Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh lied under oath in their confirmation hearings. (See stories here and here). Can’t do anything about that now. Adam Laxalt (photo, left), a GOP Senate nominee, says, “The people of Nevada have already voted to make abortion rights legal in our state and the Cou[...]
Archive for June, 2022
June 24th, 2022 - 5:46 pm § in Politics
Nevada voters beware; Republican candidate is lying about keeping abortion legal there
June 24th, 2022 - 1:08 pm § in Law and Courts
Is the Supreme Court taking us to another Dred Scott moment?
In 1857, a Supreme Court led by Roger Taney, scion of a Maryland slave-owning family, “declared on specious grounds that African Americans, enslaved or free, were not and would never be entitled to US citizenship and thus to constitutional rights and privileges.” That decision, Dred Scot[...]
Will Jody Allen sell the Seahawks?
Buying the team was her idea in the first place. The Microsoft entrepreneur bought the team for $197 million; it’s now worth billions, and his foundation, which she controls, might direct the money elsewhere. Rumors are flying. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Putin likely will survive; what should America do?
The Russian people are being forced to live in a dreamland, whether they want to or not, in which Putin’s aggression against Ukraine is a “sacred” duty of “defending the Motherland” and those supporting Ukraine are “international terrorist gangs.” Moreover, [...]
June 23rd, 2022 - 11:07 pm § in Misc.
Scotland’s sordid history of executing witches
Scotland was a bad place to be an accused witch in the 16th and 17th centuries. That country killed five times as many people accused of witchcraft as any other place in Europe, according to a Scottish group seeking posthumous pardons for the victims of Scottish witch hunts. Between 1563 and 1706, a[...]
June 23rd, 2022 - 2:07 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Kentucky’s “Teacher of the Year” driven out of teaching by bigots
“Kentucky’s 2022 teacher of the year, Willie Carver Jr., is leaving his K-12 post for a university job, citing anti-gay discrimination,” The Hill reported on Thursday, June 23, 2022 (read story here). He isn’t leaving Kentucky, not yet anyway, but after 17 years of teaching K-12 [...]
June 23rd, 2022 - 1:39 pm § in Business
Elon Musk warns Tesla could go bankrupt
I don’t believe anything Elon Musk says, and I wouldn’t buy a car from him (new or used), own his stock, or work for him. He’s an untrustworthy manipulator. So when I read today that Musk issued a public warning that Tesla might go bankrupt, the first question in my mind was, R[...]
June 23rd, 2022 - 12:25 pm § in Health
Fake abortion clinics lure women to inflict anti-abortion propaganda
Google’s search engine sending women to these fake clinics is causing an uproar; watch video below. At least 50 of these deceptive clinics operate in Washington State; see story here. The women who visit these clinics are told “that birth control doesn’t work, that abortion dooms them [...]
June 21st, 2022 - 8:25 pm § in Misc.
GOP attorney general who killed a man and reported hitting a deer is removed from office
Jason Ravnsborg, South Dakota’s attorney general since 2019, and impeached by the GOP-controlled legislature on April 12, 2022 (details here), was removed from office by the state senate on June 21, 2022 (see story here). It’s a rare example of Republicans holding a member of their own p[...]