Fact Check: Ron Paul is Wrong About Defense Spending

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  November 28th at 06:42 AM  | 

During last week’s foreign policy debate, Ron Paul won accolades from the crowd when he professed that there are no real pending cuts to the military, just reductions in baseline spending.  Here is the full quote: “Believe me. They’re cutting — they’re nibbling away at baseline budgeting, and its automatic increases. There’s nothing cut against the military. And the people on the Hill are nearly | Read More »

The Non-Existent Spending Cuts…Except for Defense

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  November 22nd at 01:32 PM  | 

Yesterday, we observed the unique spectacle of a socialist president threatening to veto any bill that reinstates higher levels of spending.  Did Obama just experience an epiphany? No.  We are merely talking about cuts in defense spending.  Those are the good kind of cuts. Throughout the entire supercommittee imbroglio, whenever Democrats or members of the media referred to spending cuts – to the extent that | Read More »