No Ruling on Gay Marriage from Supreme Court, Pentagon Responds to North Korea, Israeli Army Objects to Foreign Ministry’s Use of Bar Refaeli: P.M. Links

• There aren’t many clues on how the Supreme
  Court might
  rule on gay marriage after hearing oral arguments related to
  California’s Proposition 8 today.


• Some bars in Washington and Colorado are
  embracing marijuana use even as its legal status when smoked in
  “public places” remains unsettled in both states.


• The Pentagon responds to the
  latest saber rattling from North Korea by pointing out the U.S.
  was
  ready for “any contingency.”


• David Petraeus is
  expected to apologize for the affair that ended his CIA tenure,
  the beginning of a “public comeback.”


• An Egyptian-born Italian journalist who converted from Islam to
  Catholicism
  says he is leaving the Church over its “soft” stance on his
  former religion.


• The Israeli army
  opposes the foreign ministry’s decision to hire supermodel Bar
  Refaeli to promote the country's tech sector, because she’s a draft
  dodger and thus a bad role model for youth.


• The discovery of the Higgs Boson could help
  explain how the infinite stack of turtles will topple at the
  end of the universe.

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