The difference, Bowman says, is that before the late 1950s, companies such as Ford built everything from jeeps to bombers -- then went back to building cars. But that changed after the Korean War.
Bowman says that it's important to note that during the Cold War, the U.S. military didn't draw down its troops like it did after World War II.
Despite the anti-gun rhetoric you've been hearing from some televised children lately, there is another, unheralded story of kids who have no fear of guns.
I am disappointed to hear that the president will propose weakening NEPA today. 🌎
The National Environmental Policy Act is an important environmental law that helps the government review new rules and regulations relating to the use of public land and public resources like the air we breathe and the water we drink. Especially with so many large scale renewable energy projects being proposed and other climate mitigations underway its essential that government policies be carefully reviewed before moving forward and environmental mitigations be implemented to minimize environmental impacts before moving forward.
While undoubtedly NEPA delays and adds costs to large scale projects, mitigating environmental impacts can avoid problems down the road and make our communities a better place to live and work in. Things are changing fast with the climate crisis already underway but caution is needed to avoid further harm and damage.
Many advocates for women's rights are watching Virginia closely, as the state's legislature goes into session Wednesday. That's because the Equal Rights Amendment has a good chance of being ratified by Virginia lawmakers.
The ERA nearly passed there last year. The then-Republican-controlled Senate approved the amendment with solid Democratic support, and it was one vote shy of getting a floor vote in the Republican-led House after that. November's elections then swept Democrats into control of both the House and Senate.
If lawmakers pass the ERA this session, Virginia would become the 38th state to ratify it, and an amendment needs 38 states to be fully ratified and added to the U.S. Constitution.
However, it's not clear what would happen after that. Here's what the ERA would do and why its future is so murky.
That’s the main takeaway from the Pew Research Center’s latest rolling poll of U.S. veterans, published Thursday, in which solid majorities of former troops said the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria were not worth fighting. The gaps between approval and disapproval were not even close to the poll’s 3.9 percent margin of error; barely a third of veterans considered any of those conflicts worthwhile:
Part of being an adult is tolerating and working with awful people that really don’t deserve anything positive for their bad behavior. But often it’s beneficial to work with evil as the costs of addressing evil is often higher than ignoring it.
Iran is an obnoxious bear out in the Middle East that occasionally does terrible things but mostly is content to avoid significant conflict with the United States. The same is true with the United States – the cost of destabilizing the Middle East would be significant to the United States. The most obvious impacts to every day Americans would be greatly escalated energy prices and increased police presence in public places but its unlikely to limited to that. There would be an enormous financial cost to the federal budget, leading to cuts to domestic programs and both American and Iranian lives destroyed along with damaged infrastructure.
With our own country facing significant domestic needs, I believe that should be our focus. Middle Eastern stability is less important now than in decades past with strong United States oil production and no threat of communism any more, but we shouldn’t poke the bear of Iran and unnecessarily upset the balance of power in Iran.
While I didn’t attend today’s protest downtown on the war, I will continue to speak out and will attend future protests. ✊