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By WILLIAM COLE | The Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Published: March 16, 2021 HONOLULU (Tribune News Service) — A resolution introduced in the state Legislature calls for the Missile Defense Agency to "resist" siting a $1.9 billion defensive radar in Hawaii because it is a "prime example of wasteful Pentagon spending" during a time of unprecedented need for public services in health, education and welfare. The new resolution in the House states that new hypersonic and low-flying cruise missile...

WASHINGTON — Heres a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. House vote UNIONIZATION: The House has passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (H.R. 842), sponsored by Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va. The bill would change laws governing labor practices and unions, with the general goal of making it easier for workers to form unions. Scott said the changes were needed because existing labor law "lacks the teeth to enforce workers rights when employers unlawfully r...

Throughout history, women have had an impact on the Navy and Marine Corps. At the outset, they served as dedicated wives, managing the household and raising children while their husbands served. As time went on, their roles grew. Heres a look at the progression of official responsibilities women have undertaken in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Subscriber-Only Content Subscribe to Naval History magazine to gain access to this article and a host of other fascinating articles and st...

Share This: Recently the Army announced that it intends to lower the standards of the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) because “biological differences” between men and women were resulting in an appalling failure rate among women. As reported in Stars and Stripes, this change comes from demands by Democrats like Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, (D-NY) and Richard Blumenthal, (D-CT) that the Army cease implementation of changes to the gender-neutral ACFT until the test could be evaluated for its fai...

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WASHINGTON — Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. House votes PRISONER COMMUNICATIONS: The House has passed the Effective Assistance of Counsel in the Digital Era Act (H.R. 546), sponsored by Rep. Hakeem S. Jeffries, D-N.Y., to bar the Justice Department from monitoring privileged electronic communications between an incarcerated person and that person’s lawyer. Jeffries said the prohibition “would enable incarcerated individuals to com...

In Search of Alien Life In a review of current debates about whether extraterrestrials have visited Earth, Elizabeth Kolbert discusses the Fermi paradox, which asks, in reference to aliens, “Where are they?” (Books, January 25th). Some useful context is the Rare Earth hypothesis, which argues that advanced life is an extremely unlikely outcome of Darwinian evolution; after all, life required nearly four billion years—almost one-third of the age of our universe—to develop on Earth. There...

House votes 2021 BUDGET: The House has passed a resolution (H. Con. Res. 11), sponsored by Rep. John A. Yarmuth, D-Ky., that would establish the federal governments fiscal 2021 budget and propose budgetary levels for 2022 through 2030. The 2021 budget would include up to $1.9 trillion of spending on a new coronavirus relief package. Yarmuth said the resolution "was designed solely for one task: providing Congress with the option of using reconciliation to implement the American Rescue Plan and ...

The Rubble of Empire By Rebecca Gordon January 19, 2021 " Information Clearing House" - How can you tell when your empire is crumbling? Some signs are actually visible from my own front window here in San Francisco. Directly across the street, I can see a collection of tarps and poles (along with one of my own garbage cans) that were used to construct a makeshift home on the sidewalk. Beside that edifice stands a wooden cross decora...

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