Elizabeth Ross's Page

Last year, when the field of Democrat candidates for the presidency thinned to Obama and Clinton, I immediately went into panic mode. "It is too soon!" kept running through my head like a manic mantra. Like Edwin Yoder - Pulitzer Prize winning columnist from the now defunct Washington Star - pointed out in his memoirs, it is never a good thing when significant social change is forced before its time. He and I are in agreement that the civil rights movement pushed the issue of racial equ… Continue

...as far as our military and homeland security personnel are concerned?

Seriously, the media (and everyone else) really needs to think about what they're doing and saying when it comes to condemning training missions, on this day in particular.

WAKE UP!!!

Now pay close attention, there may be a quiz after this:

You really think that potential terrorists will keep this day sacred for the sake of the men and women who were killed in 2001?

Sure, the USCG is learning some new lessons today. Th… Continue

The blogosphere and Twitterverse are still buzzing with complaints about Congressman Joe Wilson shouting out during President Obama's speech tonight. It's been observed that this situation is higher on the trends list than health care.

That alone should point out the problem, but unfortunately I doubt that it does.

As a long-time veteran of political shenanigans (often the perpetrator, if only through digging in the dirt on behalf of politicians), I am happy to say that I have never been in a… Continue

Normally it would be a no-brainer to understand why a GOP member from Pennsylvania would be sticking up for former Governor Tom Ridge. Honestly, it would take pages to explain why this is bizarre in my case, but suffice to say that anyone who has known me since the late-nineties through 2001 would definitely catch the irony on this one.

In spite of any differences I had with the man when he was our governor, I've recently learned a new respect for him. Ridge is one of the "outside-insiders" of… Continue

Countdown is on to the release of Michael Moore's next film, and yet again I'm sitting here trying to decide whether or not I'm going to blow the cash to see it. I don't tend to agree with him very much, but hate to admit that I like his style.

Simplifying the complexities of government is something I enjoy doing, and Moore tends to do just that with his films. Of course this can be a liability when it comes to dealing with most conservatives (as… Continue