I’ve never met Caleb Heimlich (photo, left), but he’s probably a decent guy you could have a beer with. He’s a career political junkie (read his bio here). He is was one of the youngest GOP state party chairs in the country, but is leaving that post to “spend more time with h[...]
Archive for June, 2023
June 7th, 2023 - 6:51 pm § in Law and Courts
Get tough on gun crimes
Republicans are arming America, and that’s creating a false sense of security among some gun owners, because the laws of self-defense haven’t changed. Even in Florida, with its laissez-faire gun laws, you can’t just shoot people. Self-defense only applies to an imminent threat of d[...]
June 7th, 2023 - 2:44 pm § in Law and Courts
What leftwing violence looks like
“Jane Doe” didn’t murder George Floyd, Derek Chauvin did. She wasn’t a Minneapolis cop, and didn’t testify as a defense expert in Chauvin’s trial, although her ex-husband, Barry Brodd, did. She got their California house in the divorce. In April 2021, when that h[...]
June 7th, 2023 - 2:30 am § in Environment, Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Smoke
What the Statue of Liberty looked like on June 6, 2023, because of Canadian wildfires. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
June 6th, 2023 - 9:24 pm § in Law and Courts
What liberal propaganda looks like
When Michael Tisius (photo, left) was 19, he participated in a jailbreak. He killed two unarmed guards, and landed on Missouri’s death row (see story here). Twenty-three years later, as his execution approached, Huffington Post ran a story (here) pleading for commutation of his death sentence.[...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Rubber ducks
Yes, they’re art, created by a sculptor. The scene is Hong Kong harbor. Read story here. Update: Hot weather deflated a duck, see story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
The commercial real estate crisis
The commercial real estate sector is in trouble for two big reasons: High vacancy rates, and falling property values. Nationally, about 18% of America’s office space lacks tenants. There may have been some overbuilding, but this is primarily due to the switch to working from home. The pandemic[...]
Can you have two primary residences?
Yes, you can have more than one “primary residence.” Rep. Reuben Gallago (D-AZ), the most likely Democrat to replace Kyrsten Sinema in the U.S. Senate, bought a house in Washington D.C. where he works, which he claimed as his “primary residence” for purposes of getting a V.A[...]
Oklahoma board votes to use public funds for Catholic education
An Oklahoma state school board has approved “the first publicly funded religious school in the nation, despite a warning from the state’s attorney general that the decision was unconstitutional,” ABC News reported on Monday, June 5, 2023 (read story here). “The Statewide Virt[...]
June 5th, 2023 - 1:02 pm § in China
Collision course
The U.S. and China are on a collision course. A war isn’t inevitable, but is increasingly likely. The incidents depicted in the videos below aren’t accidental nor the actions of rogue crews. They’re deliberate, calculated, choreographed, practiced, and ordered from the top. Most li[...]