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Again, my point is against over-borne rhetoric and attempts to draw a line from Nazi Germany to USA 2025.

No. I'm advocating toning down the rhetoric from the people crying "fascism!" or "Hitler!" in ways that incite others to consider violent attacks on targets of the rhetoric. I've done my own quick search and read. It's going to take more than the universe inhabited by such paragons of...

Nazism =/= fascism. Nazism was a grab-bag of policies. Drill down a bit. The principle that things people say and write can induce others to do wrong has been firmly established in law (and matches common sense), or else we wouldn't need laws against certain things being said and written...

It will be interesting to watch them try and stick the landing. The judicial branch presumes to direct the executive branch on how to spend based on what the legislative branch said, while the legislative branch is blocking funds from flowing...

Ah, yes. Back to the '60s.

Sure. But what they're being called is "Hitler" and "Nazi" (or close to it). 1. Big problems are most easily solved while they are still small. 2. Is there really any limit to what a person might reasonably do to "prevent Hitler"? Taking (1) and (2) together, at what point short of "actual...

You're probably using the wrong definition of "alien". Example: Alien and Sedition Acts (1798). Not much point getting worked up over your own editorializing.

"Except for all these things that haven't actually transpired yet, they're fascist!"

Propaganda posters were a feature in the US and elsewhere during WW II. Notwithstanding FDR's occasionally expressed appreciation of Italian-style (actual, by definition) fascism and some policies in the '30s that might be considered at least fascism-adjacent, the US was never (and still is...

Anyone could have been making efforts to educate Americans about the impacts of import tariffs even before the election result (pointing out the flaws in campaign promises is pretty common dog campaigning). A bit late now. People usually don't contest an exercise of political power they plan...

People think that by comparing contemporary figures to Nazis, or contemporary events to the Holocaust, they're accentuating the badness of contemporary figures. What they achieve is to desensitize people to what Nazis really were, and what the Holocaust really was.

Association Fallacy, for those who might be wondering.

If it didn't age well, it's because he was wrong. This time, the shutdown is going down in the books as "Schumer Shutdown".

Long-term permanent settlements or not, expeditionary behaviours are common enough among all peoples. I can't recall the exact terms-of-art, but a bit of guidance I read a while back indicated that mere occasional use of land had to be considered for title. Undoubtedly various communities...

We should emulate Trump? China is much like Russia. Both occupy (eg. Tibet, Ukraine) or aspire to (eg. Taiwan, more of Ukraine) territories to which they have no particular entitlement. Both are notorious violators of human rights. Both are preparing to and expected to initiate or continue...

One can only shake the head. A deal, though...there's none to be made. A major reason for the overspending problem in the US is extraordinary spending that gets permanently extended through the CR mechanism (ie. enters the "baseline" from which extensions are calculated) regardless whether the...

If BC forestry is in trouble, tariffs were probably only the tipping point. Homegrown political decisions, particularly by the provincial government, reduced the ability of companies to respond to fiscal stress. Remove enough of anyone's fiscal freedom of manoeuvre and eventually they won't be...

Andrew McCarthy has worked as a prosecuting attorney. His legal analysis of relevant US law is probably better than yours or mine. That Bragg's lawyering was creative isn't a fringe idea. I've read plenty of legal analysis, some by obviously Democrat-supporting or progressive-leaning lawyers...

No, too many lesson periods would have to be set aside for British Bulldog.

Oh, I thought you were writing about fighting peer armies at mid- to high-intensity, not mock-ups for guerilla warfare training. Totally different thing. And if it had been Israel instead of Kuwait? Proficiency gaps matter, a lot.