The New England Journal of Medicine, one of the world’s most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals with roots stretching back to 1811, broke a 209-year tradition of staying out of politics, is calling “for Americans to vote out leaders who have not done enough to address the[...]
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Another O’Keefe smear exposed
This article contains news and liberal commentary. GOP dirty trickster James O’Keefe and his “Project Veritas” minions are at it again, this time falsely accusing Rep. Ilhan Omar’s campaign of illegal “ballot harvesting.” With the usual tactics: Doctored video cli[...]
29 ways Republicans assault the right to vote
Republicans don’t believe in or support democracy. If they did, they wouldn’t try so hard to keep American citizens from voting. Listed below are 29 ways the GOP assaults the right to vote. For details, read this Mother Jones article here. Blocking mail-in ballot requests Blocking univer[...]
Rightwing media’s shrieking grievance peddlers
This article is liberal commentary. Victimhood is an essential piece of conservative mythology which plays a key role in mobilizing the right. Conservative propaganda labors to manufacture a strong sense of grievance among adherents, seeking to convince them they’re victims of profound mistrea[...]
“A Tea Partier Just Called Me Communist,” by Conceptual Guerilla
A Tea Partier Just Called Me “Communist.” Watch My SLAM DUNK Response by Conceptual Guerilla Posted on Daily Kos, Thursday April 12, 2012 · 12:05 PM PDT So I’m working this morning, like I do everyday, trying to come up with ways to promote my film, when I get this email from a[...]
October 2nd, 2020 - 11:31 pm § in America, Economics, Environment, Hypocrisy, Politics, Racism, Religion
“Defeat the Right in Three Minutes” by Conceptual Guerilla
Introduction: This article is a classic I first read many years ago. It’s still on the internet, but getting harder to find, so I decided to archive it on this blog to help preserve it. I hope the author doesn’t mind (I’m pretty sure he won’t). This version came from a third-[...]
YELLOW ALERT: Pennsylvania GOP legislators take a first step toward overruling popular vote
Pennsylvania’s GOP-controlled legislature moved today to disregard the popular vote and choose their state’s presidential electors themselves. “Pennsylvania Republican legislators took the first step on Wednesday toward enacting a nightmare scenario in which they could challenge th[...]
Trump’s right: Mexico will pay for a border wall
In the past, Americans seized large swaths of Mexican territory and made it their own; today, America is a disease-infested country with a collapsing economy and fascist politics. Why wouldn’t Mexicans build a border wall to keep Americans out of their country? Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Chinese bomb U.S. Guam base!
But only in the movies. “The People’s Liberation Army Air Force released a dramatic promotion over the weekend showing … its H-6K strategic bomber… conducting a simulated attack on an unnamed military base … identical to … Andersen Air Force Base in Guam,” N[...]
Will Red America secede?
In this essay, a liberal journalist asks a conservative intellectual probing questions about whether America has a future. I’ll start with my own caveat: No one, not even the smartest and best educated among us, knows the future with certainty. We who read about history quickly realize that ev[...]