The Supreme Court allows Texas to empower complete strangers — legal vigilantes — to sue anyone, even a taxi driver, who helps a woman get an abortion. Now conservative justices obsessively hung up on states’ rights, and eager to overturn precedents, are considering a case pushed b[...]
Archive for November, 2022
November 9th, 2022 - 9:50 pm § in Law and Courts, Republicans
Supreme Court case threatens Medicaid patients’ rights
Dead legislator re-elected by a landslide
Don’t believe rumors that dead Democratic voters elected a dead Democratic candidate. Only half of that story is true. The voters were alive. Tony DeLuca, 85, a longtime Pennsylvania legislator who died a month before the election, won 86% of the vote against a Green Party candidate. It’[...]
November 9th, 2022 - 1:48 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Did Tiffany Smiley get 44%?
Back in September I speculated about whether Tiffany Smiley could get 44% of the Senate vote in blue Washington (see posting here). As I observed then, Republicans gave up seriously trying to dislodge Sen. Patty Murray. This opened a door for ambitious novices like Smiley (photo, left). She has a co[...]
November 9th, 2022 - 10:16 am § in Politics, Republicans
Election post-mortem: First, GOPers need to get their facts straight
As the dust settles on the 2022 elections, and dazed Republicans wonder why their party underperformed, they should begin by getting the facts straight. Conservative commentator Marc Thiessen is a bad person who endorsed torture during the Bush regime, see his profile here, but let’s skip over[...]
November 9th, 2022 - 1:23 am § in Politics, Republicans
Election denier can’t deny this
“Josh Shapiro, the Democratic attorney general for Pennsylvania, is projected to become governor after defeating Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano,” Huffington Post reported on Tuesday night, November 8, 2022 (read story here). It wasn’t close. With 93% of the votes counted, Sha[...]
Ohio man is killed by neighbor for being a Democrat
An Ohio father was killed for being a Democrat on Saturday, November 4, 2022, right before midterm elections. Anthony King (below), 43, was gunned down in cold blood in his backyard in front of his family. A next-door neighbor, Austin Gene Gibbs (photo, left), 26, is charged with the crime (read sto[...]
November 8th, 2022 - 1:09 am § in Politics, Republicans
“Violent crime” campaign ad is full of falsehoods
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), who’s in a close race for New York governor, has a campaign ad claiming to show “actual violent crimes caught on camera in Kathy Hochul’s New York,” including police shooting a black man named Saheed Vassell. But Vassell committed no crime. He was a mental[...]
November 7th, 2022 - 6:57 pm § in Health
Don’t lick the toads
I remember when hippies tried to get high by smoking banana peels. (Could they? Find out here.) Creative attempts to get high, like computer software, have evolved and grown more sophisticated since then. Enter the Sonoran Desert Toad. The “National Park Service … warned visitors on Fac[...]
November 7th, 2022 - 6:06 pm § in Politics
U.S. elections are a foreign tourist attraction
I once read about a man who attends circuses to watch the lion tamer acts. He said he hopes the lions don’t eat the trainer, but if they do, he wants to be there. Our elections are now that kind of circus. “On Monday, The New Republic reported that foreign tourists are coming to the Uni[...]
November 7th, 2022 - 5:23 pm § in Law and Courts
Let’s defund dumb cops
I’m a hardliner on crime; I want more cops, tough prosecutors, and long prison sentences for violent and career criminals. But we don’t make streets less safe by eliminating from police budgets the salaries and lawsuit settlements of cops like these. (Read story here.) Return to The-Ave.[...]