Author: Mike Rosen
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COLUMN: NPR and PBS will go on without taxpayer subsidies
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 and PBS aren’t identical twins. So, let’s call them fraternal…
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COLUMN: Multiculturalism could destroy America
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 us as they combine their cultures with ours. Our public schools enthusiastically embraced this, de emphasizing reading, writing, and arithmetic…
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COLUMN: Uncivil disobedience is intolerant and unjustified
Civil disobedience is a constant of history. The Boston Tea Party was a violent symbolic demonstration against British tyranny in 1773 that preceded the American Revolutionary War. An unelected English King appointed English Governors who ruled with an iron hand in the colonies. There was taxation without representation, and American colonists had no peaceful political…
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COLUMN: The lowdown on “One Big Beautiful Tax Bill”
President Donald Trump’s most significant first-term accomplishment was the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. It reduced tax rates across income levels and doubled the standard deduction to $12,000 for single fillers ($24,000 for married filing jointly), consequently millions of lower- and middle-income Americans no longer pay federal income taxes. According to the latest IRS…
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COLUMN: We should beware of enviro-socialist watermelons
I recently stumbled on one of my all-time favorite movies on TV. It was the 1965 film of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago, starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie. So, I watched the whole thing for 10th time. One particular scene stands out. After his service as a doctor in the Russian Army during World War…
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COLUMN: Salary caps could save Major League Baseball from itself
I grew up in New York City in the 1950s. In Brooklyn, to be exact, original home of the Dodgers, a team its fans affectionally nicknamed the “Bums,” because they’d routinely lose to the Yankees in the World Series (until 1955), which was fine with me because I was a Yankees fan. These were the…
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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: The Biden/Obama presidency ends with a thud
The final month of the Joe Biden presidency was the Left’s last gasp, punctuated with an unprecedented and shameful avalanche of pardons, commutations of brutal murderers depopulating the federal death row, spiteful executive orders, and public statements overflowing with bald-faced lies. Right after Trump’s inauguration, Joe and Dr. Jill Biden skipped town from the White…
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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…