MAR-A-LAGO — In what historians may one day record as “Operation Epic Fury and the Art of Strategic Face-palm,” President Donald J. Trump has apparently decided that war with Iran is the best way to launch his long-touted regime-change renaissance idea — which he once described as “something like plucking weeds from a garden, except the weeds have ballistic missiles.” In a weekend announcement that fully flipped his earlier “no foreign wars!” campaign — or maybe just didn’t read it — Trump revealed that the U.S. and Israel had launched an extensive strike campaign on Iran, targeting leadership, missile sites, and a few things the average American can’t pronounce. The president proudly declared that Iran’s Supreme Leader had been killed and that this action would somehow lead to a peaceful new order (and possibly better golf weather in Tehran). “This is not reckless foreign entanglement,” Trump said from the comfort of Mar-a-Lago, surrounded by beach chairs and a golf cart that h...
In a bold stand for what organizers are calling “canine constitutional liberty,” a new nonprofit has been formed in Alabama with a singular mission: to liberate dogs from what it describes as the “tyranny of routine vaccination.” The group, officially registered as Paws for Medical Freedom , is led by founder Billy Joe Bob, who announced the initiative while leaning against a pickup truck adorned with a bumper sticker that read, “Don’t Tread on Me (Unless You’re a Squirrel).” “Looky here, you don’t see no goddamn dogs with rabies who are owned outright,” Billy Joe Bob explained at a press conference held between a Tractor Supply and a Waffle House. “There may be some dogs that are wild. You know, ferret dogs. These might give off some rabies. But not the ones that are owned outright by law. So why the hell should we have to bow our knee to Big Pharma?” Supporters nodded gravely, some clutching leashes, others clutching printouts from websites that end in “.truth.” ...