By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  October 29th at 01:00 AM  | 

After cancelling almost all modernization programs after the Cold War Bush 41 laid the groundwork to continue to neglect strategic modernization to this day. Democrats can simply say, “The Cold War is over look what a former Republican President did.” I have added a link from the National Institute of Public Policy that outlines Russia’s current modernization and it is a sobering document. In so | Read More »

By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  June 11th at 07:55 AM  | 

Meet The Squatters: Here Are The Millions Of Americans Who Live Mortgage-Free For Up To 5 Years And Counting Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/10/2011 13:14 -0400 The topic of Americans living mortgage-free in foreclosed homes on which banks do not have proper titles is nothing new – in fact we are surprised that there isn’t a robosignature app for that…yet. Neither is the fact | Read More »

By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  June 2nd at 11:45 PM  | 

While only the US will have to disarm. From Global Security Newswire: Russian Deployed Strategic Arsenal Below Limit Set by New START Thursday, June 2, 2011 By Martin Matishak Global Security Newswire Email This Article Print This Article Print All Articles WASHINGTON — Russia’s stockpile of deployed strategic nuclear warheads is already below the ceiling required by the U.S.-Russian arms control treaty that took effect | Read More »

By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  June 1st at 08:29 AM  | 

In a speech given at the Ronald Reagan Building Secretary Gates had this to say: “As most of you here remember, when Ronald Reagan took office, there was little to joke about, or smile about for that matter.  In the previous decade we’d seen: A collapse in Vietnam, and the deaths of millions across Southeast Asia; Stagflation; Two energy crises; The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; | Read More »

By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  April 25th at 11:02 AM  | 

As predicted. During the run up to the ratification of the New Start nuclear arms treaty RINO’s signed up because Obama “promised” to fund modernization of the nuclear enterprise and the triad delivery systems like the Minuteman III ICBM. As the story below shows Obama seems to have forgotten to fund the Minuteman III modernization study: From Global Security Newswire U.S. Air Force Changes Mind | Read More »

By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  February 23rd at 10:34 AM  | 

I aplogize if this is not considered a proper diary post with just a link and no “guts” to it but I wanted to provide it to the readers of Redstate and to every Republican politician in America. The media hates you and will manipulate information and use leftist talking point to frame the debate. In this interview with Andrea Mitchell and Donald Rumsfeld watch | Read More »

By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  January 16th at 09:26 AM  | 

Russia launches arms race with new intercontinental ballistic missile Russia is developing a replacement for the world’s most devastating intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a move that risks reviving a global nuclear arms race. ————————————————————– Back in the early 80′s when the arms race was heating up debate raged around the possible deployment of the US’s MX or Peacekeeper missile. The Peacekeeper was going to | Read More »

By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  June 24th at 08:48 PM  | 

From Global Security Newswire: http://gsn.nti.org/gsn/nw_20100624_3032.php Here are some quotes (my comments are in italics) “It is obligatory for the United States to ratify” the treaty, Schlesinger told the Senate panel. There is “nothing in the treaty that is problematic,” added the official, who served in the Nixon and Ford administrations. Nothing is problematic, wow the perfect treaty the first time is human history this has | Read More »

By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  June 21st at 09:45 AM  | 

From the Tampa Bay dot com. http://www.tampabay.com/news/crists-edge-over-rubio-appears-to-be-growing/1103719 A new Florida Chamber of Commerce poll suggests Charlie Crist may be widening his lead over Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Kendrick Meek in the U.S. Senate race. Where other recent polls showed Crist barely edging out Rubio, the June 9-13 survey of 607 likely voters by the Florida Chamber of Commerce Political Institute and Cherry Communications found | Read More »

By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  June 14th at 09:02 PM  | 

From Defense News: The Sustainable Defense Task Force unveiled its plan to cut $1.1 trillion in military spending. The rest of the story – http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=4667417&c=AME&s=LAN They pass a new trillion dollar entitlement ask for billions upon billions for a stimulus that has failed miserably but would love to gut our national defense. Why is it Democrats and the Left want the federal government to do | Read More »

