But first, tidbits about Juneteenth ( today is a national holiday, and tomorrow will be the first day of summer ) and the Israel-Iran War. Time  magazine agrees with my  Tuesday posting  that, Juneteenth or not,  the struggle for civil rights still continues . President Donald Trump has said his decision to join Israel on strikes against Iran will wait for two weeks. He  says Iran needs some time to decide for itself if it really wants to be decimated .  Fat chance that they will agree to stop trying to become a nuclear power.  And, by the way, there are now nine of them:  US, Russia, China, France, UK, Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea. The Gerald Ford Task Force has not left Norfolk, Virginia yet, and will probably arrive in the Mediterranean in just about two weeks. Trump seems to be facing some MAGA backlash.  Important elements don't want to join a foreign war.  Yet, most probably would also like to see Iran drop their nuclear...

Two more Trump matters.  To no one's surprise, Robert F. Kennedy was confirmed this morning as his Secretary of Health and Human Resources.  All Democrats and Republican Senator Mitch McConnell were the only no votes.  Will this become the worst cabinet in all of history?  In his first term,  Donald Trump already was selected as the worst president of the USA .   From  BCTV : The Trump cabinet is receiving a lot of attention lately-most of it bad. The details vary, but much of the unwelcome spotlight focuses on the quality of the cabinet – or lack thereof.  This is the cabinet Trump himself called “by far the highest IQ of any Cabinet ever assembled.”  Others, less kind perhaps, have branded it “the worst cabinet in American history.”  Individual cabinet members have been proclaimed, “dumb,” “stupid,” “illiterate,” “incompetent,” “moronic,” and panoply of other less than complimentary terms . Also, the  Washington Post  ag...