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September 27th, 2022 - 9:27 pm § in Law and Courts, Republicans

Rioter who assaulted Officer Fanone gets 7 years in prison

Michael Fanone is the D.C. police officer who was “dragged by a mob down the Capitol steps, beaten with pipes, stunned with a Taser and threatened with his own gun” (per Wikipedia, here) during the Jan. 6 insurrection. He never fully recovered and is no longer in police work. Kyle Young[...]

September 27th, 2022 - 5:41 pm § in Economics

A cynic’s view of falling home and stock prices

After the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the Federal Reserve flooded the financial system with money to create a “wealth effect.” Your house isn’t worth more, but if it has a higher dollar value (because dollars are worth less), you’ll feel richer and spend more. That’s the theory behind “w[...]

September 27th, 2022 - 2:28 am § in Russia

Will Putin suffer the tsar’s fate?

Tsar Nicholas II, the guy who was shot in a shabby cellar along with his entire family, was warned by his advisers not to assume personal command of the Russian army. If he did, they said, and the war was lost, he would be blamed. Well, we know how that turned out (watch video here). […][...]

September 27th, 2022 - 1:19 am § in Politics, Republicans

If the GOP wins the House, this is their plan

Would you vote for this? I won’t. Read story and details here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]