Charles Franklin Barnes Jr., 64 (left), and Jay Richard Ketcik (right), 63, are white, male, Republican, and live in a notoriously pro-Trump Florida retirement community. Both intentionally voted multiple times in the 2020 election. They got pretrial diversion, which means their records will be wipe[...]
Archive for April, 2022
April 13th, 2022 - 5:35 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
One riot ruined his life
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the incendiary Georgia Republican denied seats on House committees for saying Democrats should be killed, has called investigations of the violent Jan. 6 insurrection an “over-dramatization of a riot that happened here at the Capitol one time” (see story here). That o[...]
April 13th, 2022 - 12:04 am § in Politics
Is transgender sports a real problem?
No. It’s empty GOP “culture wars” demagoguery. GOP legislatures are falling over themselves passing laws to ban transgender youth from girls’ sports. But in Indiana, where a GOP governor vetoed such legislation, “at no point in the past 10 years had a trans girl sought [...]
April 12th, 2022 - 11:32 pm § in Politics
Will Romney be around after 2024?
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) says he’s not thinking about the 2024 election. He isn’t raising campaign money for it, either. He’ll be 77 then, and if re-elected, would be in office until age 83. His voting record hasn’t endeared him to the crazies who now dominate the Republican P[...]
Is Hunter Biden in trouble?
He’s gotten a lot of negative press lately, but the media are persecutors, not prosecutors. Is he actually in legal jeopardy? Vox says (here) the potential charges against him are tax violations, money laundering, and/or acting as an unregistered foreign lobbyist, but investigators long have d[...]
April 11th, 2022 - 11:00 pm § in Politics
Trans families flee Texas
Texas is run by hateful people, and isn’t merely inhospitable, but unsafe for LGBQT people. Republican state elected officials are creating what they call “a climate of terror.” Their vicious campaign against LGBQT people is leaving trans kids, their parents, and LGBTQ exhausted. N[...]
April 11th, 2022 - 9:49 pm § in Politics
GOP senate candidate lied on his resume
Herschel Walker, the GOP frontrunner in Georgia’s Senate primary, spent years claiming he was a high school valedictorian and graduated from the University of Georgia in the “top 1%” of his college class. The ex-NFL player was lying. He wasn’t a valedictorian, and he didnR[...]
April 11th, 2022 - 9:01 pm § in Politics
Republicans want to arm criminals
Biden wants kit guns assembled at home from parts purchased online to have serial numbers and be subject to background checks just like other guns (see story here). That seems like a very reasonable idea, but Republicans hate it. “The Constitution does not authorize the federal governme[...]
What happens when cops pull over a driverless car?
You get some very confused cops. (Story here.) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Huffington Post op-ed dishonestly attacks Black Lives Matter
Stephen A. Crockett Jr. (photo, left; profile here) is an opinion writer for Huffington Post. He didn’t originate the argument below; I’ve seen conservatives use it to attack Black Lives Matter. (I’m not familiar with Crockett’s work, and don’t know what his political o[...]