Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs said.. "The Strait of Hormuz cannot be taken over by a tweet, nor by an aircraft carrier, nor by issuing a decree, nor by an election speech. Iran is neither afraid of threats nor intimidated by a show of force.”

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To continue with the Eric Schmitt dog pile, his presser for an aviation bill he introduced calls Charles Lindbergh St. Louis's "very own." Lindbergh lived here for two years. That's it. Two whole years before he became famous. He was a Nazi, though, so it tracks that Schmitt would glaze him.

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22 years ago today, on September 30th 2004, Philip Roth’s novel The Plot Against America was first published. The book imagines Charles Lindbergh as US President, and considers how he might have befriended Hitler, steering the U.S. toward fascism. The novel explores the fragility of democracy.

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“We Always Were Suckers for Ridiculous Hats…”

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To be fair, they've known this has been true since at least Andrew Jackson. Lots of American egalitarianism has been about creating "equality" among certain groups by protecting them from competition. Indian Removal, the Chinese Exclusion Act, pre-cotton gin slavery, coverture...

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