Yeah…because the West Bank is just like your community’s next “neighborhood over,” right? I provided context not included in the title. Just because you can’t handle the truth doesn’t mean you won’t hear it.

Couldn’t have anything to do with the fact that they found that teenaged Israeli lad dead, could it?

It was 8 months into his presidency. The air traffic controllers across the nation were threatening to strike, an act that might have crippled the struggling economic recovery. Reagan seemed to be willing to work with them if they agreed not to strike, but warned that-as federal employees-he would fire them if they did strike.

They went out and he fired them. It is my opinion that this confrontation soured his view of unions and set and adversarial tone between them and Reagan that lasted for his two terms. Anti-union sentiment rocketed and many businesses copied Reagan’s actions to devastating consequence on families and laborers.

This is not a defense of Reagan. It is just the perception of an old man who was alive and voting (for Carter) in those days. I would like to know if the replacement union for the disbanded PATCO ever managed to a) get the newly hired air traffic controllers a raise or b) a reduction in weekly hours.

Title SHOULD read…

“North Korea launches a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile that can reach distant US bases…ONCE.”

NK would be a smoldering pile of radioactive ash before it made a second launch. And Lil’ Kim knows it.

This. Exactly how I ended up married!

(Come to think of it, the honeymoon ran like that, too.) /s