Someone did in Boise, Idaho. Most Idahoans are decent people, but the state has a reputation for hosting neo-Nazis, who would be the “usual suspects” (minus the implication of innocence) in a case like this. Police are looking for the actual suspects; graffiti vandalism isn’t prote[...]
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November 30th, 2021 - 3:20 pm § in Donald Trump, Jews
The madness of QAnon crowds
It began November 2, when “hundreds of QAnon supporters gathered in Dallas at the site of John F. Kennedy’s assassination because they believed that John F. Kennedy Jr. would appear and announce the reinstatement of Donald Trump as president.” (See story here.) John F. Kennedy Jr. was [...]
November 15th, 2021 - 7:35 pm § in Jews, Law and Courts
Teen arrested for synagogue arson
A Texas teen has been arrested for a Halloween night synagogue fire, ABC News reported on Monday, November 15, 2021 (read story here, more details here). Prosecutors charged Franklin Barrett Sechriest (photo, left), 18, with intentionally setting a fire at Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Austi[...]
Who deserved a Nobel Prize, Ayn Rand or Toni Morrison?
Toni Morrison got a Nobel Prize, Ayn Rand didn’t, despite being more influential. That wasn’t decisive. Rand was a smart, serious, thinker; no question about that. (Bio here; profile here.) She wrote The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, which inspired generations of young people to beco[...]
It’s legal reckoning time for the Charlottesville neo-Nazis
In Charlottesville, harassment became violence, then injury and death, and now a big lawsuit. Lawyers bankrupted Idaho white supremacist Richard Butler (bio here), bulldozed his Aryan Nations compound, and converted it to a peace park (details here). Now, lawyers are going after the organizers of th[...]
Calling torture by its right name
Last week, at least four Supreme Court justices referred to waterboarding as “torture.” I would have missed this tidbit if I hadn’t been perusing a Spokane newspaper looking for something else. What does Spokane have to do with this? Oh, only the fact a key facet of the George W. B[...]
September 30th, 2021 - 1:53 pm § in Jews, Law and Courts
Threw his life away for what?
I don’t get it. It’s senseless. John T. Earnest, 22, described as “a former nursing student,” will spend his life in prison without the possibility of parole for shooting up a synagogue, the Associated Press reported on Thursday, September 30, 2021 (read story here). The stat[...]
What an atheist Jew thinks of Christians
Specifically, members of Congress who think they’re Christians. Immediately, eyes roll, and people look the other way. Christians in Congress? Congress a Christian institution? Gotta be kidding! Congress is a mosh pit. So, Noah Berlatsky, the Jewish atheist, is a freelance writer trying to slo[...]
Why Jews vote Democratic
Because this is a Republican. (Details here and here.) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
August 1st, 2021 - 2:01 pm § in Jews, Law and Courts
Poland is blocking restitution to Holocaust victims
After Germany was defeated and the Soviet Union occupied eastern Europe, the communists nationalized Jewish-owned property seized by the Nazis. After communism fell most former Soviet-bloc countries made efforts “to provide restitution and compensation to their pre-war Jewish citizens.” [...]