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Archive for March, 2023
Santos accused of ATM skimming
Rep. George Santos (R-NY; photo, left), aka Anthony Devolder, is secretive about his personal finances and where he got the $700,000 he loaned to his campaign (see story here). He would have good reason to be, if his “business” activities were a criminal enterprise, and those funds were [...]
Trump election lawyer censured
Colorado lawyer Jenna Ellis was a member of the “elite strike force team” of lawyers led by Rudy Giuliani (details here) that tried to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss with dodgy legal tactics. In her home state, Ellis was accused of violating professional ethics by participatin[...]
March 8th, 2023 - 4:37 pm § in Politics, Republicans
The GOP’s attack on free speech
For 49 years, American women could take abortion rights for granted. Now those rights are gone. With that victory under their belt, Republicans are targeting free speech. They’re going after teachers and professors, librarians and students, journalists and bloggers. Read what they’re up [...]
Arkansas relaxes child labor laws
Kids under 16 no longer need work permits in Arkansas. The new GOP governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders (photo, left), a hardcore cheap-labor conservative, signed a bill this week doing away with requiring parental permission for minor children to work. The bill also weakens other child labor protection[...]
March 8th, 2023 - 3:08 am § in Misc.
This blog’s readers are from all over
Ever wonder who reads this blog? In the first week of March 2023, The-Ave.US has been visited by readers from the United States, of course, but also from: Australia Canada China Costa Rica El Salvador France Germany Iceland Japan Mexico Netherlands Norway Pakistan Philippines Puerto Rico Russia Sout[...]
Can we at least try to keep stupidity out of politics?
I wish I could give you hope, but it’s not looking good. For starters, the Arizona GOP has collapsed into bitter infighting, with finger-pointing aplenty. How they’re fighting, and what they’re saying about each other, is concerning. The only positive thing about it is they haven&#[...]
GOP legislator goes after 4th grader for rainbow drawing
The mother of a Kansas 4th-grader “was outraged when she opened up her representative’s February newsletter and found her daughter’s rainbow drawing published as an example of indoctrination in the school system,” the Kansas Reflector reported on Tuesday, March 7, 2023 (see story her[...]
March 6th, 2023 - 11:07 pm § in Law and Courts
Texas abortion law endangers women (video)
Move to Washington. We don’t persecute doctors and pregnant women here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
The real reason Kari Lake won’t be vice president
Kari Lake, a political novice and defeated candidate, won’t be the GOP vice presidential nominee. Oh, she had aspirations. She yearned to be on Trump’s 2024 ticket. But that just wasn’t realistic. Why would she be? she’s never won an election or held a public office. Sucking [...]