I don’t know why this Vox article (read it here) is even necessary, given that colleges are scrambling to recruit students amid enrollment declines, a situation that will only worsen in coming years (see article here). But for what it’s worth, it explains what college admissions officers[...]
Archive for September, 2024
September 19th, 2024 - 1:13 pm § in Politics, Republicans
2024’s worst GOP candidate just got even worse
Mark Robinson (photo, left) wasn’t going to win the 2024 election for North Carolina governor anyway. He was under 40% in many recent polls. Now, his fellow Republicans are calling on him to drop out, and the Trump campaign has told him he’s not welcome at their rallies. This comes on th[...]
Why some conservatives want Trump to lose
Trump and his MAGA crowds have dragged the once-reputable GOP into a cesspool of lying, corruption, immorality, racism, bigotry, and political violence. That’s more than reason enough to ring the fire bells, but it also isn’t conservatism. Christian Schneider probably speaks for many tra[...]
September 19th, 2024 - 11:32 am § in Schools & Colleges
Seattle’s tone-deaf school board
Seattle Public Schools, faced with a budget crisis, are weighing closing schools including the district’s only K-8 deaf program. Supposedly the public has an opportunity to respond to such proposals. But at a school board meeting on September 18, 2024, that was heavily attended by deaf familie[...]
September 18th, 2024 - 9:32 pm § in Russia
Watch Russian ammo dump blow up (video)
The fireball and mushroom cloud resemble a nuclear explosion, but it’s actually a Russian missile and artillery arsenal exploding, after a Ukrainian drone attack. The incident occurred at the Russian town of Toropets on September 18, 2024. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Who’s most to blame for divisive political rhetoric?
This Newsweek article (read it here) is titled, “Has 2024 Campaign Rhetoric Gone Too Far? Analysts Weigh In.” Let’s start with what people agree on: “Polling suggests that most Americans agree that the country is too divided by politics. An Ipsos survey … found that 81 [...]
Trump a “normal” candidate? Who is he kidding?
Brad Todd (photo, left) is a GOP strategist and political commentator who describes himself as “a refugee from journalism” (read his profile here). Todd wants Democrats to “back off” from “apocalyptic rhetoric” that electing Trump would end democracy. He “co[...]
Pet lost and found
The now-infamous false rumor, amplified by Trump and J. D. Vance, that Haitian immigrant workers in Springfield, Ohio, were stealing and eating people’s pets originated from a police report about a missing cat. Anna Kilgore (photo below), the Springfield woman who reported the missing cat, fou[...]
Trump assassination attempt 2.0
America has always been a violent country. Several presidents, candidates, and leading public figures have been assassinated, with attempts made on others including FDR and Reagan. What happened to Trump isn’t a historical outlier. It shouldn’t be this way. Political violence is bad for [...]
Will Stephen Miller be America’s Heydrich?
Stephen Miller (bio here), an immigration hardliner, likely would become immigration czar in a second Trump administration. Trump has promised “the largest mass deportation campaign in US history,” Mother Jones says (read article here); and last weekend, in a Truth Social post (view it [...]