New Reports Indicate Banks Illegally Foreclosed on Over 700 Active Military Members

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These new revelations are the latest development in the “long and tangled effort to clean up the mortgage mess.”

Open Thread: Should The National Guard Protect Our Schools?

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California Senator Barbara Boxer plans to address school security on a national level.

Returning National Guard Veterans Struggle to Find Jobs

National Guard members help a family in Hoboken, NJ during the Hurricane Sandy disaster last month.  AP photo/Craig Ruttle

Despite discrimination against military service in hiring, returning National Guard members face unemployment rates of up to 20%.

UPDATED – Staten Island Hotel Owners Refuse to Kick Out Storm Survivors for Marathon

National Guard members delivering clean water show how basic needs in NYC are still so crucial. AP Photo/Richard Drew

Joanna Schroeder believes New York hotel owners who are turning away marathoners with reservations should serve as an inspiration to Mayor Bloomberg about how to prioritize his city’s survivors.

“No Worries,” No Standard for Covering War

Good Men Project Magazine contributor Preston Moore weighs in on this post (where you can see the PBS clip at issue) about PBS war coverage, which was a response to this post at the National Review Online. Preston asks, “Which video is really exploiting the military and their families?” Pia de Solenni faults the embedded [...]