Trump is the early favorite for the 2024 GOP nomination, but even if he isn’t wearing an orange prison jumpsuit by then, he’s unlikely to win over general election voters. A new AP/NORC poll released on Thursday, April 20, 2023, shows 70% of Americans don’t want him to run for pres[...]
Archive for April, 2023
A Democrat who knows rural voters
If Democrats are frustrated by rural voters, it’s because they don’t know them, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) says. Khanna represents Silicon Valley, but travels the country, showing his face in places like Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Appalachia Virginia. A progressive, he talks abo[...]
April 22nd, 2023 - 8:27 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOP lawyer labels student voters a “scourge”
If you’re a college student, and you vote, Cleta Mitchell likens you to a pestilence, to wit: “Scourge: noun: … a cause of wide or great affliction” Mitchell, a prominent Republican lawyer neck-deep in Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election (details here), is off[...]
April 22nd, 2023 - 7:42 pm § in Misc.
USS Arizona crew: Now there’s one
With the death of Ken Potts (photo, left) at age 102 on Friday, April 21, 2023 (read story here), Lou Conter (photo, below right), 101, is the only remaining USS Arizona crew member from the Pearl Harbor attack who’s still living. Potts, a crane operator, was on Ford Island when the battlesh[...]
April 21st, 2023 - 10:06 pm § in Misc.
An expensive hobby (video)
This miniature railroad was built by an investment banker on a 2,000-acre Missouri family farm. Construction took eight years. He died in 2008, the property was put up for sale in 2018 (asking price $12.5 million, railroad included), and sold in May 2022. The new owners dismantled the railroad, with[...]
April 21st, 2023 - 9:32 pm § in Law and Courts
If you threaten a sheriff this happens
“And just like the first two men arrested, this one also is living with his mother.” Not anymore, he isn’t. Read more details here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Don’t believe what politicians say about the debt ceiling
If you follow news, which you should, you’ve probably heard about the debt ceiling fight in Congress. Simply described, the federal government spends more than it takes in, and borrows the difference. But Congress, beginning in 1939, has capped the amount the Treasury can borrow, although it [...]
April 21st, 2023 - 12:32 am § in Economics
Wages haven’t gone up enough
First, let’s get a couple of things straight. Workers aren’t causing inflation; real wages are falling, and corporate profits are fatter. In Britain, Treasury officials claimed “there was an inflationary risk from workers expecting wages to keep up with price rises,” and Bank[...]
Why I prefer career politicians
Some people, mostly on the right., bemoan “career” politicians and advocate for term limits. Not me. I want professional politicians in key offices. I know this will grate on some people, so let me explain. First, arguing that “career” politicians are mucking things up is a [...]
Electing a new D.A. led to “Unite the Right” charges
The now-infamous “United the Right” rally brought together neo-Nazis and white supremacists for a tiki-torch march across the University of Virginia campus on Friday night, August 11, 2017 (photo, right). The rally culminated in the car-attack murder of counter-protester Heather Heyer by[...]