ABC News and investigative reporter Brian Ross have been delivering the most prominent television reports on Toyota’s recent electronic acceleration system issues. Today, Toyota put on a full demonstration and put out a press release criticizing a specific ABC News report involving professor David Gilbert:
via Toyota Goes After ABC News Report – mediabistro.com: TVNewser.
Obama’s promise of a better, cleaner, and more transparent brand of politics has not been fulfilled. Not by a long shot. The president appoints the SEIU boss to the deficit commission. Congress behind closed doors churns out colorfully named sweetheart deals on ObamaCare. And then they really reveal the depths of their dependence on special-interest patrons.
Northrop Grumman, which in 2008 was named the victor in the Pentagon’s $40 billion KC-X tanker competition only to have the win taken away, announced on Monday that it will not re-submit its bid, citing unfairness in the contest with Boeing.
Wes Bush, chief executive of Northrop Grumman Corporation, said in a statement that the company opted not to submit a bid to the Department of Defense after reaching the conclusion that proposal “clearly favors Boeing’s smaller refueling tanker and does not provide adequate value recognition of the added capability of a larger tanker, precluding us from any competitive opportunity.”
Five Wisconsin residents, including two who worked for community organizing group ACORN, were charged Monday with election fraud relating to the 2008 presidential election.
State Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced felony charges against Maria Miles, Kevin Clancy, Michael Henderson, Herbert Gunka and Suzanne Gunka.
via FOXNews.com – ACORN Registration Workers Charged With Felony Voter Fraud.
Whatever he has done or not done, I will miss Eric Massa, for no other reason than his gift with a phrase.
In an amazing, far-ranging interview/monologue with a Rochester-area radio station, Massa admits making an off-color, sexual comment to a young staffer — but still claims Democratic leadership ratted him out to kill a health care “no” vote.
That brought him to the subject of Rahm Emanuel and arm-twisting:
“Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn,” Massa said, according to City Hall. “He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.”
via Rahm is… “the devil’s spawn” – Glenn Thrush – POLITICO.com.