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COLUMBUS DAY

Posted by EWRoss on Monday, October 12, 2009 7:00:00 AM

Judging from the way elementary and high school history books treat Christopher Columbus these days, he was a pretty bad guy. Watching the formerly-mainstream media you'd get the idea that for every Columbus Day parade there's a demonstration protesting the holiday.

  

We have to wonder how much longer we'll have a national holiday named after Columbus before Congress passes a bill changing it. Now that he's won the Nobel Peace Prize, I'm sure there are plenty of Democrats who would like to make it Barack Obama day. With their majorities in Congress they could pass such a bill without a single Republican vote. Of course, the president is too smart to sign it, so we'll either have to stick with Columbus or find someone else.

 

Columbus wasn't the first European to discover America anyway. Leif Ericson is widely regarded as the first European to have landed in North America 492 years before Columbus. But we already have a Leif Ericson Day, and I don't think we want to name a national holiday after a Norwegian? It might give the Norwegian Nobel Committee the wrong idea. Then there's the claim that Henry Sinclair of the Knights Templar came to America in the 1300s. Given that many of his fellow knights were burned at the stake as heretics, you know what textbook writers would do with that. How about the ice-age Europeans that some believe crossed the Atlantic along the ice shelf between Europe and North America? Unfortunately GEICO already has the rights to their image locked up tight. Oh well, I guess we'll have to stick with poor old Columbus for the time being.


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THE SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT - Clamoring for Quasimodo?

Posted by EWRoss on Monday, August 03, 2009 8:00:00 AM

Things haven’t been going well for President Obama lately. Conservative columnists, talk-show hosts, and bloggers are having a field day chronicling the president's fall from the clouds above Mount Olympus. His poll numbers, if not his ambition, have returned to Earth as he has failed to effectively sell his healthcare plan, insinuated a cop was a racist before he had the facts, and delegated too much responsibility to fragmented Democrats in Congress. With Obama's presidency and the Democratic agenda on the line, members of Congress return home in August to meet with their constituents. They'll encounter groups of voters who aren't happy with what Democrats have been doing. It’s America’s growing discontent that’s the real news story this summer. Expect an all out effort by liberals in the media and entertainment to ridicule the voices of opposition.

 

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OBAMA'S MOSCOW TRIP

Posted by EWRoss on Monday, July 06, 2009 7:00:00 AM

When President Barack Obama arrives in Moscow Monday for meetings with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, he will be under intense pressure to cancel US plans to build missile defense installations in Poland and the Czech Republic. The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) expires on Dec 5, and Medvedev will hold a new treaty hostage in exchange for Obama's concessions on missile defense in Europe. The Democratic left will encourage Obama to make those concessions. They've been opposed to missile defense from the outset, agreeing with those, including the Russians, who believe it's destabilizing and undercuts arms control agreements. But if Obama truly believes it's time to put Cold-War thinking behind us and face the realities and treats of the future, he won't negotiate away capabilities the US needs to defend and deter against Iranian ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons. Unless the US or Israel does something about Iran's nuclear weapons and missile programs, their far smaller arsenal will be a greater threat to US national security than Russia's because of the greater likelihood Iran would use them. How Obama reacts to Russian and left-wing pressure to abandon missile defense in Europe will tell the American people and our enemies much about how Obama intends to defend America.

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DON'T DIS THE BRITS

Posted by EWRoss on Saturday, May 30, 2009 8:00:00 AM
What is it with the White House? First President Obama takes office and returns the bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, whose mother was an American, to the British Embassy. Then someone in White House protocol decides an appropriate gift for current British PM Gordon Brown is a set of DVDs containing classic American movies. Problem is, no one noticed that they weren’t compatible with the PAL system used in Europe. If that weren’t classless enough the protocol office has Obama give the Queen an iPod with Obama’s speeches on it. Now it turns out that the Queen, the only living head of state who served in uniform in World War II, has been left out of the D-Day 65th anniversary ceremony. Even if someone else had made the decision not to include her, the White House should have insisted that she participate. Americans have no better allies than the British and the Australians. Whatever you think about Queen Elizabeth she represents 65 years of US-UK shared sacrifice. EWR
 
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OPENING PANDORA'S BOX - Allowing Its Evils to Escape

Posted by EWRoss on Monday, April 27, 2009 8:00:00 AM
When President Barack Obama released the top-secret interrogation memos from the George W. Bush administration then reversed course on not prosecuting the officials behind them he opened Pandora’s Box. The evils that escaped from it are fanning the flames of bitter partisan politics, undermining the effectiveness of the CIA, and threatening the Obama presidency. Editorial and op-ed pages are full of articles warning of the perils pursuing such criminal prosecutions invite. Nevertheless, Democrats in Congress, the ACLU, and left-wing groups like Moveon.org are intent on plunging the country into months of acrimonious accusations, investigations, and Congressional hearings.
 
 
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BLAGO, CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS, AND BARACK: Audacity in Action

Posted by EWRoss on Monday, February 02, 2009 8:00:00 AM
Audacity catapulted Rod Blagojevich into the governor’s mansion in Illinois, Democrats into the majority in Congress, and Barack Obama into the White House. Last week their audaciousness again was on display. Blagojevich went on one TV interview program after another claiming he was an innocent victim. Democrats in the House of Representatives, in the middle of one of the worst economic crises in US history, packed a trillion-dollar appropriations bill full of self-serving programs that have little to do with job creation and economic recovery. And President Obama, flush with the adulation of an adoring media, reached across the isle to Republicans, then told them, “I won” the election so vote for my program, and stop listening to Rush Limbaugh if you want to get things done.
 
Just a month into the new Democratic era in American politics and the Democrat's audacitometer already is in the red. You have to wonder how long it can stay there before they blow the fuze.
 
 
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2008 - A YEAR OF INCREDIBLE EVENTS

Posted by EWRoss on Monday, December 22, 2008 8:00:00 AM
Every year has many history-making events. Some years have a greater impact on history than others. By any measure, 2008 was a year full of incredible events that either will have a long-lasting effect on history or that foreshadow things to come.  Here is my list of noteworthy events and why they’re important along with a few predictions.
 
 
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THE CHICAGO WAY

Posted by EWRoss on Monday, December 15, 2008 8:00:00 AM
US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald’s arrest of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on federal bribery and conspiracy charges certainly isn’t helpful to President-elect Barack Obama. Blagojevich's "political crime spree," according to Fitzgerald, included attempting to auction off Obama’s vacant US Senate seat to the highest bidder. For that and several other reasons, this scandal has the potential to do more than just embarrass the soon-to-be president.
 
 
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THE GIANT DONKEY IN THE ROOM

Posted by EWRoss on Sunday, October 26, 2008 12:00:00 AM

If John McCain loses the 2008 presidential election, and nine days from Election Day I do not believe it is a foregone conclusion that he will, McCain will not be blameless. To argue, however, that it’s all about his campaign, or the global financial crisis, or George Bush ignores the giant donkey in the room.

Short of voter fraud or other illegal activity on the part of Democrats, McCain will accept responsibility for his defeat. McCain is an honorable man, and if he loses he will blame no one but himself. That’s the American, or at least the McCain, way. Nevertheless, pro-Obama bias by the mainstream media (MSM) and the constant derision and ridicule of John McCain and Sarah Palin by Democrats, left wing-bloggers, and the entertainment industry will have taken their toll.
 
 
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