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More whittling the beak

…D-Wash., and Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan., for their support of The Boeing Co.’s efforts to build Air Force tanker planes. The nonpartisan group, Citizens Against Government Waste, said Dicks and Tiahrt…

Reader Jack asks "Where DID the money go?"

…in all these learned writings is, where did it all go? A balloon popped, but the balloon wasn’t filled with air. It was filled with hard money. The money that…

Guantanamo and defense

…he would be a defense witness for the driver of Osama bin Laden. Air Force Col. Morris Davis, who resigned in October over alleged political interference in the U.S. military…

Energy control

…emissions from automobiles.This would directly reverse the Supreme Court’s historic decision in April declaring that greenhouses gases are air pollutants under the meaning of the Clean Air Act and giving…

Homeland Security Budget Triples?

In both of the first two debates, Kerry charged that “95 percent of our containers coming into this country are not inspected today. When you get on an airplane, your…

On NPR’s Fresh Air Today Terry Gross interviews Paul O’Neill and Ron Suskind. AB…

…comment. [snip] Sears’ undoing came in the wake of a scandal over an Air Force lease/purchase contract for 100 refueling tankers based on the Boeing 767 airliner. The company said…