Veterans Still Waiting For GI Bill Payments, Colleges Unpaid
WASHINGTON — Universities and colleges are still waiting for tuition payments for thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who attended school...
WASHINGTON — Universities and colleges are still waiting for tuition payments for thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who attended school...
AP | Posted 12.22.2009 | Denver
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is sounding the theme of efficiency today. The president meets privately with Nancy Fichtner, a Veterans Af...
AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 12.15.2009 | Home
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Doctors at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in this quiet, bucolic town tucked between coal country and the nation's cap...
AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 12.14.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — Nobody wants to buy them a beer. Even near military bases, female veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't often offered...
Peter Dreier | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
After years of feeding at the health insurance industry trough, it's no wonder these conservative Democratic senators oppose a public option plan to compete for consumers.
R. B. Stuart | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
The inadequacy of the VA and a majority of military doctors in theater that fail to diagnose or misdiagnose is at the crux of the soldiers diagnosed with rare, advanced cancers.
Beau Friedlander | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
You merely need to let Tancredo talk to defeat him in a debate. Why would you deride him for not serving his country because of depression, a debilitating illness that affects 8 to 12 percent of the population?
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Whether it's amputees, folks struggling with PTSD, outdoor enthusiasts, or just those looking to swap war stories, every vet can find a home on the IAVA's social network for veterans.
Washington Post | Dana Priest | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home
The Army psychiatrist believed to have killed 13 people at Fort Hood warned a roomful of senior Army physicians a year and a half ago that to avoid "a...
Wall Street Journal | By YOCHI J. DREAZEN | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
The Army's top generals worry that surging tens of thousands more troops into Afghanistan could increase the strain felt by many military personnel af...
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Rey Leal has fought on the streets of Fallujah; for mental health care in south Texas; and in Washington, for a solution to years of late veterans' health care budgets. Today, Rey and millions of veterans have won their fight.
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
After honorably fighting overseas, female veterans shouldn't have to wage new battles once they get home. And they should be treated like heroes, not candy stripers.
AP | Posted 10.11.2009 | Home
LYNN, Ind. — An ex-Marine who served in Iraq has been charged with three counts of attempted murder of a police officer after firing on police. ...
Katie Halper | Posted 11.29.2009 | Comedy
Like my fellow American patriots, I refuse to sit by while the Nazi Marxist President sends storm troops of Dr Mengeles to pull the plug on millions of grannies.
Richard Allen Smith | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics
During the last administration, it took major scandals to get anything fixed in the Department, and then it was never corrected at this level.
AP | DENA POTTER | Posted 11.19.2009 | Home
RICHMOND, Va. — A California rapper whose lyrics spoke about the thrill of murder and mutilation has been charged with killing a Virginia pastor...
Craig Newmark | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
The folks at the Veterans Administration are changing their culture in a big way with a new innovation site.
Richard Allen Smith | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
I look back on my almost 25-year-long life of being treated by public health care, and am honestly insulted by the misinformation that comes from anti-reformers.
McClatchy Newspapers | David Goldstein | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home
It wasn't a bullet or roadside bomb that felled Lance Cpl. Josef Lopez three years ago after nine days in Iraq. It was an injection into his arm befo...
Hal Donahue | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Early in my service I was told, "When a jet crashes, often the boots are all we can find." Such was my not-so-subtle introduction to the need for end of life planning.
Michael Shaw | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media
Richard Allen Smith | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
What Arlen Specter's opportunistic party switch has taught us is you can take the Senator out of the Republican Party, but you can't take the predilection towards manufactured offense out of the Senator.
Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Huffington Post Night Editor Marcus Baram defended The Veterans Administration's use of the end-of-life planning document "Your Life, Your Choices" Tu...
HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
***UPDATE*** Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs Tammy Duckworth appeared on Fox News Sunday this morning to combat the false allegations that th...
Eric Ehrmann | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
Fifty million Brazilian students will have Christmas in July when software Santa slips down the chimney to give them a free ticket on the information highway.
AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics