No. Because you drive a Prius.

It doesn’t guarantee success, but it’s the right way to do things. If the other side truly is hostile, and doesn’t want to talk, then press for other measures. But a military option should ALWAYS be a measure of last resort, and not used lightly.

Reagan would have adjusted just fine. That was pushing the line back in the 80’s and the only reason he didn’t go further was because he wouldn’t have gotten away with it. It’s like saying Einstein was dumb because he did nothing with computers.

Armored car: made to move itself around without getting hurt
Tractor: made to bend nature to the will of man

Pretty sure they just backed up. A riot water cannon ain’t got shit on 2,000 ft-lbs of torque and a crazy-low-gears...

Mr Xi was not elected; he was chosen by Party elites and confirmed by a vote of the Central Committee.

Dictatorships are great...enjoy that. I’d rather have an elected Trump or any other Republican idiot than a dictator appointed by the garbage committee of criminals you call the communist party in China.

“Elected,” as used in this sentence, would not include a man selected by the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

Well, let’s see, we’ll have:

Unfortunately this is true :( I don’t know how many times I had to grit my teeth and allow stupid opinions to be shared while I’m standing bedside. You really really want to call people like this idiots but you can’t alienate them. You just try to explain it in some way they might understand without using the word…

Heavily biased article, and one that doesn’t accurately represent where those politicians stand on those policies. For abortion, yeah, they want to stop killing babies. They believe the life of a baby supersedes the right of the mother when she is deciding to have sex. Most people on that stage suggest that you limit…

9/11 goes way deeper than 43. Both Daddy and Clinton had the chance to get Bin Laden. What was it? 8 months into his presidency? Aweful hard to lay the blaim on him for that one. I’m a Bernie supporter and I can’t lay this on 43’s doorstep. The failure goes much further back.

Originally yes but during their 1980’s refit they were converted to run DFM (Diesel Fuel Marine), the exact same fuel that gas turbine powered Ticonderoga’s and Arleigh Burke’s use (they can use JP-5 in emergencies but basically never do)

Back in college I actually wrote a paper on the role off the New Jersey off the coast of Vietnam in (I think...it’s been awhile) 1968. The thing’s shore bombardment capabilities were staggering. There are accounts from Marines saying the big guns effectively cleared the Viet Cong out of a strip 12-15 miles back from…

We have guided artillery shells now that can glide to extend their range.

I hate most everything about Trump, but I love this idea.

Just look for Russian tug boats.

Unless it was wired to, as Jason points out, a bundle of fake TNT sticks, it doesn’t matter what it looks like. The point is that a hoax bomb is not something that subjectively appears to the onlooker as something that might be part of a bomb, or that people don’t know what it might be and therefore think it might be…

Dear Mossad,

You vastly underestimate how badly Russia has been hit by our embargos. They are really starting to feel the burn, that is their oligarchs, and THOSE are the ones who have the political power. We can outlast Putin - so long as the west continues to embargo.