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Blockade and complete interruption of trade is pretty specific. "Give me specifics" is a rhetorical game. It should be clear that I advocate dealing with the kinds of problems posed by Iran and its clients and associates with the entire suite of measures. Every measure is a "specific". So...

Sure, it was the USA and Israel that provoked Iran into doing everything it has been doing for decades. Surely no-one was stupid enough to believe that Israel was going to continue to be the major bearer of the costs of Iran's misbehaviour indefinitely. If the "international community"...

Almost everything possible hasn't been tried already. Iran is not really being seriously isolated and pressed in all aspects. Too many people are taking counsel of their imminent fears, which are not imaginary but are not necessarily (and probably not) the worst eventual outcome. There's...

DIME. All of it. No need to repeat 1930s techniques of accommodations and appeasement. We already know that to the tyrants of the day, everything short of force that doesn't compel them to stop their bad behaviour is a sign of weakness. Solve the problems (Iran, Houthi, whoever) while...

Beyond that, as far as needed. The alternative is to tolerate some amount of banditry, such as Iran's sponsorship of terror. How much?

The heart of the matter. "We're going to behave like bandits, as we have done for years, and if we think you threaten to extinguish us, we'll behave even more like bandits." Might as well deal with the bandits decisively the first time. No point going through a series of appeasements and...

Passing along claims by IRGC (or Hamas) is like passing along claims by the Trump administration.

Interesting that at some point a threshold was crossed and it became necessary, somehow, by someone, to "create an environment" for what people have done for millennia.

LNG in, Interfor out.

It's really instructive to dive deep on the "excesses of capitalism" to learn how overwhelmingly often the faults are "excesses of government".

If the Swedes are at the top of your list, you better check your methodology.

You probably need to fly over it on a day without much cloud cover to appreciate the size of some of the cut blocks in those regions too. Not making ugly cuts where the people travelling major highways can see them has been a habit, if not formal policy, for decades.

I assume the main aim of the BCGEU strike was to break the bargaining mandate, and the same for the nurses. I had a good laugh watching their president deliver the "Oh we were not part of any bargaining that produced that mandate; that's their problem" line. The NDP only needs to pretend to...

Hordes of chickens, descending on parachutes...

So many words where one will do: Graham was a neo-con. Governor's appointment. Governor is solid Republican.

I marvel that there can be very many people who think a piece of tolled road infrastructure can be something that turns a noticeable profit, rather than something that with a bit of luck pays for itself and its maintenance until it is replaced.

Absorbs the right side of the LPC after the LPC is dragged left by the remnants of the other parties. Pretty much the same thing observed in the US.

This is where long-term strategic thinking enters. Canada should not only plan to be in the same kind of position the US was relative to the other belligerents (all sides) in WW II, but plan to be running in that direction before widespread hostilities begin. Capable of manufacturing complex...

Scott Jennings makes part of his living puncturing Democratic balloons on CNN. I doubt he'd try to blow up one of his own. Ditto a couple of other big names. These aren't people living on the extreme left or right fringes. What would be the point of trying to tell a whoppingly large easily...

Except that article, dated today, is already obsolete. Several people have reported they had conversations with McConnell. A small fringe of conservatives are spinning up conspiracies. Those are the small potatoes. Several prominent Democratic politicians and supporters have backtracked on...