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";

PC Thought Police at Army’s Intel School

I was told last Friday by a “deputy chief” librarian – who, though born in America,  frequently brags about her dual citizenship and social medicine registry number in England – that she, Stephanie, and the chief librarian, Joan (who despises … Continue reading

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What Is Treason?

During the court martial of the famous (and prophetic) aviator Billy Mitchell, prosecutor Gullion quoted Mitchell’s criticism of the branches of the military “These accidents are the direct result of incompetency, criminal negligence and almost treasonable administration of the national … Continue reading

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PFC Manning…What’s All the Fuss About?

I don’t understand what all the fuss is about PFC. Manning’s release of tens of thousands of classified documents. He’s only doing what politicians and their bureaucratic appointees have been doing for decades.  Politicization of intelligence has always been a … Continue reading

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Tracking the Domestic Enemy

In my opinion, the best web site for tracking the “progressive” Socialists, Leftists and Anarchists who want to destroy the Constitution and the American identity is found under DiscovertheNetworks.org.  If you’re tired of listening to financially opportunistic talking heads who … Continue reading

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Who Killed Arizona Rancher Robert Krentz? An Analysis of “One If by Land”

     A friend gave me the book and wanted to know my opinion.   Reading the term “illegal immigrant” repeatedly –sometimes four or times within a page- became an aggravating distraction.  Federal law states anyone present within the borders of the … Continue reading

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Another DHS Officer Harassed for Enforcing the Law

The following reflects the fact  that I was only one of probably hundreds of DHS officers or agents who try to conscientiously enforce the law and are punished for doing so: Julia Davis, a former Customs and Border Protections Officer, … Continue reading

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CBP Whistleblowers’ Coalition

CBP Officer Julia Davis’ of the San Ysidro Port of Entry tried alerting management to a sudden influx of suspected Saudi terrorists.  Management didn’t want their port’s July 4th bar-b-que in the back office to be interrupted.  Her supervisory chain … Continue reading

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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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