GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, like any top-ranking political leader, makes lots of TV appearances. McCarthy was a guest on CNBC‘s “Squawk Box,” hosted by Becky Quick, on Thursday, April 27, 2023. They talked about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s feud with Disney, set off by t[...]
Archive for April, 2023
April 28th, 2023 - 12:14 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
Thomas defender could use his own ethics refresher
Mark Paoletta is a political lawyer. By that I mean he’s a lawyer in politics; in his case, on the Republican side. During the Trump administration, Paoletta was Vice President Pence’s chief counsel, then OMB general counsel. Now in a Washington D.C. private practice, Wikipedia says (her[...]
April 27th, 2023 - 2:08 pm § in Law and Courts
Armed weak-minded fool wanted to “cull weak-minded” people
It sounds like something out of Nazi ideology. The suspected leaker of Pentagon secrets, Jack Teixeira, 21, “wrote on social media … that he wanted to ‘kill a ton of people’ because it would be ‘culling the weak minded,'” Raw Story reported on Thursday, April 27,[...]
April 26th, 2023 - 10:30 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Let ’em suffer
Senate Republicans “unexpectedly rejected efforts to advance a bipartisan bill that would direct the Veterans Affairs Department to carry out studies and clinical trials on the use of cannabis to treat veterans’ chronic pain and PTSD,” CNN reported on Wednesday, April 26, 2023 (read st[...]
April 25th, 2023 - 7:43 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
“Trump made me do it”
“A lawyer for former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio of Florida said Donald Trump is to blame for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, and federal authorities are using Tarrio as a scapegoat for the former president’s actions,” the Associated Press reported on Tuesday, Ap[...]
April 25th, 2023 - 3:49 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Nikki Haley won’t be president
Presidential elections are highly unpredictable, especially this far in advance (the 2024 election is still more than 18 months away), but I feel quite safe in saying the 2024 declared GOP candidate Nikki Haley will not emerge as the winner. Some of the reasons: She’s a Republican, and her par[...]
Can Trump beat Biden in 2024?
I don’t know. It’s not even assured they’ll be the nominees, although both are running. The polls suggest neither are popular, but do polls at this stage really tell us anything about an election over 18 months away? Here’s what one of HorsesAss.org’s most articulate po[...]
April 25th, 2023 - 4:05 am § in Donald Trump, News Media
Rupert Murdoch’s last gasp?
It’s amazing Rupert Murdoch is still alive. Firing Tucker Carlson may be the only decent thing the 92-year-old has done in his entire long life, and as always, he did it for money. Rumor has it the old man got tired of the expensive lawsuits (to find out who the source is, click here). That&#[...]
April 24th, 2023 - 8:09 pm § in News Media
Analyzing the Tucker Carlson firing
Yeah, “The Young Turks” (TYT) are liberals, but they have media connections and know some stuff. If you want Rupert Murdoch’s side of the story, ask him. He doesn’t answer my emails. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
April 23rd, 2023 - 11:17 pm § in Misc.
Kentucky sheriff hires Breonna Taylor’s killer
Myles Cosgrove, the ex-Louisville cop who fired 16 bullets into Breonna Taylor’s apartment, one of which the FBI said was the bullet that killed her, is a police officer again. The sheriff of Carroll County, Kentucky, a rural enclave of about 11,000 residents across the Ohio River from the sou[...]