During the fall campaign, President Biden promised to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen.” Those weren’t empty words. He immediately fired the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel and deputy general counsel, both Trump appointees. On Sunday, February 28, [...]
Archive for March, 2021
China doesn’t have all the world’s “rare earths”
“Rare earth” elements are metals that figure prominently in “green energy” technologies because of their use in electronics and electric motors (some are highly magnetic). For technical details, read Wikipedia article here. “Rare earths” aren’t actually rare[...]
March 2nd, 2021 - 12:59 pm § in Donald Trump, Misc.
When seeing isn’t believing
What you can do with Photoshop: Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
March 2nd, 2021 - 12:31 pm § in Politics
Photo of the day
‘Stage design conspiracies are outrageous,’ head of group that organizes conference says after social media users note resemblance to Odal Rune “After viewers noted that the stage at the CPAC conference was shaped like a Nazi symbol, the organizer of the conservative political conference s[...]
March 2nd, 2021 - 12:01 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
What’s wrong with this picture?
Read more idiocy here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
The Supreme Court’s next big voting rights case
In 2013, when the Supreme Court struck down the pre-clearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act by a 5-4 vote along ideological lines, Chief Justice Roberts, who wrote the opinion, said the VRA could prevent racially discriminatory voting laws through the act’s Section 2, which laws that pla[...]
Why a wealth tax may be a bad idea
“A slew of Democrats on Capitol Hill” including Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have “proposed a 3% total annual tax on wealth exceeding $1 billion” and 2% on $50 million to $1 billion, The Hill reported on Monday, March 1, 2021. Read story here. The aim of the[...]