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March 18th, 2022 - 10:44 pm § in Politics
“Hillbilly Elegy” author trailing in Ohio Senate polls
J. D. Vance (profile here), the Tucker Carlson-endorsed candidate in Ohio’s GOP Senate primary, is struggling in polls. Meanwhile, the frontrunners nearly came to blows at a debate (story here). Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Oklahoma house calls
Excerpted from E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America’s Greatest Unsung Heroes, by James Patterson and Matt Everson (get it here), at p. 246: “We get a lot of calls to deal with emergency situations in the rural parts of Oklahoma, where a lot of people live off the grid, without TV or ru[...]
March 18th, 2022 - 8:47 pm § in Politics
Meet California’s next (?) secretary of state
Probably not. But in the category of “this is a free country, and anyone can run for anything,” this one’s a doozy. Meet the candidate in the video below. Go here for a short video in which she explains why and how she decided to run. Go here to find out what elections would be [&h[...]
Trucker convoy shows its real colors
They call themselves the “People’s Convoy,” but they don’t represent us. They’re a fringe group of far-right, pro-Trump racists who’ve hijacked the American flag and term “People” for a barely-disguised white supremacy movement. On Friday, March 18, 20[...]
The GOP’s extremism problem
America’s democracy has always been rowdy, its politics can get ugly, and both parties have fringe elements. Our system has survived that, and often thrived despite it, so it’s not the outliers, per se, that threaten the system. It’s when an entire party goes bonkers. That’s [...]
March 18th, 2022 - 2:17 pm § in Politics
Ex-cop pleads guilty to Capitol riot charges
Jacob Fracker, an ex-cop and National Guardsman from Virginia, pleaded guilty to a felony on Friday, March 18, 2022, NBC News reported here. Fracker admitted he and a co-worker, Thomas Robertson, “stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 in an attempt to block the certification of Joe Biden’s presi[...]