An organization dedicated to honoring the nation’s prisoners of war and missing in action service members is outraged that a federal law against lying about military medals is facing First Amendment challenges.

A California judge rejected the motion to dismiss a charge against Xavier Alvarez of falsely claiming he received the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration.

Chuck Schantag, chairman of the P.O.W. Network, says

“As a veteran of Vietnam who did get wounded in ’68, I have a problem with this,” he argues. “They want to steal our honor, but they don’t want any of the pain it took to get it. And to actually challenge this law as free speech is absolutely ludicrous, unbelievable.”

Many of those making the false claims have used fraudulent records to gain V.A. benefits. “We’ve seen cases where phonies have collected better than a half-million dollars of our tax dollars in benefits,” Schantag notes.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=882214

Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress

Following the Supreme Court decision implicitly granting corporations the right to free speech (by determining that political spending is a kind of speech), a corporation has decided to take what it believes to be “democracy’s next step”: It is running for Congress.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/corporation-says-it-will-run-for-congress/

A senior Army strategist and Pentagon advisor finds it unacceptable that the recently released Defense Department review of the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, didn’t mention that the suspect’s Islamic faith might have been a motivating factor in the massacre.

According to a recent article in TIME Magazine, when the 86-page report was released late last month, it did not once mention Major Nidal Hasan by name or discuss whether the killings may have had anything to do with his Muslim faith.

“MIGHT have been a factor”?! Ya think? When you ignore a threat you make yourself vulnerable.  Political correctness can get someone killed. Why is this being buried?

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Security/Default.aspx?id=880532

The recovering soldier in this picture is Alabama Army Guard Maj. Randy Royer, who was wounded during the shooting at Fort Hood on 5 November 2009. The next evening, George and Laura Bush, who made a surprise (and unpublicized) visit to  Maj. Royer.

George and Laura Bush spent a few hours meeting those injured in the shooting.

There’s an email floating around about this photo. According to Snopes, Mrs. Royer says that some of the details of the email are inaccurate.

According to Snopes, Mrs. Royer said:

“On Fri the 6th, Pres Bush and his wife made a visit to us, no frills, no press. It
was awesome. They are down-home, normal people . They were able to visit
with us and the other soldiers in the ICU . The pic was taken on my cell phone
and I had sent it to a few people and somehow it got around, but we don’t
know who or why the email was started.”

http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/forthood.asp

Bushmaster answered some pressing questions on a forum recently.