Category Archives: veterans issues

Stupid Stuff Civilians Say to Veterans

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Stupid Stuff Civilians Say to Veterans”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailEverything said in this video has been said to me in one form or another.

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Santorum Hates All the Troops, Not Just the Female Ones

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Santorum Hates All the Troops, Not Just the Female Ones”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailJust as a reminder, Rick Santorum voted against giving American service members state-of-the-art body armor. So it isn’t just the female troops that set him on edge, but … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Grave Problems

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Grave Problems”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailAt last, Arlington National Cemetery can give the complete casualty figures of neglect and mismanagement: An accountability task force has photographed every burial marker and uploaded the information to a database where it was … Continue reading →

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Lori Diaz at Alabama Community Leaders Institute

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Lori Diaz at Alabama Community Leaders Institute”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI met Lori Diaz, Executive Director of Holiday Help for Heroes, at the Alabama Community Leaders Institute on the campus of Alabama A&M on August 27th to find out more about … Continue reading →

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My First Front Page VetVoice Diary

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “My First Front Page VetVoice Diary”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail My first front page diary, Let’s Call War Spending “Foreign Aid” is up at VetVoice. This is a new and rewarding online role for me, so please read, enjoy, and share … Continue reading →

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Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, Veterans: WAKE UP

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, Veterans: WAKE UP”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe VA case backlog is over 700,000. Fake veterans charities have scammed Americans out of millions of dollars. The catfood commission not only wants to cut Social Security, it recommends a … Continue reading →

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Golden Chickenhawk Award

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Golden Chickenhawk Award”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailAs many readers know, I have little patience for fake veterans. I include in that category the Gulf War cook who regales me with the tale of how he parachuted into Baghdad and killed twelve … Continue reading →

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Brownback Mountain

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Brownback Mountain”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail The Senate voted yesterday to stop incentivizing mortgage fraud. Mortgage brokers and loan officers will no longer earn more for sticking a higher interest rate in the fine print, and they have to prove you … Continue reading →

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Fort Carson

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Fort Carson”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis is infuriating: In the six years since combat operations began in Iraq, Fort Carson — the country’s third-largest Army base, with 22,000 active soldiers on duty — has become its own kind of killing field. … Continue reading →

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Veterans Day Blog

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Veterans Day Blog”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailRegular readers will remember that telephone town hall I referred to last week — the one in which a plurality of veterans said that health care costs are their biggest problem. Today, HuffPo reports: According … Continue reading →

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Veteran Deconstructs Tancredo

Posted on November 7, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Veteran Deconstructs Tancredo”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI briefly met Markos Moulitsas at Netroots Nation, so I had not formed much of an opinion of him. After watching this, I can report that he’s an impressive debater who does not suffer Teh … Continue reading →