TMB: IG Report Criticizes VA for Preventable Deaths of Veterans‏

IG Report Criticizes VA for Preventable Deaths of Veterans

By Lachlan Markay

Three patients in a Veterans Administration (VA) hospital in Memphis died last year due to negligence by hospital staff, according to a report released last week, underscoring congressional overseers’ concerns about VA accountability.

 

Pentagon, Energy Department Moving Ahead with Upgraded, Precision-Guided Nuclear Bomb

By Bill Gertz

The oldest nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal is being modernized with a precision-guidance kit and more modern safety features, Pentagon and Energy Department officials told Congress on Monday.

 

DHS Approves Over 80% of DREAMers Who Apply for Legal Status

By Elizabeth Harrington

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has approved over 80 percent of young illegal immigrants who have applied for its Deferred Action program, an administrative version of the DREAM Act.

 

Human Rights Groups Condemn Iranian ‘Surge’ in Executions

By Adam Kredo

Human rights groups are expressing outrage over what they called a shocking “surge” in executions in Iran following the weekend hangings of some 20 inmates.

 

CMS Administrator Refuses to Release Obamacare Enrollment Figures

By Ellison Barber

Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Marilyn Tavenner refused to release the number of people who have enrolled in the federal exchange through the website HealthCare.gov during congressional testimony Tuesday.

 

Feature: Curtis Mozie chronicles life on the streets

By CJ Ciaramella

The first thing Mozie, 47, sees every day when he walks into his apartment in a square, brick building on P Street is a wall full of 8×11 sheets of paper, each memorializing a different D.C. resident, most of them from the Shaw neighborhood, almost all of them young, black, and male. Each paper includes a name and a brief description of the deceased.

 

No Country for Old Men vs. The Counselor

By Sonny Bunch

I re-watched No Country for Old Men last night, in part because I’ve been somewhat befuddled by the disparity in the reactions to that film (90 percent fresh from top critics on Rotten Tomatoes) and The Counselor (20 percent fresh).

 

Obama Supporter Forced to Switch Insurance Due to Obamacare

By WFB Staff

Former Democratic staffer Sue Klinkhamer has a problem and it’s called Obamacare.