"After years of insisting that names are fluid, the left suddenly discovers tradition when Trump picks the name."
Brian C. Joondeph - American Thinker
"Descriptions changed, too. Women became “birthing people” or “persons who menstruate.” Breast-feeding became “chest-feeding.” Abortion became “reproductive health.” Murdering your three children became “hormones.'”
"In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a forlorn Juliet implores Romeo to give up his family name, that of a family rival to hers. She asks him, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
The same could be said about large bodies of water, still wet and deep regardless of what President Donald Trump names them by executive order.
Most recently, Trump renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America, after renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America last year.
These name changes will be insignificant footnotes in world history, unlike, say, the Louisiana Purchase or America’s purchase of Alaska from Russia.
Yet Democrats and others on the left are acting as if America invaded and conquered Canada.
The New York Times solemnly bemoaned, “Lake Ontario didn’t ask for this.” The Washington Post warned, “Trump’s push to rename Lake Ontario raises a troubling question.”
Such angst.
First of all, lakes don’t talk and don’t pick their names. Or their genders.
Back in 2015, when President Obama renamed Mount McKinley to Denali, all the New York Times had to say was, “Mount McKinley to be renamed Denali.” . . .More...
