ll take all you’ve got.

The knee jerk reaction that we should simply pull up stakes and leave is certainly understandable. And opponents who argue that doing so simply leaves a problem to fester and worsen such that, in a few years, there’s enough strength, organization and financial savvy to muster a future 9/11-type attack on the homeland, that argument also has merit. It did happen once, after all. It can certainly happen again.

This could not be more transparent, more pathetic, or more abusive: “White House studying potential oil reserve release”.

Curiosity, the biggest, heaviest and most complex rover, landed successfully on Mars this evening.

To their credit, notice the trigger fingers of these two officers. They’re doing it right. Bravo!

If I had been sitting in that theater in Aurora, my first priority would’ve been to get my wife and family out of there.

On this day in 2012 with the horror of the shooting in a Denver suburb movie theater blanketing the news, I am newly reminded of the incredible and sometimes terrifying range of what it is that we call, human.

Shotgun, rifle, body armor and a dark theater versus a snub-nose 38?

No one can take away from you the fierce independence of what you think. No law can stop you from thinking what you think. It is your ultimate independence.

Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.