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Over 5 million illegal aliens issued Social Security numbers

| April 1, 2025 | 22 Comments
Over 5 million illegal aliens issued Social Security numbers

Among the fraud, waste, and abuse that they ran into, DOGE discovered over 5 million Social Security numbers assigned to illegal aliens. These illegal aliens entered the United States during the Biden administration years. Approximately 1.3 million of these individuals were actually receiving Medicaid benefits. DOGE discovered that when it came to application and rewards […]

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Transgender veteran: Trump’s removing transgendered troops is ‘reckless and dangerous’

| March 11, 2025 | 66 Comments
Transgender veteran: Trump’s removing transgendered troops is ‘reckless and dangerous’

Alleria Stanley, a transgendered woman, penned an opinion article for The Guardian. He took aim at President Donald Trump’s order to have transgendered service members removed from the military. Stanley countered the reasons used for removing transgendered service members from the ranks. He argued that transgenders were twice as likely than the general population to […]

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The Atlantic: Trump fired top lawyers to gain total control

| March 3, 2025 | 18 Comments
The Atlantic: Trump fired top lawyers to gain total control

Paul Rosenzweig labelled President Donald Trump’s firing of top military lawyers as “firing the military’s conscience.” Rosenzweig implied that Trump et al. may have read one of Shakespeare’s stories. In this story, the plan to kill all the lawyers was part of a bigger plan. This plan was to turn the population into one that’s […]

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Actions against Mark Milley ‘negatively impact’ national security

| February 14, 2025 | 76 Comments
Actions against Mark Milley ‘negatively impact’ national security

Former service secretaries, a general, and admirals penned an opinion article addressing Trump administration actions against military officers. They mentioned Retired General Mark Milley and  former Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Fagan to showcase their argument. The authors claimed that these actions risk sending a message to the ranks that the Trump administration will not […]

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Saturday silliness

| January 25, 2025 | 17 Comments
Saturday silliness

I remember Dave King, the lead singer for Irish punk band Flogging Molly, thanking the Pope for all the song inspirations he had given them. Looking at some of the ideas floated by our newly elected President-redux, it looks like the next four years should be interesting. If anything, it’s hard to decide where to […]

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Taking Pete Hegseth’s book, An American Crusade, out of context

| November 22, 2024 | 18 Comments
Taking Pete Hegseth’s book, An American Crusade, out of context

Jason Wilson, a journalist for The Guardian, penned an article taking Pete Hegseth’s “An American Crusade” out of context. In the book, Hegseth identifies strategies, protected by the First Amendment, to take on the left’s propaganda messaging and actions. He also highlighted some “worst-case scenarios” but otherwise advocated actions consistent with what many groups have […]

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Donald Trump intends to win against our enemies using unrestricted warfare

| November 19, 2024 | 26 Comments
Donald Trump intends to win against our enemies using unrestricted warfare

Donald Trump brings something to the table that career politicians and senior military officers seem to fall short on… The ability to maximize the use of non-hard kill methods to accomplish American objectives. Over two decades after the U.S. government woke up to the need for information sharing and interoperability among the different agencies as […]

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Donald Trump’s plan for the U.S. military will end its might

| November 18, 2024 | 61 Comments
Donald Trump’s plan for the U.S. military will end its might

Stephen Saideman, of Carleton University, penned an opinion piece warning us about Donald Trump’s “creating” a “partisan military.” Saideman warns us that turning the military into a partisan force, at the expense of merit, sets the military up to making mistakes it otherwise would not make. Saideman references statements that Pete Hegseth made to help […]

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