A long time ago, as a matter of fact, it’ll be forty years ago in November, I went into the precious metals business.  November, 1977 it was.  I was 43, and there were no TV advertisers.  I was virtually alone.  Why “Colorado Gold?”  Because I love Colorado, have spent more than half my life here, […]

A Colorado paper recently moaned about the hundreds of millions of dead trees, which were, and still are being killed by beetles.  According to the paper, the hundreds of millions of dead trees in National Forest and BLM lands in western states, are ‘public’ or ‘owned’ by the federal government.  “Publicly owned,” would have to […]

One of Trump’s most popular promises to voters, when he was running for office, was that he would “build a wall.”  That was fine, except he also promised that Mexico would pay for it.  I always had trouble with that.  It made no sense.  Suppose you had a factory or valuable property or business, and […]

One of the most mistaken ideas of late, is that the wonderful, graceful, Statue of Liberty, which graces New York Harbor, is identified with the poem inside its base.  Titled, “The New Colossus.”  You know, “…Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, […]