Lee Ellis

Lee Ellis is a retired journalist and narrator, formerly with both CBS and Gannett (USA Weekend). He was also a combat veteran of WWII, having fought in the South Pacific invasions. He had the pleasure of interviewing Ronald Reagan as an actor and then later working to help him become Governor of California. At the age of 80, he is keeping busy writing and doing free lance narrations for radio and television. He is an active member of Rotary and the VFW.

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Lee Ellis: Don't Become a "Dumpee" July 31, 2009 The vicissitudes of the Obama health plan continue to beguile and bedevil us. He and the far left ideologues lament about the 47 million who are uninsured. This figure has proved to be extremely misleading. ...

Lee Ellis: Don't Become a "Dumpee." July 29, 2009 The vicissitudes of the Obama health plan continue to eguile and bedevil us. He and the far left ideologues lament about the 47 million who are uninsured. This figure has proved to be misleading. Millions of ...

Lee Ellis: Torture ---Real or Propaganda April 29, 2009 It is time for all combat veterans from all past wars to explain to our unknowing government officials what actually constitutes torture. We who have served know that America has never used the torture that has ...

Lee Ellis: The Second Greatest Threat to America January 31, 2009 Which two countries offer the greatest threat to the United States? If you answered that they both must be in the Middle East, you would be only half right. You would be amazed to learn, as was I, that the second ...

Lee Ellis: The Truth about Governor Sarah Palin October 22, 2008 There have been many diverse ponderings by various pundits and politicians on TV, the internet and the press about Governor Palin's experience to effectively serve as the Vice-President, and potentially serve as ...

Lee Ellis: Open Letter to All American Voters July 21, 2008 I don’t care whether you are a Republican, Democrat or Independent; all I know is that you are an American in heart and mind, even though, you may be like me, born of mixed heritage from immigrant families who ...

Lee Ellis: Tony Snow - a Tribute from the Past July 14, 2008 The loss of Tony Snow is a great sadness for his loving family and friends as well as a loss for all of America, indeed it is an American tragedy! While you and many others may have looked at Tony as only a ...

Lee Ellis: An Open Letter to Senator John McCaiin June 21, 2008 Dear Senator McCain: As a supporter, a life-long Republican, and also a service-connected disabled American veteran (WWII), I am planning now how I should vote in November. Obviously I desire, as do my ...

Lee Ellis: Mystery of the Missing Communist Party June 09, 2008 I am an old mystery fan. As a boy, I devoured all the old Erle Stanley Gardner and Agatha Christie mysteries and now read the newer Mary Higgins Clark novels. I guess this is the reason I still get suspicious ...

Lee Ellis: Is Discrimination being used by the Courts to Legislate? May 23, 2008 Americans are losing their votes to Court legislation. The California Supreme Court has legislated against Proposition 22 which declared, "Only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid and ...

Lee Ellis: Political Ponderings April 15, 2008 On the day, April 18, when Ben Stein's movie opens here in theaters about religious freedom and the lack of public knowledge about the threat of Darwinism, Jimmy Carter will be in Syria meeting with a Hamas leader, ...

Lee Ellis: The War's Fifth Anniversary and What It Means to America March 25, 2008 As the fifth anniversary of what the media call "The Iraq War" arrived, we saw protest marches across the nation against the war. The protestors and anti-war people showed fake coffins draped with American ...

Lee Ellis: After Romney ---What and Why? February 13, 2008 Romney’s recent withdrawal from the race increases chances for McCain to be the Republican Nominee. Romney rightly feared that if he had stayed in the race, he would make it easier for a Democrat to win, and, as ...

Lee Ellis: Political Change and Correctness Can Destroy America January 15, 2008 The current political mantra seems to be the cry for "Change." But what does this mean? Change to what? We voters need to be sure we know what is being promised before we step through the looking glass as Alice ...

