“Here are just a few of Trump’s missteps: He knew how bad the virus was in February, but hid the truth. He leans on US health authorities to put politics before science. He failed to put in place a national testing and tracing system, arguing that testing doesn’t matter much. H[...]
Archive for September, 2020
September 23rd, 2020 - 1:19 am § in Law and Courts
He had it coming
This article is news with not-so-liberal commentary. William Emmett LeCroy (photo), 50, was executed on Tuesday, September 22, 2020, at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, for the 2001 rape and murder of a Georgia nurse he believed had put a hex on him. (Read story here.) LeCroy was a neighb[...]
September 23rd, 2020 - 12:09 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Top photo of 2017
Remember Juli Briskman? She lost her job in 2017 for exercising her First Amendment rights. Two years later, her neighbors rewarded her by electing her to the Loudon County, Virginia, board of supervisors, unseating a Republican in the process. (Read story here) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
I believe her, not him
CNN, September 18, 2020 “Last week the White House was hit by a bombshell: A former top aide to Vice President Mike Pence, who was intimately involved in the administration’s response to the coronavirus, blamed President Trump for mishandling the crisis and causing unnecessary deaths. Th[...]
September 22nd, 2020 - 5:40 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Rogue candidate hires rogue operator for rogue campaign
Kanye West has hired “a secretive consulting firm … run by a man with a long history of controversial work for Republicans,” CNN reported on Tuesday, September 22, 2020. Nathan Sproul isn’t as well known as some other GOP rogue operatives, e.g. Roger Stone and[...]
Will Red America secede?
In this essay, a liberal journalist asks a conservative intellectual probing questions about whether America has a future. I’ll start with my own caveat: No one, not even the smartest and best educated among us, knows the future with certainty. We who read about history quickly realize that ev[...]
September 22nd, 2020 - 10:45 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Is Texas in play?
The last Democratic presidential candidate to carry Texas was Jimmy Carter in 1976. But political analysts now say “it’s only a matter of time before Texas becomes a battleground state.” That’s primarily for two reasons. One, the state is urbanizing; and two, Hispanics soon will [...]
September 22nd, 2020 - 9:15 am § in Politics
Doug Jones thinks he can win
This article contains news with liberal commentary. It’s practically an article of faith among Democrats their party will lose the seat occupied by Doug Jones, reducing their haul of Senate seats this year by one. What polling exists tends to reinforce that belief. But Jones, despite represe[...]
September 22nd, 2020 - 8:00 am § in Humor
How to send an enemy occupying army packing
Simple. Starve ’em. Of broadband. No broadband, no HBO, stock market news, or porn. After a month or two of that they’ll pack up and leave. All it takes is an old analog TV set that works. The technique has been tested and proven to work. Moreover, the device can be concealed in an ordin[...]
September 22nd, 2020 - 2:40 am § in Misc.
THE-Ave Challenge
A. Marilyn Monroe B. Betty White C. Barbara Bush D. Anne Lindbergh E. Leni Riefenstahl[...]