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September 26th, 2022 - 6:06 pm § in Democrats, Donald Trump, Hypocrisy, Law and Courts, Politics, Republicans
Why Sinema is wrong about the filibuster
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) thinks “the Senate should reinstate the 60-vote threshold for all judicial and executive branch nominees,” The Hill reported (here) on Monday, September 26, 2022. She made that remark during a Q&A following a speech at the University of Louisville’s M[...]
Job listing
This announcement is for a position with frequent turnover that is expected to be vacated by a retirement soon. Read details here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
September 25th, 2022 - 10:04 pm § in Misc.
Naval Darwin Awards
Bestowed “when IQ is inversely proportional to displacement.” This is a long video (41 minutes), but is worth your time. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
I like Robert Reich, but he’s wrong about price controls
I liked him when he was Clinton’s labor secretary, because of his labor-friendly policies and defense of working-class people, with whom I’ve identified since my youth. Reich (bio here), a Dartmouth and Oxford-educated Rhodes Scholar and Yale Law School graduate, has been a professor at [...]
September 24th, 2022 - 9:19 pm § in Misc.
How to not kill yourself with a portable generator
Don’t park it next to a door or window. The generator in the photo at left killed a Louisiana woman and her two sons. (Read story here.) They used it during a storm outage, and died of carbon monoxide poisoning from the exhaust fumes. “Portable generators are one of the deadliest consume[...]
Florida Gov. DeSantis’ bizarre claims about slavery
Defending his efforts to censor the history taught in Florida’s schools, GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis made the wildly inaccurate statement at left. In fact, British courts were questioning slavery well before the American Revolution, and the British Empire abolished slavery decades before America did[...]
“We must refuse to accept it”
That’s what Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes (photo, left) told his followers after Biden won the 2020 election. I don’t care whether he accepts it or not. He doesn’t decide who governs us. He gets one vote like the rest of us. He doesn’t have to like the election results; [...]
GOP poster girl calls anti-bullying school programs “Marxist”
Lori McRoberts was a handpicked audience member at the GOP’s carefully staged rollout of its post-midterm elections roadmap for America. The event, structured as a townhall with audience members asking GOP politicians questions, was held at a sheet metal plant in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, on [...]
September 23rd, 2022 - 11:36 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: 3,000-year-old canoe
Remains of a 3,000 year old, 14½-foot, white oak dugout canoe were recovered from a Wisconsin lake. Read story here. White oak was often used for wooden sailboat keels because of its durability. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]