Lee Ellis: Poliical Change Needed --True or False? November 27, 2007 What needs to be changed and who created the problem? Let’s just look at gasoline costs as one example: Yes, gasoline prices have escalated. Do we want gas to cost less? It can be done---and we ...

Lee Ellis: Torture --- Real or Propaganda November 01, 2007 Again, the newscasts are full of Congressional members arguing over the definition of torture and whether the USA has committed to it. As almost any combat veteran can testify, torture is that which ...

Lee Ellis: Columbia University Aids and Abets Mahmoud Ahmadinejad September 24, 2007 Errol Phillips, author and an independent Jewish Conservative, wrote, "The University of California Board of Regents rescinded an invitation for former Harvard University President Lawrence Summers to speak at a ...

Lee Ellis: California Senate Approves Same-Sex Marriage September 20, 2007 The California Assembly passed AB 43 --- legislation that would give same-sex couples the ability to marry. The Assembly passed the legislation with a 42-34 vote, The Senate passed it, 22-15, September ...

Lee Ellis: Trade Apprentices --Available Americans or New Illegals August 18, 2007 Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez recently said, in a press conference, "…it is clear that there are jobs Americans are not willing to do, or available to do." While we have heard over and over again ...

Lee Ellis: North American Union -- Conference or Conspiracy August 06, 2007 Friends, I have been deluged the past six months or more with hundreds of e-mails complaining about a new decision between Mexico, Canada and the USA to create something called the North-American Union. (Shades of ...

Lee Ellis: North American Union --Conference or Conspiracy? August 03, 2007 Friends, I have been deluged the past six months or more with hundreds of e-mails complaining about a new decision between Mexico, Canada and the USA to create something called the North-American Union. (Shades of ...

Lee Ellis: Unfairness Fairness Doctrine: Doe it Target Correct Medium? July 17, 2007 Friends, do you remember what our media was like a few decades ago? I am sure that many of you are too young to go back more than two decades, so let me explain, and remind some people who might be older, what ...

Lee Ellis: New Letter from Terorist in America to Osama June 18, 2007 As imagined by Lee Ellis To: Osama Fr: Abdullah Dear Osama, Last year, I sent you a letter congratulating and thanking you for your great wisdom of planning the weakening of the ...

Lee Ellis: Perpetuation of Puerile Politics & Poisonous Propaganda May 23, 2007 A letter in my local newspaper starts with "Shame on Representative Mary Bono for defying the demands of the American people to end the Iraq disaster." Disaster? I always thought that we had ...

Lee Ellis: Which Candidate Will Win the Presidency in 2008? May 11, 2007 As a Conservative Republican all my life, I have been watching all the Republican debates and the candidates' appearances on various news programs. While I have not made a personal decision yet as to who is the ...

Lee Ellis: President Bush's Major Mistake as Aired on 60 Minutes May 02, 2007 George W. Bush has made many wise decisions, even if the Soros MOVE-ON.org and The New York Times syndrome always prevail with propaganda to make it sound otherwise. But President Bush has made a major mistake ...

Lee Ellis: The Two Americas April 22, 2007 John Edwards is correct is saying that there are two Americas, but NOT for the reason he states ---economical --- but rather that we have the America of the Communist/Socialist one as led by the Pelosis, Reids, ...

Lee Ellis: America Will Need Another President Reagan in 2012 March 26, 2007 Friends, there is another Ronald Reagan out there who has all the qualities of the original President Reagan. He has the same ability to look at the camera and talk sense to the people. He is a great ...

Lee Ellis: Oprah and Education Today March 12, 2007 In South Africa, Oprah Winfrey has started a “Leadership Academy for Girls.” It is for 10-12 year-olds whom she believes have a destination for leadership in their country. Here they will live and ...

Lee Ellis: Are Murtha and Pelosi Causing Harm to Americans in Iraq February 27, 2007 "The American People have demanded a new direction in Iraq by voting in a majority of Democrats during the last election," shout Nancy Pelosi, Jack Murtha and other Democrats in Congress. No, actually ...

