What Are We Doing in Syria?

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

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House Republicans Finally Putting The Squeeze On Bloated Pentagon Budget

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

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Making the Government Live By the Same Rules as Everyone Else

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

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Pentagon Officials Discuss What to Do About Trump

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

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Revolt in Our Military

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

Some might be pardoned for worrying about it.

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