Arlington National Cemetery scandal of thousands of improperly marked graves involves $5.5 million spent on failed effort to computerize records and possible "contract mismanagement." 

21st century reality: "returning  to a 'real economy' [in the US]—one  in which we make things, rather than move around complex financial products..."

Trial of military contractor for massive fraud whose sole-source body armor company was an example, even back in 2004, of contracts awarded to contractors unequipped to fulfill their requirements for reasons that too often smack of political connections during the Bush era.

How Europe builds better products for better lives; social democracies like Sweden, Germany, and France, have more industry than the US or UK that smashed their industrial base by wrecking unions.

And while the Pentagon keeps shoveling taxpayers' dollars and borrowed monies into defense contractors' sinkholes, because of lack of or ineffective oversight and accountability, the US military cannot properly account for 96% of the billions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction money.

White House excuse that it is was unable to reach Shirley Sherrod was lame and unworthy.

The Wikileaks Afghan Files: "will make it still harder in future for the US and British governments to explain why they are fighting to preserve an Afghan government so rotten with corruption and brutally uncaring towards its own people"

"Just because Obama has gotten comfy with the idea of endless funds [i.e. supplementals] for war doesn't mean that Congress and the rest of us need to mirror that inertia."