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";

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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Time Out for Tampons! Women In Combat

Posted on January 30, 2016 by Mike

December 3, 2015, a day that will live in infamy for the United States, Defense Secretary “Ash” Carter (ironic for that is certainly what he has made of the world’s once most powerful military) unilaterally and against expert advice to … Continue reading →

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Sheriff Paul Babeu: Arizona’s Weiner

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Mike

Arizona’s Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu announced on October 15, 2015 he is running for Congress – again. I realize we’ve exhausted our bank of morally-qualified candidates for president of the United States [and Americans refuse to elect a candidate … Continue reading →

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The American Pig

Posted on November 21, 2015 by Mike

There are two kinds of American Pig. The domestic American Pig lives in a designated enclosed space called a sty. The sty is built by The Farmer for the Pig and is “rent free”. There are many other Pigs living … Continue reading →

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Sierra Vista, Arizona’s Proud Pedophile on Display

Posted on September 23, 2015 by Mike

“Hey! Little boys! Wanna take your picture in my underwear?” Cardboard cutout of CPT Underpants facing four feet from childrens’ reading table -Sierra Vista, Arizona library CPT Underpants Teaching Points: Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants: … Continue reading →

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Dick Cheney’s “Moral Authority” Bullshit to Rush Lembaugh

Posted on September 5, 2015 by Mike

Dick Cheney, the “Corporate Cyclops” turned “Poser Politician” epitomizes everything that is wrong with the supposed “conservative” Right. Up until recently I considered myself conservative – a little to the right of Attila the Hun as a matter of fact. … Continue reading →

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“Captain Underpants” on Display at Sierra Vista Library

Posted on August 28, 2015 by Mike

Maverick Free News By Mike Ligon “Captain Underpants” on Display at SV Library ……..proving you can’t fix stupid! Believe it or not there is a large, color silhouette of a naked, fat, bald, white man wearing only his “whitey tightey” … Continue reading →

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111th Military Intelligence Brigade: LCOL Riehle’s Inquisitions

Posted on June 27, 2015 by Mike

Cheating at the Military Intelligence “School of Excellence”, Ft. Huachuca, AZ is not only tolerated but often facilitated by cadre. If it weren’t the student failure rate in most courses would be about 40%. Inquisition #1. I volunteered for mobilized … Continue reading →

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McSally’s TODAY “Don’t Cripple Homeland Security”

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Mike

I am a retired immigration inspector who worked at the Douglas, Az. Port of Entry. U.S. Rep Martha McSally’s USA Today “Don’t Cripple Homeland Security” editorial of Feb. 25, 2015 is typical political double speak. McSally has no real “street … Continue reading →

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111th MI Brigade: Peter Principle Personified

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Mike

In my opinion, the 111th Military Intelligence Brigade “School of Excellence” is not only knowingly employing but promoting a neo-Nazi. His name is Dusty Miller. Having seen his work I believe his employment as a former instructor at the MI Captain’s Career … Continue reading →

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Is New Sierra Vista, Arizona Hospital a Trojan Horse?

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Mike

Stephen King obtained fame writing about his nightmares. But he “ain’t got nuttin’” on David A. Stockman’s The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America (2013). Every page of Stockman’s financial nightmares is true. Stockman was Reagan’s budget director … Continue reading →

Posted in America | Tagged David A. Stockman, Hospital Merger Mania, Inc., Marty Rash, Regional Care Hospitals, Sierra Vista's New Hosptial, The Great Deformation: the corruption of capitalism | Leave a comment

Military Retiree Sleep Apnea a National Fraud

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Mike

The world renowned Mayo Clinic defines sleep apnea as “a potentially serious sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts. You may have sleep apnea if you snore loudly and you feel tired even after a full night’s sleep. … Continue reading →

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Is Martha McSally a True Conservative?

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Mike

Is Martha McSally a true conservative or passionate feminist? As the GOP candidate opposing Democrat Ron Barber for Arizona’s Congressional District 14 representative, Martha McSally has what appears to be an impressive military record…to non-military voters. To those who have … Continue reading →

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Refugee Children – America’s Hypocrisy

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Mike

A majority of Americans are “cool” to the idea of allowing Central American “children” to flood across the U.S. border and take up residency. The public premise of the demographically gerrymandering president is to rescue these “innocents” from the horrors … Continue reading →

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Israel’s War with Hamas – Some Truth

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Mike

Jacqueline O’Connor’s anti-Semitic vitriol would make any Nazi or KKK member proud. But like most rabid bigots, her basic assumptions are patently false beginning with “Israel displacing Palestineans.” James Michener (and others) debunked that myth many decades ago in his … Continue reading →

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SGT. Tahmooressi Is Wrong

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Mike

As a former Marine and a father of three Marines I will support a good Marine to the death. But as a retired counterintelligence officer and immigration inspector with over 5,000 criminal interrogations I see a lot of holes in … Continue reading →

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Obama’s Illegal Children

Posted on July 5, 2014 by Mike

If you want to see what the U.S. will look like in ten years after Obama’s Children Crusade, look at the Soviet Union in 1920. When Lenin took power, the Bolsheviks embarked on a series of experiments intended to stamp … Continue reading →

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Obama’s Children Crusade: America’s Pied Piper

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Mike

Obama’s unabashed and diabolical subversion of the electoral process is morphing into fairy tale proportions. It is a tale with a tragic historic precedent and ominous future consequences. Back when parents read bedtime stories to their children, the legend of … Continue reading →

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