That’s not just a question for teachers or education experts. Increasingly activist parents want a say, and it’s becoming a partisan football, kicked this way and that. I’m sure schools have changed since I went through the K12 grades and college in the 1950s and 1960s. I was a bri[...]
Archive for May, 2024
RFK Jr. is lying about the pandemic
In his early days Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (photo, left) struggled with drugs and initially failed the New York bar exam, but then bootstrapped himself to a highly successful environmental law career, much of it working for nonprofits and teaching law students (read his bio here). I’ve attended e[...]
Speaker Mike invites Israeli leader, snubs Kenya leader
House Speaker Mike Johnson will invite Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress even if the Senate doesn’t cooperate (see story here), but refused a similar invite to Kenya president William Ruto — even though he sides with Israel against Hamas (de[...]
May 23rd, 2024 - 6:14 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Why Trump won’t go to jail over the hush money
Even if Trump is convicted in the hush money case, and ex-FBI director James Comey thinks it’s a strong case (see story here), he’s unlikely to get prison time. Ex-Baltimore D.A. Marilyn Mosby, convicted of stealing her own money and lying about it, got a year of home detention (read sto[...]
May 23rd, 2024 - 5:39 pm § in Donald Trump
Motorcade video is real, but …
Eric Trump wants people to think his dad’s popular, so he posted video of a Biden motorcade. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
May 22nd, 2024 - 10:34 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
RFK Jr. campaign loses black outreach director
This can’t possibly be bad for the candidate, because of who she is. Angela Stanton-King (photo below, at right) has quit that role, but will remain an informal adviser, MSNBC reported on May 22, 2024 (read story here). Stanton-King has, shall we say, an interesting biography. She did prison t[...]
May 22nd, 2024 - 9:43 pm § in Politics, Republicans
DeSantis escalates war on rainbows
Gov. Ron DeSantis is escalating his war on Pride by imposing more political color correctness on Florida. As part of his relentless campaign to turn gay people into non-persons, he banned rainbows from schools (see my posting here). Now they’re banned from bridges, too. NBC News reports (her[...]
Nikki Haley endorses Trump
Nikki Haley says she’ll vote for Trump, not Biden, in November 2024 (read story here). Surprised? You shouldn’t be. She’s a Republican, ambitious, and doesn’t want to jinx her political future. But it’s also more of the Nikki Haley we know. Three years ago I called her R[...]
May 22nd, 2024 - 6:21 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
MAGA flag was seen at Alito vacation home
Someone in Justice Alito’s household is flying their politics on flagpoles. First it was an American flag flying upside at his Alexandria, Virginia, home (see my article here). Alito, who came under criticism for this, claims his wife did it after arguing with a neighbor over his “F̵[...]
May 22nd, 2024 - 5:09 pm § in Misc.
Oklahoma makes being an “illegal” a crime
Oklahoma has enacted a law threatening to “fine and jail migrants who are in the state without legal documentation,” NBC News reported on May 22, 2024 (read story here; see the law here). That it’s a bad law goes almost without saying. (What good comes from Republican legislatures?[...]