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THE DOCTOR IS IN - Faux-economics gurus, faux-taxpayer experts, and faux-students rights spokesmen and "thought leaders" are weighing in on how wonderful (or dangerous) President Biden's student loan forgiveness program is. 

ACCORDING TO LIZ - “A country that was founded on the principles of free speech, free press, and the freedom of religion — all rights tied inexorably to words — is fast becoming an illiterate nation.”  – from the website of David Baldacci’s WishYouWellFoundation.org

GUEST COMMENTARY - As in Sophocles’s tragedy Oedipus Rex, we are witnessing a generational drama in which inheritors kill their proverbial father to marry their mother, in this case Mother Earth.

GUEST COMMENTARY - Right wing Israeli politicians such as former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and even centrist politicians like caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid have fulminated against any US renewal of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Do we want to build a wall across the northern border to keep America isolated? 

THE VIEW FROM HERE - The number of White Supremacists is tiny. 

THE DOCTOR IS IN - Yes, President Biden surged again from the political center to the Left, and proved that it was not the legacy Joe Biden he campaigned on in 2020 who won but rather his former opponent Bernie Sanders.

THE DOC IS IN - When an NPR/Ipsos poll reports that a majority of Americans support the term "invasion" to describe the situation at our southern border, it doesn't bode well for future Congressional or Presidential races. 

ACCORDING TO LIZ - One out of every six children in the United States has a developmental disability. One in every 45 has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.  What gives? 

GUEST COMMENTARY - The Democrats are celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act over unified Republican opposition, claiming that the legislation is a historic breakthrough. Sadly, it's not.

THE VIEW FROM HERE -The political strategy of both political parties is the same – non-stop lying about everything all the time. 

INFLATION WATCH - Inflation cooled off and remained unchanged during the month of July, providing President Joe Biden and vulnerable Democrats a reason to celebrate ahead of the midterms.

GUEST COMMENTARY - I am starting a contest and asking for nominations for a list of THE 10 MOST DANGEROUS PEOPLE IN AMERICA.

HISTORY REPEATS - I am standing atop a 100-foot-high temple mound, the largest known earthwork in the Americas built by prehistoric peoples.

GUEST COMMENTARY - Another week, another scandal, but the latest — the August 8 FBI “raid” on former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida — looks set for a run of a month or more.

GUEST COMMENTARY - Recent episodes of purposeful and accidental truth-telling brought to my mind the latest verbal lapse by George W. Bush, the president who hustled this country into war in Afghanistan and Iraq after the 9/11 attacks.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - Maybe Congress thinks we're just stupid, and maybe we simply ARE just as stupid as they think we are.

HOUSING CRISIS - Recently an op-ed appeared in the neoliberal, Hearst-owned San Francisco Chronicle that proclaimed, “Yimbyism is as progressive as it gets.”

ACCORDING TO LIZ - One day after a Proud Boys Trump supporter tried to break into an FBI building in Ohio and died after fleeing and shooting at the police pursuing him, the Republican messaging was… you can’t trust the FBI. 

ACCORDING TO LIZ - “Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes, disrespects sacred cows or other such entities. 

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema were not able to tank the Inflation Reduction Act which the Senate passed last weekend, but they sure haven’t helped reduce inflation.