An animal rights group has petitioned the Pentagon to end the practice of Marines and soldiers decapitating snakes and consuming their blood during survival training at the annual Cobra Gold exercise in Thailand.
Former Army Secretary Eric Fanning on Pete Buttigieg s Role in History February 04 2021 1:31 PM EST
When I finally got the news that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg became the first gay Cabinet member in history to be confirmed by the United States Senate, I was surprised at my reaction. I didn’t feel the elation that I supposed would occur; instead, it was perhaps a feeling of wanting more?
Granted, we knew this moment was coming when, on December 16 of last year, then President-elect Biden designated the-then simply titled “Mayor Pete” to be the first gay Cabinet member (I don’t want to hear about the former Acting Director of the DNI.). When Biden won the election, we all suspected that Mayor Pete would have a prominent role in the administration. After all, he was one of the most impressive candidates running for the Democratic nomination last year.
David Goodfriend could have chosen much larger cities in which to place the next installment of his growing business.
St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Cleveland, New Orleans and Milwaukee were all available. Instead, he chose his hometown of Madison.
Heâs hoping a successful court fight will allow his business to remain here and continue to expand to other cities around the country.
Locast is in litigation with the NBC, Fox, CBS and ABC over whether it can legally stream the signals of the network s local affiliates, like WMTV-TV in Madison. BARRY ADAMS, STATE JOURNAL
Goodfriend, 51, a Madison West High School graduate, is the founder of Locast, a service that streams over-the-air television stations to computers, phones and tablets via the internet. By using a provision in federal communications law that allows nonprofits to re-transmit broadcast signals without paying the television stations, Locast is now available in some of the largest television marke
A fascinating and somewhat disconcerting article appeared Saturday in Vanity Fair online.
Adam Ciralski. a contributing editor who was an attorney with the CIA and a staffer on the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration, published an article based on two weeks he spent embedded with Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller, and his two top aides, Chief of Staff Kash Patel and Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Ezra Cohen. Ciralsky inquired about embedding on January 4, and because of his background, he didn’t need any kind of long background investigation to be cleared. He settled into his embed on January 5, the day before the Capitol riots.