But she spent four months in jail, anyway, because Idaho is a lousy rotten state. Laurie Erickson of Boise, Idaho, is an ex-convict. When she was released in 2018, the department of corrections didn’t tell her she couldn’t vote. While she was still on probation in 2020, the secretary of [...]
Who will be president if Trump wins?
It’s not a trick question. “Anyone who’s paying attention has noticed that Donald Trump isn’t doing so well. … He is sometimes unable to answer a basic question,” Salon says here. The implications are obvious: CNN‘s Leigh McGowan suggested the Trump campaign[...]
Trump kisses a woman not his wife (video)
The smooch comes at the end of the video. See story and photo here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
James Carville: “The Constitution is on the ballot”
James Carville, 80, Bill Clinton’s former campaign manager, and now an aging political pundit on the Democratic side of things, has been predicting Kamala Harris will win the 2024 election. Nobody knows; polls suggest it could go either way, and Carville admits he “could be wrong.”[...]
Arkansas’s lithium bonanza
The element lithium is emerging as a strategic commodity because of its role as a battery material in electric vehicles and renewable energy. China, with over 9 million tons of reserves, has been a major supplier. With tensions rising between China and U.S.-allied nations, the U.S. has been looking [...]
October 22nd, 2024 - 2:29 pm § in Politics
Yard sign thieves
This incident in Springfield, Missouri, involved theft of Harris-Walz yard signs (a longer video is here). Trump signs are being stolen, too (see, e.g., video here); people on both sides are doing it. It shouldn’t happen. Legally, yard signs are private property, and taking them is a crime. It[...]
October 21st, 2024 - 11:34 pm § in China
U.S. revives Tinian airfields for conflict with China
During the closing stages of World War 2, American B-29s based on Tinian bombed Japan, culminating in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Read that history here.) Now the U.S. is reclaiming the abandoned runways from jungle overgrowth, to use as a backup in case U.S. planes must be dispe[...]
October 21st, 2024 - 8:04 pm § in America, Biden, Christianity, Democrats, Donald Trump, Law and Courts, Politics, Racism, Republicans, Schools & Colleges
The tides of political change
Tides flow and ebb, and so does America’s political center. From 1980 to 2005, the progressive left “was mostly irrelevant to national politics,” a Vox article says (here). “The Cold War was over, and capitalism reigned ascendant.” The parties shifted — the GOP to[...]
October 21st, 2024 - 6:07 pm § in Environment
Climate change
Climate change is real and happening now, but government intervention is expensive and unnecessary. Humans can keep burning fossil fuels, raising livestock, and engaging in other greenhouse gas-emitting activities to their hearts’ content. Mother Nature will take care of everything, by adjusti[...]
October 21st, 2024 - 3:29 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Is Trump’s latest slander of the Central Park Five actionable?
Trump once wanted these five black men dead, even though the courts adjudged them innocent of the crime he still blames on them. The five men (pictured below), known as the Central Park Five, spent years in prison for a crime they officially didn’t commit. They’ve been fully exonerated, [...]