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 […]
Seven words sums it all up, and the seven words might be the most descriptive words ever written. They are: “We should have picked our own cotton.” Am I a racist? Probably, but it isn’t difficult to understand. I have been mugged and left for dead by three black teenagers in […]
Donald Trump explains Obamacare perfectly, in one simple paragraph. “Let me get this straight. We’re going to be ’gifted’ with a health care plan we are forced to purchase, and fined if we don’t, which purportedly covers at least 10 million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new […]
It’s a well known fact, that Obamacare has now taken control of 6% of the national GDP, and for that matter, the entire medical sector, including doctors, hospitals, and patients. Tea Party Republicans made a serious error in shutting down the government over Obmacare. Everyone makes a mistake sooner or later, but that one […]
Bill Clinton got impeached for telling one lie. Bill and Hillary both have a ’colorful’ past in Arkansas, which involved all sorts of shady dealings, ’Whitewater,’ and lots of suspicious carryings on with various and sundry characters, which Damon Runyan would be proud to write about in one of his “Guys and Dolls” types […]
We are all aware that government bureaucrats have written literally tens of thousands of rules and regulations, none of which were passed by a vote of the Congress, and signed by the President. This, to me, makes them unconstitutional. The tens of thousands of rules and regulations, have made it virtually impossible to start a business, […]
By Dictionary definition, pollution is to make corrupt or impure. An old American proverb reads: “If you want to clear the stream, get the hog out of the spring.” What can a column by me, have to do with pollution? Lots! Maybe, “Get the government out of the spring, and that might clear the […]