Category: National Defense and Military

Providing generously for defense is FULLY CONSISTENT w/limited government

By Zbigniew Mazurak on Mar 19, 2013 in Money, National Defense and Military, Politics, Support the Troops

One of the most dear principles of the conservative ideology is that of “limited government” – namely, a federal government limited to its Constitutional powers. This is what “limited government” means, and this is what all conservatives want (or at least should aspire to). Unfortunately, a number of libertarians are falsely claiming (and misleading many [...]

Rand Paul is a total fraud, a RINO, and a leftist libertarian

By Zbigniew Mazurak on Mar 15, 2013 in Blogs, National Defense and Military

There appears to be a consensus on the Right that former Congressman Ron Paul (RINO-TX) is a leftist libertarian nut, a fruitcake, and a man totally unfit for public office. That consensus cost him three presidential elections in which he failed to win a single state (thus losing in all 50 states 3 times each): [...]

Rebuttal of Jim Lacey’s ignorant garbage

By Zbigniew Mazurak on Mar 11, 2013 in Money, National Defense and Military, Politics, Support the Troops

The National Establishment Review has just published an utterly ridiculous screed by Jim Lacey (“Why Armies Matter”), in which Lacey dismisses sea- and airpower as never having a decisive effect and being a waste of money and mere supporting tools for ground armies, while also falsely claiming that ground armies have always been the decisive [...]

Rebuttal of the “sequestration is just a spending growth rate cut” lie

By Zbigniew Mazurak on Mar 08, 2013 in Money, National Defense and Military, Politics, Support the Troops

Ever since the sequester’s inception in August 2011 under the Budget Control Act, many ignorant people, including many anti-defense hacks (such as Mercatus Center’s Veronique de Rugy, AmSpec’s Matt Purple, HumanEvents’ David Harsanyi, POGO’s Danielle Brian, TIME magazine’s Mark Thompson, Ron Paul, Rand Paul, and CATO Institute anti-defense hacks) have falsely and repeatedly claimed that [...]

Time to cancel the F-35

By Zbigniew Mazurak on Mar 07, 2013 in National Defense and Military, Support the Troops

The DOD’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (OTE), J. Michael Gilmore, has recently released his assessment of the F-35 JSF, and the DOD has also released the marks given to the plane by its test pilots. These are all F grades. In the plane’s cockpit, visibility to the rear is poor (practically nonexistent), visibility [...]

Interview with Mark McNeilly, author of “Sun Tzu and the Art of Modern Warfare”

By Zbigniew Mazurak on Mar 06, 2013 in National Defense and Military, Support the Troops

In January, we published our review of Mark McNeilly’s book, Sun Tzu and the Art of Modern Warfare, an excellent book explaining Sun Tzu’s ancient military treatise, the Art of War, in simple terms that everyone can understand and using many historical examples to illustrate the point. Desiring to learn more, I have conducted an interview [...]

Rebuttal of William Hartung’s lies about defense spending and US defense needs

By Zbigniew Mazurak on Mar 05, 2013 in Money, National Defense and Military, Politics, Support the Troops

In a recent (Feb. 22nd) opinion piece for CNN’s website, liberal anti-defense hack William Hartung of the George-Soros-funded “New America Foundation”, a stridently liberal group, stated many blatant lies about America’s defense spending and defense needs. This article is intended not only to refute his lies, but also to show how absurd they are, as [...]

Rebuttal of CATO’s pseudo-”truth” about sequestration

By Zbigniew Mazurak on Mar 02, 2013 in Money, National Defense and Military, Politics, Support the Troops

As a leftist libertarian, anti-defense organization founded in 1977 by the anarcho-libertarian Murray Rothbard (who believed the US was solely to blame for the Cold War and “Russia was the aggrieved side” and who feted Stalinist butcher Nikita Khrushchev), CATO has consistently lied about America’s defense spending, policy, force structure, and needs, and has advocated [...]

Help STOP precipitous cuts in America’s nuclear deterrent

By Zbigniew Mazurak on Mar 01, 2013 in Money, National Defense and Military, Politics, Support the Troops

The extreme Left has not given up. Despite all the facts proving the need for continued nuclear deterrence and for a large, modern American nuclear deterrent, the extreme Left – led by Reps. Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Ed Markey (D-MA, now a Senate candidate), the left continues to work to disarm America unilaterally. Purporting to [...]

Obama: I was FOR Sequestration Before I was AGAINST it.

By Teresa Wendt on Mar 01, 2013 in *Participate*, Money, National Defense and Military, Politics, Videos

Remember this? In 2011 President Obama threatened to veto any attempt by Republicans to change the Sequestration cuts. But last week? President Obama talks of Armageddon, chaos will erupt and life as we know it will end. Oops…maybe the pendulum swung too far…and the president again rethinks his position telling the Business Council that this [...]

“Taxpayers for Common Sense” and CAGW caught lying to the Congress

By Zbigniew Mazurak on Feb 27, 2013 in Money, National Defense and Military, Politics, Support the Troops

Two pseudo-conservative groups’ presidents, Ryan Alexander of “Taxpayers for Common Sense” and Thomas Schatz of Citizens Against Government Waste, lied to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on February 5th. In an attempt to fool the Congress into agreeing to deep, harmful defense cuts – whacking at the military’s muscle, not fat – they [...]

Rebuttal of the “we can cut defense spending deeply at no cost to security” notion

By Zbigniew Mazurak on Feb 24, 2013 in Money, National Defense and Military, Politics, Support the Troops

In a recent 3-minute video, Christopher Preble of the CATO Institute falsely claimed that the US could “spending considerably less on defense at no cost to security”. That was just one of the many blatant lies made in the video; it, like others, was refuted in a recent article, but this lie was particularly blatant [...]

Rebuttal of the CATO Institute’s blatant lies

By Zbigniew Mazurak on Feb 23, 2013 in Money, National Defense and Military, Politics, Support the Troops

The George-Soros-funded CATO Institute has recently put out a 3-minute video titled “The Truth About Sequestration” which, however, is a litany of blatant lies about sequestration and defense issues. They claim, inter alia, that sequestration would be only a “one-year cut” in defense spending; that by the end of the sequestration decade, defense spending would [...]

Republicans voting for cloture on Hagel MUST be voted out of office

By Zbigniew Mazurak on Feb 22, 2013 in 2014 Election News, National Defense and Military, Politics, Support Israel, Support the Troops

By the time of this writing (Feb. 22nd), several RINO Senators – Mike Johanns and Deb Fischer of Nebraska, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, John McCain-Feingold of Arizona, Lindsey Gramnesty of South Carolina, Richard Shelby of Alabama, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Susan Collins of Maine, intend to vote for cloture (i.e. breaking the filibuster) on [...]

Why deep defense cuts MUST be avoided at all costs

By Zbigniew Mazurak on Feb 22, 2013 in Money, National Defense and Military, Politics, Support the Troops

I could just as well title this article “why defense must always be fully funded” or “why America must always maintain a strong, second-to-none defense”, but all three titles effectively mean the same thing, so I have chosen the above one. We are being told from all directions by various kinds of people – from [...]