Government: Ahmadinejad Has Huge Lead in Iran Vote
Iran's state news agency reports that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has 70 percent of the votes counted so far, but his main reformist challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi also confidently claimed victory at a news conference, and has warned of vote fraud.
Apply Pentagon contracting standards to ACORN
U.S. Navy officials have severed ties with a defense contractor under suspicion in connection with an on-going federal investigation of fraud allegations against PMA Group (Paul Magliocchetti and Associates), a defense lobbying firm that was shut down following an FBI raid last year of its office. But the Navy would not be able to do that if Rep. Barney Frank’s logic on behalf of the Association of Community Activists for Reform Now (ACORN) were applied to defense contracts.
