Right-Wing Attack Group Funder's Company Going Bankrupt
The casino company of billionaire Sheldon Adelson, financial backer of right-wing attack groups, may be going bankrupt: Las Vegas Sands Corp., billio...
The casino company of billionaire Sheldon Adelson, financial backer of right-wing attack groups, may be going bankrupt: Las Vegas Sands Corp., billio...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics
In hopes of organizing a robust demonstration for the vice presidential debate this Thursday in St. Louis, the pro-Iraq War (and ostensibly pro-McCain...
CNN | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
Vets for Freedom, a group of Iraq and Afghan combat veterans, is urging Sen. Barack Obama to acknowledge success of the surge in Iraq in a new ad airi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics
David Bellavia, founder of Bush suck-up outfit Vets For Freedom, says he "will never attack a Vietnam veteran," but then proceeds to say this about Se...
Salon | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics
On its face, it seems like an idea any enterprising editor could have come up with: Gather a group of veterans of the Iraq war who also have journali...
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics
Sheldon Adelson, the 74-year-old casino billionaire who has become the third richest man in America and who has strong ties to the hard-line Likud Par...
Dave Johnson and James Boyce | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
At the Vets for Freedom NewsLadder, we are linking to all of the stories and articles about VFF and together we can ask -- and potentially answer -- some very basic questions about politics and the War.
Dave Johnson and James Boyce | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
If Vets For Freedom really does have 25,000 veteran members, we'll post the whole membership list right here.
Dave Johnson and James Boyce | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
We're betting this 527 group is nothing more than a conduit for one or two very large donations intended to get around election law to the benefit of candidate McCain.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
The issue-advocacy group Vets for Freedom officially launched a $1.5 million ad campaign on Wednesday, touting of the Iraq surge policy and pushing a ...
Jon Soltz | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
The Iraqis are basically telling the US that they endorse Obama's policy -- they want us to set a timetable to bring the troops home. John McCain is ignoring them.
Politico | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
Democrats say a group supporting Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) bought television ad time in Virginia that had been released by his campaign the same day,...
Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
The pro-war veterans group Vets For Freedom is airing ads in battleground states in support of the war, the Washington Post reports: Sen. John McCa...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics
Politico's Mike Allen reports on the first independent advertisement to be run on behalf of McCain: The first major independent advertising benefitin...
The Huffington Post | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics
The Huffington Post broke the news last week that two of Sen. John McCain's top campaign chairmen were serving on the board of an independent organiza...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics