Reverend Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA), who was re-elected on December 6, 2022, with the help of substantial black turnout despite GOP voter suppression efforts, paid tribute in his victory speech to five civil rights martyrs by name (see story here). One of those victims of racial hatred was Viola[...]
Archive for December, 2022
December 7th, 2022 - 1:31 pm § in Politics, Republicans
The GOP’s latest straw-grasping election conspiracy theory
Arizona is a leading hotbed of GOP election conspiracy nuttery. Principal actors in this Theater of the Absurd include: Kari Lake, defeated 2022 GOP candidate for governor; Mark Finchem, defeated 2022 GOP candidate for secretary of state; and Kelli Ward, GOP state party chair and 2020 fake elector. [...]
December 7th, 2022 - 12:43 am § in Law and Courts
Lawyers go rogue; will the Supreme Court follow?
Moore v. Harper is a case before the Supreme Court that legal experts agree could upend American democracy. In this case, conservative lawyers are asking the court to give state legislatures absolute power over state and federal elections. (See story here.) This is a prescription for minority rule. [...]
December 6th, 2022 - 9:38 pm § in Misc.
Crime: “Boy in the box” reveal coming Thursday
It is Philadelphia’s oldest cold case, dating from 1957. A dead boy wrapped in a blanket was found in a cardboard box along a road. The body showed signs of physical abuse and severe malnutrition. (Details here.) Sixty-five years later, police say they know who he was, and will announce his i[...]
What a “moderate” Republican said about Trump’s constitution remark
Glenn Youngkin got elected Virginia governor by persuading voters he’s a “moderate” Republican (he isn’t). NBC News reported here what he said about Trump’s “terminate the Constitution” remark: “There are small signs that fellow Republicans, including[...]
December 6th, 2022 - 4:37 pm § in Law and Courts
Jail supervisor gets 4 years for prisoner abuse
Matthew Ware, 53, was a supervisor in Kay County, Oklahoma’s detention facility. Now he’s a federal prison inmate. Ware was sentenced to 46 months for prisoner abuse. ABC News provides details (see story here): “Ware allegedly ordered lower-ranking correctional officers in May 201[...]
December 6th, 2022 - 4:03 pm § in Misc.
This is why you call archaeologists before pouring concrete
Found at a construction site in England. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
If the GOP establishment turns against Trump, does it matter?
Last week, as widely reported (e.g. here), Trump advocated “terminating all rules and laws, even those in the Constitution just to make him president after losing in 2020.” It lit a media fire, but I’m convinced this isn’t anything new, and pundits are reading more into it t[...]
What makes Marjorie Taylor Greene tick?
The Atlantic tackles this question here. Before I summarize their thoughts, you should know a little about Greene, besides the fact she represents a very red rural district in Northwest Georgia. She’s rich. She and her (estranged) husband own a construction company started by her father. She r[...]
December 5th, 2022 - 11:18 pm § in Humor
Antarctica railroad map
Here it is, the world’s first, and most comprehensive, map of the southern continent’s railroads. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]