Harvey G. Cohen

“The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I'm not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in my line of work, they're called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation.” ― Dr. Ellie Arroway in Contact by Carl Sagan

May 1918. Blackstone Hotel Taft checks in and the clerk mentions Roosevelt is eating dinner there. The two hadn't spoken in six years. They ran against each other in 1912, splitting the Republican Party and handing the White House to Woodrow Wilson. The friendship was dead. Taft walked into the dining room anyway. Roosevelt's friends saw him coming and went silent. He turned around. Taft was smiling. Roosevelt jumped up and bear-hugged the man he had once called a "Fathead" with "Brains of a guinea pig". The dining room stood up and applauded. Strangers who had read about the feud for years watched it end in real time. Eight months later, Roosevelt died. At the funeral, Taft stood alone and wept. He later told Roosevelt's sister: "Had he died in a hostile state of mind toward me, I would have mourned the fact all my life. I loved him always and cherish his memory." Don't wait.

Damn Sherrilyn Ifill has Justice Roberts number. Dude has been a racist all his life.

The US has restarted “Project Freedom,” the mission to escort vessels through the contested Strait of Hormuz -WSJ Project Freedom had been suspended earlier this month after Iran responded by attacking the UAE.