In my syndicated column this week, I say that Romney misleads about military "cuts":

Obama has "exposed the military to cuts that no one can justify," Romney said... continue reading »

For decades, people have been saying that America's best days are behind us.

On this week's show, Glenn Beck says our Republic won't make it to 2016.

John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., says that our country is vulnerable because President Obama has made our military weaker... continue reading »

The government's principal responsibility is to provide our national defense, but do our policies promote defense? Or offense? My column this week discusses the military.

With an election approaching and at least some Americans upset about irresponsible spending, the president has finally expressed a political interest in cutting something. He says the Pentagon will spend "only" $525 billion next year. That's slightly less than the current $531 billion... continue reading »

Government does too much, but defense is what government is supposed to do: keep us safe from our enemies.

But Ron Paul says our current government goes too far. This week, we debate that.

David Henderson, an economist at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School says Ron Paul is right, but Colonel David Hunt with 29 years in counter-terrorism operations, says Rep. Paul's foreign policy ideas are naive... continue reading »

It’s great news that our military finally killed Usama bin Laden!

Justice has been served, but I’m uncomfortable with some of the reaction. I agree with what Radley Balko writes:

There was something unsettling about watching giddy crowds bounce around beach balls and climb telephone poles last night, as if they were in the lawn seats at a rock festival. Solemn and somber appreciation that an evil man is gone seemed like the more appropriate reaction... continue reading »

The anti-war movement was all over the news before President Obama was elected. But apparently they weren’t really anti-war ... they were just anti-President Bush. Two college professors just released a study of national protests between 2007 and 2009. What did they find?

… After January 2007, the attendance at antiwar rallies roughly the tens of thousands, or thousands, through the end of 2008... continue reading »

No military in the world is quite like America's. Now, I'm not talking about its technological capacity, its extraordinary reach, or its servicemen. I'm talking about the American military's singular policy towards gays serving in its ranks. Gays can serve ... so long as they don’t tell anyone that they're gay. No other country in the world has a policy like that. As I explain in my syndicated column this week, it was the product of a compromise early in President Clinton's Administration... continue reading »

President Obama replaced Gen. Stanley McChrystal for insubordination after he made disparaging remarks during an interview with Rolling Stone. For an institution that often gets called “imperialist” or worse, it says something about the American military when its highest officers respectfully accept rebuke from civilian authority... continue reading »

Congress finally gets something right: "don't ask, don't tell" is on the way out.  Since 1993, the military has discharged 13,000 gay and lesbian service members, including invaluable Arabic translators. The law claims that openly homosexual military personnel might create an "unacceptable risk to the armed forces’ high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion."  Conservativ... continue reading »