Lee Ellis: Our Constitution and Supreme Court - Is there a Keeper of the Flame? February 12, 2007 Our TV screens have been full, lately, lamenting the fact that some Black Americans felt hurt that President Bush, in an interview with Neil Cavuto, said that a Black presidential candidate was articulate. Joe ...

Lee Ellis: Congress Aids, Abets and Emboldens Suicide Bombers in Iraq February 06, 2007 As I write this, another homicide truck bomber has struck a market in Baghdad, killing as many as 121 people among the crowd buying food for evening meals, one of the most devastating attacks in the capital since ...

Lee Ellis: Iraq Terrorists: American Senators and Civilians give in to Fear January 25, 2007 President Bush said about terrorists in his 2007 State of the Union speech, “Our enemies are quite explicit about their intentions. They want to overthrow moderate governments, and establish safe havens from which ...

Lee Ellis: Did Dick Durbin Denounce President Bush's Speech on Iraq? January 12, 2007 Tonight, in a televised address to the entire world, President Bush gave our nation hope of winning the Iraq War, while Senator Dick Durbin gave al Qaeda and all Islamic fanatics hope of our defeat and our ...

Lee Ellis: Weapons of PR and Infiltration Better in Winning Wars January 08, 2007 Thanks to Andrew Whitehead, Director, Anti-Council on American-Islamic Relations (ACAIR) for his quick alert and immediate follow-up regarding the editorial defending CAIR, by Ginger Rutland in the January 5 issue ...

Lee Ellis: What do People Really Know about Iraq? December 14, 2006 As I check the news channels for commentary or read the liberal pundits, I chuckle at how so many quote the Baker-Hamilton study as proving that Bush has lost the war. They go on to state, "The People" have told ...

Lee Ellis: The 30 Year Hoax Returns for 2006 December 01, 2006 OOPS! The calendar page was just turned to December 2006 and it has started again! Nothing can kill it! It invades our e-mails every year at Easter and Christmas. We, who have forgetful memories, or are naive, or ...

Lee Ellis: Iraq: Will America Win or Surrender? November 14, 2006 Why did so many people vote the way they did this November? Suggestions abound. Many say the Republican base sought to teach Republican leaders a lesson. Others say the Democrats had proved that Iraq was a ...

Lee Ellis: Republicans Must Plan Now for 2008 or Lose to Hillary October 20, 2006 The GOP is ‘rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic,’ and single women will propel Hillary Clinton to the White House in 2008, says political analyst Dick Morris. Republicans are watching their base shrink ...

Lee Ellis: The Foleyation of Politicians, Leakets and Cover-ups October 05, 2006 Having been a Republican for a great many decades, I have developed only one complaint about my political party over all these years, and that is its naivety. The Democrat party has always been very sophisticated ...

Lee Ellis: NIE VS Bush- Terrorist Strategies Not Recognized by our Leaders September 25, 2006 When is a news story really "news" and when is it really "politics" at its worst? The following story, which is all over the news now, is another example of how some insider Bush-haters use so-called news to cast ...

Lee Ellis: Four Republicans -- Will They Win World Opinion or War? September 15, 2006 Four Republicans defied President Bush in trying to save Americans from terrorist attacks. These four joined the Democrats in voting to be nicer to captured terrorists in obtaining information rather than in ...

Lee Ellis: Movie Memories VS Movie Maladies September 12, 2006 Looking at the Weekender in my local newspaper for this week's entertainment list, I find the following ratings for all the new movies. I won't name them, but here are the five new movies available in my ...

Lee Ellis: Politics. Panaceasand other Pearls of Wisdom September 05, 2006 Have you noticed that lately the favorite question to Republicans on the Sunday News Shows is "Since you have control of both the House and the Senate, how come you haven’t done ----?" Many of the e-mails I get, ...

