“Our past experience as military leaders leads us to be greatly concerned about the impact of repeal [of the law] on morale, discipline, unit cohesion, and overall military readiness. We believe that imposing this burden on our men and women in uniform would undermine recruiting and retention, impact leadership at all levels, have adverse effects on the willingness of parents who lend their sons and daughters to military service, and eventually break the All-Volunteer Force.” - Statement in support of retaining the current law signed by over 1,000 retired flag and general officers.

While the entire country remains distracted over the long-overdue finale to the ObamaCare debate, the Obama Administration and Progressive Democrats are already moving full-speed ahead with efforts to further transform the United States by doing everything in its power to hobble our defense capabilities by allowing openly-gay people to serve in the nation’s armed forces. Despite the hurt feelings and emotional arguments of those intent on socially-engineering alleged “equality” into the ranks, there are literally a thousand reasons I can think of why this is an extremely bad idea. Read More »

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  The primary job of the US military is to bring as much force to bear as is necessary to implement the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United States. We recruit, motivate, train, pay, equip order and expect those brave enough to answer their country’s call to go anywhere around the world at a moments notice to kill or capture those who stand in the way of achieving those objectives. The least we, as a nation can do to support them in their mission is to refrain from second-guessing their every battlefield decision. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what America’s future politicians, the armchair quarterbacks of the JAG Corps, are doing to yet another of America’s bravest, most dedicated warriors. Read More »

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 While some Americans may have found Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address to be moving, pragmatic and inspirational, I found it completely devoid of substance, belligerent in tone, full of straw men, half-truths or even outright lies and a solid indicator that the US is in for a rough ride, the only solace being that Mr. Obama’s ride will be even rougher. It is evident to me that he either didn’t get the message sent by the American people or he just isn’t interested in heeding it. Read More »

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The unimaginable devastation that rocked the island nation of Haiti last week has seemingly brought out both the best and worst of humanity, not just in America, but around the world. While American missionaries, teachers, doctors and social workers have been aiding the people of Haiti for years and others have now mobilized to rescue and assist anyone and everyone they can, others seem intent on turning the disaster into a freakish sideshow or using it as a forum to score domestic or international political points. Read More »

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“They took the lives of innocent men, women and children without regard to their faith or race or station.” - Barack Obama’s revisionist 9/11 history lesson to West Point cadets.

Barack Obama’s biggest liabilities as both a politician and so-called “leader” are his tendency to overstate the magnitude of the nation’s problems and the effects of his policies upon those problems, to overreach on the legislative solutions to those overstated problems, as well as the time required for doing so and to repeatedly begin acting on those problems before the proper solution has been identified, effectively placing the cart before the horse. Read More »

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