Tom Temin Commentary
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This week's Republican and next week's Democratic conventions are like the distractions during a baseball game designed to keep fans entertained.
July 21, 2016 -
The Veterans Health Administration recommendations include items AFGE, the Commissioners and most everyone else for whom VA issues matter, can agree on.
July 20, 2016 -
The Army is approaching the migration the way it might approach Fallujah or Normandy — all out.
July 19, 2016 -
As federal law enforcement increasingly adopts body-mounted video, footage from local police is starting to show both the potential and the limitations of this technology.
July 18, 2016 -
Beyond the bright lines of the Hatch Act, politicking at the office is bad form.
July 13, 2016 -
Elimination of earmarks, now in its fifth year or so, has drained Congress of the oil that makes legislation turn over.
July 12, 2016 -
Cleveland and then Philadelphia are about to happen. One thing for sure, the rhetoric coming out of either city won't be pretty.
July 11, 2016 -
Of 20 daily suicides, six were users of VA services. On the surface, that looks like the VA itself is a factor in preventing suicide.
July 08, 2016 -
Anchored in big, old-fashioned hospitals, VA lacks flexibility to offer more localized care, in more fine-tuned facilities.
July 07, 2016 -
These episodes tug on that tension line between political appointees and career people.
July 06, 2016 -
Why would you want a daily email about your physical mail? According to the Postal Service, it turns out, people have lots of reasons.
July 05, 2016 -
The signers admonished King George III. He answered with continued "blows" to decide the question of independence.
July 04, 2016 -
A lot of my co-workers are my own kids' ages, even younger sometimes. My feelings about that: So what?
July 01, 2016 -
If you buy a new car and then show it off on social media, some schmuck would have the answer to a common challenge question in two-factor authentication.
June 29, 2016 -
Too many agencies are producing allegations of sexual misconduct ranging from harassment to overseas parties funded by criminals.
June 27, 2016