Retired RCTC Instructor Tom Ostrom has served as a commentator on KROC-AM since 1992 and has penned a column for the Rochester Post Bulletin. In addition, he is a nationally recognized author of books on the history of the U.S. Coast Guard. Email Tom: tomostrom22@gmail.com
Tom Ostrom
The Trump Team Delivers
The inhabitants of the Establishment “Swamp” Trump is draining aren’t giving up without a fight. Anti-Trump demonstrations, some violent and allegedly paid for, continue. The disgruntled media, belligerent Democrats, and some displaced Republicans are determined to diminish or drive the new president from office, or weaken his base in future elections...
GOP Suffered Obamacare Failure but Got Intelligence Coup
Former CIA officer Col. Tony Shaffer said Donald Trump’s claim to have been surveilled by the Obama Administration is not only true, but may produce a Democrat scandal worse than the surveillance committed by the Nixon Administration in “Watergate...
Trump Train Rolls On
Opponents and Some in the Media Trying to Derail the Trump Train
by Tom Ostrom
The Trump Revolution continues as Democrats fall further into denial and stay mute about the support of some violent obstructionists who emulate Fascism.
Meeting with job creating CEOs, already boosting the economy, strengthening border security, deporting violent criminals, stimulating “nation-ism,” and influencing the
Minnesotans Versus Trump and Immigration Ban
Minnesotans in the News Over Trump Immigration Ban and DNC Politics
by Tom Ostrom
Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) is in the running to be the Democrat National Committee Chair, despite what some critics describe as his alleged past anti-Semitic statements and association with a radical Islamic group...
Several Reasons for Donald Trump’s Election Victory (Part II)
The mainstream and liberal media tended to ignore the ethical baggage, email exposures, national security careless, and foreign policy failures of Secretary of State Clinton. The excessive criticism of Israel, a democratic ally of the United States, and the overthrow of Middle East leaders like Mubarak (Egypt) and Kaddafi (Libya) who were allied with the United States destabilized the region and s
How the Trumpsters Won the Election Part I
Most of the elite media, pundits, pollsters, politicians and academics wrongly predicted a Hillary Clinton victory in the 2016 presidential race.
Hypocritical Critics of Dr. Ben Carson on “Religious Test for Office”
Dr. Ben Carson, the distinguished African-American Republican presidential candidate, believes “political correctness” is a threat to free speech, thought, and common sense.
Complexities of Civil War Deserve Discussion
The Confederate flag reflects slavery and other Civil War causes. Slaveholders and non-slaveholders fought for both the Confederacy and Union. Lincoln said if he could save the Union by either maintaining or abolishing slavery, he would. Lincoln’s belated Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves where he couldn’t (the deep South), and didn’t where he could (Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky, Wa
Banning Cultural Symbols Not the Answer to Racist Terrorism
The racist-terrorist who killed 9 exemplary members of the Black congregation in Charleston deserves the death penalty if an insanity plea doesn’t spare him. But banning the Confederate flag is a ludicrous response.
Ideological Quarrels Challenge the Obama Administration
Ideological Quarrels Challenge the Obama Administration
Some Democrats Agree with Netanyahu and the 47 Republican Letter Writers
Some Democrats Agree with Netanyahu and the 47 Republican Letter Writers
The letter of 47 Republican senators to Iran was called obstructionist. But Democrat solons negotiated with U.S. adversaries in the Reagan-Bush years. The liberal New York Times and Washington Post (April 4-5, 2007) cited administration objections to Speaker Pelosi’s “counterproductive” visit with Syrian dictator Assad that s
Kudos to Harry Reid, Retiring Democrat Senate Minority Leader
Kudos to Harry Reid, Retiring Democrat Senate Minority Leader
Kudos to the now Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, the scrapper and former pugilist from Searchlight, Nevada. The maximal obstructionist managed parliamentary rules as Majority Leader to block hundreds Republican proposals and amendments...
Tom Ostrom – Democrat Double Standards on Senate Letter to Iran’s Ayatollahs
Democrat Double Standards on Senate Letter to Iran’s Ayatollahs
President Obama’s contempt for Congress, and his ignoring Constitutional doctrines of “Separation of Powers” and “Checks and Balances,” are illustrated by his “executive amnesties,” and stated intent to ignore Congress with his“non-treaty” with Iran about nuclear weapons and sanctions; while seeking UN approval.
Tom Ostrom – Obama’s Response to Islamic Extremism Lacking
Islamic extremists have cut off heads and burned alive a Jordanian aviator. But the U.S. can’t water board the terrorists at Club GITMO before they are released to fight again.