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April 17th, 2021 - 10:39 pm § in Law and Courts
America’s worst police department?
On June 26, 2020, a Loveland, Colorado cop violently arrested a frail, elderly, confused woman, breaking her bones (first video below). Karen Garner, 73, who suffers from dementia, had wandered away from her family to a nearby Walmart store, picked up $13.88 of merchandise, and walked out. Store emp[...]
April 9th, 2021 - 10:52 pm § in Health
Americans got even more obese during the pandemic
The bad news: 42% of us gained weight gain “due to Covid,” with the average gain a whopping 29 lbs., according to the American Psychological Association. (Read story here.) Probably due to a combination of being shut in, closed gyms, stress, depression, and home cooking. The good news: L[...]
March 18th, 2021 - 5:30 pm § in America, Foreign Affairs
Why America must remain a superpower
Create a vacuum, and China and Russia will fill it, and their authoritarian styles of government will fill much more of the world. Trump’s “America First” version of isolationism, and Rand Paul’s, are wrong. This is a free country, and voters are entitled to make mistakes. Bu[...]
How America’s civil society corroded, and how to repair it
This essay is based on an article in The Atlantic published on March 8, 2021. Read it here. Alexis de Tocqueville, the great French chronicler of American democracy as it existed in the early 19th century, shortly after the French Revolution that went off the rails, concluded that America’s su[...]
How Americans’ meat-eating habits are changing
Way more chicken, less pork, much less beef; plant-based meat substitutes remain a tiny fraction of the market. I’d guess soaring beef prices are the biggest reason, but people also are getting more health-conscious. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
A brief history of African-American heroes
From Revolutionary War days to the present, many African-Americans have given their all for a country that often was reluctant to acknowledge them. While the Tuskegee Airmen are widely known, thanks in part to Hollywood, how many people know the story of the Buffalo soldiers? Or the Harlem Hellfight[...]
“Morning In America” (video)
Lincoln Project video on Biden’s inauguration, playing upon Reagan’s 1980 campaign theme. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
“Corporate America should drop the GOP,” says business writer
Rick Newman of Yahoo Finance writes: “Imagine buying a stock, then learning the seller changed his mind and canceled the transaction, without consequence. “Imagine running a storefront with a landlord who raised the rent whenever he felt like it, regardless of what the lease stipulated. [...]
December 29th, 2020 - 3:24 pm § in Misc.
Should America remain a dominant military power?
For decades, America was seen by many as the guardian of the world’s democracies. Through treaties, we provided a “nuclear umbrella” over non-nuclear states like Japan and most of Europe (where only France and Britain maintain their own nuclear deterrency), and dispatched our conve[...]