Amid increased focus on how sexual assault cases are handled in the military, the Department of Defense (DoD) has unveiled a new program that advocates for the victims of sexual assault.
06.7.13 | Current Events, Military | Erin Danly
Earlier last week, the Pentagon announced a major change in policy—one that allows women to serve in combat roles previously unavailable to them.
01.30.13 | Current Events, Military, Work | Laurie Junkins
More than 238,000 US military jobs are currently off limits to women. How can this be in 2012, when so many women have served honorably in our armed forces?
11.29.12 | Current Events, Freedom, Government, Lisa Bloom's Posts, Military, Politics, Rights | Lisa Bloom, Avvo.com Legal Advisor and Analyst
Even as the debate rages over the Pentagon’s recent decision to officially allow women to do certain dangerous battalion jobs in combat areas, the truth is that for the most part it’s nothing new. When considering the issue, it’s important to look not just at the pros and cons of making changes to the rules, but the history of women in the military and how other countries address it as well.
02.21.12 | Military, Politics, Work | Laurie Junkins
Americans are often curious about life in Islamic countries, especially regarding holiday celebrations. For Halloween, it turns out that Muslims not only do not celebrate it, but it’s against the laws of Islam to acknowledge it.
10.8.11 | Freedom, Military | Laurie Junkins
Most of us were taught in school that assassinating someone in cold blood is against the law, even if he is a raging bad guy. The Nazis got tried in court, after all, and they were responsible for far more deaths than bin Laden. So, was it legal to allow Navy SEALS to kill bin Laden?
05.6.11 | Government, Military, Terrorism | Laurie Junkins
Libel and defamation lawsuits against bloggers have exploded over the past few years, as people increasingly post opinions online without thinking through the consequences. If you’re a blogger, have you thought about what might happen if someone takes offense at something you post?
04.27.11 | Celebrities, Freedom, Military, Rights | Laurie Junkins
You may have seen the recent Washington Post report that revealed approximately 854,000 people have top-secret U.S. government security clearance. There are 33 buildings in the Washington D.C. metro area alone, totaling 17 million square feet of space, devoted to top-secret intelligence work. It seems a bit counter-intuitive for the equivalent of the entire population [...]
11.3.10 | Government, Military, Work | Jen Talley
Nanotechnology (“nanotech”) is the science of controlling matter on a molecular scale, usually sized between 1 and 100 nanometers. How small is that? Well, since 1 nanometer is roughly 1/50,000th the width of a human hair, maybe “mind-bogglingly tiny” is a better way of putting it. The ability to manipulate matter this minuscule has big [...]
09.2.10 | Environment, Healthcare, Military, Politics, Technology | Avvo
In the scifi TV series Fringe, the government gives a couple geniuses a lab and a mandate to come up with crazy technologies to defend America.
DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is kind of like that, only it has a $3.2 billion annual budget, hundreds of geniuses and it’s real.
07.21.10 | Government, Healthcare, Military | Avvo
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Arizona has made aggressive efforts in the last decade to pass state laws curbing the rights of illegal immigrants. Today the Supreme Court struck down another such law, with an odd split among the conservative members of the court.
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