Author: Mike Rosen
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COLUMN: New book details why Democrats have become dangerous
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sadly, many Democratic voters don’t understand how dangerous their leadership has become, getting their news exclusively from left-leaning sources — The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NPR, MSNBC, social media, etc. — and interacting only with liberal friends and co-workers, they live in a…
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OPINION: “LA Belongs to Mexico” – Not! | Mike Rosen
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Signs demanding “L.A. belongs to Mexico” and “This city was once Mexico and it belongs to us” have been prominent among raging Latino protesters opposing enforcement of U.S. immigration laws at L.A. riots in that sanctuary city where illegal aliens abound. My response to those…
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COLUMN: The left loses it on the Army’s 250th birthday
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On June 14, three events intersected. It was the birthday of the U.S. Army, but far more than a typical birthday it was the 250th. It was Flag Day, commemorating the adoption of the flag of the United States by resolution of the Second Continental…
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COLUMN: NPR and PBS will go on without taxpayer subsidies
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save President Trump’s recent executive order to cut off the federal subsidy for NPR and PBS generated a storm of outrage from the left. Predictably, the usual suspects staged demonstrations and NPR, PBS and Democrats have counterattacked with lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of Trump’s order. NPR…
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COLUMN: Multiculturalism could destroy America
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The multiculturalism movement is a cancer disguised as a cure. It claims that learning more about minorities would elevate them and improve national harmony, and opening our borders to people from other countries will enrich…
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COLUMN: It’s time to fundamentally restore America
Early in the 2024 Republican presidential nominating process I wasn’t enthused about Donald Trump. While I approved of his accomplishments as president and his public policy agenda, I thought his brash style and the clumsy way he ended his presidency would be a drawback, and that someone like Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley was a…
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COLUMN: The complexities of birthrights and wrongs
As fully expected, President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship was challenged by attorneys from four Democrat-controlled states, and a Seattle judge promptly blocked it with a temporary restraining order. This isn’t a setback for Trump, it’s an opportunity to set in motion an appeals process that will be decided by the U.S. Supreme…
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COLUMN: Raising the debt ceiling — part 80
In late December, Congress passed stopgap legislation to avert a government shutdown. Of course, this is hyperbole, the government doesn’t shut down. The vast majority of government spending continues to flow including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, interest on the national debt, additional expenditures for disasters and farmers, along with the armed forces, FBI, CIA, and…
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COLUMN: A lesson on fascism for Trump haters
When Kamala Harris’s late entry into the presidential campaign began its theme was “the politics of joy.” This was a damage-control strategy by her handlers to neutralize her nervous habit of over-smiling and loudly cackling at things that weren’t funny or when she was at a loss for an answer to a pointed question. In…
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COLUMN: Rebuttals to anti-school choice misinformation
Ballot measure Amendment 80, which would have enshrined school choice as a right in the Colorado Constitution, was defeated in November although it got 49% of the vote, but school choice and vouchers for private schools are picking up steam across the country. When it comes up again in Colorado, here are some rebuttals to…