Author Archives: Mike

About Mike

Former Vietnam Marine; Retired Green Beret Captain; Retired Immigration Inspector / CBP Officer; Author "10 Years on the Line: My War on the Border," and "Collectanea of Conservative Concepts, Vols 1-3";

Pacifist Dave and School Shootings

Posted on June 26, 2018 by Mike

I met a pacifist last Sunday sitting next to me at the counter of Papa’s ‘50s Diner in Sierra Vista, Arizona. I hadn’t seen him since the 17 year old waitress he worshipped left for other horizons about a … Continue reading →

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111th Military Intelligence Brigade – It’s Own Worst Enemy

Posted on June 26, 2018 by Mike

The 111th Military Intelligence Brigade is like a drunken boxer who persists in punching his own mirrored image in the face thinking he’s winning the fight. The rest of Big Army sits in wonder looking at the spectacle. Here are … Continue reading →

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Arizona Teachers – Lenin’s Useful Idiots

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Mike

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Mike’s Movie Forensics: Captain Phillips

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Mike

As anyone can read online the movie “Captain Phillips” was highly altered to make the real life Captain Phillips look like a hero. He was not – and he admits it. He consciously chose to sail within the pirate zone … Continue reading →

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Rush Limbaugh and the Military

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Mike

Like all media armchair quarterbacks, Rush Limbaugh lacks military experience. He avoided the draft by claiming a medical exemption for a pilodinal cyst. Pilodinal cysts are formed by groups of hairs and “debris” trapped in the pores of the skin … Continue reading →

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America’s Potemkin Border and the Fake Immigration Crisis

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Mike

The word “Potemkin” comes from Russian minister Grigory Potemkin building fake portable villages along the Dnieper River to impress his former lover, Russian Empress Catherine II, during her journey to Crimea in 1787. As recently appointed governor of Crimea, Potemkin … Continue reading →

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California Needs Spanking

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Mike

California is throwing another tantrum and should be spanked. As the parent, the federal government should administer the strap. It is more than allegorical. The United States gained the territory of California “fair and square” (more or less) in the … Continue reading →

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God, Give Us Men!

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Mike

Josiah Gilbert Holland “Et vitam impendere vero” In view of our increasing political crises and the continuing social entropy, I feel the need to share this poem: “God, Give Us Men! God, Give us Men! A Time like this demands … Continue reading →

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Trump’s “Shithole Countries” – Right Again!

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Mike

It so happens that in the real world there ARE shithole countries – literally and figuratively. My first experience with them was in 1960. My father was an Air Force air traffic controller and had been transferred to Germany. Family … Continue reading →

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Clinton’s “Wall” and 9/11

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Mike

I’ve struggled to write a book on the real reasons 9/11 happened – other than the obvious intent of the terrorists- since I finally read the voluminous 9/11 Commission Report a few years ago. It’s given me nightmares’ When my … Continue reading →

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NFL: Killing the Gipper

Posted on November 16, 2017 by Mike

Movie producer Peter Bogdonovich once said “There are no OLD movies – just good movies you haven’t seen yet.” It would behoove the spoiled brats -players, coaches, owners, and especially Commissioner Goodell of the National Football League to watch the … Continue reading →

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“Bring Back Deported Vets!” …Say What?

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Mike

I tell ya the PC pity party just never ends. Last week at Barnes Field House on Ft. Huachuca I saw a guy wearing a black T-shirt with what appeared to be a logo mimicking the POW/MIA photo of a … Continue reading →

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Administration’s Afghan Insanity

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Mike

When the temperatures were consistently over a hundred degrees this summer some friends and I traveled to Patagonia Lake. Upon arrival I plunged into the lake and raptured in the refreshing coolness of the water. Putting my feet down I … Continue reading →

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President Trump! B.R.A.C. This Border!

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Mike

I challenge President Trump to conduct the same cost-effective study of our borders’ Ports of Entry that Congress did for our domestic military installations. It was called the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Act. The same process should be done … Continue reading →

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Kaepernick the Useful Idiot

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Mike

San Francisco 49er backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick justified his refusal to stand for the national anthem as “I will stand with the oppressed” referring to alleged injustices to minorities in America. Like most spoiled, overpaid, professional athletes who failed to … Continue reading →

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Trump’s “I Can Work With the Russians”

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Mike

Trump claiming he “can work with Putin and the Russians” is either another pipe dream shared with every other politician or an ominous preview of morally bankrupt business dealings “trumping” national security. I’m no Hillary fan. I think … Continue reading →

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Trump’s “Extreme Vetting”

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Mike

Trump’s “Extreme Vetting” appeals to most concerned with national security. But there is a gaping institutional vulnerability ensconced in the federal law that has always required some level of vetting for entry into the U.S. and American citizenship. Immigration law … Continue reading →

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TSA! GO AWAY!!!

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Mike

The airline industry’s angst against the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) long wait times at security checkpoints is a monster of their own making. TSA is an offspring of the monolithic Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In predictable knee jerk response … Continue reading →

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Origin of Puerto Rico Super 9 Bailout:

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Mike

Will Rogers, Oklahoma cowboy and national humorist, called Congress “America’s only native criminal class.” In the 1800s Alexis de Tocqueville remarked on the relative inferiority of most American politicians. It has only worsened. A Sierra Vista, Arizona Herald April 29 On … Continue reading →

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What “Gender Pay Gap”?

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Mike

The Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald’s April 15th editorial “Being free and equal can be depressing” reveals gross –and perhaps willful- ignorance of the facts about the alleged “gender pay gap.” In my opinion it is another example of the media … Continue reading →

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