Barack Obama/Joe Biden
20-year retirement is gone
Hondo sends us a link to the Army Times which reports that the new budget deal that the President signed the other day included an end to the 20-year retirement plan that most of us enlisted for so long ago. It looks like that when folks enlist after 2018, they will not get the deal. […]
The rebuke more powerful than bombs
Yesterday, the President, speaking to the media alongside French President François Hollande announced his most ambitious plan yet to defeat the ISIS thugs in the Levant. He’s going to a climate conference in Paris according to The Hill; “Next week, I will be joining President Hollande and world leaders in Paris for the global climate […]
Inherent Resolve wounded
The Daily Beast points out that there are 5 wounded military personnel who were involved in Inherent Resolve, the war against ISIS. According to U.S. Central Command, which oversees military action in the region, the details of the wounded are not available, despite repeated requests for such basic information. The only specifics available are from […]
Obama vetoes defense spending bill
You know what is more important than defense? Everything else, according to our President who has used his veto on the latest defense spending bill. His reason? Because it doesn’t give him the flexibility to hammer military retirees with higher out-of-pocket healthcare costs. The Congress tried to skirt spending caps by funding military operations with […]
Biden was for the bin Laden raid before he was against it
Joe “Bite Me” Biden is planning on jumping into the Democrat campaign for the nomination for President this week, so he had some things to clean up before that leap. Beginning with his reported opposition to the raid on the Osama bin Laden compound in 2011. He described his participation in the discussion to execute […]
McHugh warns of “thinly stretched” Army
John McHugh, the outgoing Secretary of the Army, warned the assemblage at the annual conference of the Association of the United States Army that the Army is “thinly stretched” and “on a ragged edge”. From TribLive; “BCT readiness levels right now are at 32 percent,” he said. “Our standard? Sixty to 70 percent. We are […]
Obama talks leadership on 60 Minutes
Last night, the President went on “60 Minutes” and discussed leadership, a subject with which he is wholly unfamiliar. The interviewer, Steve Kroft, confronts the President on the loss of US leadership in the Syrian civil war and how Putin seems to have taken the lead from us; Steve Kroft: He’s challenging your leadership, Mr. […]
Time for Our Next Dose of Economic Castor Oil
The Federal government released economic data for September late last week. So, happy days are here again, right? The US economy is going great guns, yes? Two words: um, no. As has been the case for the last 7 years, the economy . . . remains in the freaking toilet. There was one change, […]
Recent Comments