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Take the (A) Train -- Your Name Here on Metro

Joel Epstein | Posted 12.05.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: East LA, Univision, Antonio Villaraigosa, Warner Bros., Congress, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Fox, Bob Dylan, Kcrw, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Subway, Northrop Grumman, Metro, Metro Goldline, Boyle Heights, Aeg, Mass Transit, Los Angeles News

Why aren't we asking the business and philanthropic community to help do their part by offering to pick up the tab on Metro station construction?

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Horse Races with Rocket Engines

William Pomerantz | Posted 10.28.2009 | Technology

Read More: X Prize, Nasa, Space, Lunar Landing, Scaled Composites, TrueZer0, Unreasonable Rocket, Friends of Amateur Rocketry, John Carmack, Spaceshiptwo, Rocket Competitions, Masten Space Systems, Northrop Grumman, David Masten, Xombie, Armadillo Aerospace, Technology News

We're clearly coming into an era where commercial competition will have a major impact on the aerospace community -- and on the financial community as well.

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Obama Small Business Plan Falls Short of Real Solutions

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Today, President Barack Obama held a press conference in Landover, MD to announce the administration's plans for a, "New Small Business Lending Initia...

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Obama Spouts Pro Small Business Rhetoric, But Gives Small Business Billions to Corporate Giants

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Raytheon, Lack of Oversight, Small Business, L-3 Communications, Gtsi, Abuse, Lockheed Martin, Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Economy, Middle Class, Obama Administration, Asbl, Loopholes, General Dynamics, Staples, 3M Company, Fraud, AT&T, Northrop Grumman, Small Business Administration, Booz Allen Hamilton, Barack Obama, Office Depot, Xerox, American Small Business League, Dell Computer, Business News

When you look closely at Obama's policies towards small businesses you start to think its just a matter of time before he loads small business owners into crowded train cars headed for prison camps.

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Its Official! Pentagon Cyber Command Gets Ready to "Stand Up"

Frida Berrigan | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Boeing, Pentagon, Cybersecurity, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Cyberwar, Politics News

It seems to me that the Pentagon, the administration and the military industrial complex are all treating cyberspace like any other battle domain.

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Why Would Anyone Want to Be Governor of California?

Matt Littman | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Meg Whitman, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, Gavin Newsom, Ronald Reagan, General Motors, Titanic, Jay Leno, Tom Campbell, Hugh Grant, Jerry Brown, Northrop-Grumman, Disney, Eliot Spitzer, Politics News

The next leader of our state should be so lucky as to be caught picking up a prostitute -- that appears to be a better career path than the dead-end job of Governor of California.

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Military Companies Vying For Billions Of Dollars In Cyberwarfare Defense Contracts

New York Times | CHRISTOPHER DREW and JOHN MARKOFF | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Defense Contracts, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Cyberwarfare, Politics News

The government's urgent push into cyberwarfare has set off a rush among the biggest military companies for billions of dollars in new defense contract...

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Obama To Face Challenges With Space Weapons Ban

Reuters | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, President Obama, Northrop Grumman Corp, Space Weapons Ban, Obama, Barack Obama, Obama Foreign Policy, Politics News

President Barack Obama's pledge to seek a worldwide ban on weapons in space marks a dramatic shift in U.S. policy while posing the tricky issue of def...

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How Three Americans Ended Up Hostages in Colombia

John McQuaid | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Northrop Grumman, Government Contracting, Cia, Dea, Thomas Howes, Ingrid Betancourt, Marc Gonsalves, Defense Department, Colombia Hostages, Keith Stansell, Politics News

The alarming backstory leading up to the captivity of the three hostages reveals a lot about the failings of government contracting, and government in general.

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Friday Talking Points [36] -- End The Media's Pro-McCain Bias! Now!!

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.28.2008 | Media

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McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.

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Air Force Tanker Deal Leaves Congress In Turmoil

Reuters | Kevin Drawbaugh | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Boeing, Northrop Grumman Tanker Deal, Northrop Grumman, Tanker Contract, Tanker Deal, Air Force Tanker Deal, Business News

A U.S. Air Force decision awarding a $35 billion aircraft contract to a team including the European parent of Airbus landed like a bomb in Congress o...

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Northrop, EADS Win $35B Air Force Deal

AP | JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Northrop Grumman, Airbus, European Auronautic Defense and Space, Wall Street Boeing, Air Force Contract, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Air Force on Friday awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. and a European partner a $35 billion contract to build airborne refueling pl...

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