Just a couple of things

The wad wants to give more criminals guns
Well not really.  Eric the wad Holder indicates that he wants to restore the right to vote to felons after they have repaid their so called “debt to society.”  Well really, does that surprise anyone?  Criminals are a natural voting block for Demo-Dopes and precisely how Al Franken ended up in the US Senate.  Many can argue that after a debt is repaid, it is repaid in full.  Period.  To those folks I’d argue, surrendering certain rights after certain crimes IS part of the debt.  I’m all for letting bygones be bygones, except in the case of grand theft, murder, assault, rape, manslaughter, treason, child pornography, assault on a child etc.

Here’s the acid test for the wad and others in favor restoring felons’ rights.  If the wad wants to restore voting rights for a felon convicted of armed robbery, is the wad also in favor restoring that felon’s right to keep and bear arms?  The wad, no doubt, would think that’s crazy talk.  Voting is much different from keeping and bearing arms.  No it isn’t.  In fact, in Lex’s perfect world one would be required to show proficiency with a firearm and an understanding of the US Constitution before voting.

The wad is against anyone keeping and bearing arms - save Mexican drug lords who he is so in favor of having guns he actually supplies the weapons.  Once the wad comes out in favor of keeping guns out of the hands of felons who have “paid their debt to society,” you’ve got him.  He’s not interested in restoring a felon’s rights after the obligatory debt to society has been repaid, he’ out mining votes for Dopes.  It is no more complicated than that.

Box-O-Rocks Hagel wants to slash the military
I’m not so sure that there isn’t plenty to slash in the military budget.  I’m pretty sure ol’ Box-O-Rocks is precisely the wrong guy to be doing the slashing.  Manpower is the biggest cost in the defense budget.  So when it’s time to cut, manpower is the low hanging fruit.  A couple of things on that score:  1) Combat in built up areas – think Fallujah and war on terror type combat – are manpower sink holes.  2)  King SFB honored an Army Sgt. who had 10 tours in ten years in Afghanistan and Iraq.  If the force is cut much further, that Sgt. would be in WWII scenario where the deployment would last the duration plus 6 months.  Extended combat, even with all the gee whiz technology, requires an extended force.  The smart thing to do would be to put the forces in the reserve. Train and equip them for manpower intense forms of combat that are what is likely in today’s Islamo-Terror-Fascist form of combat.  Reserve forces can be maintained for about one forth the cost of active duty forces.

And while we’re on the topic of manpower, what is ol’ Box-O-Rocks going to do with glut of civilian and military manpower housed inside the five sided puzzle palace commonly referred to as “the Pentagon”?  Seems to me whatever cuts are being made in the fighting force ought to be tripled or more inside the Pentagon.  Here’s my prediction.  AS the fighting force is reduced, the number of generals and admirals and under secretaries in the Pentagon will increase.

The 11 Aircraft Carriers should remain.  But they should be deployed with about 1/3^rd of the complementary aircraft.  I’m told by AFBro that one of the good things about airplanes is that they can fly.  I’m almost certain that Naval Aircraft can fly independent of an aircraft carrier.  So if anything bad started to develop, the planes could - get this - fly to the carrier then.  This would greatly reduce the cost of carrier deployments.

Next fire anyone in the military whose primary mission is not winning battles and wars.  Get rid of the people who want be the first bisexual Hispanic to lead a platoon into combat.  Replace him/her with a competent platoon leader happens to be a bisexual Hispanic.  There’s a subtle difference there.
By just getting rid of service members whose main purpose in the military is money for college, GLBT rights, rights for women, poke a sharp stick into the eye Christians, anything but winning battles and war, manpower cuts could be reached and you'd have a better, more lethal, more focused fighting force.  We need to restore a culture of closing with and destroying the enemy as a primary focus rather than building a divers force solely for the sake of diversity.

The most important thing we could do though is to guarantee to our armed forces and the American people that we will NEVER enter into another conflict where we do not intend to place American lives ahead of enemy lives and those who choose to associate with the enemy.