Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, has said that the US is no longer pursuing the goal of an independent Palestinian state, marking what analysts describe as the most explicit abandonment yet of a cornerstone of US Middle East diplomacy. read more
A 30-year-old man from New Jersey was injured by a bison while visiting Yellowstone National Park on Tuesday morning, according to park officials. "At approximately 9:45 a.m. in the Upper Geyser Basin at Old Faithful, a man was gored by a bison after a large group of visitors approached it too closely," Yellowstone National Park said in a press release. "The individual sustained minor injuries and was treated and transported by emergency medical personnel." This is the second time this year a park visitor was injured by a bison. In May, a Florida man was gored after getting too close to a bison. read more
Heard from a source, famous person, big name, you'd recognize if I uttered it, that Trump had three XL copies of Richard Nixon's short-lived, Ruritanian-inspired Secret Service uniforms (www.nixonlibrary.gov) delivered to the White House, where they've been ripped asunder, cut and pasted to create a single, how you say, ah, yessss, une tenue lgante for his 250th joyeaux anniversaire.
The October 1967 antiwar march on Washington seems to me, in retrospect, the point at which opposition to the Vietnam War began entering the mainstream of political awareness in this country. It was not organized by apathetic folk, obviously; nor was it the product of politicians' actions, because the vast majority of them followed but did not really help set trends. The organizers were just that: organizers, a special breed often schooled and always inspired by the ongoing Civil Rights Revolution. From there, the momentum built.
I sense something of a similar dynamic swinging into motion yet again.