Author: Mike Rosen
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Oligarchy myth fuels Bernie Sanders’ socialism | Mike Rosen
Who’d have believed that Bernie Sanders, a ranting, disheveled old man, could rise to become the modern-day reincarnation of Vladimir Lenin, with a Brooklyn accent, evangelizing for socialism in the USA and building a legion of useful idiots? (Clue: Bernie and his wife honeymooned in the Soviet Union.) He’s certainly not charismatic. So, he shrewdly…
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That was then, this is now; let’s move forward | Mike Rosen
Ethical historians condemn the practice, known as “presentism,” of judging historical events, people or cultures, through the lens of today’s moral standards, political beliefs or social norms, rather than understanding them within their own time frame. This is an element of the strategy of the radical left to undermine our pride in America by magnifying…
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Socialism’s rise challenges the capitalist economic system | Mike Rosen
Inheriting a deep recession and hyperinflation from the failed Carter administration, Ronald Reagan’s bold measures of across-the-board tax rate cuts, deregulation and disciplined monetary policy broke the back of inflation in record time and ushered in a robust recovery that spanned for two decades. This vindication of the power of unshackled capitalism prompted some to…
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Birthrights and wrongs about U.S. citizenship | Mike Rosen
It was no surprise that the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s executive order denying citizenship to children born in the U.S. to parents who were here illegally or were birthright tourists visiting the country on a temporary visa. The latter group is made up of foreigners who game the system by coming here for…
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NBA and NHL should use regular-season rules in the playoffs | Mike Rosen
The simultaneous NBA and NFL playoffs, known as the second season, can be almost as exhausting and frustrating for the fans as it is for the players. For Avs and Nuggets fans, this year was especially disappointing, even though we knew that 15 of the 16 teams in the playoff bracket are fated to lose their last game. It’s an alleged truism that the NBA and NHL playoffs require a different kind of play than in the regular season. I think that’s a falseism. The leagues don’t change the rules for…
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Moderates are not our salvation | Mike Rosen
The word “moderate” is a fashionable term these days as the remedy to the nation’s sharply divided politics, but it’s highly overrated and largely inaccurate. A stark example is Democrat Abigail Spanberger, who was elected governor of Virginia in 2025 as a self-declared moderate, promising not to redistrict the state if elected, having branded gerrymandering as “detrimental to our democracy” as a Congresswoman in 2019. In her first…
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Public school teacher strikes are intolerable | Mike Rosen
The recent strike by unionized public school teachers in the Sheridan School District finally ended after 28 days, Colorado’s longest teacher strike in 45 years. Private-sector unionized employees have a legal right to strike, but government employees face more restrictions. Members of our armed forces are forbidden to unionize, collectively bargain, or strike for obvious…
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The real danger to democracy is the Democrats | Mike Rosen
Alexander Fraser Tytler was a judge, historian and professor of history in Scotland, born in 1747, who observed that, “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship.” Tytler further observed, “The average of the…
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Taking a big-picture view of the war in Iran | Mike Rosen
“Partisanship should end at the waters’ edge.” That was a slogan coined in 1947 by Senator Arthur Vandenberg a Michigan Republican. By the “water” he meant the seas that enclose our nation. Vandenberg had been a staunch isolationist before World War II but after the allied victory he came to believe that domestic political fights should be put aside when the nation deals with foreign policy and major international threats. Obviously, that hasn’t come to pass. There’s little doubt that congressional Democrats who’ve attacked Trump’s every move in this Iran war would be praising a Democrat president who had the foresight and courage to do…
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Signs that Democrats have gone stark raving mad | Mike Rosen
In 2024, Donald Trump was elected president by 77 million Americans, two million more than the 75 million who voted for Kamala Harris. Republicans also won a majority in the U.S. House and Senate, giving the GOP a federal trifecta and a governing mandate. Democrats had a similar governing mandate during the first two years of the Obama administration and the first two years of the…