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Matt Shipley

CDR Matthew W. Shipley, graduated from Navy recruit training in January 1985, Electronics Technician “A” School in October 1985, Naval Academy Preparatory School in 1987 and the United States Naval Academy in 1991. Shipley’s tours include Assistant Platoon Commander at SEAL Team EIGHT, test article Officer-in-Charge of a Mark V Special Operations Craft (SOC) at United States Special Operations Command, Operations Officer at Special Boat Unit TWENTY, Mk V SOC Liaison Officer to Special Operations Command European Command, Naval Special Warfare Task Unit (NSWTU) Commander for a Mediterranean Amphibious Ready Group, and Platoon Commander at SEAL Team EIGHT. As a reservist, Shipley served as Executive Officer of Navy Reserve Naval Special Warfare Group TWO Detachment 309, as Executive Officer of SEAL Team THREE deployed to Fallujah, Iraq in 2006, as NSWTU Commander Manda Bay, Kenya in Oct 2006 – Mar 2007, and as the Commanding Officer of SEAL Unit EIGHTEEN in Little Creek, Virginia from Dec 2009 – Dec 2011. He retired from the US Navy in Jan 2013. Shipley’s awards include: Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Defense Service Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Navy Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal and various unit, campaign and service awards.

Most Recent Articles by Matt Shipley:

Rotten to the Common Core

Common Core, an education program developed with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve academic standards in public schools, will fall far short of its stated objective. Its promoters tout it to be a “state-led effort to establish a single set of clear educational standards for English-language arts and mathematics...” to provide teachers, parents and students with a set of well defined expectations and “[h]igh standards that are consistent across states...” Underlying these statements is the proposition public schools are not performing very well or completely failing to educate students to a necessary standard.
- Thursday, May 2, 2013

Constitutional Currency

Very few Americans understand how the Constitution defines “dollars” or the monetary powers and prohibitions delegated to Congress and the States. As a result, Americans take many unlawful monetary policies for granted, because they have known nothing different and have not questioned the national government’s authority to do the things it has done.
- Thursday, April 25, 2013

Is Roe v. Wade the Law of the Land?

Since the Supreme Court passed down their landmark Roe v. Wade opinion on January 22, 1973, approximately one and a half million unborn children have been sentenced to death each year in America. People who maintain the legality of abortion frequently claim “Roe v. Wade is the law of the land,” but this is contrary to what “the supreme Law of the Land” actually states and consequently, abortion is not legal by any stretch of the Constitution.
- Thursday, April 11, 2013

America’s Cyprus

While people around the world may be appalled at the actions of the Cyprus government to close their banks and confiscate a portion of certain accounts, many in America claim it “will not happen here.” Perhaps they are correct for at least the immediate future, but far worse was done to Americans in 1933 and it could happen again.
- Thursday, April 4, 2013

Impeaching Supreme Court Justices

Most Americans incorrectly believe Supreme Court Justices are appointed for life and therefore somehow immune from public accountability, but this understanding is contrary to the Constitution and detrimental to our Republic.
- Thursday, March 28, 2013

When is the President the Commander in Chief?

In the 20th century, America has been involved in 19 conflicts in which Congress has not declared war as the Constitution requires and service members have lost their lives in each of these 19 conflicts. The total number of service members who died as a result of these unconstitutional wars, which are conflicts not declared by the constitutionally predetermined authority, is just less than 100,000. But even the loss of one life is a tragedy to the family of the killed service member and is completely illegal when the conflict was not approved by representatives of the people and the States.
- Thursday, March 21, 2013

US Senate’s Brain Hemorrhaging Clout

Adam Liptak, in his March 11, 2013 New York Times article, Smaller States Find Outsize Clout Growing in Senate, makes a logical argument, about smaller State’s having disproportionate electoral power in the Senate, based on false premises.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Who is General Welfare?

If we were to go “Jay-Walking” across America, randomly asking people about the US Constitution’s general welfare clause, we might get the question in return, “who?” Yet, general welfare is a ‘what’ not a ‘who’ and scholarly left-leaning individuals would quickly define the clause by linking it to social justice; a concept completely at odds with America’s founding principles and the clause’s original intent.
- Thursday, March 7, 2013

Stopping the Next Columbine

While our nation grieves over one tragic and senseless mass killing after another, there are many among us who advocate the termination of a constitutionally protected right. If a constitutionally protected right is abolished or diminished there is nothing to prevent the same from happening to any of our other rights protected by the Constitution.
- Monday, March 4, 2013

Gun Control

Every time a mass shooting happens in America, and before research or analysis for the actual cause can begin, many people and news outlets instantaneously clamor for national gun control as if they are following Rahm Emanuel’s dictum to “never let a serious crisis go to waste.” Such an approach speaks loudly that the issue is more about control than it is about guns.
- Friday, March 1, 2013

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