Let's Help Vets Avoid Extremist Urge

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 18, 2009 1:00 PM CDT

(Newser) – The recent Homeland Security report detailing right-wing extremist recruitment of veterans is “true, true, true,” Charles M. Blow writes in the New York Times. But “conservatives reacted by throwing a knee-jerk hissy fit,” suggesting that vets “were being vilified by... Read full story »

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