Senate takes up veterans jobs bill as key budget deadlines loom
The Senate continues to make its way through popular provisions of President Obama’s jobs package — taking up a proposal this week to give tax ...
View ArticleHow colleges are easing leap from war zone to classroom
You wouldn’t think a lounge with couches, TVs, and computers would be key to a college student’s success. But if that lounge is a place ...
View ArticleHunting With SEALs
The valor of America’s veterans reminds us why we remain free.. My nine hunting companions last weekend in South Texas didn’t look particularly special. Ranging ...
View ArticleVeterans sowing seeds of farming success
Marine Corps veteran Tyler Albers hopes to trade in a helicopter machine gun for an old tractor and rusty plow. With help from a growing ...
View ArticleObama presses Congress not to ‘muck up’ growing economy
Seizing on news of another drop in the unemployment rate, President Obama Friday urged Congress to extend a payroll tax holiday for workers and spur ...
View ArticleUSDA to tap veterans for careers in agriculture
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and the American Legion National Commander Fang Wong signed a Memorandum of Understanding this week to help veterans and transitioning military ...
View ArticleObama’s Re-election Campaign Targets Military Families
President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is focusing on military families in an effort to expand support beyond what he received in 2008, by pushing the ...
View ArticleThe gift the Greatest Generation gave us
For most of us, what we know of D-Day, with its images of men wading ashore, amidst a storm of gunfire from German troops, is ...
View ArticleDisgrace: Obama Suggests Romney Wouldn’t Take Proper Care of Veterans…
Still digging for new lows. In campaign remarks this afternoon in San Antonio, Texas, President Obama made a national security case for a strong economy ...
View ArticleMilitary Heroes Added to Obama’s ‘Enemies List’
Barack Obama’s ‘enemies list’ just got bigger. In April, Kate wrote about one of Obama’s campaign sites naming and shaming private citizens who donated to ...
View ArticleLeftist Protesters To Occupy Obama Campaign Offices During DNC Acceptance...
As president Obama prepares to give his nomination acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on September 6th, protesters will be busy occupying his local ...
View ArticleObama, Romney deliver jobs, Medicare plans to battleground states
President Obama and Mitt Romney on Saturday moved into battleground states where they are trying to convince must-needed voters each has a better plan to ...
View ArticleVets’ Group Asks Feds to ‘Fix’ Problems with Military Voting
The group Concerned Veterans for America has released a new ad asking the federal government to help “fix” problems that have been preventing military members ...
View Article‘Armed to Farm’ gives veterans tools to farm
For many military veterans and their families, the transition from the military to civilian life is a complex undertaking; however, reports and personal accounts indicate ...
View ArticleA day in the life of a veteran
It was the spring of 1971 and Captain Larry McNamara, one of my advisors to the South Vietnamese Army (ARVN), and I were sitting across ...
View ArticleVeterans Deploy To Northeast After Superstorm Sandy
Among the thousands of volunteers helping the victims of Superstorm Sandy in New York and New Jersey, hundreds of military veterans have turned out to ...
View ArticleHalf Million Veterans Waiting Over 30 Days For Care
Our veterans deserve so much better than this. They served this country honorably and in good faith. This is way beyond a crying shame. Give them a voucher ...
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