But how long can Ford—and other automakers slashing EV prices—keep on losing money with each electric car sold?
“Tactical Off-Road Motorcycle Training for 36 personnel starting no earlier than 22-July-2013 and completing no later than 02-July-2013 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA 98433 and Tahuya State Forest in accordance with the attached PWS (Performance Work Statement).”
— An Army solicitation, here, apparently seeking time travel as well as motorcycle training.
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“Lost Honor”
The Marines have just issued a video featuring leathernecks sentenced to prison for sexual-assault convictions (spelled their correctly two out of three times, too, in this accompanying screen grab…).
It’s the latest in a …
New Effort To Tar Marco Rubio As Anti-Woman
EMILY’s List hopes to brand Florida Senator Marco Rubio as anti-women ahead of the 2016 elections
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Cooked Books Tell Tall Tales
The Defense Budget Is Even Larger than You Think: Part one of two.
The Pentagon’s budget has increased, over time, much more than the Defense Department tells Congress, and the public.
The vast majority of people in …
The Rebirth of Twinkies: Now for Dudes — and Suddenly Everywhere
Twinkies are back, but this time, they’re not necessarily for moms to pack in their kids’ lunchboxes. They’re for bros
Fighting Military Suicide: Can Technology Help?
Two months ago, Connecticut Senator Christopher Murphy told Secretary Eric Shinseki, chief of the Department of Veterans Affairs, that “every veteran suicide represents a collective failure of our nation to properly care for …
An Eco-Friendly Solution to Coastal Hazards
In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, a study suggests that conservation can protect potential storm victims
Officially, a Non-Combat Casualty…
Specialist Hilda Clayton, 22, died July 2 while photographing Afghan soldiers July 2 when their mortar exploded.
AT&T’s $1.2 Billion Leap Wireless Buyout Faces Static
Public interest groups are already urging the government to block the deal
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Just How Big Is The Defense Budget?
Numbers have a precision to them that isn’t always warranted.
Take your very own U.S. defense budget, for example. Even after you’ve learned the difference among then-year, current-year and constant-year dollars, there can …
The American Horse Slaughter Lobby Fights To Hold Ground
“The lone cowboy riding his horse is a cinematic icon. Not once in memory did the cowboy eat his horse,” wrote one judge in a decision that permitted a state ban on the practice
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Up In Smoke…40 Years Ago
Anyone trying to get military records for a relative – or the subject of a news story – may have heard those dreaded words: Those records were lost.
What follows is like a military tattoo, in a precise order:
…in a …