Blog Heap of Links for the day 13 June 2018

…On this day in 1997 a jury sentenced Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. He was executed on June 11, 2001.…

…two enemy nations that have been in a state of war for 65 years (Panmunjom was a cease fire), with the rhetoric ramped up to eleventy-leven over the past 18 months nevertheless put that aside and at the very least sat down to meet face to face. In my view, from a political and diplomatic standpoint, that alone made the meeting an unqualified success. Now what remains is the question of next steps.…