Marcus Aurelius: Defense Orders Most Furloughed Players Back to Work

Not sure just what this really means — What does “most” mean? I read the language of the law, which extremely broad and permissive. DoJ and, of course DoD (little difference) attorneys appear to have construed the language VERY, VERY narrowly SECDEF’s memo, link highlighted, follows suit, seeming to focus on employees doing things like …

Marcus Aurelius: Axis of Evil 2013 — Is Washington In Enemy Hands?

“A picture is worth a thousand words” and “you can’t make this stuff up.” But nothing I can think of illustrates the root causes and relative potential impacts of government shutdown as well as following Mike Luckovich cartoon which just happened to appear in today’s Washington Post. Elegant in its simplicity, it addresses truths that …

Marcus Aurelius: Shots Fired at Capital (Secret Service versus Capitol Police, Unarmed Woman in Car Killed)

The end of the beginning, the beginning of the end for these corrupt treasonous individuals in Congress and at the White House? Shots fired at Capitol A car chase that began when a driver tried to breach a White House security barrier ended near the U.S. Capitol, with a confrontation that included shots fired and …

Marcus Aurelius: SOF O-6 Sends – A World Where No One Listens to America

All following appears consistent with Dinesh DiSousa’s books and the film that came from them, “2016:  Obama’s America,” which assert that POTUS is a rampant anticolonialist whose principal objective is to reduce America to the status of a Third World nation rather than to facilitate the nations of the Third World to achieving levels of …

Marcus Aurelius: The Beginning of the End for Washington

Following from Defense One, a relatively new newsletter.  I’m not a political scientist, but much of what’s said below seems reasonable to me.  I would tell you that the current situation clearly tells us that our Constitutional republic has failed, probably irrevocably so and that we need a lawful  Constitutional convention in order to rebuild …

Marcus Aurelius: N.S.A. Gathers Data On Social Connections Of U.S. Citizens

New York Times September 29, 2013 Pg. 1 N.S.A. Gathers Data On Social Connections Of U.S. Citizens By James Risen and Laura Poitras WASHINGTON — Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations …