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Five Quick Things: Hormuz, by Scott McKay – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Five Quick Things: Hormuz, by Scott McKay

Forgotten Customs of St. Joseph, by Matthew Plese

March 19, 2026

Saint of the Day: Saint Cuthbert A.D. 634–687

March 20, 2026

The USS Stout (DDG 55) transits the Strait of Hormuz in 2020 (Cpl. Gary Jayne III/Department of War/Wikimedia Commons)

By Scott McKay, The American Spectator, March 19, 2026

Scott McKay is a contributing editor at The American Spectator and publisher of the Hayride, which offers news and commentary on Louisiana and national politics, and RVIVR.com, a national political news aggregation and opinion site. …

What if closing the Strait of Hormuz isn’t a blunder — but the point?

I’m not sure that I’m going to make it a policy to turn the 5QT into an Iran war notebook, but I’m doing it for two weeks in a row.

At some point, it becomes… not a coincidence but enemy action.

And we’ve got an awful lot of that going on.

So on with the show.

1. Giving It to You Strait

I keep asking this question: if the U.S. and Israel aren’t winning the war and Iran is, then feel free to let us know to whom we should send the trophy. …

Five Quick Things: Hormuz, by Scott McKay

Forgotten Customs of St. Joseph, by Matthew Plese

Saint of the Day: Saint Cuthbert A.D. 634–687

By Scott McKay, The American Spectator, March 19, 2026

What if closing the Strait of Hormuz isn’t a blunder — but the point?

I’m not sure that I’m going to make it a policy to turn the 5QT into an Iran war notebook, but I’m doing it for two weeks in a row.

At some point, it becomes… not a coincidence but enemy action.

And we’ve got an awful lot of that going on.

So on with the show.

1. Giving It to You Strait

I keep asking this question: if the U.S. and Israel aren’t winning the war and Iran is, then feel free to let us know to whom we should send the trophy. …

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