Lee Ellis: Candidates for President in 2008--Who's Needed in an Era of Terrorism? August 09, 2006 Being a product of journalism, I try to watch all the news programs available, especially those that may have interviews with potential candidates for a future presidency. One characteristic has been showing up ...

Lee Ellis: Candidates for President in 2008--Who's Needed in an Era of Terrorism? August 08, 2006 Being a product of journalism, I try to watch all the news programs available, especially those that may have interviews with potential candidates for a future presidency. One characteristic has been showing up ...

Lee Ellis: Your Next Upgrade, by God! July 27, 2006 Of all the inventions that have been invented by man, those unbelievable wonders which have transformed our world over the past century, all were first given to us as gifts from God. "Since when did ...

Lee Ellis: The Plame Blame Game July 22, 2006 A year ago, on July 17 of 2005 and again on October 31 of that same year, I wrote about the Valerie Plame –CIA leak story explaining why there had never been a leak nor was there a legitimate case to prosecute. The ...

Lee Ellis: TIME: Cowboy Diplomacy and President Bush July 13, 2006 TIME magazine joins Fox News and David Gergen, Editor of US News and World Report, in another rage of stupidity against President Bush. The new cover of TIME and its headline reads “The End of Cowboy Diplomacy,” ...

Lee Ellis: New Battle Tools --Leaks, Local Terror and Public Relations July 09, 2006 Another leak, perhaps from a government source, was divulged Friday, July 7, putting many of us at risk. This time the leak went to the New York Daily News, owned by Mort Zuckerman, a Canada-born self-made American ...

Lee Ellis: Should media reveal US secrets in defeating terrorism? June 24, 2006 Republicans have all been complaining, rightfully, about the Far Left stance by the Main Stream Media and its lack of support for winning our war against terrorism by trying to establish an oasis of democracy in ...

Lee Ellis: Items that make me yell at my TV set June 23, 2006 Like many other married couples, my wife has to put up with me yelling back at our TV set. No, I don’t yell at all the violence on TV, although I don’t like it all, especially the gore (We have stopped watching ...

Lee Ellis: Senate-House Bill -- Will it Stop Illegal Immigration? May 29, 2006 I agree with Fred Barnes when he writes in The Weekly Standard, "REPUBLICANS are staring political disaster in the face on immigration. The problem isn't that they might enact a bill allowing illegal immigrants ...

Lee Ellis: Letter from a Sleeper Cell Terrorist in America to Osama May 22, 2006 To: Osama Fr: Abdullah Dear Osama, I want to thank you for your great wisdom of planning. Only you would have realized that flying planes into buildings was the wrong thing to do. ...

Lee Ellis: The Bush Speech on Immigration May 16, 2006 President Bush gave an excellent speech about immigration reforms. I liked the fact that he covered all the bases and proved that his plan was not amnesty. With the current wars being able to be operated with fewer ...

Lee Ellis: Who Broke the "Bully Pulpit?" May 08, 2006 Remember when US Presidents could change the direction of the nation by using what pundits called the "Bully Pulpit"? A President could use whatever communication facilities he had available to reach out to the ...

Lee Ellis: Why the Polls are Low for President Bush and his Administration? April 24, 2006 "Bush polls have fallen to a new low," shout the newspaper headlines or the news anchors on television. "President Bush and Congress have reached their lowest numbers yet," they continue, trying to speculate ...

Lee Ellis: Can the 'Hamas Effect' Affect or Infect America? March 25, 2006 Thanassis Cambanis, a reporter for The Boston Globe, wrote an article about Jordan this month. In part, the story stated the following: “….the victory of the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas, just across ...

Lee Ellis: Are Aliens crossing our Borders 'Illegal' or 'Undocumented'? March 22, 2006 Euphemisms are being used more often these days. Once a word described what it was meant to describe; once it created a picture in everyone's mind of the qualities the word was originally designed to convey. Today, ...

