Is it possible for a specific defense program to have its own Political Action Committee? Or something similar... Just Might be! It is actually a smart idea. Keep in mind this platform may have touch to as many as half a million American jobs, is the only Navy shipbuilding program on cost and schedule, and is much more advanced than what we intend to replace it with. It might even end up the same ...

A piece about food stamps. The US program which gives poor people vouchers to purchase food. It’s all about how what bastards the right are for thinking to cut this program. You know what’s actually missing from it? A discussion of how the program has been expanded in recent years. There might well be a

New data from Milwaukee's Parental Choice Programshow even 'charity vouchers' can help public schools improve As some educators and school choice advocates begin to question whether school vouchers can reform public education, a new study of Milwaukee's pioneering voucher program -- the nation's oldest and largest city-specific program -- concludes it has had a positive effect on the city's public...

The Navy has all but finalized an adjustment to another major program of record, this one the Sea Base. The change is to remove the aviation ships from the current Sea Basing program of record and build them to the regular military standard including weapons. This move will remove the aviation component of the Sea Base program. The deal was apparently completed to support the Marine Corps requirem...

I found this article on global security today. And I have to say this is one of the most well written and thoughtful articles I have ever read on the Chinese space industry. It spends a great deal of time talking about China's goal of creating its own space station and how that would affect its manned lunar program. I think it also raised interesting points in that the Chinese program is actually ...

Did anyone else see section 111 - section 113 from the Senate Armed Service Committee markup? Treatment of Littoral Combat Ship program as a major defense acquisition program (sec. 111) The committee recommends a provision that would require the Department to manage and report on the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program as a major defense acquisition program (MDAP). The Weapon Systems Acquisition Re...

With an eye toward federal elections in September, Chancellor Angela Merkel managed to give something to almost everybody Tuesday in announcing the program.

Today's Pravda-on-the Hudson has a story about some airline pilots, notably from the EU being unhappy about an Israeli air security program that requires the pilots to carry an Israeli-supplied card with a personal PIN code that must be submitted electronically before entering Israeli airspace. According to the story, there have been two incidents since the program was instituted last year (t...

The Cambodian Genocide Program is a well established project of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University's MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. Its website provides historical information on the genocide led by Pol Pot which killed over 1.7 million people between 1975-1979. This includes details of Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal and free access to the Cambodian Genocide ...

Over the last week, I have read and heard countless statements from Labour MP's, many of them members of the government, about the urgent need for the Labour Party [and government] to re-establish close links with its once core working class support base. Fine some might think, but whilst the Welfare Reform Bill (WRB) is still part of the Governments legislative program, it is impossible to t...