Publisher/Editor
stevefritsch@thecincinnatusstandard.com
Obama’s “Katrina”: Weak Executive Leadership in the Midst of Crisis
GOP Primary Leadership: Triantafilou Gets It Right,
Kevin DeWine Gets It Wrong
Steve's interest in politics and writing jumped into high gear after taking a political science course with an anti-American professor in 2002 at Northern Kentucky University. Even though he had enjoyed debating the professor in class, he felt the professor's behavior and rhetoric was often unprofessional and uncalled for. After contacting some of the biggest names in conservative commentary, including receiving replies from the National Review’s Rich Lowry and nationally syndicated columnist Walter E. Williams, it was The Cincinnati Enquirer’s Peter Bronson who finally reported on the radical professor. (Click here to read that column)
In 2003, realizing that he still had plenty more to say on a variety of important political issues, Steve co-founded the web site Queen City Forum, which brought together area young people of all ideologies to express themselves through writing. (Click here to read about Steve’s experiences with QCF as featured in Cin Weekly, The Enquirer, and UC's The News Record.) After leaving Queen City Forum in 2004, he founded the web site Blue Chip Review, which brought together local conservatives and libertarians for the same purpose that he started Queen City Forum: to offer a public forum for those citizens committed to preserving and extending the principles of conservatism and libertarianism.
In addition to running Blue Chip Review, Steve also served as campaign assistant to state representative Tom Brinkman, Jr. (OH-34), who won reelection in 2004. In 2005, Steve served as campaign manager for Cincinnati City Council candidate Paul McGhee (I) of North Avondale, as well as being voted to the board of the Blue Chip Young Republicans as an at-large member.
After shutting down Blue Chip Review in 2006, Steve returned in 2007 when he founded The Cincinnatus Standard. While The Standard had been an off-and-on project for Steve while he focused on his schooling (he graduated from Northern Kentucky University in May 2009 with a double-major in history and political science), he is now currently in the process of improving The Standard and making it the best it can be.
Steve lives in the Cincinnati area and is currently working on a book about George Washington's first term as president. His future plans also include graduate school, as he plans to pursue a doctorate degree in history, with an emphasis on U.S. presidential history.
Schneider vs. Jones and the Ohio Republican Party
Ronald Reagan and the Blueprint for Economic Recovery
Conservatives and Libertarians Should Not Be Loyal to the Republican Party
Book Review: Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
What Conservatives Can Learn From Alexander Hamilton's Big Picture Outlook
Forget the Presidency, Take Back the House First
Thoughts on Newsweek, Palin and Obama
Thoughts on the Ft. Hood Shooting and "Gun-Free Zones"
The Eleventh Commandment and Today's GOP
The Difference Between Conservatives and Republicans - Part One: Introduction
The GOP Can Do Better Than Sarah Palin as its Presidential Nominee
The Presidential Precedents of George Washington
What Would George Washington Think About the Size of Today's Government?