I am not in favor of the student loan forgiveness for a lot of reasons. I understand the pros and cons even though i don't agree with the pros. But the one question I can't get answered: Why now? You are on a roll Mr. President. November is coming up. You couldn't put this off until December? Also the top five worst decisions made by past presidents.

Busy two weeks in politics. Courageous Liz Cheney lost to a Trump outliar (that is a misspelling on purpose - get it). I would love to see her run for president. Donald Trump gets raided. Yes it may have some blowback, but it had to be done. And some of the amazing foods served at the Iowa State Fair.

Joe Biden has put together a string of significant successes on the foreign, domestic, and financial front. Now it is time for dems to take a page from Donald Trump. Everything that passes is the best, the greatest ever, something that no other president has ever done in the history of the universe. Let's do it!

Is the Schumer / Manchin deal a DONE deal? We haven't heard from Krysten Sinema yet, but I don't think it is likely that she would be the sole torpedo to the latest version of BBB. But we shall see. Also, we lost two great ones - Bill Russell and Nichelle Nichols.

Thursday's January 6 committee hearing was more of the same: Donald Trump played the fiddle while Rome burned. But is the committee simply preaching to the converted? Also, with the summer in full swing, what were the four worst heat waves of all time?

Yes there is one more hearing scheduled, but I thought i would do a wrap up because i think anything else will just be piling on what we already know. Also, five great festivals you should put on your bucket list! Why festivals? Because I went to the famous Yarmouth Clam Festival this year after it was cancelled for three years.

Reverberations throughout the US, if not the world. Will it change the November election? Have women become (once again) second class citizens in our country? Also, a few words about the gun legislation and the January 6 committee. Finally, the top five Super Court justices of all time.

The House January 6 committee investigating the insurrection of 2021 went live during prime time on Thursday. Here are my thoughts about it, plus a few comments about gun law legislation.

It was almost ten years ago that I said if the slaughter of children at Sandy Hook could not precipitate change in our gun laws nothing ever will. Now we have another slaughter of children. Can't we stop this insanity? Can't we have some change? When is enough enough?

Going to Greece can teach you a lot about human nature and the warlike characteristics of the human male. It may be small comfort to know we have always been like this. It is likely we will continue to be until we destroy ourselves.