President-Elect Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as National Security Adviser continues to look worse and worse by the day. A former NSA employee just publicly accused Flynn of taking money from...
The Pentagon, completed in 1943, is one of the largest office buildings in the world, and, as suggested by it's name, features an unusual, five cornered pentagon shape. This, of course, raises the question for curious...
Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), the ranking Republican on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, wasn't too happy that most of the nation's veterans service groups haven't demanded that Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resign in the...
There is no level to which the Trump administration will not stoop to achieve its dystopic view of America.
There is no bottom.
Case in point: the administration is now suing an orphanage on the U.S.-Mexico border...
I got the call from the VA hospital on a dark winter day. My 90-year-old dad, a WWII veteran, was there and in dire need of a triple bypass heart surgery. Three of the four...
A new pilot program by the Pentagon will pay to have troop's sperm and eggs frozen so they’d still be able to have children if they are hurt on the battlefield. New York Times reported...
This is in response to an article written by Tiffany Willis.
The Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act?was?named in honor of former Marine Clay Hunt, who dedicated his life to serving others long after...
This is a weekly segment I would like to add that grants the dubious honor of Idiot Of Week. In the inaugural post the honor goes to.....(drum role:?The Hand Gun Wielding Jerk Who Plowed His...
Lets make one thing abundantly clear in no way am I downplaying the accusations against Bill Cosby. They are very serious and my prayers go out to the victims and their families? as they tread...
The conventional wisdom about the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is that even with the horrifying devastation that resulted from those bombs, it was necessary to force Japan's surrender. Under this narrative,...
Even though Donald Trump's approval rating has ticked upward, it's still in pretty brutal territory. At last report, FiveThirtyEight pegged Trump's average approval rating at 41.4 percent--the lowest for a newly-elected president at this stage...
You may recall that earlier today, Pope Francis suggested that Donald Trump's numerous promises to build a wall at the Mexican border should make us question whether he has the moral fiber to be president. Well, what many of...
The next time an uninformed republican bashes former President Barack Obama, kindly whip out the following statistics. Especially if they're also a die-hard Trumpkin.
While President Donald Trump was busy scamming people at his so-called university, Obama...
When I enlisted in the United States?Army I took an oath. In that oath, I swore to support and defend the Constitution of The United States against all enemies. Foreign and Domestic. As it stands...
An estimated 80% of Americans who attempt to join the military are rejected each year. The military turns people away for various reasons, but the "most common barriers" include:
"failure to graduate high school, a criminal record,...
Jonathan Montano went to the VA hospital Long Beach Loma Linda expecting to receive dialysis in 2011. Four hours later he left beaten and suffering a stroke which would eventually kill him
Montano had grown impatient...
If there is any decency left in this country, Donald Trump lost the 2016 presidential election when he suggested that the mother of a fallen Muslim American war hero wasn't allowed to speak for herself...
For the better part of three decades, the religious right has insisted that all it wants is a place at the table for social conservatives and others with "traditional values." But when they think they're...
And the truth that came out is?exactly what you'd suspect from a soldier who is also a Democrat.
Legendary Boston Globe journalist Walter V. Robinson has built a huge career on exposing political clowns who lie...
The biggest question about last Sunday's horrific shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas has been how the shooter was able to legally buy a gun. In case you missed it, the gunman, Devin...
