Republicans hoping to capitalize on public frustration with rising gasoline and home heating costs are peddling falsehoods. In the U.S., gasoline, diesel, and natural gas prices were already rising before Russia invaded Ukraine as demand surged from people commuting and traveling again. This would h[...]
Archive for March, 2022
March 8th, 2022 - 1:29 am § in Foreign Affairs, Russia
The saga of an American journalist’s hasty departure from Russia
She’s out now, having caught a last-minute flight to Istanbul, Turkey — an exit gateway for many people fleeing Russia right now. Molly Schwartz was there on an exchange program, her visit cut short by Putin’s war against Ukraine. She says while Ukrainian refugees are “leavin[...]
March 7th, 2022 - 11:56 pm § in Law and Courts
Going after “Stop the Steal” lawyers
“First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” — Shakespeare, Henry VI Being a lawyer, I’m not in favor of that, and anyway it doesn’t mean what you think. (For what it does mean, go here.) However, I do support disciplining the “Stop the Steal” lawy[...]
March 7th, 2022 - 11:32 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
It took 106 years to make lynching a federal hate crime
Thousands of Americans — one study puts the figure over 4,000 — were lynched between the 1880s and 1960s. About three-fourths of them were black. Lynchings were widely used to enforce white supremacy, especially in (but not confined to) the South, and often were carried out with extreme [...]
It looks like Trump’s chief of staff committed voting fraud
Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, voted by absentee ballot in the 2020 election. This is where he was registered to vote. He and his wife have never owned it. She rented it — apparently several years earlier — but the owner at the time says she stayed only one or two nights and[...]
March 6th, 2022 - 11:06 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
The “stolen election” cult isn’t crazy, it’s dangerous
“Last summer, Idaho officials received demand after demand to investigate extraordinary claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, NBC News reports (here). “In a state where … Trump won by more than 30 points, people claimed a vast conspiracy cheated the f[...]
March 6th, 2022 - 10:19 pm § in Politics
“We have demands,” but don’t know what they are
Here in America (unlike Russia), protesting is legal and legitimate (to most folks, anyway, with some exceptions). But some causes are more compelling and popular than others. Also, it helps to have one. The so-called “People’s Convoy” mimicking Canada’s truckers’ prote[...]
March 6th, 2022 - 9:20 pm § in Health
Most Americans believe Covid-19 is nearly over, but is it?
You really can’t answer “yes,” because Covid-19 hasn’t gone away, and isn’t likely to. But most experts, “with some reservations,” think “in the US and much of Europe, the most destructive waves of Covid-19 are” behind us. (See article here.) In [...]
March 6th, 2022 - 8:24 pm § in Russia
Ukraine has a new patron saint
Read story here. Meanwhile, Putin’s probably the world’s most hated man, and what good’s a fancy yacht if you can’t go anywhere because you’re a wanted criminal? Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
March 6th, 2022 - 1:48 pm § in Russia
This video shows where Russia is losing tanks in Ukraine
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