Lee Ellis: Political Betrayal of Allies March 12, 2006 A combination of Republicans and Democrats have been able to do what the terrorists could not; they have convinced many of our allies, especially a strong one in the Middle East, that America cannot be trusted to ...

Lee Ellis: Why America is moving towards the Far Left March 06, 2006 Many people who love America and the values that it has established over the years have written to me showing great concern about the sudden spiraling down of our nation and asking how this came to ...

Lee Ellis: US Ports --Safety VS Fear February 27, 2006 Suddenly, many people are frightened by the sale from Britain to the United Arab Emirates of a cargo-handling company that handles cargo in six American cities. I fell into that trap, too, because I made ...

Lee Ellis: The Washington Press Corps Missed Again February 22, 2006 On Tuesday night, Feb 20, NBC and the other nets broke with the Dubai story---a story that had broken an entire week before and was a big discussion at “Tuesdays at Morrie's” on the 14th. (This is a panel of ...

Lee Ellis: Are the Poor Hurt by Attacks on Wal-Mart? January 16, 2006 Are today’s labor unions trying to hurt the poor by creating only retail stores with high prices? If not, why are they asking the government to discriminate against retailers that save you money! In ...

Lee Ellis: Frustrations of a Divided America--Why and How is it Happening December 23, 2005 I get letters from many people who feel frustrated that so many people here in America do not understand the dangers facing our country and culture from our stated enemies Why and how is this happening, I ...

Lee Ellis: The Media---Pro-America or Pro-Terrorists December 20, 2005 The New York Times keeps printing "news" that aids and abets those who hate the USA. The most recent example of this is the recent propaganda using a misleading story written by James Risen and Eric Lichtblau which ...

Lee Ellis: Nancy Pelosi and the Culture of Leftist Comparisons December 07, 2005 Many voters received in the mail a letter from Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. The letter starts off with "Do you really want to be told the truth?" She adds, "You will never get the truth from George W. Bush or the ...

Lee Ellis: Freedom and Democracy—which comes first? December 02, 2005 Strident debate seems to rage today about freedom versus democracy. Some seem to think America should be striving for freedom in the Middle East, especially Iraq, rather than trying to establish democracies ...

Lee Ellis: Why are Bush Polls Low? November 10, 2005 Is the combination of the Internet and conservative radio taking a toll on the Main Stream Media? We conservatives would like to think so, but what is happening in the USA this year is proof that the ghost of ...

Lee Ellis: Why was CIA Leak Case two years, not two hours? October 31, 2005 I don't understand, how an independent prosecutor can be assigned to check out whether a "leak" about an employee of the CIA is against the law, based on the only law against such a crime, and turn a simple task of ...

Lee Ellis: November--a month for Thanksgiving, Remembering ---and for Voting October 24, 2005 With both Veteran's Day and Thanksgiving falling due this month, let us pause to give thanks to all veterans and their families for the sacrifices they all have made to both defend our beloved country and to ...

Lee Ellis: Islamic Fascists and the Iraq War October 13, 2005 The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a letter on October 11 between two senior al Qaeda leaders, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, that was obtained during counterterrorism ...

Lee Ellis: The Attacks on Harriet Miers, the Bush Supreme Court Nominee October 10, 2005 I suspect that President Bush was shocked to find such an uprising against his choice for a Supreme Court nominee. Why? Because it is coming not from the Liberal Left, but rather from his own base. Even George Will ...

Lee Ellis: In War, Appeasement is a form of Surrender September 29, 2005 In Washington D.C., and other cities throughout the USA, there were crowds closely echoing the chants of the Vietnam War, shouting, "Make Levees, Not War." In speeches, the leftist liars called President Bush who ...

Lee Ellis: Why the Katrina storm made me switch from NBC to Fox News! September 04, 2005 Watching both Fox and NBC after President Bush had been inspecting the Gulf Coast and New Orleans, I was shocked at how the nets and even some newspapers were trying to blame the Bush Administration for the ...

