Maybe they just had one little beer for lunch. Or maybe they're just nuts.

Some people say, better to have them thinking your drunk than bonkers. However that may be, now the question is whether we all get peppered by this wacky idea floating around, the one about selling management of US East Coast ports to a company owned by the United Arab Emirates. Sam Smith weighs in with a provocative observation thereupon.

In trying to figure out why Washington takes such a different view towards the security of business class and the security of cargo containers it occurred to me that most policy makers don't travel by container ship.

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