For this post, I’m relying on a series of Politico articles on August 6, 2024, linking to each. It was Harris’s decision, but she had plenty of input from her party. She was lobbied to pick someone who served in the U.S. House, where Walz spent 12 years before becoming Minnesota’s [...]
Archive for August, 2024
Can Tiffany Smiley beat Dan Newhouse?
Dan Newhouse (R-WA) is a 5-term congressman who represents the swath of eastern Washington just east of the Cascade mountains, from the Canadian border to the Columbia River (see map here). The district is so red it will go Republican in November. In every election there, the Democratic candidate st[...]
August 5th, 2024 - 10:17 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
West Virginia, coal, and Trump (video)
Trump got over 68% of West Virginia’s votes in 2016 and 2020. To understand why, watch this video. (Running time 43:17 minutes) For coal country music, try Kaitlyn Baker here and here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Dead bear cub case solved
In October 2014, a dead bear cub was found in New York’s Central Park. The story made headlines. CNN reported at the time (here), “The only bears known to inhabit New York’s Central Park are at its zoo – so how did a dead bear cub end up under a bush? Neither police nor park officials [&hel[...]
This woman won’t be a senator, but she’s running anyway
John Curtis (bio here) is the 2024 GOP nominee for the Utah Senate seat being vacated by Mitt Romney. Curtis is a boring man. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a management degree, worked in business, got tired of losing as a Democrat in a deep-red state so became a Republican, and was[...]
Is Harris husband’s affair a big deal?
The tabloid Daily Mail thinks it is. They ran a big story here. Doug Emhoff (photo) admits he cheated on his first wife, but according to Politico, Harris knew about it she married him, and the Biden campaign knew about it when vetting Harris for vice president (see story here). “The incendiar[...]
Was American still held by Russia “stabbed in the back”?
It was a deal that took more than a year, and intense diplomatic effort, to put together. Russia exchanged 16 foreigners, mostly ordinary people, for 8 Russians who were spies, an assassin, and cybercriminals. It was a lopsided trade in Moscow’s favor, but the only way to bring the 16 detainees ho[...]
McConnell doesn’t like Biden’s Supreme Court reforms
Good. If he did, I’d be very suspicious. Sen. McConnell broke every rule of Senate collegiality when he blocked Obama’s appointee, using “it’s an election year” as an excuse, then jammed through another Trump appointee right before an election. McConnell engineered a co[...]
Racial politics circa 2024
This was just posted on “X” (aka Twitter) here. I don’t know if the photo is old, or the t-shirts are; but either way, something doesn’t exactly fit. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Who’s lying about abortion in WA governor’s race?
Polls show Bob Ferguson (D) and Dave Reichert (R) will face off for Washington governor after next week’s primary. They’re already calling each other liars. Ferguson ran an ad saying Reichert, while in Congress, “voted for a nationwide abortion ban, with criminal penalties for doct[...]