The latest outrage by the Al Sharpton groupies, is for mass demonstrations and violence, protesting cops shooting blacks. It all began when an 18 year old husky black guy, (Brown), who had just completed robbing a convenience store, tried to take a gun from a police officer in his car, causing injuries to the policeman, […]
Highway paving and repair, is a process which is done by towns, counties, states, and even the federal government. We all drive on the results. Few ever think about the various types of paving, but believe me, there are great differences! Concrete is probably the longest lived, and if done smoothly, is wonderful, and will […]
I’m convinced 90% of politicians, be they your local alderman, or US congressman or senator, are the wrong people for the job. The modern day politician cares nothing about what’s best for his/her country in the long term, only what they believe will get them reelected to the next term or to the next higher […]
I’d be willing to bet that if you are reading this, and you’re not already retired, you are actually paying income taxes. That’s right, one of the 53% of the nation who’s actually paying into the treasury rather than draining it further (we’re now $18.2 trillion in debt with no end in sight). For those […]
(My son David is taking up the column writing, but I still have ideas and feel they must be preserved, so I will write them and place them in the archives. If you stumble upon them, fine, but I want my thoughts preserved. – Don Stott) The news is full of the terrible threats that […]
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could predict the benefit of government programs (I know that is an oxymoron) with almost 100% certainty? Wouldn’t that just make all of this insane political nonsense completely irrelevant? Can you just hear a politician saying, ?We’ve used scientific data and sophisticated modeling and determined that more government spending […]
Since joining Colorado Gold in 2007, I’ve written a few columns in this space, but this is the first since my dad retired last month. For those of you who haven’t read it, see the March 1, 2012 column entitled “Health Care Sans Government” to understand my thoughts about Obamacare and a much better alternative… […]
The latest power grab is really frightening. The last, free of editing, free of government interference, free of regulations, and total freedom to express views contrary to the establishment, is the internet. The internet runs all by itself, with no dependence of any kind on government facilities, and is totally free from governance […]
As I write these columns about what government has done to us, I haven’t the slightest problem with going back to 1776 and my favorite Tom Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence. Mother England had in fact done exactly what government has done to us, as England did to the Colonists 239 years ago, and […]
As I write these columns about what government has done to us, I mentioned previously that what government has done to us, is to kill incentive. Incentive to care for ourselves, family, friends, and even groups we are attached to, such as churches and charitable organizations. A book I bought years ago, and […]