Well....Donald Trump is not the Devil, as depicted in  The Bible .  However, the results of recent court judgements show that he is, indeed, everything you thought he was, and worse. Key issues and resultant fallouts now become more relevant: Is the Republican Party in mortal danger? Now we know why Nikki Haley continues to run against Trump.  All those lies and cons about losing his 2020 presidential election and weaponization of the Justice Department should be ignored.  Okay, few of his supporters will, but the case is building. He is a judged fraud.  He revealed that and worse when he was once president.  And he will almost surely become the Republican selection to run against Biden. The Supreme Court will probably rule that he will be eligible to do so. However, all that has happened, and more--say, dealing with the matter of democracy--will surely convince that body to indicate that he will not be immune to prosecution in a criminal case.  And, I think, by this summer, if not soo

On February 1 I posted on  WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT UKRAINE?   To quote: There is too much history linked to Ukraine that the thought of their joining the European Union deeply agitates Vladimir Putin. There all kinds of reason why Putin is focused on Ukraine.  Here is one that probably makes the most sense. The current issue of  TIME  magazine has a rather lengthy article by Simon Shuster with a sub-theme,  GREAT WARS SOMETIMES START OVER SMALL OFFENSES .  I can't link you to it because you're not a subscriber.  World War I, for example, was triggered when Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. The story begins in 2004 when Daria Medvedchuk was born in Ukraine.  Her father, Victor, asked a close friend, Vladimir Putin, to christen her in the Orthodox tradition they shared.  The families are close, for they holiday together on the Black Sea and conduct business on the side. About  Viktor Medvedchuk:   Previously in 1990 to 1997 was president of the Bar Association of