Lee Ellis: The New War-Winning Weapon August 29, 2005 In WWII, we used to think that wars were won or lost depending on how effective our troops, planes and ships were in decimating the enemy. Germany was defeated only because our troops could swarm across France into ...

Lee Ellis: A Letter from Osama bin Laden to all Sleeper Cells August 11, 2005 A Letter from Osama bin Laden to all Sleeper Cells As imagined by Lee Ellis and translated into English: To all al Qaeda agents (both field and USA sleeper cells) I especially want all agents ...

Lee Ellis: The Hoax that Won't Go Away – Chapter Two August 06, 2005 There is a hoax that has been going around now for 30 years! I wrote about this last year, but here it is in 2005 with only another four months before Christmas, and this hoax is still arriving in mail boxes. I ...

Lee Ellis: The March of the Left VS the March of the Penguins July 28, 2005 Are there any good movies today? My wife and I finally found one that was awe-inspiring. But it took a long while to find one! With the Cultural War capturing most of Hollywood and the entertainment ...

Lee Ellis: Letter to Terrorists from the Liberal Front July 26, 2005 Recently, despite the terrorist bombings in London and Egypt, much has been printed in columns or spoken on news shows against the Patriot Act in the United States and against the shooting of a potential terrorist ...

Lee Ellis: When is a "Leak" a Covert Action? Can we "Agee"? July 17, 2005 In journalism, the definition of "leak" suggests that it is applied to government officials who purposely give reporters secret or confidential information in order to publicize something they do not like so that ...

Lee Ellis: The Patriot Act - hated by Terrorists, Criminals and a few Conservatives July 12, 2005 If England had had a Patriot Act enacted, the London police may have been able to prevent the subway bombing. Since, 2001, the Patriot Act has helped to protect America and has caused many sleeper cells to ...

Lee Ellis: The Future Supreme Court -- Legislative or Constitutional? July 09, 2005 Regarding the Supreme Court openings, why do we keep hearing politicians and guests on talk or news shows asking our President to appoint men or women who will lean across the aisle to unite the Congress or the ...

Lee Ellis: Eminent Domain—Good or Bad? July 02, 2005 There is a great controversy over the Supreme Court ruling on Eminent Domain. Conservatives, in general, oppose the ruling and the Left seems to agree with it. As a strong conservative, myself, I am ...

Lee Ellis: America -- A nation under God or another France June 28, 2005 Today the majority of the Supreme Court ruled as if it were using the Constitution of France instead of the Constitution of the USA. The French Constitution states that its nation is a secular one, while our ...

Lee Ellis: Will America win over or surrender to Terrorism? June 21, 2005 "Public opinion polls now indicate that a clear majority of the American people no longer support the war in Iraq. 59% want to pull out immediately or on a definitive timetable, and 56% believe the war is 'not ...

Lee Ellis: The 'Vietnamization' of the Iraq war by TV and other media. June 14, 2005 As I watched the ABC news last Sunday night, I was reminded of how the TV news networks seemed to be so anxious to tell us all the bad things that have happened in Iraq or at Gitmo. “Four more of our ...

Lee Ellis: An Open Letter to AARP June 05, 2005 AARP members recently received a letter from its CEO, Bill Novelli, asking us to help him raise money to defeat the Social Security plan as described by President Bush. As a long-time member, I was so furious by ...

Lee Ellis: The Bush-Haters --Are they winning? May 30, 2005 This week, I read a newspaper column obviously written from the talking points of the far Left. These points have been created in order to breed hatred of President Bush, his Republican Administration and all that ...

Lee Ellis: Open Letter to Conservatives, both Republican and Democrat May 27, 2005 Blaring from network and cable TV this week: "Democrats forced the Senate to put off a final vote this week on John R. Bolton's nomination to be U.N. ambassador, the latest setback for the tough-talking nominee ...

