Ever since the colonists declared independence on Sunday, July 2, 1775, we’ve celebrated the following Tuesday as the birth of our nation, and venerated the Founding Fathers as the greatest political geniuses of all time. Of course, it’s well known they were a cabal of slaveowners, and a[...]
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Historians rank Trump as 4th worst president
It’s a real challenge to out-worst the 3 presidents who dragged America into the Civil War and then bungled Reconstruction — that’s a very tough act to follow — and Trump didn’t quite make the cut, but he came close. In updated rankings, 142 academic historians surveyed[...]
Trump wanted the military to attack protesters
The murder of George Floyd, a black man, by Derek Chauvin, a white policeman with a history of excessive force complaints, prompted the largest civil-rights demonstrations in U.S. history. Those protests were overwhelmingly peaceful. But America’s president at the time was a white supremacist,[...]
A “peaceful” riot
Many Republicans, with the help of enablers like Fox News, have tried to falsely portray the Capitol riot as a peaceful protest, and even compared the rioters to “tourists”. Here’s one of those so-called “peaceful” protesters: “Forty-three-year-old Shane Jason Woo[...]
Will China’s emperor start a war?
“Xi Jinping is a man on a mission,” the influential Washington D.C.-based Foreign Affairs magazine says. Much of his focus is on domestic issues such as eliminating corruption, political rivals, and internal dissent. But he’s also picking fights with other countries, “especia[...]
Idaho’s far right wants to renounce federal funding despite what that will do to their state
As elsewhere, a civil war is raging within Idaho’s GOP — between far right and even farther right. There are very few Democrats in Idaho. It’s a place where Ammon Bundy is fixin’ to run for governor (although he probably won’t be elected). The current fight is between p[...]
Speaker Trump? Sure, why not?
An idea being floated in rightwing circles is that Trump is elected to Congress in 2022, the GOP recaptures the House, and he becomes Speaker. Sure, why not? There’s no piece of that which is illegal or implausible. Trump is eligible to run for Congress, likely will be elected if does, the GOP[...]
Kentucky Derby rules don’t apply to elections
The titular winner of the 2021 Kentucky Derby may be disqualified after failing a post-race drug test, in which case the second-place horse will be awarded the title and prize money, but it doesn’t work that way in elections, National Review reminds its conservative readers. Following up on a [...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Memorial Day
Anyone remember what Memorial Day is for? Here, kids place flags on veterans’ graves at the Evergreen-Washelli cemetery in Seattle. On this day, I’m thinking especially of the fathers and brothers still somewhere in Vietnam. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Flynn calls for U.S. military coup
It’s hard to believe Michael Flynn was a U.S. Army general. The man is a traitor. He took money from Russia and he’s called for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government more than once. He did so in the Oval Office during a heated debate about Trump’s “options” (he d[...]