They had to think about it over the weekend, but by Monday, it was clear there was no bandwagon forming behind Trump’s desire to “terminate” the Constitution, so they swallowed hard and … well, let’s see what they said here. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV): “I t[...]
Archive for December, 2022
December 5th, 2022 - 4:47 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Justices Alito puts KKK robes on black kids and laughs
A bizarre scene unfolded in the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, December 5, 2022. Lawyers were arguing over whether a Colorado graphic designer has a religious right to refuse service to gay couples (spoiler alert: she’ll win). Justice Jackson, who’s black, asked the designer’s attor[...]
December 5th, 2022 - 2:18 pm § in Misc.
A Christmas gift of song to America from Ukraine’s children (video)
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December 5th, 2022 - 2:14 pm § in Misc.
Does Mount St. Helens have a twin?
Oddly this Chilean volcano looks like pre-eruption Mount St. Helens, and is nearly the same height. (See story here.) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Ex-felon GOP candidate busted for voting illegally
Brian K. Pritchard (photo below), 56, presently of Cherry Log, Georgia, pleaded guilty in 1996 to three Pennsylvania felony charges of forgery and theft. He was still on probation when he registered to vote in Georgia in 2008, which made him ineligible to vote. That didn’t stop him from voting[...]
Rep. David Joyce is a moral midget
Rep. David Joyce (R-OH), appearing on a Sunday TV show, “repeatedly refused” to criticize Trump for saying the Constitution should be “terminated” to return him to power. Instead, he said he’ll “fall in behind” whoever the GOP nominates in 2024, and added that “he[...]
December 4th, 2022 - 9:34 pm § in Law and Courts
Capitol rioter with zipties convicted
Larry Rendell Brock, 55, of Grapevine, Texas, was convicted in a bench trial on November 15, 2022, of a single felony count of obstructing an official proceeding and five misdemeanor counts of trespassing and disorderly conduct (read story here). Brock, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, is the[...]
December 4th, 2022 - 7:12 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Will Trump’s constitution remark be his “Dean scream”?
It probably was as offhand a remark as he’ll ever make, but when Trump screeched about reinstating his presidency by suspending the Constitution, he ignited a forest fire. Alice Stewart, a conservative commentator and former GOP staffer, sneered, “I hate to inform [him], the Constitution[...]
December 4th, 2022 - 1:32 pm § in Christianity, Politics
Why do we let these people call themselves Christians?
Until his double life was exposed, Thomas Achord (photo below) was headmaster of a Baton Rouge school for “classical Christian education.” Hiding behind a pseudonym, he advocated “Christian nationalism,” a far-right ideology that respects neither democracy nor religious freedom (see [...]
December 4th, 2022 - 3:03 am § in Donald Trump
The true significance of Trump’s “terminate the Constitution” remark
“Reacting to the news that Twitter in the runup to the 2020 election removed tweets that featured pornographic photos of Hunter Biden, Trump declared that the entire election had been stolen from him and demanded to be returned to the presidency,” Raw Story reported on Saturday, December[...]