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August 28th, 2024 - 12:46 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
How Trump wrested Kentucky from the Democrats (video)
Elliott County, Kentucky, voted Democrat for 144 straight years, then voted for Trump. This video explains why, through the voices of those voters. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
August 27th, 2024 - 9:01 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Michael Sparks belongs in prison
Michael Sparks (photo, left), 47, a factory worker from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, achieved notoriety as the first rioter to break into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 (bottom photo). He was the proverbial tip of the spear of that violent mob which tried to deprive 81,283,501 Americans of their right to e[...]
August 27th, 2024 - 5:22 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Criminal objects to being indicted
A federal grand jury re-indicted Trump on Tuesday, August 27, 2024, for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election (read story here). Trump is charged with “conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official[...]
News too dumb to print
The Daily Mail, a U.K.-based tabloid, has been bashing the FBI over the Trump assassination attempt. You may recall that Trump held a rally in an open field, a short-staffed Secret Service detail partnered with local cops to provide protection, and errors by law enforcement allowed the shooter to fi[...]
August 27th, 2024 - 12:46 am § in News Media, Politics
Tomi Lahren is hopeless in debate
Tim Miller is a Republican operative who’s worked for Jon Huntsman, Jeb Bush, and John McCain among others. Like Tomi Lahren, he has a bachelor’s degree in communications (see his bio here); but he’s been around politics longer, and is more experienced, than her. However, that alon[...]
August 26th, 2024 - 6:31 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake won’t be a U.S. senator
Arizona’s open seat in the 2024 Senate elections is a missed opportunity for Republicans. They will not get a pickup here. Kari Lake (photo, left) cruised to an easy GOP primary victory over nutty Arizona sheriff Mark Lamb, but will lose to Rep. Ruben Gallego in November, keeping this seat in [...]
This smear is doggone silly
Not without reason are election years dubbed “the silly season.” Some partisans will say anything to influence voters. Put another way, they throw spaghetti at a wall to determine what sticks. Here’s a case of spaghetti gone astray. Dustin Grage, author of the tweet below, works fo[...]
2024’s worst candidate
This isn’t an easy call to make, because there’s so many to choose from, but I’m going with Michele Morrow (photo, left; profile here), who won an upset primary victory in North Carolina’s Superintendent of Public Instruction race. That state’s GOP candidate for governo[...]
August 25th, 2024 - 6:19 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Support the police, but not this cop
“Supporting the police” doesn’t mean giving a free pass to bad cops. Being against cops who murder black people, plant drugs in drivers’ cars, or throw smoke bombs at good cops while trying to overthrow our government doesn’t make you anti-police. Justin Lee (photo, lef[...]