Liberal justice Stephen Breyer, who turns 84 this year, has either decided to take it easy or bowed to pressure to vacate his Supreme Court seat while Biden still has the Senate votes to replace him with another liberal. It’s not 100% sure a Biden pick couldn’t be confirmed if Democrats [...]
Archive for January, 2022
January 25th, 2022 - 7:49 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Statue
This statue depicting a slain female partisan is a war memorial in Venice, Italy. See story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
62% of GOPers are Putin fans
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll has found that 62% of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents think Putin is “a stronger leader” than Biden. A former CIA station chief who ran operations in Russia isn’t having it. “Shame on them,” he says. “That’s incredibly, incredibly myopi[...]
Oath Keepers armed themselves for war at the U.S. Capitol
“A day before the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, people from three different states wheeled cart after cart laden with weapons and ammunition through an otherwise unremarkable Comfort Inn Ballston hotel located in Virginia, just a stone’s throw from the Pentagon,” Military.com s[...]
The world’s biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons is right under Seattle’s nose
At least, that’s what this article says: “Bangor, Washington, now houses the largest single nuclear weapons site in the world … holding roughly 25% of the United States’ 9,962 nuclear warheads.” Bangor, of course, is the home base of America’s ballistic-missile submar[...]
We’re in the silly season now
Election-year campaigns are called the “silly season” because that’s when normally irrational politicians go completely over-the-top bonkers. There’s an election later this year, and we must be in silly season now. Case in point: Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), a friend of Trump, who[...]
January 24th, 2022 - 7:10 pm § in Misc.
How not to plow a highway
“A snowplow driver wreaked havoc Sunday on the Ohio Turnpike, hurling heavy snow across the median that led to multiple collisions resulting in at least 12 injuries and more than 40 damaged vehicles,” Cox Media reported on Monday, January 24, 2022. Read story here and watch video below. [...]
Biden’s latest gaffe
“President Biden was caught on a hot mic Monday appearing to call Fox News reporter Peter Doocy a “stupid son of a bitch” in response to a question asked at the start of a White House event on lowering the prices of consumer goods,” AOL News reported on Monday, January 24, 20[...]
Cancel culture in Florida
“Woke” Republicans are trying to make it a criminal offense to discuss racial inequality in Florida, although the First Amendment could make that complicated. However, a lot of times, a chilling effect will be enough. That apparently was the case when a Florida school district “can[...]
January 24th, 2022 - 4:10 pm § in Donald Trump, Humor
How to lead by example
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