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";

May Day Memories

Ah spring!  As the saying goes: April showers bring May flowers.  It always brings back  fond memories of sitting in a  truck with 150 other Marines holding bayonet-mounted M-14s between our knees outside the D.C. beltway May 1, 1971.  The Nixon administration … Continue reading

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Military’s Holocaust Hypocrisy

As a boy in the ’50s I watched “World At War” narrated by Walter Cronkite.  I was forever marked emotionally seeing the films of the liberated concentration camps.  As a teenaged military history buff I studied that war to understand … Continue reading

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Obama’s “Arab Lie”

I have studied counterinsurgency for several decades.   I’ve taught it for several years.  So when Obama began running for president of the United States I recognized familiar TTPs (Tactics, Techniques & Procedures) common to insurgents and subversives around the world.  … Continue reading

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Budget Cuts Effect on Military Readiness – Really?

Cheerleader Generals Reading “Military Update” by Tom Philpott (“Some relief, but commissaries may get cut”) is like listening to the home town cheerleader.  In the  ‘80s General Shachnow – a true soldiers’ general-  said “anything above the rank of major … Continue reading

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Forget the Zombies! Beware the Atomic Robots.

No one who knows me would be surprised to know I’m an “Old Spice” man (as opposed to a “Dapper Dan Man” – I don’t have a use for that).  I’ve been using Old Spice as long as I’ve been shaving – nigh … Continue reading

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Honor A Fallen Marine

Force Recon Marine Sergeant Caleb Medley died during Military Free-Fall training on Wednesday, February 27, 2013.  He is being buried today in his Colorado home town.  Caleb had served a four year hitch in the Marine Corps, gotten out for … Continue reading

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The Great Lincoln – Kerry Debate

In case you missed it there was a debate about America as a symbol to the world between former president of the United States Abraham Lincoln and current Secretary of State John Kerry. Mr. Kerry:  ” I will make my argument … Continue reading

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Fiscal “Cliff” Solutions – Remember the Grace Report? “It’s the Fraud, Waste and Abuse, Stupid!”

If bandwagon broadcasters had focused on the actual cause of our national financial fiasco – Fraud, Waste and Abuse – rather than the beltway spin of a “Fiscal Cliff” sequestration need not have happened.  Even now pundits broach the subject with the timidity of a … Continue reading

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Rush Limbaugh’s Limited Lexicon

John Adams once said “How can I reason with a man who is unread?”  I’ve listened to Rush Limbaugh since the mid-‘80s at Ft. Bragg, N.C.  I turned the volume way up in my ’68 Camaro during lunch specifically to … Continue reading

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Immigration Reform de Facto 9/11

         We need go no further than 9/11 (2001) to realize that even when 2,074 American citizens are murdered Congress will dissemble and obfuscate but do nothing really effective to solve the illegal alien problem.  My sister in Atlanta recently met a Hispanic man … Continue reading

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Boycott the Super Bowl

The media should receive consequences for violating their own journalistic principles and subverting the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.  This has never been more blatant than with the recent “Dickerson” letter to the White House in … Continue reading

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Barack’s Bastard Presidency: Advice to the Tea Party

The following is a response to my suggestion to a local Tea Party representative that the National Tea Party should organize a protest during His Exalted’s inauguration and stage a Walk Out during His State of the Union message next month: “Glad … Continue reading

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Book Review: “The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do About It” by Joshua Cooper Ramo

“The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do About It” by Joshua Cooper Ramo, Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2009 …… is touted as a national best seller … Continue reading

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Obama’s Inaugural / State of the Union

Being nice in war and politics doesn’t cut it.  It’s time the National Tea Party get some real gonads and start exerting some real pressure on Obama and his cult of Socialists.  If this Tea Party is to be anything … Continue reading

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To Hell With the GOP!

I’ve been a registered Republican since returning from Vietnam in 1971 – 41 years.  Recently I’ve spoken with so many shocked conservatives who believe it was Romney’s fault for one reason or another.  A former boss of mine this evening … Continue reading

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“A Moral Storm”

“… the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, “Be tolerant–even of evil.” Logically the next step would be to say to our commonwealth’s criminals, “I disagree that it’s all right to rob … Continue reading

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High Value Targeting

Much complaining has been heard about the leftist media ignoring or outright covering up critical issues and outright violations of law and constitutional rights of American citizens.  Other than actual drug users, the most common addiction of Americans IS the … Continue reading

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America’s Autopsy (Part Two)

(I originally titled this essay “America’s Antidote: High Value Targeting” but decided the odds of garnering the support for types of efforts (non-lethal) required by a majority of the population to take back America are extremely slim) The day after … Continue reading

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America’s Autopsy: Overdose on the Heroin of Hedonism

Three months after the 2008 Obama victory I was driving to work at Ft. Huachuca, AZ.  I was driving down Brainard Drive alongside the runway enjoying the crisp, winter morning sunrise when I felt this almost overwhelming nausea in my stomach.  … Continue reading

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Border Patrol Agent Ivie Killing Unraveling

Last night on KVOA Channel 4 News, Tucson I heard an intriguing update on the facts surrounding the “friendly fire” killing of Border Patrol Agent Ivie.  News anchor Christie Tedesco said the latest information released by the Cochise County Sheriff’s Department … Continue reading

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