First, the news of the day. Al Jazeera  says excessive U.S. demands led to failure of talks. BBC  indicated that oil prices are rising?   Are they? Checking American WTI crude for the past month, the price seems to have recently stabilized in the mid $95/barrel range. Interesting that European Brent Crude prices are now around $12/barrel higher than the WTI price . The other newsworthy item is that the  2-hour marathon threshold was finally attained, twice. The first marathon over the official distance was won by American   Johnny Hayes   at the   1908 Summer Olympics , with a time of 2:55:18.4. [ 17 ] This distance of 26 miles plus 385 yards was established in 1921. Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya lowered the record in the 2011 Boston Marathon to 2:03:02, followed by countryman Moses Mosoc in 2:03:06. In  2019, Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge ran a specially tailored race in Vienna called the .50 Challenge, arranged by British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe....

Before getting into Pearl's Ashes on this nostalgia Tuesday, a couple of Trump matters. Federal judges are blocking most of Donald Trump's seemingly unconstitutional edicts. The  White House is looking into impeaching any judge that rules against Trump . The House first impeaches this judge, and the Senate needs to convict. However, two-thirds of Senators need to vote to convict, so this won't happen anytime soon . This has happened 15 times in our history, the most recent, G. Thomas Porteous Jr. in 2010. Trump will keep appealing, leaving it to the Supreme Court to decide.  If this body routinely supports the President, we will have a serious Constitutional Crisis.  Democracy will fall to Dictatorship. If Hamas doesn't return Israeli hostages by Saturday afternoon, "the   ceasefire   will be terminated," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday in a statement following a meeting with his security cabinet. Netanyahu's statement comes after  P...