October 7, 2022 The War Zone:  President Biden speaking yesterday about Vladimir Putin and the Ukraine War said “the prospect of Armageddon” is the highest it’s been since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.   With his forces in retreat, …

Unfriended: In a lawsuit with potentially enormous impact, the Federal Trade Commission and 48 states sued yesterday to break up Facebook, accusing the social network of becoming a monopoly by buying up or squashing competitors.    Federal and state regulators say in separate …

The Ukraine Gambit:  Two of President Trump’s envoys to Ukraine tried to get that country’s new president to commit to investigating Trump’s political rivals, The NY Times reports according to sources and documents.   Trump has become fascinated with what are so far just …

Undersight and Oversight:Special Counsel Robert Mueller wrote a letter to the attorney general objecting to William Barr’s summary of his 448-page report, in particular his conclusion that President Trump did not commit obstruction of justice.   Mueller wrote a letter on …