What was really behind the bankruptcy of U.S. solar panel manufacturer Solyndra?
The Defense Department issued the following press release Thursday:
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Air Force Major Thomas E. Reitmann of Red Wing, Minn., will be buried on Sept. 8 in Arlington National Cemetery.
I didn’t get a chance yesterday to post this email from TPM Reader TA while we were discussing the jobs speech scheduling throwdown, but I want to make sure it gets into the mix:
While I agree with “JB” that Obama was smart not to make a fight out of the
scheduling issue, I also believe that s/he is wrong in assessing the impact of Boehner’s move as being one that only 100,000 people care about or that no one will think about it one iota.It ignores a critical element of Obama’s base that is particularly sensitive to slights Republicans give the President – the African-American community.
Everyone loves Netflix — except the content creators who think they’re not getting paid enough for their wares and the folks who own the Internet pipes who are miffed that they’re not getting their own piece of the action. Here’s one of the early shots in the unfolding war.