Sangre de Cristo Sentinel - The War on Guns

Fighting Like Democrats

This Custer County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) meeting on May 1st started out “normal” (whatever that is here in Happy Valley) but when the subject of an upcoming BOCC Election Integrity Forum came up at the end, some of our left leaning locals went full victim outrage Stage 10 Soy Boy trying to suppress free speech as they didn’t agree with the meeting’s subject. (Just like the libs do on our college campuses around the country.) [More]

The Sangre de Cristo Sentinel continues tobe the unyielding watchdog a free press was meant to be.

How many hometown papers can say that? Can yours?

Pockets of Resistance

Despite the influx of left leaning migrants to Happy Valley the last decade or so, Custer County is still solid red with a big time Republican turnout in Tuesday’s Colorado primary election. The Custer County Republican vote turnout was FOUR TIMES higher than the Democrat turnout with 1,957 voting Republican and only 477 voting Democrat. (Note results are unofficial as of this date.) [More]

We’ve talked before, for years, about the Sangre de Cristo Sentinel, how even in a Democrat state like Colorado there are communities where the citizens will not surrender their heritage and their rights, and how important it is to have a strong voice countering media lies with the truth.

Publisher George Gramlich has set the template that other communities could follow. Here’s how those with a stake in local happenings can keep up, hard copy or online.

Paper Chase

An old-fashioned newspaper war inspired by modern politics is raging in Westcliffe and dividing readers [More]

Here’s the right side of the divide I fall on.

And here’s the left.

Home on Derange

The Sentinel’s staff, however, are still furious. They say that being called “Nazis” and “fascists” helped set the tone for their relationship with the ranch. [More]

Pointing out the truth is hardly a furious reaction. That reaction is coming entirely from the other side.

I promote The Sangre de Cristo Sentinel all the time, and if the Tenacious Unicornholers want to do their ranching thing and protect their privacy with rifles, I’ll be happy to leave them unmolested (unlike what their Antifa heroes do to those they target). Just be advised if you want to join them, you’ll first need to clear it with Dr. Cornwallis.

A Wider View

Our friends at the Sangre de Cristo Sentinel have incurred the wrath of an indignant “progressive” publisher who resorts to logical fallacy ad hominem pejoratives like “the nutter butter right.”

Looks like somebody’s living in the guy’s head rent-free…

It’s That Time of Year Again

We’ve talked about this before…

If you’re in the area…

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About “The Only Ones”

So named from a comment by DEA agent Lee Paige, who told a classroom full of kids he was “the only one” qualified to be armed and then promptly shot himself in the foot, the purpose of this feature has never been to bash cops. The only reason I do this is to amass a credible body of evidence to present when those who would deny our right to keep and bear arms use the argument that only government enforcers are professional and trained enough to do so safely and responsibly. And it’s also used to illustrate when those of official status, rank, or privilege, both in law enforcement and in some other government position, get special breaks not available to we commoners, particularly (but not exclusively) when they’re involved in gun-related incidents.