I love history, and especially Colorado and railroad history.  I’m going to try to tell a story which is long and involved, in a short column.  In 1893, all railroads west of the Front Range (Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo). were narrow gauge, which is 3 feet between rails, as opposed to ’standard gauge,’ which […]

  We have been hearing about Edward Snowden for months now.  He’s the low level employee who mysteriously managed to download thousands of pages of incredibly incriminating evidence against the federal government and the NSA or ’National Security Agency.’  Charles Krauthammer calls him a ’traitor,’ and for once, I totally disagree with that brilliant commentator.  […]

  We don’t often think of our National Anthem objectively.  At least till we try to sing it!  The following is a column I wrote over 20 years ago, and it still applies.    “Oh say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light?  What’s so proudly we hailed, at the twilight’s last gleaming.  Whose […]

  Refrigerators?  Certainly!  Why not?  Here’s a supposition:  Let’s suppose that all refrigerators had to be made by the federal government.  Why?  For the same reason that the federal government has cornered 6-7% of the national product with Obamacare.  See, a lot of people can’t afford a new refrigerator with ice maker, vegetable drawer, freezer […]