For some of us, life is getting better and better.  To begin, the  Hamas released two American hostages  from the Chicago area, Judith Raanan and her 17-year old daughter Natalie, said to be for humanitarian reasons.  One reason was because the mother was in poor health.  She looked well in the photo on the left. Three strikes, and Rep. Jim Jordan is out as House speaker.  He lost more votes again.  Of course, this means life is getting better for people like me, not Republicans, who have been clueless for 17 days, and continue so.  A next vote might occur next Tuesday.  There is now a smorgasbord of potential applicants, who need to announce so before Monday.  They are all floundering and angry at each other.  Oh, they also were told to blame the Democrats for this sorry condition of their body, for all of them, plus only 8 House Republicans, caused this stalemate. Yesterday, I reported that former legal advisor to Donald Trump, Sidney Powell, worked out a plea deal with Georgia offic

  First, noteworthy topics of the day that will become newsworthy: The  Supreme Court  announced a unanimous ruling that, while very narrow in application, opened the floodgates for college student-athletes getting paid like professionals.  Essentially, the NCAA was admonished.  States like Alabama, Florida and Texas are close to allowing students to sign endorsements, etc. Medicaid membership is now up to 80 million, a record high. The Democrats won over Senator Joe Manchin, but need to also convince ten Republicans to pass the  voting rights legislation .  It will, of course, fail, but that was expected anyway, and will only further plague Republicans when they re-run for election in 2022. The Tokyo Summer Olympics begin in about a month, and will close on 8 August 2021.  More than 11,000 athletes will perform from 205 nations in 33 sports and 50 disciplines. Tokyo beat Istanbul to host. It's still officially called the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. The new national stadium was bui