Shinzo Abe didn’t write this tweet after he was assassinated. Or while he was still alive, either. Read story here fact-check here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Archive for July, 2022
Blowtorch doesn’t melt Chinese ice cream
Maybe it takes a bigger blowtorch. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
July 8th, 2022 - 3:54 pm § in Law and Courts
Amber Heard claims juror was an imposter
Amber Heard wants a retrial with a new jury. Can’t say I blame her. She could hardly do worse; the jury she had awarded Johnny Depp $15 million and her only $2 million. She alleges one of the jurors was an imposter. Here’s what apparently happened. A jury summons was sent to a home of [&[...]
What the GOP says about gas prices
Something is happening that Republicans eyeing the fall elections don’t like: Hiring remains strong and gas prices are falling. I’m not saying they’re against a strong job market and lower gas prices; they’d just rather take credit for it themselves. Anyway, this is what Hous[...]
When ideology trumps health
We saw that happen when Republicans defied health experts and went their own deadly way on Covid-19. On abortion, too, Republicans are sacrificing decency, compassion, and common sense to dogma. In an opinion piece at NBC News (read it here), a law professor diagnosed with breast cancer wrote, R[...]
July 8th, 2022 - 9:51 am § in Misc.
This is the wrong way to protest
“Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, one of the conservative justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade last month, was forced to exit through a back door of Morton’s Steakhouse in downtown Washington, D.C., by protesters who had learned he was there,” The Hill reported on Friday, J[...]
July 8th, 2022 - 8:49 am § in Politics
Why do Republicans lie so much?
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) has introduced a bill to repeal the federal excise tax on guns and ammunition (see story here). He explains, “As assaults against Americans’ Second Amendment freedoms continue to emerge, so do treacherous threats that seek to weaponize taxation in order to price this con[...]
The Loser
Olympic gold medalists Simone Biles and Megan Rapinoe were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Thursday, June 7, 2022. Jenna Ellis (photo, left; bio here), a small-time lawyer on the Trump legal team that tried to overturn the 2020 election in the courts, instantly lashed out. “Fittin[...]
July 7th, 2022 - 6:46 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Search warrant (video)
This is how the Feds execute search warrants against seditionists. Moral: People who plot to overthrow governments should sleep with their pants on. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
How Biden could have prevented high gas prices
He couldn’t have prevented the years of low oil prices and cheap gas that gutted oil company profits. (For example, Exxon’s profit dropped from $32.5 billion in 2014 to $7.8 billion in 2018, and the company lost $22.4 billion in 2020.) That was engineered by Saudi Arabia to kill off the [...]