The Australian wildfires may have already obliterated the habitat for several endangered marsupials. Those individuals that survive may starve, or have no place to nest.

And that is not to mention the species that lived in small areas of the forest and had not yet been discovered by science.

Conservation of endangered species is mostly a matter of preserving their habitat. When most of the habitat burns, it takes many years to make any more.

Two Texas thugs shot black driver Schaston Hodge almost to bits because he drove away instead of stopping.

Maybe he did that because he was scared of being framed. Maybe he was afraid of being caught with something illegal. If so, it surely was not a capital offense.

*The United States' Assassination of Iranian Military Leader Violates International Law.*

Two US officials that got intelligence briefings about the assassination of Soleimani say that the information didn't add up to a justification for an act of war.

The numskull has given the Shi'ites of Iraq and Iran a martyr to unite them against the US.

The assassination of General Soleimani brought hundreds of thousands of Iranians to hold rallies of support for him, and hostility to the US.

This should not surprise anyone. Many Iranians criticize government policies and want more freedom, but they will not stand for other countries to attack their country. The idea that the US might give them freedom, as it says it has done to Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador and Bolivia, does not appeal.

Interest rates are so low that businesses are borrowing to pay dividends on their stock, rather than investing. If interest rates ever rise, such that they can't pay their enormous debts, it could cause a collapse.