“Caitlin Upton was 18 and competing in the Miss Teen USA 2007 pageant when her stumbling response to a question about why some Americans couldn’t find their own country on the map became an early viral sensation,” Yahoo News begins the story here. Since then, that video has served coun[...]
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How to make fun of Melania Trump
I haven’t been to New York City, so I can’t vouch for either the comment or the commentary. Donald Trump calls the place where he acquired fame and fortune “dirty and unsafe.” Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
August 29th, 2024 - 7:28 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Political arguments that are just plain silly
Election years are called “the silly season” for a reason. That’s when partisans try out talking points, to see if anything will stick. This can be a serious endeavor, as when arguments address policy differences, or things that aren’t going well in the country or economy. Bu[...]
The danger of illogic in politics
At a Trump rally in Michigan recently, none of his supporters “believed recent polling showing Trump slipping behind Harris.” “And none could envision a world where they wake up on Nov. 6 and Trump is not the winner; if he isn’t, they say, Harris has either cheated or the electi[...]
August 28th, 2024 - 12:46 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
How Trump wrested Kentucky from the Democrats (video)
Elliott County, Kentucky, voted Democrat for 144 straight years, then voted for Trump. This video explains why, through the voices of those voters. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
August 27th, 2024 - 9:01 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Michael Sparks belongs in prison
Michael Sparks (photo, left), 47, a factory worker from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, achieved notoriety as the first rioter to break into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 (bottom photo). He was the proverbial tip of the spear of that violent mob which tried to deprive 81,283,501 Americans of their right to e[...]
August 27th, 2024 - 5:22 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Criminal objects to being indicted
A federal grand jury re-indicted Trump on Tuesday, August 27, 2024, for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election (read story here). Trump is charged with “conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official[...]
News too dumb to print
The Daily Mail, a U.K.-based tabloid, has been bashing the FBI over the Trump assassination attempt. You may recall that Trump held a rally in an open field, a short-staffed Secret Service detail partnered with local cops to provide protection, and errors by law enforcement allowed the shooter to fi[...]
August 25th, 2024 - 6:19 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Support the police, but not this cop
“Supporting the police” doesn’t mean giving a free pass to bad cops. Being against cops who murder black people, plant drugs in drivers’ cars, or throw smoke bombs at good cops while trying to overthrow our government doesn’t make you anti-police. Justin Lee (photo, lef[...]
Fact-checking the fact-checker
Usually we turn to fact-checkers to help us decide whether we can trust politicians. But sometimes the fact-checker comes under fire. This example, cited by MSNBC here, comes from PolitiFact. The Democrats played a 2016 video clip of Trump saying “there has to be some form of punishment for wo[...]