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RON PAUL: A Christmas Gift to the War Machine

December 29, 2025 Ron Paul

Late last week, Congress passed, and President Trump signed the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The bill marks the first time the US military budget officially passed the one trillion dollar mark. Of course, when you add in other military-related spending, such as interest on the debt, veterans’ affairs, and military components of other … Read more

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What Are We Doing in Syria?

December 18, 2024 Ron Paul

My first reaction to news earlier this month that the Syrian government had been overthrown was, how much did we have to do with it; how involved was the CIA; and how much is it going to cost. As with Saddam and Gaddafi before him, we know that Assad was no libertarian hero. But unleashing … Read more

House Republicans Finally Putting The Squeeze On Bloated Pentagon Budget

December 17, 2024 Morgan Murphy

This week the House of Representatives slammed the door on bigger defense budgets without more accountability. The fissure opened at the end of the 118th Congress among Republicans voting on funding for the U.S. military. After much wrangling, the Senate and House agreed to set the Pentagon’s budget in fiscal 2025 to $884 billion. But that’s not … Read more

Making the Government Live By the Same Rules as Everyone Else

December 2, 2024 Skip

Words from years ago yet with an impact. Sorrowfully, they are needed as we, as an American Society, are hanging over that precipice of the proverbial tipping point: “Who is serving who?” We CALL them elected Representatives, but who do they really serve? Emphasis mine: “Mr. Speaker, I was sent here not to make Government … Read more

Pentagon Officials Discuss What to Do About Trump

November 12, 2024 Steve MacDonald

CNN is reporting on evidence that the Pentagon … gets its information from CNN. Or, maybe, MSNBC. The Alphabets. The View! They fear Donald Trump will order US troops to engage in active campaigns inside the country to remove illegals or something. CNN is convinced he said he’d do that, but it wasn’t Trump who … Read more

Revolt in Our Military

September 1, 2021 Steve Earle

The s***t is hitting the fan at the Pentagon and why can anyone be surprised? Ninety retired generals and admirals have called on General Mike Milley (Chief of Staff) and Dept of Defense Lloyd Austin USMC (Never Trumper) to resign over the botched Afghanistan withdrawal.

Palate Cleanser – On the heels of the Pentagon banning the Confederate Flag on its bases….

July 23, 2020 Skip

Exceptions can be tricky… (H/T: Powerline)

Britain Will Be Like Siberia This Winter. That’s What the Pentagon Told Bush in 2004

October 27, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The Climate Cult Brain Trust continues to fail in the prediction business, which is supposed to be their only business. The models are wrong. The promised doom never comes. And yet we’re to embrace the next wave of claims as legitimate?

Pentagon Finds 12.8 Billion Lying Around to Fund President Trump’s Border Wall

March 20, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Waste in government is a given. Departments are encouraged to spend it or lose it. Which means waste it or your annual budget increases will be lower (see also, “drastic cuts”). So finding unspent money in any department is easy. If you apply yourself, you can free-up billions of dollars. The Pentagon just did that.

Will the U.S. military become Obama’s domestic shock troops?

September 26, 2018January 6, 2013

Some might be pardoned for worrying about it.