Archive for National Defense

Isn’t Government Supposed to Protect Us? Not Dumb Luck?

The numerous media reports from this past weekend seem to be more about minimizing the political damage than about reporting the real implications. Repeatedly from the likes of Janet Napolitano, twice referring to it as a “one-off attack” to NY Senator Chuck Schumer stating it was a “lone wolf” attack to NYC Mayor Bloomberg speculating [...]

Nukes, Gas and Gutlessness

We’ve been reading more and more lately, and I’ve even written about it, regarding the Iranian threat pending worldwide. Iran is close if not already able to create nuclear weapons and it’s only a matter of time before the Iranian Tyrant fulfills on his promised path of the nuclear destruction of Israel and you can [...]

Russians Trying to Dictate US Foreign Policy

On the issues page of my campaign web site, I make the following statement; “The world is ruled by the aggressive use of force. Appeasement never works. It didn’t work on the playground when we were kids and it doesn’t work in the real world; 9/11 proved that to all of us. It’s time that [...]

Funk’s Response to President Obama’s Speech & Airline Security

For Immediate Release:

Dave Funk, Candidate for Congress; Iowa-03 Responds to President Obama’s press conference on the failure of the Aviation Security system involving Northwest Flight 253.
It’s great for Barack Obama to channel Harry Truman with the line, “The buck stops here.” But he’s going to have to do a lot more than quote Harry [...]

Finally Fixing our Airline Security System

By Dave Funk
As we all know, this past Christmas day there was a terrorist attack that failed on Northwest Flight 253 bound for Detroit. Again, our Nation has had its eyes opened as American lives were nearly taken mid-air. Even during the pre-9/11 era, these risks were high and we tried to fix the [...]

The Clueless Always Are…

The attack on Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas day really hit home for me. Not only is it the airline that I worked for as a pilot for twenty years, but because it also shows us that The Clueless Always Are.
As an airline Captain and aviation security consultant with a lifetime [...]