From ABC: Federal air marshals subdued a man who authorities say attempted to “light his shoes on fire” on a United flight from Washington Reagan to Denver Wednesday night, federal law enforcement officials told ABC News. Authorities say an explosive team is on the way to the airport, and that while the presence of explosives […]
Really – this isn’t just a coincidence: Top current advisers to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign last year lobbied for a European plane maker that beat Boeing to a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, taking sides in a bidding fight that McCain has tried to referee for more than five years. Two of the […]
McCain was the key figure behind Boeing losing a $35 billion contract to a European company. Boeing has said the contract would have supported 44,000 new and existing jobs. So why does John McCain hate the American workers so much? It sure sounds like he doesn’t have any pride in the USA. Is that really […]
From Today’s Washington Post: The Supreme Court made it harder Tuesday for whistle-blowers to share in the proceeds from fraud lawsuits against government contractors. The court ruled 6-2 that James Stone, an 81-year-old retired engineer, may not collect a penny for his role in exposing fraud at the now-closed Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant northwest […]
Don’t everyone wish their business ran this way – “no matter how bad you do, you still get paid top dollar”. Well if you work for the government then that is exactly how it goes: In late February 2004, the Army announced that it was canceling plans to build a radar-evading helicopter called the Comanche, […]