A GOP candidate for Wisconsin attorney general says she’ll prosecute doctors for murder if they refuse to prescribe ivermectin to dying Covid-19 patients (read story here). Karen Mueller (photo, left), who runs a solo practice in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, also has brought lawsuits against mas[...]
Archive for March, 2022
Graham flip-flops on Supreme Court nominee he previously voted for
When Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) ran for president in 2016, he was one of my favorites in the GOP field. I especially liked his military background, and thought, “Hmm, here’s a principled Republican I maybe could vote for.” Boy, was I wrong then. Since then, his stature has shrunk t[...]
Is Tulsi Gabbard a Kremlin agent? Russian TV says she is
Tulsi Gabbard (photo, left; bio here), who was elected to Hawaii’s legislature and then Congress as a Democrat, and sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, has long been something of an oddball, not least for her frequent pro-Russia comments. This came into sharper focus after Russ[...]
Are tanks obsolete?
“Tanks have ruled land warfare for more than 80 years,” a Military.com article says (here). But that era may be coming to a close. Tanks made their first battlefield appearance in World War 1. After initial issues of mechanical reliability and tactics were worked out, they achieved some [...]
Hubble finds a very old star
It’s the most distant star astronomers have ever seen, “a super-hot, super-bright giant that formed nearly 13 billion years ago at the dawn of the cosmos,” about 900 million years after the Big Bang, Huffington Post says (read story here), adding, “But this luminous blue star[...]
March 29th, 2022 - 8:36 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Clarence Thomas’ real scandal
This week, a federal judge who ordered the release of Jan. 6 emails wrote that Trump “more likely than not” engaged in criminal conduct when he tried to stop Congress’ certification of the 2022 election (see story here). Also this week, it emerged there’s a 7-hour gap in the [...]
Ukraine issues new postage stamp
Read the story behind it — who designed it and the event it commemorates — here and here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
March 29th, 2022 - 1:42 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
GOP legislators won’t impeach GOP attorney general who killed a man and thought he hit a deer
South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, a Republican, killed a man walking on a road Saturday night, September 12, 2020, while driving home from a fundraiser, apparently scrolling through his phone instead of watching the road. Ravnsborg left the scene, called police. and reported hitting a �[...]