Lee Ellis: Newsweek and the Unrung Bell May 17, 2005 Newsweek magazine and reporter-writers, Mark Isikoff and John Barry forgot the most important and one of the oldest clichés in the business, "You can't unring a bell." They also forgot one of the most memorable ...

Lee Ellis: Captured Terrorists vs Prisoners of War May 05, 2005 In reading Letters to the Editor in many newspapers, I find that there are many people who are trying to compare the current Terrorist war with WWII and want us to treat the terrorist prisoners the same way we ...

Lee Ellis: Captured Terrorists vs Prisoners of War May 05, 2005 In reading Letters to the Editor in many newspapers, I find that there are many people who are trying to compare the current Terrorist war with WWII and want us to treat the terrorist prisoners the same way we ...

Lee Ellis: America and the Level Playing Field April 02, 2005 The phrase, "Level Playing Field," was coined in the 1980s, according to The Phrase Finder, to mean fair competition with no advantage to either side. Today, I hear this phrase used more often in ...

Lee Ellis: Protestors Invite Terrorism March 26, 2005 Veterans for Peace, the banners proclaimed as a minister said on a TV newscast, "After two years in Iraq, what have we gained … only the deaths of US soldiers and Iraqi civilians." Most of us who are WWII ...

Lee Ellis: Gasoline Prices, Politicians and ANWR March 15, 2005 Are high gasoline prices taking too much of your money due to a shortage of oil? The Democrats complain that we Americans use too much gasoline and if we were to cut back on our driving, or drove only mini-cars, we ...

Lee Ellis: A Neogreen's Recipe for Energy February 18, 2005 A new Tom Friedman column is out. It is appearing in local newspapers all this week. Of course it is a service of The New York Times and was carried by it on February 13. The other day, I agreed with Tom ...

Lee Ellis: The Hoax that Won't Go Away February 08, 2005 There is a hoax that has been going around now for 30 years! We do not need a calendar to know that it is either close to Easter or close to Christmas, because this hoax comes up twice every year as these two ...

Lee Ellis: Leftist Propaganda hurts American Families January 23, 2005 To me, it is almost a crime when uninformed people write letters of propaganda without having done any research to learn the truth. Such is the case of recent letters in the media attacking President Bush and ...

Lee Ellis: Why is America Divided? December 29, 2004 The question I hear on TV news panels most often these days is, “Why is America so split or divided today in public opinion?” I suggest that we have a fight on our hands as American culture is being ...

Lee Ellis: Media News --- Facts or Opinion December 23, 2004 Lots in the news this month. But are we really receiving news or are we receiving conjecture disguised as news? As a retired journalist, I can recall the days when, under strict orders, we could only write facts ...

Lee Ellis: Separate Church from State -- or from American Culture? December 13, 2004 In the debates about the use of the word "GOD" in schools, government and elsewhere as being a violation of "Church and State," I have not heard anyone challenging all those who are trying to say that this is a ...

Lee Ellis: Media Bias Continues November 17, 2004 We read in the newspapers and hear on TV news about the fights that are going on in Fallujah and Mosul with “insurgents.” I don’t like the word “insurgents” as these people are actually being led by terrorist Abu ...

Lee Ellis: The Role Moral Values Played in the Re-Election of President Bush November 05, 2004 The media seems agreed that the one item that moved the electorate towards President Bush was "Moral Values." But people are already arguing over the meaning of these words. There are letters appearing in ...

Lee Ellis: Moral Values November 04, 2004 The media seems agreed that the one item that moved the electorate towards President Bush was “Moral Values.” But people are already arguing over the meaning of these words. There are letters appearing in ...

Lee Ellis: Attention all voters October 20, 2004 You probably think that when you vote for a President of the US, you just have to make a choice between two people. Right? Wrong! You are NOT voting for one man; you are voting for ...

Lee Ellis: A Vote for Bush is a Vote for Life ---Yours! October 04, 2004 A reminder to all voters in the November election: We are not choosing just one person to lead this country; we are also selecting the cabinet officers and the entire administration as well as a philosophy of ...

