Monthly Archives: February 2012

Every time anyone brings up 9/11, we shall erupt in furious barks of outraged laughter.

Imagine this scenario: A developing nation decides to selectively share its precious natural resource, selling only to "friendly" countries and not "hostile" ones.

Deflect attention from reality, create fear, and take the “high road”. This is the way extremists operate. It has always been so.

Tiger Woods has been one of the highest-paid professional athletes in the world and has been awarded “PGA Player of the Year” a record ten times.

Watching Pat Buchanan and Judge Napolitano silenced so quickly, among the best minds of our time, is scary as hell.

As the primary race heats up for the Republicans, Eric Walberg looks at the "radical centre"

Home loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs continue to have the lowest serious delinquency and foreclosure rates in the mortgage industry.

Business Office staff throw creative efforts into making Valentine's Day cards.

Some things don’t change in American politics, and rich people sitting in Las Vegas with pots of cash is one of them.

Karl Marx's socialist man is directly tied by him to the golem legend in the Cabbala, in which the rabbis, now secularized, create mankind de novo, as if from clay.

Last week, the BBC news show, Panorama, supposedly told the story of America's poor.

The term Hollywoodism refers to the transformation, often mendacious, of reality by the spirit and practices of a whole sphere of American cinema.

By Elaine Sanchez: American Forces Press Service   WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2012 - Alongside some of the nation's top officials, First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr....

WASHINGTON – With more than 1 million active-duty personnel scheduled to join the ranks of America’s 22 million Veterans during the next five years,...

The National Guard has set up a toll-free, peer-to-peer counseling hotline to provide Guard members and all reserve component members the ability to speak with counselors on the phone or online.

There are nearly 25,000 inmates being held in solitary confinement in the U.S., some of them put there for filing grievances or lawsuits, “The Catholic Worker” reports.

The majestic and ravishing landscape of the Kashmir Valley is so enchanting that whosoever happens to visit it gets spell-bounded and overawed by its natural beauty and longs to revisit it.

Nine employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, including Deputy Secretary W. Scott Gould, are among the top 100 leaders in the IT industry, according to the “Federal 100” created by Federal Computer Week.

The Salvation Army, working with the Hampton VA Medical Center and in partnership with the City of Hampton, will relocate Veterans currently housed in a leased building on the medical center campus.

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced its participation in the largest state-federal legal settlement in history that deals with problems within the mortgage industry.

Project Management Solutions Group is now hiring U.S. Veterans. They are an enterprise project management firm that handles IT, telecommunications, business operations, supply-chain logistics, real estate and construction

What was surely meant to be a clever display of media-friendly visuals to illustrate Syrian regime violence in Homs, has instead raised more questions than answers.

The feeling is one of approaching an abyss, particularly as it is not clear what the true objectives to some of these wars are.

Mobile Vet Center vehicles are maximized for multi-use and include confidential counseling space to be used for outreach and remote counseling. They also provide VA enrollment capabilities and can even be used for preventive care health screenings.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is expanding its efforts to prevent suicide through several new initiatives that increase the availability of services for Veterans, Servicemembers and their families.

Lockheed Martin, Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded a $148,500,000 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-5110) for the production and integration of an Aegis Weapon System in support of DDG 116 and the purchase of material assemblies to support Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System Host Nation 1.

If massive Defense Department cuts go through next year, little-noticed potential victims on the chopping block include the schools on military bases in the U.S. and abroad.

From education and employment to program cuts and reductions, President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2013 budget proposal has been dominating the headlines.

The Veterans Canteen Service (VCS) of the Department of Veterans Affairs is piloting two initiatives that should keep nearly 600,000 pounds of kitchen waste out of U.S. landfills in 2012.

Can't trust 'em. Can't believe 'em. There's not much good coming out of Washington these days, just more of the same-O, Same-O.

A confusing controversy between the United States and Egypt is unfolding.

Since 1991, the VA has been required to follow special retroactive benefit rules whenever it grants a disability compensation claim or a claim for death benefits under the VA’s Agent Orange rules.

The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded an $111,397,676 predominantly firm-fixed-price contract for procurement of 4,844 joint direct attack munitions.

As a former intelligence officer, I am acutely aware of how easy it is to create and spread disinformation.

It isn't just veterans or the military that are reeling from the craziness, the injustice and utter absurdity we are told to accept as "the world around us."

On February 13, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki participated in the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the National Association of State Veterans Affairs Directors and VA.

The population of women Veterans is growing rapidly and is expected to increase within the next decade. In recognizing the trend, VA North Texas is making strides by advancing and improving the delivery of health care to women Veterans.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will host an information fair Thursday, Feb. 16, in partnership with Greenfield Community College's VetNet, GCC's organization for student Veterans.

"I have seen way too many OD’s from alcohol, but I have never seen an OD from cannabis. My opinion is that cannabis is a hell of a lot better than alcohol, Valium, or any synthetics because it is natural.”-John Fleming, MD.

Many Americans know that despite the economic depression Americans are suffering under, the politicians in Washington are still sending well over $3 BILLION tax dollars every year to the Jewish state of Israel.

- To six year old little girl..."How did you feel about having to eat rats?"..."Sad", she said.

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ― Anais Nin