Alaska looks to build yet another pipeline to draw natural gas from the North Slope for shipment to world markets.
ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) and IRGC (Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps) are ideologically similar, but IRGC actually runs something.
NATO has proved itself the fair-weather friend, by sitting out the latest bar fight and even hampering American operations.
NATO has become an all talk, no action body, and the Iran conflict proves it is a paper tiger that has outlived its usefulness.
Iran cannot stave off a ground invasion with the conventional weapons left to it, but it could use chemical and biological weapons.
Since 2006 the Forest Service has paid about half a million dollars to send a Smokey Bear hot-air balloon to appear at public events.
The Strait of Hormuz is an effective straitjacket for the entire world outside of Iran, by reason of global oil pricing.