Lee Ellis: Will the al Qaeda Attack on Russia Affect America? September 09, 2004 Have you wondered why all the terrorist acts are taking place in various countries rather than here in the USA? Many people, and that includes me, think that it is due to the strength of President Bush and all he ...

Lee Ellis: Is Kerry a Hoax? August 20, 2004 John F. Kerry is saying, "If President Bush wants to compare his military record with mine, let him bring it on!" Well, President Bush is not attacking the Kerry service. He has called Kerry's service heroic! Kerry ...

Lee Ellis: Save the Boy Scouts of America August 13, 2004 Today's mail sure does deliver a lot of requests for donations. Some are valid; others are thrown away. But the one that grabs my attention each year is the one that wants to give boys a knowledge of personal ...

Lee Ellis: An Open Letter to Conservative Writers August 04, 2004 God bless you all.The Conservative writer is more than a an ordinary writer; you are a combination of a poet and an artist who has the talent to weave words together into a beautiful mosaic for the greatest ...

Lee Ellis: Kerry's Attack on the Patriot Act August 03, 2004 In his speech at the convention, Senator Kerry said, "I am proud that after September 11th all our people rallied to PresidentBush's call for unity to meet the danger. There were no Democrats. There were no ...

Lee Ellis: The Fox Hunt July 25, 2004 The Bush Haters know no bounds. First, through financing by left-wing organizations, they used a fake documentary film by Michael Moore to attack President Bush not with truths, but with lies, created by effective ...

Lee Ellis: Update on why we had to be in Iraq July 14, 2004 It is difficult to understand why so many Americans think that the war in Iraq was wrong. As a combat veteran, myself, having been used only for setting up ship-to-shore communications during South Pacific ...

Lee Ellis: Comments from the Far Left July 08, 2004 We all receive comments from the Far Left, especially the elite college professors. I quote some recent comments sent to me: “Moore’s point about Iraq is about the rationale that was used for getting rid ...

Lee Ellis: The Effect of the Dumbing Down of America June 23, 2004 What bothers me the most these days is the effect of the "Dumbing Down of America." How else can we have so many people who cannot understand the necessity of strength and unity in winning a war against a Middle ...

Lee Ellis: A Mourning and a Comparison June 10, 2004 We mourn a true hero this month ---the man who brought us out of the Carter malaise and depression of the soul back to optimism and pride in ourselves and in our great country --- President Ronald ...

Lee Ellis: The Lies Against Bush Continue June 01, 2004 The lies against President Bush continue to be voiced by the far left. Especially vicious are the ones that claim the war in Iraq was a big mistake. People and pundits state with great authority that ...

Lee Ellis: Can the cause of America’s victory in WWII be repeated today? May 30, 2004 Our country was built completely by immigrants. Even the so-called American Indians migrated here centuries before Columbus arrived. This gathering of immigrants worked together to create a great nation with its ...

Lee Ellis: E-Mail being stopped by AOL May 28, 2004 Many of us who write conservative oped pieces have also developed a following who ask to be on our mailing lists. As time goes by, we find our lists getting larger and larger, thanks to what I perceive as a need by ...

Lee Ellis: How to make Iraq into Vietnam May 20, 2004 As a former journalist for many years, I am convinced that this Abu Ghraib prison scandal could be a set up. Why? 1. It is against the Geneva Convention to photograph prisoners! 2. All young ...

Lee Ellis: Does Media encourage "Socialism" May 15, 2004 Recently, Tom Brokaw aired a story about 43 million families suffering without health insurance. As with the other networks, a plea for government intervention was included. I can understand how some ...

Lee Ellis: 60 Minutes and the Abu Ghraib Prison Story May 04, 2004 As a journalist, I would have agreed with "60 Minutes" exposing the Iraq prison scandal IF it had been a cover-up by our government. By the next day, the media headlines had many of us believing this to be true. No ...