Stu Cvrk

Stu Cvrk~ retired as a Captain after serving 30 years in the US Navy in a variety of active and reserve capacities, with considerable operational experience in the Middle East and the Western Pacific. Through education and experience, an oceanographer and systems analyst, Stu is a graduate of the US Naval Academy, where he received a classical liberal education, which serves as the key foundation for his political commentary.

Delayed Accountability in the American Political Class is Itself Criminal

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The dire consequences of deferred justice

Failing to prosecute politically connected wrongdoers promptly, and with the same severity applied to ordinary citizens, is not a neutral or harmless omission. It is psychologically close to inevitable in emboldening further and more brazen misconduct by the individuals who escape consequence. A person who transgresses once and pays no price has little reason to expect a different outcome the second or third time.

Shockingly Underreported News and Commentary for the Week of 25 October

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News items and commentary that need some serious sunshine This is the thirteenth post in the ongoing weekly feature that highlights news and commentary on important geopolitical, cultural, and economic issues that the Democrat-media complex buries because they expose the hypocrisies associated with the continuing Marxist-Democrat narrative. Everything is properly sourced and linked for follow-up …

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Silence Is Not the Record: A Response to WethePeopleSTANDUP

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Attempt to whip votes for Democrats fails on the facts

On Halloween, the Dakota Scout posted a “trick commentary” entitled, “Voters must require Thune, others to uphold Article I responsibilities.” Their conclusion urges “citizens to stand up on Nov. 3 and hold John Thune and so many other members of Congress accountable for their failure to honor their oath of office, their failure to protect the Constitution, …” In short, this is an exhortation for South Dakotans to vote Democrat irrespective of the policies of the national Democrat Party, which are anathema to most South Dakotans.

Donald Trump is the Abundance President

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The inversion of the Democrats’ abundance narrative

After the 2024 election, a faction of Democrats concluded that their party had lost the argument over who can deliver best to the American people. Their answer was “abundance”: the claim that blue governments fail voters because process and veto points smother supply, not because liberals/socialists spend too little. This article asks and answers a pointed question: judged by the movement’s own yardstick, who has actually delivered abundance?

Shockingly Underreported News and Commentary for the Week of 18 October

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News items and commentary that need some serious sunshine

This is the twelfth post in the ongoing weekly feature that highlights news and commentary on important geopolitical, cultural, and economic issues that the Democrat-media complex buries because they expose the hypocrisies associated with the continuing Marxist-Democrat narrative. Everything is properly sourced and linked for follow-up reading, whether from legacy media, independent sources, or social media.

Individualism Versus Collectivism is on the Ballot This Year: Defeating democratic socialists is imperative

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Six years ago, the rise of the “Bernie bros” supporting avowed socialist candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) raised the question of whether decades of soft indoctrination about the “horrors” of capitalism by the Democrat-media complex and the oft-promised but never delivered benefits of socialism had finally produced enough voters willing to elect their way out of free enterprise.

US Chokepoint Control vs. China’s Chokepoint Bypass Strategy

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Exploring the tension in the first great power rivalry since the end of the Cold War

In May, the US Dept of the Navy released its “Fiscal Year 2027 Shipbuilding Plan, outlining the Administration’s long-term strategy to expand fleet capacity, strengthen the maritime industrial base, and deliver a more capable, ready, and lethal naval force.” The goal is to expand the fleet from 291 to 450 vessels by 2031 through a $65.8 billion investment in shipbuilding.

Shockingly Underreported News and Commentary for the Week of 11 October

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News items and commentary that need some serious sunshine

This is the eleventh post in the ongoing weekly feature that highlights news and commentary on important geopolitical, cultural, and economic issues that the Democrat-media complex buries because they expose the hypocrisies associated with the continuing Marxist-Democrat narrative. Everything is properly sourced and linked for follow-up reading, whether from legacy media, independent sources, or social media.

Fifth Columns Are Operating in America, Part II

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This is Part II of an article that is analyzing five proto-fifth-column cluster categories in the U.S. that conform to the broader definition. Part I examined foreign influence and intelligence operations, mass immigration and sanctuary policy advocates, and Islamist networks tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR. This part looks at far-left militant and propaganda networks and other fifth column candidates, as well as examines where the interests among the categories align and concludes the series with monitoring recommendations for the future.

