Governor Bob Ehrlich Commentaries 4 Headlines That Show the Downright Weird State of America Today A series of recent headlines reflect the troubled state of America. The first reads straight out of Orwell: “Oregon officials propose a permanent mask mandate.” One upside to the lockdown era has been the outing of not-so-subtle authoritarian streaks of…

Governor Bob Ehrlich Commentaries The Clever Trick Progressives Are Using to Advance an Increasingly Leftist Agenda Last week, so-called climate activists dumped 12 wheelbarrows full of cow manure in front of the White House. Plenty of adoring media were present to memorialize the event. The Earth Day protest was a not-too-subtle reminder that the Biden…

Bob Ehrlich Commentaries American Lessons from My Son’s Friday Night High School Football Game I attended a high school football game last Friday night. It was my youngest son’s school against a local rival that had beaten our team in last year’s playoffs. Our son is the starting quarterback, so, of course, my wife and…

Governor Bob Ehrlich Commentaries The Media Will Keep Blaming Everything on Trump Until Normal Americans Say ‘Enough!’ My April 5 column argued that three seminal events (COVID-19, George Floyd and Jan. 6) formed the predicate for what can fairly be described as our ongoing cultural revolution. My thesis did not cover new ground but rather…

The GOP Trump Haters Are Finally Realizing What a Horrible Mistake They Made on Nov. 3 Not enough analysis has been devoted to the 2020 unicorn voter. You know, the self-identified right winger/Republican who nevertheless cast a ballot for Joe Biden. Note that I’m not talking about the RINO who regularly crosses the aisle or…

Governor Bob Ehrlich Commentaries 6 of the Most Dangerous Ways Leftists Used COVID to Radically Change America Last week’s column attributed the country’s present leftward lurch to three primary events: the COVID-19 pandemic, the death of George Floyd and the Capitol Hill riot. Each has created not-so-subtle opportunities for a cultural transformation. Indeed, Rahm Emanuel’s…

Governor Bob Ehrlich Commentaries There Is Common Ground Between Right and Left – The Rejection of Authoritarian Censorship The right half of a divided America continues in a state of frustration. It has been a year since its world was turned upside-down in what can now, in retrospect, be classified as the recipe for a…

Governor Bob Ehrlich Commentaries Biden Said He’d Ditch ‘America First,’ And in 1 Month He’s Done It “America First”: It was one of the more effective campaign slogans in recent memory. Only President Barack Obama’s “Hope and Change” could match it in terms of voter awareness and intensity. The successful employment of both slogans in…

Governor Bob Ehrlich Commentaries I Had No Idea How Literally Dems Would Take ‘Rules for Thee but Not for Me’ Many of you recall Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America.” That campaign document comprised ten promises that then-Minority Whip Newt Gingrich and his team thought would prove popular with the voting public. History reflects that Newt…