the easiest scams always appeal to emotions, especially empathy...

Isee this commercial all the time. Its a scam?

just not as much as we would like.

have serious management issues.

WWP has recently been exposed for lavish salaries, expensive conferences, and a very low rate of actually benefiting those it purports to help.

My theory on these type of charities generally, is that they exist to provide salaries to the people who run them, more than to help whatever cause they are supposedly about. Lots of cancer organizations especially fit into this theory.

So, you should carefully research what orgs you will donate to, and decide if the org's demonstrated effectiveness is worth your $$$, when there are so many others out there that will use your dollars well for a cause you care about.

But what particularly bothers me about WWP is that it is something right wingers like to wave around ... the same right wingers who won't support the government actually properly funding care for veterans. WWP should not even be needed. The government of "we the people" sent these people to war to get shot up and physically and emotionally maimed, "we the people" have the responsibility - VIA GOVERNMENT - to properly treat these veterans when they come home. Period.

In my mind WWP is solely a scam for anti-government types to take money (voluntarily, albeit, after these massively guilt-tripping ads) that ought to just be going to pay taxes to fund appropriate veterans programs in the first effing place.

She started in San Diego, by herself, and headed towards Annapolis. Slept by the side of the road, was stalked by coyotes, but kept it up. Within a days reach of her goal, during pounding rains, she was too sick, and weak to make it to the final 50 miles to her goal.

I hope their CEO is proud of himself.

Other than that, it's another Doonesbury home run.

Until an investigation showed that WW paid for limos, high-end hotels, gifts, and other "extras" for a Hannity appearance. Charity my ass.

for many weeks.

Not only has Thom criticized the lavish salaries and the high overhead of this group but Thom points out that our government should be responsible for such services--not private charities.

He also has repeatedly said that our best response (by far) to the issue of wounded soldiers is to stop sending them into unnecessary conflicts.

And now Sec of Defense Ash Carter wants to employ the National Guard in the fight against ISIS.

Maybe Doonesbury will get a chance to draw more cartoons on this topic.

Go Bernie!