Tim Masters has been busy trying to rebuild his life after almost ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Now he does not have access to the GI benefits he deserves.
Safely investing one's money requires a reasonable understanding of market forces. Here's an investment option that is guaranteed to pay high dividends for years: the education of America's Post-9/11 Veterans.
The Department of Veterans' Affairs should ask Congress to fund the change required to install a VKO. Now that's change we could believe in!
VA public relations officials demanded a reporter's microphone and recorder. They brought four armed, uniformed guards to enforce the order and wouldn't let him leave. Unacceptable.
With the end of stop-loss, we've finally begun to address some of the burdens bad policy puts on our military families. But as the war enters its seventh year, there's still a ton left to do.
The Department of Veterans Affairs faces a crucial decision: Will it take on the private insurance companies that have long enjoyed a free ride at the VA's -- and taxpayers' -- expense?
Kellogg, Brown, Root (KBR), accused slayer of our military, received a new, many-millions DoD contract; Bethesda/Walter Reed rushes to failure while...
When hundreds of thousands of New York's veterans do not receive the benefits and entitlements they deserve, is there then no cost to New York State taxpayers?
The history of veterans funding is so consistently poor that even when Congress has gotten the funding level right, it has been late. Imagine trying to run a private sector health care system without knowing your budget.
A patient at Walter Reed Army Hospital, I am constantly seeking to educate and assist veterans and returning military concerning access to benefits and opportunities. The news is not good.
By separating insurance financing from the care provided, universal coverage would enable the VA to expand its services to non-veterans whose care would be paid through universal insurance.
I cannot be bought. Not for less than 20 bucks. So there's no need to worry that my judgment has been tainted by the fact that a publisher sent me a ...
Make no mistake, this is not about questioning the integrity, judgment, or credentials of retired Army General Eric Shinseki. After all, it was Shinse...
Shinseki has always put patriotism ahead of politics, and is held in high regard by veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Although Charlie did press Bush on the Iraq War -- would he have fought it knowing there were no WMDs? -- the presence of Laura Bush during the interview did much to disarm Gibson.
Image: Coleen Rowley, Congressman John Murtha, Becky Lourey (2006 G. Nienaber) It was late September 2006 and Minnesota was in the throws of mid-ter...
In fact, it's a hopeful sign that Obama will likely choose a generalist -- Richardson or Biden -- and not a general, and, if a woman, not the one who called him "irresponsible" and "naïve" and set up the GOP for the general election.
We are a nation at war -- why are two neophytes on the world stage, Bayh and Kaine, at the top of the list when Obama himself has zero foreign policy or national security chops?
Obama should convince the American public that he's not setting up a zero sum game between Muslims on one side and Christians and Jews on the other.
McCain's failure of judgment, conscience, and courage during the rush to war cannot be erased. He turned his back on the only surge that might have spared us this: a surge before the invasion.
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama visited...
This Veterans Day, after we raise the flag, we must...
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