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November 19th, 2020 - 12:35 pm § in Law and Courts

Kenosha killer used $1,200 stimulus check to buy AR-15

Teenaged vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse, 17 (mugshot, left), who is awaiting trial for shooting three people in Kenosha, Wisconsin, told the Washington Post he bought the gun “with money from a government stimulus check, using a friend to make the purchase because he is too young to buy a firearm.[...]

November 19th, 2020 - 1:16 am § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts, Politics

The real aim of Trump’s lawsuits

Trump’s baseless lawsuits are getting laughed out of the courts. His allegations of voter fraud collapse under the facts (as in this case). He’s paying big bucks for recounts he can’t possibly win. Why? It’s all part of a coordinated scheme to block or slow election certifica[...]

November 19th, 2020 - 12:48 am § in America, Donald Trump, Politics

Why Trump lost the election

Excerpted from a Time magazine article (read it here): “Few other Presidents in modern history so inflamed the nation.” “Trump’s pride didn’t just precede his fall, it precipitated it. … Trump thought he could wish away a deadly virus. He dismissed his legions of crit[...]

November 19th, 2020 - 12:16 am § in Misc., Politics

This will be Pelosi’s final 2 years as Speaker

House Democrats have voted to give Nancy Pelosi another 2-year term as Speaker, but this will be her last, even if her party retains a majority in the 2022 midterm elections, The Hill reported on Wednesday, November 18, 2020. The Speaker is chosen by the party with a House majority. Read story here.[...]

November 18th, 2020 - 6:40 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics

73% of Republicans think Trump was cheated of victory

A poll conducted for Vox magazine on November 16, 2020, shows that nearly three-quarters of all Republican voters think Biden owes his election victory to voting fraud (read story here). How else to explain Trump’s loss? Well, maybe 79.3 million of us couldn’t bring ourselves to vote for[...]

November 18th, 2020 - 5:59 pm § in Misc.

An owl of a story

A worker found a tiny owl (left) nestled in the branches of a 75-foot Norway spruce that was cut down and hauled 170 miles to the Rockefeller Center Plaza to be a Christmas tree (below), NBC News reported on Wednesday, November 18, 2020. The hungry and thirsty owl, dubbed “Rockefeller,” [...]

November 18th, 2020 - 5:21 pm § in Donald Trump, Hypocrisy, Law and Courts

Jenna Ellis is America’s most subversive lawyer

What Jenna Ellis, Trump’s senior legal adviser and mastermind of efforts to overturn his election loss, said about him a few years ago: “idiot” “boorish and arrogant” “bully” “disgusting” “not a real Christian” “not American” “American fascist” “cannot be trusted�[...]

November 18th, 2020 - 12:24 pm § in Health, Politics

America’s FreeDUMBest states

… are, hands down, the Dakotas — America’s most intransigent mask and social distancing holdouts. (Source of charts here; mask mandate map here.) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

November 18th, 2020 - 12:00 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics

Trump can’t do arithmetic

What Trump tweeted: “In Detroit, there are FAR MORE VOTES THAN PEOPLE. Nothing can be done to cure that giant scam. I win Michigan! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2020″ The data (here): Number of registered voters in Detroit: 504,714 Number of votes cast in Detroit:[...]

November 18th, 2020 - 12:58 am § in Health

Why every state should mandate masks

Read article here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]