Just like last year and the year before, my home state of Kentucky failed to pass a cap on the interest payday lenders can charge their prey. A bill was proposed to put a 36% cap on the amount of interest that payday lenders could charge. It’s identical to the cap that the federal government [...]

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. In 2010, More U.S. Service Members Took Their Own Lives Than Were Killed in Combat. After noting that it has “reported extensively on the growing concern over military suicides as the US wages two wars,” the CBS Evening News broadcast, “New figures show that last year, 468 active [...]

I know we’ve been “free” of the Iraq War for two weeks now and our minds have turned to the new football season and Fashion Week in New York. And how exciting that the new fall TV season is just days away! But before we get too far away from something we would all just [...]

From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1.      Contract Reveals VA Knew About Prudential’s Death Benefit Account. In continuing coverage, the CBS Evening News (9/14, story 4, 3:00, Couric, 6.1M) said “earlier this summer,” revelations that Prudential, the “country’s second-largest life insurer,” was “profiting from the death benefits of fallen soldiers was news [...]

The Pentagon’s public relations machine is working overtime these days trying to sell a theme of “progress” in Afghanistan to push back against calls to end the war. The message machine behind this push is gargantuan, costing $547 million and employing more than 27,000 people. But, as our latest Rethink Afghanistan video shows, all that [...]