Recent content by Rudburg

If you want, you can do it in less than 2500 feet according to Lockheed: https://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed-martin/aero/documents/C-130J/C130JPocketGuide.pdf But if you are crazy enough, you can do even better: Throwback: When The US Navy Landed A Lockheed C-130 Hercules On An...

Under the US Constitution, admission of a state can be done by simple majority vote by Congress. The problem with getting states admitted in the recent past hasn't been a Constitutional obstacle, but partisan fears that a new state will upset the balance between the two major parties. This is a...

Doesn't sound like there is actually an agreement here. "Hamas’s acceptance of a Egyptian-Qatari peace deal is a “ruse” designed to make Israel look like it is obstructing peace, an Israeli official has said. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said that the truce Hamas agreed to...

I think most of them would like it removed from the map.

"Reading all the signs and posters..." Okay, tell me about this sign:

Calls for the provinces to intervene in municipal zoning regulations are appealing to that principle. The idea is that municipalities are restricting the development of housing or apartments, driving up prices everywhere, which creates an imperative for the province to do something about it...

In general, provincial governments should stay out of purely municipal matters, if only to avoid the problems that come with micromanagement of issues that you can't fully understand. A province as a whole has no interest in which street a new fire station gets built on. I can see two general...

You should go to your appointment. Medical assessments are made on the basis of a full consideration of the applicant's history and conditions. It is very unlikely that you will be disqualified on the basis of BMI alone. That said, I recommend that you continue to work on increasing your muscle...

Extremely left-leaning individuals suffer from mental illness at a very high rate. https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/03/how-to-understand-the-well-being-gap-between-liberals-and-conservatives/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341609819_Mental_Illness_and_the_Left

A few years ago I came across a newspaper article from the 1950s. It was describing an upcoming recruiting event that the local militia units were running. One of them was an engineer unit. The line that jumped out: "At 2:00 the flamethrower will be demonstrated. The fire department will be on...

For some reason, I'm reminded of Soldier35.

Provinces have complete control over municipalities. They can amalgamate cities (think Toronto), shift town/city/county limits, force changes to the composition of municipal governments (again, Toronto) and they can do it without their consent. Whether provinces should exercise their power to...

I think this an important factor. The NDP's traditional voting base is a mix of left-leaning rural voters, urban culture warriors, and union workers, and they are increasingly dominated by the urban voters. I came across this a few days ago: In summary, the NDP has lost a bunch of voters to...

"Knight to upper left lip, check."

Clausewitz' view was that military action exists as a subset of the larger field of political activity. A war is only undertaken to secure certain objectives. The war is won when you are able to exit the war having achieved your objectives for going to war in the first place. His point about the...