Fifth Columns Are Operating in America, Part I

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Foreign influence, ideological networks, and institutional capture

Merriam-Webster defines a “fifth column” in its original, literal sense: “a group of secret sympathizers or supporters of an enemy that engage in espionage or sabotage within defense lines or national borders.” That is a high bar (i.e., hidden agents under foreign direction with actions timed to a military objective), and almost nothing discussed in American politics today clears it.

Shockingly Underreported News and Commentary for the Week of 4 October

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News items and commentary that need some serious sunshine

This is the tenth post in the ongoing weekly feature that highlights news and commentary on important geopolitical, cultural, and economic issues that the Democrat-media complex buries because they expose the hypocrisies associated with the continuing Marxist-Democrat narrative. Everything is properly sourced and linked for follow-up reading, whether from legacy media, independent sources, or social media.

Beijing’s South China Sea Mirror: Chinese words don’t match their actions

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According to an article in Chinese state-run Global Times, the US is using the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) with the Philippines to destabilize the South China Sea region. It cites a communist-controlled think tank in Beijing, the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative (SCSPI), as the source for that claim.

Shockingly Underreported News and Commentary for the Week of 27 September

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This is the ninth post in the ongoing weekly feature that highlights news and commentary on important geopolitical, cultural, and economic issues that the Democrat-media complex buries because they expose the hypocrisies associated with the continuing Marxist-Democrat narrative. Everything is properly sourced and linked for follow-up reading, whether from legacy media, independent sources, or social media.

The Democrat Party and Its Hangers-on Are a Hive, Part II

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This is Part II of a 3-part series that frames the Democrat Party (the “Left”) and its supporters as a hive – a metaphor that characterizes a decentralized but instinctively coordinated politically-driven collective that swarms in the same leftward direction, enforces conformity, and advances the Left’s collectivist goals without needing a formal conspiracy or central command for control purposes.

Part I described the Queen’s chamber, nervous system, worker caste, and stingers. This part covers the reproductive system, immune system, circulatory system, and communication system.

The Democrat Party and Its Hangers-on Are a Hive

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Joe Sobran (1946–2010), a longtime National Review columnist, essayist, and conservative thinker, portrayed the Left, as manifested by the Democrat Party, from the 1980s onward as a “Hive.” He believed that this metaphor was nearly perfect in characterizing a decentralized but instinctively coordinated politically-driven collective that swarms in the same direction, enforces conformity, and advances the Left’s collectivist goals without needing a formal conspiracy or central command for control purposes.

A Retrospective on Write-In and Minority Party Ballot Anomalies in Wisconsin during the 2020 Election

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Immediately after the 2020 election, I was fortunate to be in contact with a group of independent analysts and experts in their respective fields, e.g., statistics, mathematics, computer science, etc., who provided early analysis of publicly available election data sets from Edison Research and other sources. With their concurrence, I wrote several articles that described their election analyses in several of the swing states – and their inferences that “something was rotten in the state of Denmark.”

Shockingly Underreported News and Commentary for the Week of 20 September

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This is the eighth post in the ongoing weekly feature that highlights news and commentary on important geopolitical, cultural, and economic issues that the Democrat-media complex buries because they expose the hypocrisies associated with the continuing Marxist-Democrat narrative. Everything is properly sourced and linked for follow-up reading, whether from legacy media, independent sources, or social media.

Fixing The Festering U.S. Assimilation Problem, Part II

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Assimilation of new arrivals to the U.S. is an ongoing problem. Persistent failure of large immigrant groups to assimilate linguistically, civically, and economically can produce enduring ethnic enclaves, lower social trust, weaker shared civic norms, and political and cultural polarization that strain public institutions and social cohesion. This can lead to a direct threat to the American constitutional republic over time as respect for the U.S. rule of law fractures in favor of other ideological frameworks like Sharia law.

Fixing The Festering U.S. Assimilation Problem, Part I: A proposed framework

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One of the biggest long-term demographic challenges faced by the US. Is lack of an enforcement mechanism for the assimilation of new arrivals (i.e., legal immigrants who have been “naturalized” as U.S. citizens). There are some groups who refuse to assimilate, including Islamists and some racial groups (e.g., Somalis recruited into the al-Shabaab terrorist network).