Dr. Earl Tilford,FloydReports.com Note:This article is Part II in a series. Click here to read Part I. —Ed. The U.S. Department of Defense must restructure to accommodate deep budget cuts and,more importantly,be ready for the challenges of 21st-century warfare. Those challenges will include unconventional operations and wars fought in [...] Rep. Tom McClintock,FloydReports.com The “Budget Control Act of 2011” increases the debt limit by between $2.1 and $2.4 trillion,the biggest explosion of debt in American history. It allows the government to avoid spending reductions for the next two years while squandering our last best hope of averting a sovereign debt crisis. I [...] Ben Johnson,The White House Watch GOP 2012 Contenders (Except Huntsman) Oppose Debt Deal,Blame Obama –CBS News. Michele Bachmann:If We Pass Debt Deal,“We Embrace Being Greece”—CNSNews.com. Ron Paul “Strongly Against”Debt Deal –The Daily Caller. Tim Pawlenty:Debt Deal “Nothing to Celebrate”–Politico. Mitt Romney Rejects [...] Move America Forward In the latest and most outrageous move,the Obama administration wants to cut pay and/or benefits for our troops and their families,even those deployed overseas fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq,in order to reign in budgetary spending. It’s the classic game that the liberals play whenever they are in power [...] Donna Cassatta,The Idaho Statesman President Barack Obama’s choice of expert budget-cutter Leon Panetta to lead the Defense Department is a clear signal that the White House perceives the nation’s deficit crisis,not the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,as its toughest challenge. After winning the presidency in November 2008,Obama asked Robert Gates [...] Below is an article written by a left-wing activist who called for the impeachment of President George W. Bush. Unlike so many of his comrades,he believes that since Barack Obama is carrying out many of the same policies set in place by his predecessor,Obama deserves to be impeached,as well. While conservatives may [...] Jim Emerson,FloydReports.com While briefing the US Senate Committee about Worldwide threats,Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper was asked by Sen. Joe Manchin,D-West Virginia,on which country is the greatest threat to America. In Gen Clapper’s assessment was that Russia and China are the greatest threats. Their nuclear arsenals [...] Jim Emerson,CoachIsRight.com The Obama administration is planning to sign the European Union’s Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities. The administration insists,in a unclassified summary of Obama’s National Security Space Strategy,“We believe setting pragmatic guidelines for safe activity in space can help avoid collisions and other debris-producing events,reduce [...] Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com The Left’s drive to homosexualize the American military is about to take its next major leap forward,as the most resistant branch of the military,Marines currently fighting Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan,will receive re-education classes about open homosexuality. The propaganda push comes as the brass implements the new [...] Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com If Americans were to judge Barack Obama based on how he protects our country’s interests and keeps our nation safe,they would have to conclude either that he is blinded by his ideology or that he favors our enemies. His insistence that the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood have a seat [...] Jim Emerson,CoachIsRight.com The big news last week;China agreed to purchase 200 airplanes from Boeing for $19 billion. That begs the question:how much of the necessary aircraft components are going to manufactured in China? For the time being the United States leads the world in the aircraft industry and China [...] Christian Science Monitor China takes center stage in Washington next week. President Hu Jintao begins a state visit Tuesday that could not come at a more critical time for President Obama and his drive to cut the Pentagon budget. China’s rapid modernization of its military,not to mention recent provocations of its neighbors,have [...] Rep. Michelle Bachmann,R-MN,speech at the Polish-American Cultural Center in Troy,Michigan on December 28,2010. This Tea Party leader calls out our commander-in-chief for derailing America’s national defense and spending us into perpetual debt. She also mentions how the liberals’smug attitude and disdain for our Founding Fathers led her to leave the [...] By Alan Caruba,Canada Free Press There is no single duty that a President has as Commander-in-Chief that is more important than ensuring the nation’s engines of defense remain at a level that will deter and defend against any attack upon America or its allies. How is [...] By William Tate,American Thinker Obama is too busy ramming socialism down our throats to pay attention to terrorists A Senate hearing last week confirmed the public’s worst concern about Barack Obama:that when it comes to national security,Obama hasn’t just been asleep at the switch —he hasn’t even bothered [...] By Lee Cary,American Thinker President Obama’s speech at West Point aimed to walk the line between nation building and national defense. But he muddled the two concepts. Americans look to their wartime leaders for clarity,not ambivalence. The President began his Afghanistan war speech by implicitly [...] | |