While Sarah Palin was endorsing born-again conservative Donald Trump for president in Iowa, her son Track was working hard to make sure the Palin family lives up to its reality TV image. Track was reportedly arrested on fourth degree assault charges stemming from a domestic violence incident. This couldn’t come at a worse time for…
Jonah Bennett A disabled veteran seeking care at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs hospital committed suicide by jumping off a parking deck Thursday morning. The vet walked out of the waiting room to the deck, The Daily Beast reports. On the way down from the deck, the vet hit a utility building first, which knocked his shoes off…
Jonah Bennett Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump released a plan Saturday to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs, which was roundly criticized for vagueness. While in front of the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Va., Trump said, “We’re going to take care of those wounded warriors and we’re going to take care of our vets better than anybody,”…
Connor D. Wolf Unions have a “stranglehold” on the Department of Veterans affairs, Republican Rep. Jeff Miller said Wednesday, preventing meaningful reform of the agency that’s been under scrutiny since a 2014 scandal that left dozens dead. Delays in care and questionable treatment practices that were found to have left veterans dead resulted in public outrage and a…
Jonah Bennett Directly across from the Department of Veterans Affairs facility in Phoenix stands a large billboard which reads, “VA Is Lying, Veterans Are Dying.” The billboard is new as of Monday. The Phoenix VA has become emblematic of scandal and corruption in the department. Whistleblower retaliation, police corruption, unauthorized access of private medical records,…
Jonah Bennett on October 2, 2015 Major veterans’ groups endorsed a House resolution forwarded by Republican Reps. Vern Buchanan and Duncan Hunter to reinstate Army Sgt. Charles Martland, a Green Beret set to be discharged for standing up to boy rape practices in Afghanistan. Three of the country’s main veterans’ organizations, Concerned Veterans for America,…
By R. Brownell Donald Trump’s brutal honesty has been accused of going too far in the past. Still, his status as a successful real-estate mogul, reality TV show celebrity, and political outsider who many believe is capable of becoming POTUS, appears to have crossed a line with his mostly conservative supporters (who usually relish in his candor). Trump took…
PHOENIX, AZ–The incompetence of government health care continues to be revealed as VA scandals continue to make headlines, but there’s one place a vet can still go to be taken care of. Last week, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona stated vets were receiving better care in prison than at the VA hospital. As…