If you’re in the U.S. illegally, you don’t have a right to be here, and the government can deport you. But that’s a federal responsibility, and there’s a strong legal argument (known as the “preemption doctrine”) that states have no authority to enforce immigratio[...]
Archive for December, 2024
December 26th, 2024 - 3:53 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Border czar floats “halfway homes” for birthright kids
Trump’s future “border czar,” Tom Homan, says “halfway homes” for U.S.-born children “may be a necessary part of Trump’s plans for mass deportation” of illegals, The Hill reported on Thursday, December 26, 2024 (read story here). “As far as U.S. children — childre[...]
December 25th, 2024 - 8:22 pm § in Misc.
Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” (video)
What is Christmas without Mariah Carey singing this song? This video is from her 2023 performance. The perennially popular song, first aired in 1994, still earns her at least $2 million a year (see story here). Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
December 25th, 2024 - 6:07 pm § in Foreign Affairs, Russia
Azerbaijan passenger jet was shot down — but by who?
An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet flying over the Caspian Sea crash-landed at an airport in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day 2025, killing 38 of the 67 people on board. The plane was far off its planned flight path from Baku in Azerbeijan to Grozny in Chehnya (see map here). The airline said the plane[...]
Tesla self-driving isn’t quite perfected yet (movie clip)
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The White House isn’t their house
“Far-right commentator and ally of Donald Trump, Hugh Hewitt, is telling the incoming administration that they should bar all media from the White House except Fox News,” Raw Story reported on Monday, December 23, 2024 (read story here). Hewitt (photo, left) says Peter Doocy, FoxR[...]
Joe Manchin unfairly criticizes the Democratic Party
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (photo, left), 77, who didn’t run for re-election in 2024 and would’ve lost if he did, torched the Democratic Party in a CNN interview on Sunday, December 22, 2024 (read story here). Manchin, who spent his career as a Democrat, re-registered as an independe[...]
Trump wants Panama Canal back
President-elect Trump, claiming Panama is “ripping off” America with exorbitant canal fees, is threatening to seize the canal, The Hill reported on Sunday, December 22, 2024 (read story here). The U.S. took over construction from France in 1904, completed the canal in 1914, and returned [...]