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Who’s the “Carpetbagger”?

So, Arizona Republicans call Incumbent Democrat Anne Kirkpatrick a “carpetbagger” because she’s from Phoenix and only rented an apartment in Tucson to get elected to Congress in CD 2.  But car salesman Republican Jim Click (of “Howdy Folks! I’m Jim … Continue reading

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Fighting the Ideological War: Winning Strategies from Communism to Islamism

2012, by Patrick Sookdheo, et al. This book was recommended to me by a newly promoted Special Forces Captain on Okinawa in February, 2019.  I was impressed by the SF Captain and by this book – and that ain’t easy … Continue reading

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Solipsisms of AOC’s Socialism – So Passe’!

Why is The Left so viscerally resistant to rational debate?  Societal Solipsism abounds!  French philosopher Rene’ Descartes created the concept.  George Orwell used it in his prescient book 1984. “Solipsism’s metaphysical position concludes that the world and other minds do … Continue reading

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Post-Birth Abortions vs. The Hippocratic Oath

The recent legislation passed by the New York legislature allowing mothers and doctors to murder their newborn infants after being born is a crime against humanity in itself.  The State of New York will prosecute someone who kills a pregnant … Continue reading

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Socialist Congressmen! Read this!

     OR        ? I’m taking the unusual step of posting a NetFlix movie as an editorial post because of its’ importance to the bullshit being uttered by newly-elected-but-stunningly-stupid (yet dangerous like a rabid dog) members of Congress. … Continue reading

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Post-Birth Abortions: New York’s Nuremburg

  “Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, …and soon mould itself … Continue reading

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Why TSA is NonEssential

With the recent cancellation of thousands of airline flights allegedly due to the partial government shutdown it is instructional to review how the Transportation Security Agency came into being.  The TSA was established (as was the Department of Homeland Security … Continue reading

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Pacifist Dave and School Shootings

      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

     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

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Mike’s Movie Forensics: Captain Phillips

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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America’s Potemkin Border and the Fake Immigration Crisis

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

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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Trump’s “Shithole Countries” – Right Again!

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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NFL: Killing the Gipper

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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Administration’s Afghan Insanity

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!

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

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”

     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”

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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