Here's a fact that you would never know if you relied on Sean Hannity, Dennis Miller, Rush Limbaugh, and Mark Levin for all of your daily news. Barack Obama's latest military budget is the highest since World War II. Veronique de Rugy presents the case for cutting the Pentagon.

While she makes some valuable points about the role played by military contractors and waste in driving up costs, she could have said much about the giant elephant in the room: our world empire.