Author: Mike Rosen
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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…
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Why the United States must win the Iran war | Mike Rosen
Obviously, the outcome of the war with Iran remains to be seen. The best outcome is a US military victory followed by regime change freeing Iranians from the tyranny of their government. With that may come a more peaceful and stable Middle East removing the existential danger of nuclear weapons in the hands of religious fanatics who have plagued the region for the last 47 years. In 1979, a revolution deposed an oppressive unpopular monarch, the Shah of Iran who, at least, was a pro-western modernist. It brought Ayatollah Khomeini to absolute power as Iran’s Supreme Leader. Protected by…
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Democrat scheme violates TABOR and Constitution | Mike Rosen
The governor and progressive Democrats that dominate the state legislature and every statewide office in Colorado have been masterful ― if not ethical and honest ― in devising devious schemes to circumvent the TABOR amendment in the Colorado Constitution. That’s the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, passed by a 1992 voter-initiated ballot measure that bypassed the legislature. It limited government spending and barred the legislature from increasing taxes or imposing new ones without the consent of the voters. Democrats have always despised TABOR. Their favorite ploys have included misrepresenting taxes as “fees” and funding…
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The U.S. will survive the demise of the penny | Mike Rosen
It’s worrisome enough that we have to live with the ever-present threat of nuclear war hanging over our head, the fiery extermination of humanity from global warming, a worldwide depression triggered by the U.S. defaulting on its $39 trillion national debt on its way to $50 trillion, to say nothing of an uptick in falls…
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The torture of Denver motorists is intentional | Mike Rosen
Bicycle lanes in Denver are much more than just a nuisance for motorists; they’re a small but glaring symptom of the radical progressive mentality of Democrats that have grossly mismanaged Denver government in recent years. This is a sad reflection of Denver voters that have brought this on themselves. Worse than useless and being…
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It’s time to restore the military-industrial complex
Historian Will Durant observed that peace is an unstable equilibrium which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power. War is a constant of human history and human nature and always will be. That’s not cynicism or defeatism, it’s practicality. If you believe otherwise you needn’t read any further, we have an irreconcilable…