John Eastman, a lawyer affiliated with the Claremont Institute, a fascist think tank based in California, declared he’ll defy a House subpoena related to the January 6 insurrection, CNN reported on Friday, December 3, 2021 (see story here). The committee is very interested in what Eastman migh[...]
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December 1st, 2021 - 11:11 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
The hypocrisy of Susan Collins
“Sen. Susan Collins, the moderate Republican from Maine, favors passing legislation to enshrine the protections of Roe v. Wade into law,” NBC News reported on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 (here), as the Supreme Court listens to oral arguments in a Mississippi case challenging Roe v. Wade.[...]
No, Biden’s African travel ban isn’t hypocritical
America is polarized between left and right, with most of us in the middle. I’m convinced most Americans want intelligent discussion of public issues that affect us all. Truth, logic, and reason still matter. I criticize rightwingers on this blog, for good reason. They don’t want reasone[...]
April 5th, 2021 - 12:26 am § in Russia
Russia’s “apocalypse” weapon is real
Weapons experts and Western officials are expressing “particular concern” about a new Russian “super-weapon,” a reactor-powered stealth torpedo called the “Poseidon” designed to sneak past coastal defenses and “inundate U.S. coastal cities with radioactive t[...]
March 18th, 2021 - 3:01 pm § in Politics
The GOP should win this election despite its hypocrisy
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell complained Thursday that House Democrats are “trying to overturn a state-certified election,” The Hill reported on March 18, 2021 (read story here). It’s sorta true. But it’s a House matter, it’s constitutional, and has precedents (594 [...]
Rupert Murdoch, vaccine hypocrite
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 89 (photo, left), whose Fox News allegedly is a “hub of anti-vax propaganda,” got vaccinated through U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) on December 18, “before almost anyone else … presumably because he didn’t want COVID to kill him,̶[...]
December 24th, 2020 - 2:04 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Trump may pocket veto relief bill
This is EVIL. Trump seems determined to hurt as many people as he can on his way out of office, perhaps as retaliation for voting him out of office. Instead of signing the Covid-19 relief bill that took months to negotiate while millions of Americans languished, he declared he won’t sign it un[...]
December 22nd, 2020 - 12:16 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
The GOP’s Iowa hypocrisy
Rita Hart, an Iowa Democrat who lost a race for Congress in November by 6 votes, has filed “an official notice of contest” asking the House of Representatives to reject the results and order “a hand recount of every ballot,” NBC News reported on Tuesday, December 22, 2020, he[...]
December 8th, 2020 - 3:16 pm § in Politics
Hypocrisy is one thing Republicans are good at
Something Republicans are truly good at is hypocrisy: “During the confirmation process for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., decried the ‘anti-faith attacks against Amy Coney Barrett coming from the left’ as ‘disgusting.’ Loeffler was[...]
Karenpocalypse (video)
Alternate title: “How to get arrested in 60 seconds.” Selected vignettes of people who think rules don’t apply to them. This is too darn funny not to post it. https://youtu.be/QHqGqOWZ4gA Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]