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

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

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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Military Retiree Sleep Apnea a National Fraud

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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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Retired CIA’s “Keyhole” Analysis

While I identify with retired CIA analysts Goldcamps’ patriotic passion and historical interests we differ in perspective.  Their 22 June editorial in the Sierra Vista (AZ) Herald contains recycled recitations of out-moded WW II concepts and commonly quoted plattitudes of … Continue reading

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Berkdahl the Bastard

“When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life’s preservation, but to spend his substance for them, his comrades, not to abandon them, not to … Continue reading

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Transformation Under Fire: A Review (Where’s the Beef?)

Transformation Under Fire: Revolutionizing How America Fights By Col. Douglas A. MacGregor, PFL (pre-fontal lobotomy) OR How to Kiss (Rumsfeld’s) Ass with Verbosity and Avoid Reality A former co-worker thought I would be interested in reading MacGregor’s book as the … Continue reading

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Democrat Rep. Joe Garcia “Communism Works!” – Not.

Florida Democrat Representative Joe Garcia’s quote “We have proved communism works” (OYM 30 May) was a stunning display of historical ignorance and cultural amnesia at best – or one of Putin’s disinformation “fellow travelers” at worst.  No other than Fidel … Continue reading

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Is V.A. the Victim?

There has been much public chest thumping about the number of veterans’ deaths allegedly due to the Veteran’s Administration untimely admissions procedures.  I had occasion to be at the Tucson V.A. hospital once.  I was dreading the visit because of … Continue reading

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35F All-Source Intelligence Analysis Committee Is FUBAR!

The largest military intelligence occupational specialty (MOS) is FUBAR and has been for at least the five plus years I taught there. Sources continue to inform me it is only getting worse.  Ninety-five percent of the problems on this committee can … Continue reading

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Darwin’s Doubt: Review and commentary

“Darwinian theory has so many holes it hardly casts a shadow.”  This is just one of many similar opinions from unimpeachable scientists who have actually read Stephen C. Meyer’s latest blockbuster “Darwin’s Doubt:  The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the … Continue reading

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Nat Hentoff: This is Snowden’s Treason

For some who are handicapped by an inability to fathom obvious logic –or an unwillingness to conduct real scholarship- it is necessary to spell out why some things are as they are.  In columnist Nat Hentoff’s  fifth-column frenzy to rehabilitate … Continue reading

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Snowden’s Useful Idiot – Hentoff

Dostoyevsky’s main character in The Idiot, “Myshkin,” appears so honest and sincere his fellow Russian characters believe him an idiot – and call him so in his presence.  So shall I regarding Nat Hentoff’s disinformation campaign to legitimize Snowden’s betrayal … Continue reading

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Unbridled Capitalism

The Pope’s recent speech in which he warned against “unbridled capitalism” caused quite a stir from both ends of a very polarized political spectrum. Any “unbridled” passion or act is bad – at least according to the only known perfect … Continue reading

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Obama’s Third Term – A Legal Analysis

I’ve had a distinct and foreboding impression that Barack Obama will manufacture some type of national or international crisis in order to justify serving a third term as president of the United States.  I had the same distinct impression two months after … Continue reading

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