Unions are tricky things. Yes, they have fought for many improvements for workers, but there have also been problems with corruption and pursuing agendas either unrelated to the worker's interests or even against them. The automotive worker's unions had helped drive jobs out of Detroit and helped lead to the ruin of more than one institution. The public employee unions are an entire saga in themselves.

That's a crock if ever I've seen one.

Carter had it tough because he wasn't really up to the job and was a slow learner when dealing with the Soviets. Oddly enough Obama is reliving that with the Russians.

Actually that sounds about right for some targets.

Ya, now we are treated like metadata.

I just cannot buy the line that the only options are 'assuming the fetal position' and picking a fight with Russia. Surely there is some kind of middle ground where we can be tough when we have to be without taking every possible opportunity to prove it?

I am happy to agree with you. You are correct. Much of life comes down to personal choices.

It isn't necessarily a question of "the old way" but rather the proven way. Look at the flip side - communism. It was tried over, and over, and over and kept producing bloody disasters of mass oppression, mass murder, economic ruin. And yet today there are still communists! They want to keep trying despite killing 100,000,000 people in the last century.

The radicals of the movements springing up in the 60s weren't any better even when they weren't communists. They wanted to tear down society with no real plan to rebuild. Their spiritual heir in many ways is the "Occupy" movement which failed so miserably.

The United States is a republic. I'm sure that you've heard that.

What will be done will change if enough voters care enough to take action in the voting booths in the primaries and general election.

The Congress passed an Authorization for Use of Military Force against Iraq. Legally it is equivalent to a declaration of war. The Supreme Court decided that long ago. The Constitution continues in force.

It is true that China is becoming more nationalistic again. Unfortunately some of that is connected to territorial claims of lands and waters currently held by someone else. That isn't good.

I don't think that more than a few percent of computer users need much more power than is in a Pi. For me it is great for robotics although I wouldn't mind more power for OpenCV.

The Economist has many short articles that make for awesome bathroom reading, plus longer in depth articles. The same with the New Scientist. Both are also weekly magazines so it is a non stop firehose of up to date information that doesn't involve, cyrus, the kardashians, or whats his bieber.

I once loved Scientific American but then they became as crappy and unrealistic as Popular Mechanics for a number of years, then they became more serious but way too much psychology 101 crap about the brain. It is Scientific American mind this Scientific american mind that. But that is just PopMechanics again about the brain. Brain Implants in 10 YEARS!!!! Brain mapped for 800th time in PET scanner! Brain simulated in even bigger computer! Basically these are cover story articles that might get 100 words in New Scientist.

I did but you gave a very easy hint to it in your title.

The most crime-ridden location in the US is 80% white. Both violent and non-violent.

And there is black flight. Most definitely.

It was in some of the older articles on the matter. You'll have to look it up, I don't have time at the moment.