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Another political attack on a veteran

| April 23, 2014 | 7 Comments
Another political attack on a veteran

We talked the other day about the attack on gubernatorial candidate and Iraq veteran Anthony Brown by perfumed prince Doug Gansler and the attack on Tom Cotton by Mark Pryor in the Arkansas Senate race. Now, in Alaska, Democrat Mark Begich puts out the following ad against Marine and GWOT veteran Dan Sullivan who went […]

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MD AG disparages opponent’s military service

| April 21, 2014 | 33 Comments
MD AG disparages opponent’s military service

The current Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler who is in a primary race with the Lieutenant Governor Anthony G. Brown went where he should not go these days. He told a crowd that “You know I’m running against somebody who has never managed anybody, never run anything. You know his ads are about how he […]

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LTC Ernst emerges as front runner in Iowa Senate race

| April 17, 2014 | 11 Comments
LTC Ernst emerges as front runner in Iowa Senate race

Country Singer sends us a link to the Free Beacon which claims that Iraq War veteran and current battalion commander of the Iowa National Guard’s 185th CSSB, Lieutenant Colonel Joni Ernst has emerged as the front runner for the seat of phony Vietnam veteran Senator Tom Harkin; Ernst has 25 percent support among likely primary […]

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Shane Osborn for Senate

| February 10, 2014 | 12 Comments
Shane Osborn for Senate

You probably don’t recognize his name, you hardly remember the reason that you should – he was the pilot of the aircraft that a Chinese pilot damaged forcing the intelligence gathering aircraft to land in China. Osborn and 23 others were held and interrogated for 12 days by the Chinese. You know, back in the […]

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Anger Understandable but Cool Headed Thinking Needed

| December 18, 2013 | 46 Comments
Anger Understandable but Cool Headed Thinking Needed

There’s a lot of understandable anger being expressed here at TAH and other military blogs about the treachery being enacted in Congress against the military community. Believe me, I agree that, once again, America has betrayed its military and the anger is righteous and expected. But as an old soldier in his seventies, I can […]

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Lautenberg, Senate’s last WWII vet passes

| June 3, 2013 | 14 Comments
Lautenberg, Senate’s last WWII vet passes

Regardless of what you think about his politics, or the circumstances that brought him out of retirement and back to the Senate, Frank Lautenberg’s passing marks the end of an era when nearly every member of the Senate had served in the military. Lautenberg served during World War II in the Signal Corps from 1942 […]

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Jeff Denham holds DoD and VA feet to the fire

| March 2, 2013 | 9 Comments
Jeff Denham holds DoD and VA feet to the fire

Someone dropped off a link to our Facebook page to a video of Congressman Jeff Denham, an Air Force veteran representing California’s 10th District in the hearings this past week about the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs inability to gin up a system by which they can seamlessly share veterans’ records. He […]

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Gabriel Gomez for Senate

| February 13, 2013 | 17 Comments
Gabriel Gomez for Senate

There’s a real deal SEAL running in the special election in Massachusetts’ Senate race this year. Yes, I wrote our buddy, Don Shipley about his creds, because that’s the environment we’re operating in these days. According to the Washington Post, he’s the son of Colombian immigrants as well as a local Boston businessman; The GOP […]

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