Many teachers are veterans.
Many serve as reservists in their states' national guards.
But serving students as a classroom teacher is not tantamount to military service.
Is it?
Based on data from Defense Department (DOD) news releases, a new Washington...
Let's say you're a senior news editor at a prestigious national newspaper. Let's say you're savvy, experienced, and have an intellectual capacity superior to that of, say, a pile of gravel. Now let's say that...
The U.S. Marine Corps is investigating a complaint they received about military personnel allegedly leaking pictures of their naked, female colleagues on a website that promotes sexual assault. In the last month, a dozen women reported...
Donald Trump wants war.
In fact, he wants it so badly, he actually requested the Pentagon provide military options for sinking Iranian ships.
Fortunately, "cooler heads prevailed," as the saying goes.
According to the Washington Post on Wednesday, defense officials had...
Earlier this week, we learned that Donald Trump had ordered the Pentagon to draw up plans for what may be the first-ever peacetime military parade through the streets of Washington.
Lawmakers from both parties have slammed...
One of the many things President Donald Trump has been accused of is having an affinity for dictators.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un notwithstanding, Trump has on numerous occasions praised autocratic heads of state for their "tough"...
On Monday night, we learned beyond any doubt that Sunday's horrific shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas was completely preventable. The gunman, Devin Patrick Kelley, had been court-martialed in 2012 for assaulting his...
As part of the effort to push back against high school, college, and professional players taking a knee in protest of police brutality, right-wingers have claimed that taking a knee dishonors our men and women...
The classic American imperialistic double-standard might lead one to believe that military drones flying over Lebanon and occasionally crashing near or into a school full of children is nothing new, nothing out of the ordinary,...
Most of the reality-based world isn't too enamored with Donald Trump's plan for a massive military parade through the streets of Washington. Some think it's a massive waste of taxpayer money, while others are concerned...
OMGoodness. I'm not generally a woman who drools at extremely hot men (publicly), but I honestly think that ripped and tattooed underwear model and Marine Alex Minsky won my heart with the photo of himself...
It's been amply established that Donald Trump and his White House hate the media. Really, really, really hate the media. After all, whenever the media put out even mildly critical coverage of Trump, the standard...
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The?Daily Mail reported on Wednesday?that the Navy SEAL Team Six member who shot and killed Osama bin Laden at close range with three shots to his forehead is 38-year-old Montana native Robert O'Neill,...
For most of the summer, the ordeal of Andrew Tahmooressi, a former Marine sergeant arrested by Mexican authorities in March for bringing three guns across the border, has been a right-wing cause c?l?bre. Tahmooressi has...
There's a very human tendency to believe that as individuals, we are exceptional -- we aren't stupid like those idiots who do stupid things and suffer the stupid consequences. Even when we're at our worst,...
Former Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev has given an ominous warning about what he sees as threatening signs of conflict emerging between the West and Russia. Speaking to German newspaper Bild the Nobel Peace prize winner said:
"All the...
On Sunday morning, just as the morning service at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas was getting underway, a black-clad gunman walked in armed with an AR-15 clone and started shooting. He wound up...
One American commander was killed, and three others were injured during a firefight with Al Qaeda militants in Yemen. One of the first counterterrorism efforts by President Donald Trump, the commando was the first United...
Since conservatives argue that the military expenditure is justified and statistics are being exaggerated, let's discuss it in an honest manner without any bias at all, just authentic globally accepted figures and nothing else.
This is...
CNN has reported that records of dead veterans were altered or changed -- many in recent weeks -- to cover up how many people died while awaiting medical care at the Phoenix VA hospital.
Whistle-blower Pauline...
