The 2024 polls show most Americans prefer [x] neither of the above. But presidents don’t need to be popular, and usually aren’t. JFK’s popularity was a big thing in its time because popular presidents are rare. There are three important considerations in choosing a president and po[...]
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April 28th, 2024 - 1:00 pm § in Misc.
Selected Movie & Article Links
Below are links to a sampling of our most interesting, infuriating, or just plain funny movies, articles, and essays. Selections for this list are entirely arbitrary. The-Ave.US has over 23,000 posts, so this isn’t an index. ABOUT THIS BLOG Welcome to The-Ave.US, an introduction to this blog ([...]
GOP legislator’s anti-LGBQT hate tax
Texas state Rep. Bryan Slaton (the gunman in the photo below; read his bio here), a former preacher-man, is a hater. He was elected by country hicks in northeast Texas (details here and here). The product of a Baptist bible college, he wants the state to kill doctors who perform abortions, and wome[...]
February 22nd, 2023 - 1:37 pm § in Law and Courts
The Supreme Court doesn’t care about gun violence
Last year’s Supreme Court decision in the Bruen case is “upending gun laws across the country,” Huffington Post says (see story here). That’s because the court changed the rules about how gun laws are reviewed for constitutionality, in a way that’s very bad for public s[...]
How much are Republicans and the Supreme Court to blame for gun violence?
Well, for starters, America’s gun violence problem is unique. No other country experiences the mass shootings we do. So we’re doing something different from others that encourages it or at least makes it possible. How about lax gun laws? In May 2022, a CNN columnist wrote (here), “[...]
January 31st, 2023 - 1:19 pm § in Politics, Republicans
“Ultimately voters decide”
That’s the excuse Republicans are using for doing nothing about George Santos. It’s what GOP House leader McCarthy said three weeks ago (see story here), and it’s the line GOP House caucus chair Stefanik parroted again today (see story here). Let’s examine the logic of their [...]
The Supreme Court goes on trial
The Supreme Court’s new term begins tomorrow. And with recent polls showing three-fourths of Americans distrusting the court (see, e.g., story here), it’s the court itself that’s on trial this term. Several things contributed to the Supreme Court’s nosedive, most of them the [...]
September 22nd, 2022 - 1:48 am § in Politics, Republicans
GOP House nominee opposed women voting
John Gibbs (photo, left; bio here), a Stanford-educated software engineer and former Trump administration official who won a primary for a Michigan House seat by defeating an incumbent who voted to impeach Trump, “has a history of making false, inflammatory, and conspiratorial remarks on his [...]
Why discriminating against gays isn’t a religious right
Private colleges are in the limelight this week in the religious right’s war against gays. Earlier this week, the Seattle Times reported that Seattle Pacific University, a private Methodist-affiliated college, is suffering enrollment declines and shedding faculty and students because of its po[...]