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Stories by John Guardiano

John R. Guardiano served as a Marine in Iraq and once worked on the Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) modernization program. He resides in Arlington, Virginia. (www.twitter.com/Guardian0)

Obama’s Unilateral Nuke Retreat

John Guardiano wrote on March 7th, 2010 at 12:30 am | 38 Comments

President Obama’s plan to dramatically and unilaterally dismantle our nuclear stockpile will only invite America’s enemies to test and provoke us.  more

Obama Moves to Gut Our Nuke Arsenal

John Guardiano wrote on March 4th, 2010 at 8:30 am | 16 Comments

The Obama administration is about to unveil a new nuclear strategy which seriously reduces the role and importance of nuclear weapons, not because it will help keep the nation safer, but rather because the president and the far left pine for a world free of nuclear weapons.  more

Disagree Without Being Disagreeable

John Guardiano wrote on February 22nd, 2010 at 12:55 am | 16 Comments

Ryan Sorba, a conservative activist who attacked CPAC for accepting a co-sponsorship from a gay Republican organization and FF contributor Alex Knepper, who subsequently confronted him, can both stand to learn a lesson about civil discourse.  more

In Defense of Demon Sheep

John Guardiano wrote on February 6th, 2010 at 8:46 pm | 23 Comments

The demon sheep attack ad unveiled last week by California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina is one of the most brilliant, witty and devastatingly effective political ads ever made.  more

Obama & the Dems: Still in Retreat

John Guardiano wrote on January 28th, 2010 at 10:18 pm | 7 Comments

The president’s State of the Union speech is unlikely to change anything. Indeed, the political dynamics that existed before he spoke remain intact; Obama did nothing to alter or arrest them.  more

Young Hipster Cons: Enter the Fray

John Guardiano wrote on January 25th, 2010 at 7:39 pm | 26 Comments

Are young 20- and 30-something conservatives whiners and conformists? It’s hard not to draw that conclusion when reading some of the supposedly “cutting-edge” writing by young hipster cons.  more

Dems and Independents Poised to Help Brown Pull off Upset

John Guardiano wrote on January 14th, 2010 at 11:30 am | 14 Comments

In the Massachusetts Senate race, Democrats and independents have good reason to support Republican Scott Brown and may help him pull past Martha Coakley on election day.  more

Time for a War President

John Guardiano wrote on January 12th, 2010 at 12:21 am | 5 Comments

If the president and Congress are focusing most of their attention on healthcare, then they’re shortchanging the imperatives of national security.  more

Reading, Writing and Radical Islam

John Guardiano wrote on January 11th, 2010 at 12:07 am | 50 Comments

The failed Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was turned on to radical Islam while attending school in London. That same radicalization campaign is being waged on American campuses and with more limited but still deeply troubling success.   more

The War Must Be Obama’s Top Priority

John Guardiano wrote on January 8th, 2010 at 12:53 am | 46 Comments

It’s high past time for the president to acknowledge that winning the War on Terror is his most important, overriding responsibility. Everything else — including so-called comprehensive healthcare reform — is secondary.  more

Bring on the GOP Slugfest

John Guardiano wrote on January 4th, 2010 at 10:44 pm | 29 Comments

Instead of trying to avoid primary battles, the GOP should welcome the opportunity to have a vigorous intraparty fight in 2010.  more

Draft Rudy

John Guardiano wrote on December 29th, 2009 at 9:04 am | 13 Comments

The 2010 election may be a banner year for Republicans. But if the party is to capitalize on the electoral wind at its back, then it mustn’t cede New York and the Northeast to the Democrats; it must field top-tier candidates like Rudolph Giuliani.  more

A Race Rudy Can’t Refuse

John Guardiano wrote on December 23rd, 2009 at 5:58 pm | 12 Comments

It’s not too late for Rudy Giuliani to change his mind. The Republican Party and the conservative cause need him out on the campaign trail and in the United States Senate.  more

Entitlements, Not Defense, Are Busting the Budget

John Guardiano wrote on December 23rd, 2009 at 9:03 am | 43 Comments

President Obama calls Afghanistan and the larger war on terror a war of necessity. Yet his supporters begrudge spending even 1% of the GDP to fight this war – jealous of every nickel that they covet instead to expand the domestic welfare state.  more

Dems Haven’t Given Up on Single-Payer

John Guardiano wrote on December 21st, 2009 at 11:44 pm | 7 Comments

The Reid deal will only pave the way for what Howard Dean and the hard Left honestly and forthrightly say that they want: a “single-payer” healthcare system in which private sector insurers no longer exist and the government monopolizes the healthcare marketplace.  more

Laws and Sausages

John Guardiano wrote on December 21st, 2009 at 11:21 pm | No Comments

Larry Sabato has a great line today about the byzantine process that gave us the Senate health reform bill.  more

Fighting the Left and Winning

John Guardiano wrote on December 21st, 2009 at 11:12 pm | 65 Comments

The Right could learn from the example set by Charles Krauthammer, the single most trenchant and insightful critic of the Obama administration.  more

The Obama Doctrine: Not Just Wrong but Dangerous

John Guardiano wrote on December 17th, 2009 at 4:30 pm | 21 Comments

Many right-leaning pundits and pols were eager to praise Obama for delivering a supposedly serious speech that defended the use of military force. But the substantive policy implications of the Oslo speech also raise troubling questions.  more

Waking Up to the Obama Doctrine

John Guardiano wrote on December 16th, 2009 at 6:07 am | 9 Comments

It seems like only last week — after his speeches at West Point and Oslo — that Barack Obama was a neoconservative hero. But now some neocons are beginning to see Obama and his foreign policy as they really are.  more

The Obama Doctrine

John Guardiano wrote on December 14th, 2009 at 9:20 pm | 14 Comments

The neoconservative enthusiasm for Obama after his recent speeches at West Point and Oslo is misplaced. At best, Obama is a so-called realist who eschews the use of military force except in the most narrow circumstances. At worst, Obama is a dove who refuses to exercise U.S. military power when necessary.  more