Daily Archives: November 22, 2010

DRIVING TO GREECE THE EASY WAY By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor When we last checked in, we had left Camp Ederle and the embrace of...

The transition might not be going as smoothly as it could -- or should. That’s the findings of a new study of 11,000 veterans. We’re breaking down the research from The Washington Post, Inside Higher Ed, Army Times and Marketwire. First to the study, done by The National Survey of Student Engagement. It interviewed thousands of veterans who were either first-year or senior students at four-year schools. The survey showed veterans were less likely to participate in study abroad programs or interact with professors and fellow students. The Student Veterans of America’s Michael Dakduk tells the Washington Post, some of the blame falls on universities.

November 22, 2010 Senator Mitch McConnell 361-A Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Phone: (202) 224-2541 Dear Senator McConnell: Recently, our past president, George W. Bush, wrote in his...

Rumor has it Apple CEO Steve Jobs and News Corp head honcho Rupert Murdoch are buddying up. Several media reports indicate the unlikely two-some is developing the first true iNewspaper—a daily news publication available exclusively on the iPad. No paper. No website. And no freebies. CNBC has the details.

Veterans advocate and all-around hell raiser, Dan Cedusky, has a Facebook page up. We recommend Dan's page highly, though he said he is figuring out...

From the White House: The Return of First Question By Jesse Lee Today before his press briefing, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took a couple questions from Twitter...

CONTRACTS: No. 1079-10 DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc.*, Virginia Beach, Va., is being awarded a maximum $800,000,000 fixed-price with economic price adjustment, tailored logistics support...

NO LONGER A THEORY By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor When both Judge Napolitano and Geraldo Rivera, biggest names on "fair and balanced" Fox News, agree...

- The appeasement of a militaristic country veering into fascism makes matters much worse -   By Phyllis Bennis The breathless will-they-won’t-they coverage wasn’t quite as...

The basic underlying and uniting force of the universe is a psychic energy field of love and soul consciousness ( the Unified Field )...

If you submitted a claim after 1986 and had a BAD SPN, SDN, or SPD code and were NOT told, refile, you have the PROOF now. Additional questions may now be asked. Find out more....

Halfaker, a SDVOSB, Seeks Talented Military Veterans for Quality Employment By Randy Miller Halfaker, a Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, provides a comprehensive suite of...

- Do we have a secular military? - As many families write annual holiday letters to update relatives and friends of noteworthy events over the...

Read Chapter One from "The Oedipus Connection: Where Fiction and Fantasies Collide with the New World Order" a new upcoming book being written by Jack Williams. The book will be out in 2011.

USAA and the Enlisted Association of the National Guard (EANGUS) have joined forces to offer a credit card that helps fund EANGUS programs and gives its members access to many of USAA’s financial services. The alliance allows EANGUS’ 40,000 members to carry the Enlisted Association of the National Guard USAA Rewards World MasterCard ®, which will help fund the association’s efforts and programs.

Nothing has changed since 1967. We are still dragged into wars we do not understand by war makers who peddle their militant wares as...

- Keep invasive procedures, says Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole - By Jim Abrams The head of the Transportation Security Administration on Sunday acknowledged that new...

In any other country, the current American bribe to Israel, and the latter's reluctance to accept it, in return for even a temporary end to the theft of somebody else's property would be regarded as preposterous. Three billion dollars' worth of fighter bombers in return for a temporary freeze in West Bank colonisation for a mere 90 days? Not including East Jerusalem – so goodbye to the last chance of the east of the holy city for a Palestinian capital – and, if Benjamin Netanyahu so wishes, a rip-roaring continuation of settlement on Arab land. In the ordinary sane world in which we think we live, there is only one word for Barack Obama's offer: appeasement. Usually, our lords and masters use that word with disdain and disgust.

VA has launched two pilot programs to test new procedures that will speed the payment of compensation benefits to veterans with disabilities connected to their military service. These programs are part of Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki's effort to "break the back" of the disability claims backlog.