Dec 13, 2016 – DOTE report from November 2014.[149] The F-35 program office considered software to be the top technical risk to the program. … Senator John McCain blamed cost increases in the program on “cronyism”.[151] In 2014, the GAO found that the F-35 fleet would have … You will hear more of the latter because the real role of the F-35, at least from the view of a lot of members of Congress, is a milch…

Dec 13, 2016 – Too many lifelong politicos simply don’t possess that particular looking glass – so their view of the man is perpetually warped and … To wit: The Art of the Deal. … As demonstrated by the decades-long gutting of the American middle class.…

Dec 12, 2016 – The problem with this theory is in that looking at the RCP average of the national vote, Clinton’s lead dropped by a full point from … The polls continued to tighten until the day of the election when Clinton’s RCP average lead stood at 3.2%. … The view of Hillary and her emails was baked in way before October 28th.…

Dec 12, 2016 – A reasonable point of view and definitely the more prudent. Then there is another hand. This is the one I favor. … networks somehow altered the eventual outcome of the election, in the face of the wall-to-wall “Donald Trump is the unholy offspring … Also, guys, the very CIA Democrats you’re attacking probably share your stupid view on Bush and Iraq.…

Dec 11, 2016 – With the news that the CIA feels Russia deliberately interfered with the U.S. election, in order to get Donald Trump elected, the … “It’s very rational in my view that [Putin] would rather see President-elect Trump be the next president of the United States instead … The U.S. is currently dealing with what is possibly the most divided citizenry in recent history.…

Dec 11, 2016 – Kennedy is the guy who repeated foisted on the public the lie, the “fake news” if you will, that the classified information on Clinton … But I’ll ask him the same question I’ve asked the others: do you understand the historic lesson that the Iraq war was a failure, a … He should get nowhere close to the State Department if anybody with the same world view is in charge.…

Dec 11, 2016 – The other is “Russian hacking” which is predicated on the idea that what Americans saw in the hacked emails of the DNC and John Podesta … the fact that he was quoting the IAEA. … The impetus behind this effort it to prevent you, the citizen, from hearing multiple points of view… some of them stupid (we’re used…

Dec 10, 2016 – First, there is no direct evidence of the claim (see global warming, consensus view) but rather they are making the claim base on their … consensus view” that if the DNC was hacked then the RNC was hacked. … Trump is exactly right to give them the “consensus view” on their performance (I’d differ with Trump on the WMD issue, but could easily…

Dec 10, 2016 – official, it was the “consensus view” of the intelligence committee that Russia’s goal was to get Trump elected, the Post reported … Taking all the shenanigans with the DNC, the Clinton Foundation, and her email scandal, once the smokescreen of ‘First Woman President … All that said, Trump as the leader of the Republican Party, should not be spitting in the face of the CIA.…

Dec 10, 2016 – According to one unnamed senior U.S. official, it was the “consensus view” of the intelligence committee that Russia’s goal was to … The Trump transition team questioned the credibility of the CIA in response to the report. … the conclusion of the intelligence community.…

Dec 9, 2016 – The reason? … That paved the way for the film to be made. … Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier, the heads of the production company, View Askew Productions were both credited as co-executive producers…

Dec 9, 2016 – who are accusing the party of “soft bigotry.” … Frustrations over the lack of diversity among the ranks of top Senate Democratic aides began seeping into public view after Hillary … Reid’s aide Maria Meier, who has been in charge of the diversity effort since 2011, is leaving by the end of the year.…

Dec 9, 2016 – John Kasich, the legislation would make Ohio’s abortion laws the most restrictive in the nation. … That said, I understand the other view and am not going to throw stones at anyone who thinks that is the way to go. … The prognosis is that Kasich will sign the first and not sign the second.* *During the primary season I started a post on Kasich…

Dec 8, 2016 – “Each of these individuals may have great merit in their own right, but what we’ve learned over the past 15 years is that when we view … Trump still believe the choices threaten the constitutional fire wall between the civilian government and the military. … He would be one of the last guys in the nation to screw with the Constitution.…

Dec 8, 2016 – Last evening the Michigan Court of Appeals ordered the recount halted. … At a hearing, the federal judge overturned his own order in deference to the Michigan state court ruling and the recount in Michigan … The hearing, in Twitter, is below [View the story “Stein recount” on Storify]…

Dec 7, 2016 – He is relying on his administration’s favorite deflection, the “lone wolf” view of terror, which is an outdated, inapplicable, and … We have to fight the enemy the way they fight, and one of the ways they fight is suborning terror through propaganda, instruction, … They don’t have to be on the radio calling the shots on the day of an attack to be behind it.…

Dec 6, 2016 – To keep them out of public view, these documents have been held throughout the U.S. … be in the first document, (3rd) what assurances did the U.S. give on sanctions relief as part of the package, which would be in the … When the secret deals are revealed they will be so repulsive that even the media will have to take notice of the extent of the betrayal…

Dec 6, 2016 – on the ball. … Like many other senior officer who have served in the Middle East, he is totally captured by the Arabist point of view.   … I think Petraeus’s view of the threat posed by Islam, radical and garden variety, is simply not supportable based on what we currently…

Dec 6, 2016 – The percentage of voters who continue to view Trump negatively has declined 12 percentage points – 61 to 49 percent – in the same period … Like the recent Harvard University’s Center for American Political Studies and the National Research Group poll, this new Battleground … But a shocking 55 percent of voters view Trump’s promise to build a wall along the U.S.…

Dec 6, 2016 – While almost everyone was confused by the mistrial, some because they had never heard the word before, but others who saw the video … I found Ramon, he was actually sitting outside the courthouse waiting for the verdict most of the day, he then retreated to A.C.’s … I do agree with that statement, which is also how I view all the stories I read about involving police shootings.…

Dec 23, 2016 – I am not comparing Trump to Reagan and the threat faced by the US by the USSR and that we face from Russia are not even in the same … The MX missile was among the most technically and politically controversial programs of the first years of the administration. … A television movie “event” called The Day After, which dealt with the aftermath of a nuclear exchange with the USSR, made having the…

Dec 23, 2016 – aim at Donald Trump, the Brexit voters in his own nation, and the rise of populism across the moldering corpse of what used to be the … “All of this has deeply disturbing echoes of the dark days of the 1930s. … As I posted at the time, there are two salient differences between the Muslim immigrants of today and Jews of the 1930s.…

Dec 23, 2016 – It is all about what Pomepo has to do to win the trust and confidence of the CIA, not about what the CIA has to do to win the trust … The best thing that could happen to Pompeo would be a mass exodus of the upper ranks of the CIA. … than it being a Democrat country club, is that its view of the world has long ceased to mesh with reality and it is easier to massage…

Dec 23, 2016 – set by presidents of both parties over the past four decades, and called for the United States to veto a pending U.N. resolution that … and led them to return it with a minimum of drama (for the record, I think this was a problematic decision from the point of view … The fact that it has upset the arms control Jesuits is simply icing on the cake.…

Dec 22, 2016 – That’s the argument. This is, in the first place, a ridiculous point of view. Yes, it does matter if it is fake. … Can’t blame the pilot for the weather in Tulsa. … Like so many things lately, the only two voices you ever hear are the loudmouths at the opposite ends of the pendulum’s swing.…