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Your overuse of the word, "Killed" in your list betrays your overactive imagination. Though your list is somewhat more attractive, I prefer Sir Gawain's emphasis on facts.

"Though your list is somewhat more attractive, I prefer Sir Gawain's emphasis on facts."

Facts?!

Here's a tidbit of what Sir Gawain listed as "facts":

"SOCIALIST WELFARE PROGRAMS & POLITICAL BOONDOGGLES

[source] Continued anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft.
[source] $10 billion military reserve fund for the Pentagon.
[source] $28.9 billion "anti-terror" package. (As if the federal government didn't already spend enough on defense)
[source] Proposed increasing defense spending to $378.5 billion next fiscal year from the $364.1 billion appropriated by Congress for fiscal 2003.
[source] $11 billion over the next 3 years to build up war capability in S. Korea.
[source] $8 million for firearms training for commercial pilots.
[source] U.S. government purchased data on Mexico’s 65 million registered Voters.
[source] $37.5 million in federal funds to Georgia for "homeland security."
[source] $100 million to help states run their smallpox vaccination programs.
[source] $800,000 to $1 million for the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to make circles in the ocean while George W. Bush aboard.
[source] $1 billion a year to fund 75,000 new firefighters over seven years via the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Act (or SAFER, isn't that cute?).
[source] ... $600,000 for RIPTA facilities security upgrades...
[source] $95 million to spy on Americans for the government's Total Information Awareness database.
[source] $21 billion deal with Boeing to lease one-hundred 767 tankers...
[source] $500 million to build ballistic missile interceptors in Alaska."

"I prefer Sir Gawain's emphasis on facts."

Respectfully, I submit that Sir Gawain's list is an example of someone throwing a lot of "facts" into the mix and hoping people will be overwhelmed by the sheer volume and not pay attention.

I do not think being opposed to any defense spending necessarily makes one a "conservative".