Justin Brown
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With jobs order, Obama gives veterans more to celebrate
November 13, 2009 - 10:35 am
Tags: Veterans Employment
Posted in Employment, News | No comments
By Joe Davidson–Washington Post
Presidential executive orders are lofty, historical documents, generally signed in White House ceremonies with pomp and circumstance. Seldom do we think of them beginning in a small town on the eastern edge of West Virginia.
But it was in Shepherdstown, with a population of 803 at last count, where President Obama’s latest [...]
Swift Boat Veterans For McDonnell?
July 18, 2009 - 12:00 pm
Tags: Bob McDonnell, Bob Perry, Creigh Deeds, Doylene Perry, George W. Bush, Jared Leopard, John Kerry, John McCain, Paul Singer, Swift Boat Veterans, Tucker Martin
Posted in News, Politics | No comments
National Journal
For a candidate who needs to court those moderate and swing voters, and even Dems, who backed Pres. Obama’s ‘08 bid, VA GOP GOV nom Bob McDonnell probably wouldn’t want to be tagged to the group that maligned the war record of another Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA) in ‘04.
But the VA Dem Party [...]
Veterans Affairs Committee Ranking Member Buyer Rapping about Smoking Grass–Must See
June 19, 2009 - 11:21 am
Tags: Steve Buyer
Posted in Just Awesome | No comments
German Soldiers ‘Drink and Complain too much to fight Taleban’
June 19, 2009 - 10:06 am
Tags: German Soldiers
Posted in News | No comments
They have a beer ration of up to a litre a day, and wurst for dinner. Taleban or no Taleban, Germans take a little bit of home with them when they serve in trouble spots. Even their carefully sorted rubbish gets dumped in wheelie bins before being sent from Afghanistan to Germany for recycling.
Now Germany’s [...]
The Stick it to Veterans Stimulus
June 19, 2009 - 10:03 am
Posted in Employment, News, Small Business | No comments
How America’s veterans are getting short changed by the economic stimulus
A quick reading of the economic stimulus quickly reveals a lack of interest in stimulation for America’s veterans. As of May, there are more unemployed veterans then we have had in decades. To be exact there are 1,045,000 unemployed veterans across the United States. Of [...]
Gov. signs military,veterans bills
June 19, 2009 - 10:02 am
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Tuesday, 16 Jun 2009, 2:03 PM EDT
RICHMOND, Va. – Gov. Tim Kaine Tuesday ceremonially signed several Virginia General Assembly bills providing assistance to military personnel and their families and honoring the Commonwealth’s veterans.
Among the bills signed was the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. The compact, which has been signed into law in [...]
A Blog is Born
June 19, 2009 - 9:29 am
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In today’s market there seems to be a blog for just about everything. Yes there are already blogs for veterans, some are even good. So how do we take The Virginia Veteran and make it the blog of all blogs. I think first we have to start with veterans. Add a touch of differing ideologies [...]
