Duncan Hunter's platform

here

4. Areas of federal spending that will be priority for reductions and increases:

A balanced federal budget is a priority for our national economic health and long-term prosperity. Throughout my tenure in Congress, I have fought for federal spending to provide for our national and homeland security, as directed by the U.S. Constitution, and funding increases in both of these arenas will be necessary in the future to keep our families safe and secure

Is increased funding really necessary? Or should the money that is already allocated not be better spent instead?

THE WASTRELS OF DEFENSE: How Congress Sabotages U. S. Security by Winslow Wheeler. pdf intro
CSPAN transcript
The Generals, the Legislators and the Gulfstream VIP Transports
Global Beat interview
The Independent Institute profile
The 2007 Defense Budget May Not Be What You Think
(World Security Institute)

Budgetary savings must be identified through efficiency reforms throughout the federal government. Furthermore, we must aggressively attack the creation and funding of duplicative federal programs, many of which simply do not perform but cost taxpayers millions of their hard-earned dollars. According to Office of Management and Budget, 28% of federal programs are either ineffective or have results that are not demonstrated. Reforming, combining or eliminating those programs remains among my highest legislative priorities.

I think I'd agree with his other points, except this one:

21. Advancement of human rights and religious freedom:

The greatest protection of human rights in this decade has been the overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Religious freedom is part and parcel of any free society the U.S. stands up.

The rights of Christians to worship in Iraq should be protected, but can this really be done if the country is falling apart and is in dagner of splitting along ethnic and (Islamic) sectarian lines? Why he had to include this praise of the Iraq (and as time passes Afghanistan as well) debacle, besides butter up to the current regime and those who support it blindly, is beyond me, since the number of devoted followers decreases with each day.