Veterans Benefits

Veterans Still Waiting For GI Bill Payments, Colleges Unpaid

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Universities and colleges are still waiting for tuition payments for thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who attended school...

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Veterans' Benefits Stolen: 8 Indicted For Filing $214,000 In False Claims

Colorado Springs Gazette | JOHN C. ENSSLIN | Posted 12.22.2009 | Denver

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A federal grand jury in Denver has indicted eight current or former Colorado Springs residents on charges they filed false claims for unemployment mon...

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Fearing Government Involvement in Health Care

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

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Lincoln Mitchell

Before we collectively start quaking in fear of a government takeover of health care it might make sense to slow down and consider that a fair amount of our health care system already has strong government involvement.

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Bloomberg 3? NYC Veterans 0

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics

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Luis Carlos Montalván

Ask any veteran and he or she will tell you that over the past several years New York City's Mayor's Office of Veterans' Affairs has done little or nothing to assist the hundreds of thousands of veterans in the city.

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Dem "Strategists": Use These 8 Points and Learn How to Discuss Taxes or Don't Go on TV

Paul Abrams | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

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Paul Abrams

The Republicans will lie -- they will claim that Obama is going to raise everyone's taxes. Today, I heard several people on TV dubbed "Democratic strategists" just fall for it.

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Veterans Benefits Checks Delayed: Soldiers Risk Financial Ruin

AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

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SAN ANTONIO — His lifelong dream of becoming a soldier had, in the end, come to this for Isaac Stevens: 28, penniless, in a wheelchair, fending ...

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McCain: "Happy Memorial Day. Now Get Back to Iraq."

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 06.03.2008 | Home

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M.S. Bellows, Jr.

John McCain is afraid that if we give our soldiers a future, they may seize it, which is why he voted against the new G.I. Bill and why he is spinning that vote as patriotism and the product of experience.

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Obama criticizes McCain on veterans' benefits

AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics

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BAYAMON, Puerto Rico — Barack Obama told veterans Saturday that he can't understand why Republican John McCain opposes legislation that would pr...

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An Angry McCain Shows Just What Type of Dirty Campaign He's Running. Somewhere Karl Rove is Smiling

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.31.2008 | Politics

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Andy Ostroy

McCain offers himself as a candidate who wishes to run a more respectful campaign, but his actions of the past few weeks have been same Rovian tactics we've come to hate these past eight years.

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Iowa Veterans Want U.S. Out of Iraq, Turn Toward Democrats

Dan Treul | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Dan Treul

Al Cannistraro, Jacqueline Cotrell, Christine Escobar, Kim Farris, Mike Germain, Kerri Glover, Matthew Moll, Gale Walden, Ellen Emerson White, and Ran...

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