Well, President Donald Trump said he will decide today on the potential agreement with Ira n. However Iran's Foreign Ministry said today that the nuclear issue was not negotiable . Plus, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency indicated what Trump is saying is a mixture of truth and lies.  And what about Lebanon? Stock market? Stocks rose in afternoon trading on Wall Street Friday, adding to the all-time highs they set a day earlier.     The S&P 500 rose 0.2% Friday. The index is coming off six gains in a row and is headed for a ninth straight winning week, which would be the longest such streak since 2023. Jeff Bezos' Blue Horizon exploded on its pad in Florida yesterday .   Watch the explosion .   No injuries or deaths, but a costly loss, for their only pad has been destroyed.   Amazon was expecting this rocket to take 48 satellites into space on the next launch.  That's now cancelled.   Did you know that there are...

 First, from Time magazine: According to the biblical account in 1 Samuel 17, Goliath was a giant terrorizing Israel and King Saul’s entire army.  David, although much shorter than Goliath, refused the support of King Saul’s heavy armor. He advanced toward the taunting giant Goliath with only his shepherd's staff, a leather sling, and five smooth stones. David killed Goliath by striking him in the forehead with a stone from a sling. With Russia 28 times the size of Ukraine, but around 60% covered in uninhabitable permafrost and not remotely an economic superpower, we may be witnessing a modern remake of this biblical saga. Even more impressive is the fact that David has overcome so many obstacles to this point. Folk tales do some exaggeration, so there is no surety about the size of Goliath. The Hebrew Masoretic Text indicated 9 feet, 9 inches. The ancient Greek Septuagint and Dead Sea Scrolls showed a height of 6 feet, 9 inches. This latter figure seems reasonable. America...

Yesterday I underscored that something was wrong with America. If you read it, sure we have declined here and there.  However, the country, relative to the rest of the world, is actually doing quite well.  My overriding apprehension, actually, had to do with the sanity and morality of the voters. The Supreme Court's support for Donald Trump has another Biden casualty.  In Florida,  Judge Aileen Cannon totally dismissed the classified documents case against Trump . At the Republican National Convention which began in Milwaukee today, Trump indicated that J.D. Vance was his veep running mate.   I predicted this last week .  Trump will give his big speech Thursday night after he is selected as the Republican candidate for the presidency.  If he can stay alive, he is now a close lock to become our 47th President of the United States (PUS). This assassination attempt totally scuttled Biden's strategy against Trump.  Now Joe cannot say much about T...