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Clinton’s campaign arranges ‘Veterans Against Trump’

| May 24, 2016 | 110 Comments
Clinton’s campaign arranges ‘Veterans Against Trump’

According to the Daily Beast there was a protest outside Trump Tower yesterday. I watched some of it on a live feed, but it triggered my bad memories of the old IVAW days so I had to turn it off. Anyway, the protesters were angry because Trump hadn’t really raised $6 million for veterans, according […]

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Mike Webb for Congress

| May 17, 2016 | 303 Comments
Mike Webb for Congress

There’s this guy in Virginia’s 8th Congressional District who is running for that seat by the name of Michael Webb. He was running as a Republican, but he was defeated in the primary, so he’s running as an Independent now. He came to our attention a few months ago because he was touting his career […]

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Veterans for Trump

| July 25, 2015 | 42 Comments
Veterans for Trump

The Trump campaign issued a press release the other day announcing the formation of the “Veterans for Trump” coalition in New Hampshire made up of veterans who will campaign for Donald Trump during the primaries. There is a list of 52 folks on the press release, but it seems that at least three of them […]

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Jim Webb announces presidential bid

| July 3, 2015 | 34 Comments
Jim Webb announces presidential bid

You’ve probably already heard about veteran, former Navy Secretary and former Senator Jim Webb announcing his intentions to run for President next year as a Democrat. Dave Hardin and I had an email discussion about this yesterday, We agreed that in the Democrat pool of candidates – Clinton, Sanders and O’Malley – Webb was probably […]

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2LT Joshua Nelson back in the news

| November 2, 2014 | 24 Comments
2LT Joshua Nelson back in the news

A few weeks ago we wrote about LT Joshua Nelson, a Guardsman in the West Virginia Air National Guard when he took on a knife-wielding thug in Walmart. Today in the Stars & Stripes we read how he is a state legislator in West Virginia and he’s trying to win a second term as a […]

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Jim Webb in 2016?

| October 21, 2014 | 23 Comments
Jim Webb in 2016?

Dave sends us a link to an article in The Hill in which the journalist, of sorts, opines on the candidacy of Jim Webb, the former Senator from Virginia hoping that he’ll jump into the race for the presidency next year. Jim Webb is a veteran. Period. I have his latest book, “I Heard My […]

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Walsh and his political future

| August 6, 2014 | 13 Comments
Walsh and his political future

The other day, Hondo posted some links to news sources in Montana in regards to John Welsh, the Senate appointee seeking to be elected to that office in November. TSO sends us a link from Politico which reports that Welsh is contemplating stepping away from the ballot. Fueling speculation that he might quit the race, […]

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So, What Are They Saying in Montana?

| August 4, 2014 | 10 Comments
So, What Are They Saying in Montana?

Wonder what they’re saying in Montana about Senator Walsh and his “unintentional mistake” of copying virtually verbatim around 25% of his War College final paper – including his conclusions – from other sources? As well as citing, but then lifting nearly word-for-word without indicating a direct quote, other sections? Well, let’s look: Montana Standard (Butte): […]

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