I’m sorry, but your linked article doesn’t say quite what you think it does. It cites 31 cases of voter fraud by the mechanism of voter impersonation (i.e. showing up twice to the polling station under different names). It specifically does not encompass “fraud with absentee ballots... Or vote buying. Or coercion. Or…

On a completely unrelated note, I know you can't see this, but I'm giving you a very stern glare about your user tag.

This is a sober, clear-headed analysis. Please delete it, as it clearly has no place here.

Are you kidding? The slave-grinding will be mostly complete before the spectacle descends on Qatar. Sure, staging athletic events in *Qatar* is an adventure all its own, but that won’t inconvenience the people in the party around the Cup. And I’m sure Qatar will see to it that the event is _very_ secure.

Bed bugs infested the house where I live in Connecticut one year. They didn’t bother my wife— no sir. It was just me. That was one reason it took so long to realize what was bothering me. I would wake up itchy and scratch, and sometimes it was so bad I had to go take a shower. My wife kept thinking of off-the-wall…

It depends.

Armada is the most expensive, with a core set running you about $80. The X-Wing core will set you back about $40. In both cases, there’s enough in the core for two players to play a small battle. If you want to play at the standard size, though, you can get there with $30 extra for X-Wing (or $60 if we’re…

Some more, possibly pertinent information: Like X-Wing, Armada is playable by two people right out of the box; the Core Set has enough for this. However, also like X-Wing, it's primarily designed as a 1v1 game. You can do teams fairly easily, but you'll have to pick up some additional product, and it starts to clunk a…

On the contrary, it would be incredibly vulnerable to subsurface attack. Remember, you’ve posited something that’s slow-moving or downright immobile. Third-party cuing would allow the sub to easily get into the general area, and it could use visual for the approach, which is what you would expect the sub to do anyway,…

ALWAYS with the highlight truthers!

Three issues with your concept come immediately to mind. First: zero flexibility. A barge or platform is slow to move, slow to setup, slow to bring home for maintenance. Its location and schedule would be well known far in advance (helping potential foes’ planning and letting them engage with more and different…

I see little utility in adding Aegis to an amphib. If you’re in a low-threat area, you don’t need it. If you’re in a high-threat area, well, the amphib is a high-value unit and won’t be traveling alone. In any event, Aegis isn’t needed for the employment of the self-defense weapons the LPDs currently carry.
Oh, but you…

Actually, the most probable outcome would be a few ADCAPs detonating under the waterline and mortally wounding it, armor or no armor, before it even knew it was under attack. Battleships are nice and sexy and whatnot, but in a high-end shooting war, they're all just targets for submarines.

“Growing middle class” is a phrase used almost automatically, and it applies to the demographics of many countries, like Iran. It does not apply to North Korea. The North Korean economy is so backward and so poor there is no growing middle class. It is a hugely stratified society. The great majority of the population…