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I will tell you this: If I have planned a vacation of a lifetime with my family, and we all have cleared our calendars, bought our tickets, reserved our rooms, and then an urgent legal matter arises in the litigation, we all have to cancel and reschedule the vacation.

Lot participated in the carousing associated with that life while still thinking himself somewhat above it. He made sure that others paid his admission fee to the Friday night frat parties and Saturday football games, and probably davened at least once a day. Rituals mattered, even if there was little internalization and his heart was not in it.

By now it seems clear that the “impeachment” hearings are a Rorschach test, with Adam Schiff the most notable ink splotch. It is what you want to see. If you hate Trump, everything is impeachable. If you love Trump, everything is impeccable. And regardless of your Trump feelings, everything is imperceptible.

By cowering and backing down, LeBron James publicly conveyed to the Chinese dictatorship that voices in the West will remain silent and that China is free to persecute and murder millions while James and his corporate sponsor, Nike, rake in their respective millions, devoid of conscience.

It is amazing how much utter nonsense and demagoguery has been flying in Israel since the indictments of Prime Minister Netanyahu were announced by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit.

The US State Department has concluded a year-long legal study and analysis, researching international law and consulting legal experts. It has concluded that the Reagan Administration’s policy towards Judea and Samaria is fundamentally legally sound.

Something is going very wrong for the Democrats in their impeachment drama. It was supposed to play out like the Nixon Watergate hearings. Each day would build drama and increase suspense, with new revelations culminating in such a nationwide impact that the president would not even have to be impeached after all. When Nixon read the tea leaves, he resigned.

So we have a long-serving State Department insider who understood the diplomacy game enough to obstinately refuse labeling the Medz Yeghern genocide as a “genocide,” was appointed by Obama to the Ukraine post, and somehow gained a reputation there as badmouthing the new president, Donald Trump. She understood the rules of the game: “[An] Ambassador serves his president and may be recalled anytime and for any reason.”

If Mueller wasted all our time and so much of our money — because, at the end of the day, we suckers are the ones who pay the $25.2 million bill — he did leave behind one lasting contribution. He was the last echo of the boy who cried “wolf” one time too many.

Reality must be faced realistically. Polls do occasionally miss by a mile, and they often underestimate conservative strength, but they usually are somewhat useful in gauging trends and electoral prospects. Clearly, when a poll anticipates a winner within a margin of error, its value is less determinative than when it projects a wide margin. And yet the recent spate of national and battleground-state polls augur well for Trump, even where the numbers show Trump behind.