Conflicting reports concerning Cyber Command

There are conflicting reports concerning the future and the direction of an Air Force program designed to command and control cyberspace. Over the summer Air Force decided to halt operations towards the building of a Air Force Cyber Command – due mostly to the change in top brass, but also because AF was stepping on [...]

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The Treasury gets a new acronym

The Treasury Department released a rough outline of how the government plans to manage the $700 billion recovery plan yesterday, the New York Times reports. Among some of structure provisions is a timetable to have things ready in six weeks. They also formally announced that Neel Kashkari, 35, a former executive at Goldman Sachs who [...]

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Supremacy in the Supreme Court

Three of the four national daily news papers have touched on a subject I wrote about a few weeks ago. The New York Times and USA Today discuss in two editorials the importance of the Presidential election on the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the Washington Post clearly dissects the Court demographics to help explain exactly what [...]

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A busy week for the kids in accounting

I’ve never seen this, but as one trusty Prologuer pointed out, the defense bill was just passed. I’m quick to rebut that what follows is not just defense procurement but a bevvy (and incomplete) summary of what has been contracted government-wide over the last week.  There’s over one hundred and thirteen separate contracts listed by [...]

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From Iceland to Italy, world markets feeling The Pinch

The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are both reporting today on the effects of the American credit crisis on European soil. It seems as though Monopoly Europe has just been released. More on the flip side.

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