and Commercial shipping under attack, signs of life for Nicki Haley in New Hampshire and

the desecration of a congressional conference room.

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So zoom in on the Red Sea, like so many other Iranian cutouts, the Huthy

militia group, which is in control of portions of Yemen on the Arabian

Peninsula, has been firing rockets and drones with reckless abandon at targets all over the place

since the October 7th massacre. But unlike some other proxy groups

aligned with Tehran, the Houthis have been doing it with total impunity. There's been

no response from the administration. They've treated it mostly like a nuisance responding

to distress signals from commercial vessels and intercepting as many drones and rockets

as our naval assets in the region can. But this weekend, two container

ships were struck by a hoothe ordinance, set ablaze, and that prompted a bunch of major shipping firms, some of the biggest

international shipping giants in the business, Merck, MSC, British Petroleum,

...