Wednesday Reads

 An arrest has been made in connection with the pileup in the first stage of the Tour de France.

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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court lets Bill Cosby off  the hook.  He will likely spend what is left of his life a free man.

The Cosby decision basically decided in favor of the Fifth Amendment. In the civil case involving Cosby, the Fifth Amendment doesn't apply, and he was compelled to give a deposition where he admitted to committing the assaults. The prosecutor at the time said he would not prosecute Cosby based on the fact he would have to give a deposition in the civil case given the Fifth Amendment prohibition against self-incrimination in criminal cases. The succeeding prosecutor went against that promise and prosecuted Cosby anyway, using the deposition and other witnesses. Cosby incriminated himself. In the end, Cosby is a free man, but he is ruined because he is on the record to having admitted he raped women.

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Obituary:  Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, 88, has died.

The pugnacious businessman, bureaucrat and former lawmaker helped drag victims out of the burning Pentagon on September 11, 2001. The al Qaeda attacks heralded the War on Terror and years of foreign entanglements that he directed and that ultimately ended his political career when they went sour.

Rumsfeld died surrounded by his family in "his beloved Taos, New Mexico," according to a family statement. No cause of death was immediately provided.

A long-time associate of former Vice President Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld made a shock return to the Cabinet when he was named to run the Pentagon by the inexperienced new President George W. Bush, who took office in January 2001.

He had previously served in the role for President Gerald Ford in the 1970s and history will remember him as the youngest and the second-oldest defense secretary.

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The House has voted to set up a commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection.  Two Republicans joined 220 Democrats in the vote.