Lame-duck U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo toured an Israeli settlement in the Palestinian West Bank on Thursday, November 19, 2020, the BBC reported. It’s the first time a high-level U.S. official has ever done so, and the action is considered provocative. But it’s consistent with Tr[...]
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November 19th, 2020 - 1:43 pm § in America, Biden, Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Israel/Palestine, Politics
Why Pompeo’s provocative visit to a West Bank settlement is a bad idea
Why Trump lost the election
Excerpted from a Time magazine article (read it here): “Few other Presidents in modern history so inflamed the nation.” “Trump’s pride didn’t just precede his fall, it precipitated it. … Trump thought he could wish away a deadly virus. He dismissed his legions of crit[...]
Tradition, interrupted
Laying Christmas wreaths at the graves in Arlington National Cemetery won’t happen this year because of the pandemic. Read story here. Update (11/17/20): The Army Secretary reversed the decision and ordered the wreath laying to proceed. Read that story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Why saying the election was “stolen” is offensive
This posting is opinion. There is no evidence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election was changed by illegal votes or fraud. To say it was, without evidence, is to falsely accuse innocent people. It slanders the thousands of election workers who manned the polls and counted the ballots by impl[...]
Space-X launch (video)
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The White House staff are delusional
This article contains news quoted from Huffington Post with liberal commentary. “The operating ‘assumption’ at the White House is that Donald Trump is heading into his second term, his trade adviser Peter Navarro said Friday …. ‘We think he won that election,’ sai[...]
Stealing Biden’s electors won’t work
Many Republicans are angry about losing the election to Biden, not realizing that their perpetual state of belligerence and anger frightens many people away from the GOP (reminding them, among other things, of Hitler’s brownshirts). It isn’t just their anti-democracy attitude that turns [...]
Flying Tiger pilot is still flying
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Why the GOP hurts itself with talk of legislatures overturning Biden’s win
Some Republicans are still entertaining the cockamamie idea of gerrymandered legislatures ignoring the voters and hijacking their states’ electoral votes for Trump. Even Trump’s legal team reportedly is considering the scheme as a last-ditch effort, the Huffington Post reported on Thursd[...]
Art of the Vietnam War
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