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February 5th, 2022 - 6:53 pm § in Politics
RNC captcha
The Republican National Committee unveils a new captcha to authenticate visitors to its website: Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
February 5th, 2022 - 4:36 pm § in Jews, Law and Courts
The second-best place for neo-Nazis
America is a free country, and you can be an obnoxious Nazi hater on a soapbox to your heart’s content, as long as it’s just talk. A gang of these nasties were demonstrating near an Orlando, Florida, shopping plaza on Saturday, January 29, 2022, when a Jewish college student stopped by a[...]
Spending taxes in the abortion fight is a one-way street
Abortion opponents are adamant they don’t want their taxes helping to pay for abortions. That’s behind the Hyde Amendment (details here), which prohibits using federal funds to pay for most abortions (some states, including Washington, allow abortions to be paid for by Medicaid from the [...]
Some states don’t deserve teachers
Even if I were passionate about teaching, and intended to make it a lifetime career, I wouldn’t teach in a state that threatened to throw teachers in jail for teaching kids the facts about how America historically mistreated black people and still has a racism problem. That’s only one of[...]
February 5th, 2022 - 10:41 am § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
What does Trump’s promise to pardon Capitol rioters really mean?
You can take him at his word. A lot of people do. Or you can try to infer his future actions from his past and present actions. Let’s examine those. “‘He could have pardoned some or all of them before he left office between January 6 and January 20 last year,’ defense lawyer[...]
February 5th, 2022 - 1:17 am § in Misc.
Watch flying car take off (video)
The idea has been around for many years, but only now are hybrid car-airplanes coming of age. This interesting promo video shows off the KleinVision AirCar (details here), which was type-certified for flight in January 2022 by the Slovak Transport Authority, but is not yet certified in the U.S. nor [...]