From Huffington Post, Monday, February 7, 2022 (story here): “If President Trump runs for reelection, I believe he would defeat Joe Biden, and I don’t want Kamala Harris to have the power as vice president to overturn that election,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who is facing reelection in No[...]
Archive for February, 2022
February 7th, 2022 - 4:15 pm § in Foreign Affairs, Russia
Hey Vlad, you sure about this?
“Intercepted communications … revealed that some Russian officials have worried that a large-scale invasion of Ukraine would be costlier and more difficult than … Putin and other Kremlin leaders realize,” CNN reported on Monday, February 7, 2022, just days before Russia is ex[...]
Going out of business
“Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St. Albans, just north of London, [which] has been in business since 793 AD, … has closed its doors” because of declining business, CNN reported on Monday, February 7, 2022 (read story here). CNN says “Britain’s pub industry was struggling eve[...]
February 7th, 2022 - 3:13 pm § in News Media
Who’s telling the truth about Ottawa truck protesters?
Here’s how U.K.-based tabloid newspaper Daily Mail describes the ongoing trucker protests against Canada’s border vaccine mandate: “Since DailyMail.com arrived in Ottawa last week we have seen no indication of violence or vandalism or any extremist political agenda. In fact, the d[...]
February 6th, 2022 - 8:57 pm § in Politics
GOP answer to child care shortage: Put kids in danger
“Iowa … has one of the nation’s highest percentages of families with working parents who need child care,” Huffington Post says. But like other states, Iowa is struggling with a shortage of providers, which is contributing to a labor shortage by keeping parents at home. The provi[...]
There’s hope for our democracy
The basis of our political system is that we get to choose our leaders. To preserve that right, we must prevent an undemocratic minority faction — which is what today’s GOP is — from getting in a position to overrule the voters. Our existing laws are imperfectly designed for that a[...]
February 5th, 2022 - 7:15 pm § in Misc.
Feathered horse (video)
To find out more about what a “feathered horse” is (the Budweiser Clydesdales are famous examples), go here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
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 [...]