It’s all the rage now, and it seems impossible to avoid mention of it. It’s something never before heard of until Donald Trump was elected, and that is “Fake News.” Before the Trump election, the very idea of fake news was not considered, and wasn’t even in the common English lexicon. After all, don’t […]
( I’m ambivalent about Trump’s Syria strike) Do you have a ‘concealed permit’ to carry a gun? I don’t. Where, in the Second Amendment are there instructions for government to issue such a permit? Where, in our Constitution, does it require a gun owner to pass a mental exam or to take instructions about their […]
( I didn’t write this. It is a letter to Waco Texas Tribune) Put me in charge of food stamps. I’d get rid of Lone Star Cards: No cash for Ding Dong’s or Ho Ho’s, just money for 50 pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese, and all the powdered milk you can […]
For many long years, Republicans swore about, derided, maimed, and campaigned against the health care act, known as “Obamacare,” which was passed and made into law, without a single Republican vote. Republicans passed bills abolishing it many times, obviously without success. Trump and all Republican candidates, ran on a platform of abolishing it, and replacing […]
After the Revolution, when the newly formed United States was in operation, it is quite obvious that we were formed by refugees from foreign lands. When the Founders fought Mother England, it was because of heavy taxation and rules which became intolerable. A similar situation happened when the UK voted to leave the European Union. […]
President Donald Trump woke up one day last week, and tweeted that Obama had hacked into his phone during the campaign. That started another media frenzy, which will probably not die down in the near future. I say, “So what?” I am certain that thousands of telephones have been hacked, with or without knowledge of […]
“The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer, and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday, from the Consulate at Bergen Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto […]
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 […]