“Key members of Congress delivered an astounding rebuke to the Pentagon’s UFO analysis office last week, doubling down on whistleblower allegations of secret U.S government UFO programs,” The Hill reported on Tuesday, June 11, 2024. “Last July, Air Force veteran and former intell[...]
Archive for June, 2024
Heritage chief claims Democrats are illegitimate
The Heritage Foundation used to be a heavyweight conservative think tank. That’s changing. In 2021, Kevin Roberts (photo, left) took it over, and he’s wrecking its reputation as a conservative ideas factory. Roberts, an election denier, views Heritage’s role as “institutional[...]
Taking credit where none is due
Nearly every House Republican voted against Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill (details here). That money is now flowing into projects across America, repairing bridges and roads, funding mass transit and highway safety projects, updating power grids, expanding broadband access. Now, ca[...]
June 11th, 2024 - 1:32 am § in Donald Trump
Should a crazy person be president?
Think I’m being rhetorical, eh? Listen, don’t take my word for anything. This is from the horse’s mouth: “If you’re an adviser to him, your job is to help him at the margins,” said one Trump confidante. “To talk him out of doing crazy things.” (For context, go here, a P[...]
June 10th, 2024 - 7:00 pm § in Misc.
Trigger-happy vigilante kills innocent teen
Three teenagers returning an airsoft gun to a sporting goods store were accosted by a gun-waving vigilante. The teens repeatedly told him the gun was a toy, and dropped it when he ordered them to. He killed one of them anyway, then lied to police to make it appear he acted in self-defense. The inci[...]
June 10th, 2024 - 3:16 pm § in Law and Courts, Schools & Colleges
Student tests school free speech with anti-gay tee-shirt
The Supreme Court ruled decades ago that students have some free speech rights, but left the water muddied, perplexing courts and schools to the present day. Consequently, school free speech cases are very complicated. School authorities usually “are motivated by a desire to maintain order, av[...]
June 10th, 2024 - 3:43 am § in Misc.
Watch how man avoids “gay” stairs (video)
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June 9th, 2024 - 11:06 pm § in Misc.
Policing in Brazil (video)
What it’s like to do police work in Sao Paulo’s slums. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
June 9th, 2024 - 10:48 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Pegasus Bridge
Pegasus Bridge (it acquired this name after the war) is a famous D-Day site. As the photo shows, it’s quite small. Actor Richard Todd, who portrayed Major John Howard in The Longest Day, helped defend it against German counterattacks. Today the original bridge is a war memorial. Return to The-[...]
Biden’s real speeches, Trump’s fake crowds (video)
Who’s really ahead. In the last real poll, Biden was by 7 million votes. The next poll that actually counts is November 5, 2024. In the runup, Biden is going around acting presidential (e.g., paying tribute to veterans in D-Day speeches), while Trump fakes crowd sizes and talks about sharks an[...]