China’s ongoing efforts to seize the South China Sea tend to fly under the radar because they’re piecemeal, incremental, and low-key. But their cumulative effect over time has major impact. The upshot is that China ignores international law and other nations’ rights, and asserts ra[...]
Archive for March, 2021
Trump lawyer’s libel defense: “I tell such big whoppers no reasonable person would believe me”
Sidney Powell, a Trump campaign lawyer, is being sued by a voting machine company for defamation. After Trump lost, Powell (photo, left) claimed Dominion Voting systems’s voting machines stole the election for Biden. The election wasn’t stolen, there’s no evidence backing up her cl[...]
Don’t shop here, please
An Ohio coffee shop owner doesn’t want Democrats or gays in his shop. Adam Newbold (photo, left), who owns C4 Coffee in Lisbon, Ohio, where the paper drinking straw was invented in 1888, says, “If you voted for Joe Biden, don’t buy our coffee, it’s not for you. If you believe there was [...]
March 22nd, 2021 - 4:22 pm § in Politics
GOP legislators legalize refusing medical care to gays
Republican legislators in Arkansas have passed a bill that “would allow a vast array of healthcare workers including doctors and pharmacists, hospitals, and even [medical and nursing] students to deny service to LGBTQ people or anyone else for any reason, including religious or moral, if doing[...]
March 22nd, 2021 - 12:20 am § in Health
The Covid-19 variants (chart)
Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
A brief history of U.S. politics since 1960
Excerpted from a Huffington Post article (read it here): “The last time Democrats were able to make far-reaching changes to the regulatory and welfare states was in the 1960s, under President Lyndon Johnson. The last two Democratic presidents, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, had aspirations to [...]
March 21st, 2021 - 1:40 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Did Trump stop migrants?
Nope. Migration into the U.S. increased under Trump. For more about immigration under Trump, and more charts, go to the BBC story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
March 21st, 2021 - 12:45 pm § in Misc.
Bad shot
A Virginia cop who can’t hit a cow-sized target at close range apparently shot his partner instead. The cow escaped from a stockyard (wouldn’t you, if you were the cow?) near Harrisonburg, Virginia, and wound up near a 7-11 store. Police were called after the cow was injured during ranch[...]
2020 U.S. House elections: Where red and blue seats are
This map, of course, doesn’t tell you where the voters are. Some districts are nearly evenly split. It only tells you where the majorities are. (Source: Wikipedia) (Click on map to enlarge) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: When The Catholic Church Fails
If I were do it over again, I likely would have left Catholic Church and attempted some other spiritual discipline. It’s not the sex abuse scandal or the numerous sins of the past. I believe in repentance and forgiveness. It’s the fact that the “orthodox” laity, the New Evang[...]