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Ron Paul @RonPaul Chris Kyle's death seems to confirm that "he who lives by the sword dies by the sword." Treating PTSD at a firing range doesn't make sense BF_STATIC.timequeue.push(function () { if (bfjs.isMobile() || !isIE8())...

View this image › Via Flickr: soldiersmediacenter The Department of Veterans Affairs has promised to rush student veterans tuition and rent payments promised under the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill after BuzzFeed reported last week that severe bureaucratic delays had pushed young veterans toward bankruptcy...

1. How the White House Smothered the News of Obama’s Trip to Afghanistan View this image › One of the first American reporters to note early reports that President Obama was in Afghanistan last May, Zeke Miller chronicled the White House’s frantic — and ultimately futile — efforts to quiet the...

View this image › J. Scott Applewhite / AP WASHINGTON — The House Republican leadership faces a Thursday deadline to decide if it will continue to defend laws that limit veterans benefits to opposite-sex couples in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling striking down a similar provision in the...

View this image › Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans at an Iraq War veterans march in 2008 in Denver. Michael Francis McElroy/Zuma Press / MCT WASHINGTON — On the eve of American military intervention in Syria, the once-robust antiwar movement has stayed curiously silent. Activists who turned out...