Old quote, new day, and some things never change. “It’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: ‘America’s right to know.’ It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, ‘America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Forei[...]
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VIDEO: “Is this patriot enough?”
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China’s up to more no good in the South China Sea
China’s ongoing efforts to seize the South China Sea tend to fly under the radar because they’re piecemeal, incremental, and low-key. But their cumulative effect over time has major impact. The upshot is that China ignores international law and other nations’ rights, and asserts ra[...]
A brief history of U.S. politics since 1960
Excerpted from a Huffington Post article (read it here): “The last time Democrats were able to make far-reaching changes to the regulatory and welfare states was in the 1960s, under President Lyndon Johnson. The last two Democratic presidents, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, had aspirations to [...]
2020 U.S. House elections: Where red and blue seats are
This map, of course, doesn’t tell you where the voters are. Some districts are nearly evenly split. It only tells you where the majorities are. (Source: Wikipedia) (Click on map to enlarge) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Out of control sports fans
Ohio State’s Buckeyes No. 2-seeded basketball team lost to No. 15-seeded Oral Roberts University in the national tournament’s first round, “making Ohio State the ninth No. 2 seed in NCAA Tournament history to lose an opening round game, according to WCMH-TV, the NBC affiliate in [...]
March 18th, 2021 - 5:30 pm § in America, Foreign Affairs
Why America must remain a superpower
Create a vacuum, and China and Russia will fill it, and their authoritarian styles of government will fill much more of the world. Trump’s “America First” version of isolationism, and Rand Paul’s, are wrong. This is a free country, and voters are entitled to make mistakes. Bu[...]
Video: What Trump’s election lies and the Capitol riot are really about
More than anything, they’re about dishonoring these men and everything they fought for. This is just an old Budweiser ad, but it captures the real America. Trump and the Capitol insurrectionists could hardly be more distant from it. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
“Written in hell by the devil”
That’s how Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT, photo) describes the Democrats’ voting rights bill. “Written in hell.” That’s how Sen. Lee, one of the most strident members of Congress, and other GOP senators, feel about American citizens exercising their right to vote. He added, ̶[...]
GOP senators are systematically opposing Biden’s minority nominees
Who happens to be African-American. Rep. Marcia Fudge (R-OH) was confirmed to the cabinet position by a 66-34 favorable vote. (Read story here.) The 34 GOP senators who voted against her nomination are more than two-thirds of the GOP’s 50 senators. The vote is part of an emerging pattern of Re[...]