1. “‘No fly’ foul as girl, 6, put on list
Meet America’s tiniest terrorist: 6-year-old Allison Mosher, who’s landed on the nation’s No Fly List alongside mad bombers and other villainous thugs in a mind-boggling snafu that could scuttle her family’s Grand Canyon vacation, her outraged dad says.
“It’s flabbergasting,” Peter Mosher, 41, a software engineer from the Worcester area, told the Herald, recounting his pitched battle yesterday to clear his daughter’s name so they can catch their 6:10 a.m. United Airlines flight this morning at Logan International Airport.”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1247835&chkEm=1
2. “Israel Unveils World’s Largest Drone…the Size of a 737
3. “Even Clinton Slams Clinton Retreads: Summers and Rubin Must Go
Clinton told ABC that Rubin and Summers were wrong on derivatives:
On derivatives, yeah I think they were wrong and I think I was wrong to take [Summers and Rubin's advice] because the argument on derivatives was that these things are expensive and sophisticated and only a handful of investors will buy them and they don’t need any extra protection, and any extra transparency. The money they’re putting up guarantees them transparency.
“And the flaw in that argument was that first of all sometimes people with a lot of money make stupid decisions and make it without transparency.
These guys were largely responsible for the financial crisis. They must go.”
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/04/even-clinton-slams-clinton-retreads.html
