ROSS NELSON
Nelson: Favre not the future, never was
Ah, the Minnesota Vikings. The galactic passion for them in this region is proof that Scandinavian descendants are not always slow-talking, stolid folk.February 07, 2010
Nelson: Writing as clear thinking 
It’s been 10 years this month since Joseph Miller, professor of English at Minnesota State University Moorhead, died. I just recently found this out to my shame, since I’d long ago lost contact with him.
By Ross Nelson , December 20, 2009
Nelson: Escalation arguments don’t wash
Were you breathless with suspense waiting to see whether President Barack Obama would escalate the war in Afghanistan?
By Ross Nelson , December 06, 2009
Nelson: A livable, pleasant summer
Where do you look for an encore when you’ve likely seen the best of something? That’s the catch to the summer of 2009.
By Ross Nelson , November 22, 2009
Nelson: ‘No’ voters rebuff idolaters
A salute to the narrow majority of Moorhead voters is now appropriate, for not being stampeded by the monomaniacal education crowd into supporting the new operating levy.
By Ross Nelson , November 08, 2009
Nelson 'Modcoms' are without principle
Most Americans are bored to tears by politics. Perhaps
30 percent can be described as avid liberals or conservatives.
By Ross Nelson , October 18, 2009
Nelson: Our love of war triumphs
A month ago nearly 700 North Dakotan National Guardsmen left for duty in Kosovo. It is our state’s largest call-up since the Korean War. Amidst all the hoopla and boilerplate speeches at their farewell, did anyone even briefly wonder why North Dakotans were going to such an unimportant spot halfway around the world?
By Ross Nelson , September 20, 2009
Nelson: Merely words on paper?
From politics to religion, when people wish to rationalize their behavior, they will effortlessly punch through parchment barriers.
By Ross Nelson , August 30, 2009
Nelson: Sonia Sotomayor just another brick in the wall
Sonia Sotomayor is a lock to be the next U.S. Supreme Court justice, barring catastrophe. A great deal has been said about her Latina ethnicity and her comments about judging from that ethnic perspective. What we need to keep in mind, though, is the disappointing fact that it is her very mundane views as a judge that should alarm us, not any supposed bent.
By Ross Nelson , July 19, 2009
Nelson: This once was a free country
‘When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country,” G. Gordon Liddy lamented in his book by the same title. I found the book unexceptional except for his longing for a country long gone. He takes the reader through a stroll of America in its more untrammeled days and contrasts it with the constantly harried, henpecked regime we find ourselves in now.
By Ross Nelson , July 05, 2009
Nelson: A unique gadfly moves on
David Habiger’s unexpected passing recently has made gadflies an endangered species around here. There’s one fewer person around now who’ll prick and prod us from our lethargy to either anger or delight.
By Ross Nelson , June 28, 2009
Nelson: Torture debases nation
We have to credit David Broder, courtier to the powerful, for being so upfront with his sycophancy. He applauds President Barack Obama for releasing four Bush administration torture memos. These documents make it clear that we tortured prisoners gathered up in the early days of the “war against terror,” including hundreds of waterboardings.
By Ross Nelson , May 17, 2009
Heaviest guilt falls on Israel
We will wield disproportionate power against every village from which shots are fired on Israel, and cause immense damage and destruction … This is a plan that has already been authorized. – Israeli Maj. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, October 2008
By Ross Nelson , February 08, 2009
Bush has been worse than Clinton
My inaugural column for The Forum was a highly critical look at the Bill Clinton years.
By Ross Nelson , January 18, 2009
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