By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  May 7th at 05:32 PM  | 

From the Air Force Association Blacker Saturday?: Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected to outline even deeper overall defense reductions in a speech he’s giving Saturday at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kan. The speech is part of the two-day celebration of the 65th anniversary of VE Day, the date of Germany’s surrender in World War II. Senior Pentagon officials said Gates’ speech to | Read More »

By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  March 25th at 09:56 AM  | 

Treaty to Cut U.S.-Russia Nukes; Signing in 2 Weeks Wednesday, 24 Mar 2010 08:56 PM The U.S. and Russia reached a breakthrough agreement Wednesday for a historic treaty to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the former Cold War rivals, the most significant pact in a generation and an important milestone in the decades-long quest to lower the risk of global nuclear war. After long and | Read More »

By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  March 23rd at 08:55 PM  | 

I know healthcare, healthcare and healthcare but we can’t forget all the other things going on with this administration including disarming and weakening the defenses of this great nation. From Global Security Newswire: New START Pact Expected in Days, Russia Says Tuesday, March 23, 2010 The United States and Russia believe they are days from completing a new arms control treaty calling for the Cold | Read More »

By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  March 1st at 06:21 PM  | 

From Defense News – Obama Plans Dramatic Reductions in U.S. Nuclear Weapons By TANGI QUEMENER Agence France-Presse Published: 1 Mar 2010 16:17 WASHINGTON – President Obama plans “dramatic reductions” in the country’s nuclear arsenal, a senior U.S. official said Monday, but it remains unclear if he will opt for a radical break from past policy. A review of nuclear policy, due to be completed this | Read More »

By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  February 15th at 02:12 PM  | 

As everyone here at Redstate already has seen, Obama comes from the “blame America first” or “America is the problem” wing of the Democrat Left (the majority of them in this administration and Congress/Senate). Here is another example from Amb. Ellen Tauscher – she is the lead negotiator for arms control in the current Start Treaty renewal/replacement process with the Russians. In a recent Defense | Read More »

By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  January 13th at 01:41 AM  | 

From The Journal of International Security Affairs – http://www.securityaffairs.org/issues/2009/16/thayer&skypek.php I can only provide the link but worth the read to Redstaters. With all the other issues flying around this is not getting the attention it deserves.

By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  November 5th at 08:17 PM  | 

The Constitution is pretty clear about “providing for the common defense” forcing us to buy health insurance, not so much. Well when most Americans are closely following the insane rush of the Democrats to steal our personal freedoms his minions are in Moscow giving away the nuclear store. Another story from Global Security Newswire – http://gsn.nti.org/gsn/nw_20091105_8126.php  – seems to indicate that Obama is offerring the Russians | Read More »

By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  November 3rd at 06:32 PM  | 

Defense technology has always been a great interest to me. I sleep well at night because the US is the pre-eminant technological military on earth. But that is a very fragile thing. Technology moves so rapidly it has been estimated that without proper investment the US could fall behind on many military technologies in as little as a half a generation. The Russians and the | Read More »

By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  October 30th at 09:58 AM  | 

From Newsmax: Russia to Boost Obama With Nuclear Treaty Friday, October 30, 2009 6:26 AM Moscow and Washington want to reach a deal on a key nuclear disarmament treaty before US President Barack Obama receives his Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, a Kremlin source was quoted as saying Friday.   The source, quoted in the Kommersant daily, said the Obama administration wanted to sign | Read More »

By: bobbymike (Diary)  |  November 5th at 04:19 PM  | 

I have worked elections in Canada and I will pass on a story that seems to be repeated in races around the US by the dozens. I volunteered to help try and defeat a member of the Canadian Parliament who routinely won her seat by less than 200 votes. We worked very hard and on election night were leading THE ENTIRE NIGHT. There were three | Read More »