Marco Rubio (R-FL) has been a U.S. Senator for 11 years now, and over that time he’s committed to being mealy-mouthed about abortion (see article here). He’s also flip-flopped. Back in 2013, he sponsored a Senate bill to ban abortion after 20 weeks, with exceptions for the life of the mo[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Repugnants’
Ashley Biden’s diary thieves plead guilty
Ashley Biden left her diary and some other personal belongings at a friend’s house in Florida where she had stayed briefly, planned to collect them later. An acquaintance of the friend named Aimee Harris, who also stayed at the house, stole the diary and some of the other items; then she conta[...]
How to deal with GOP fantasies
The world is a cacophony of noise, and we learn to tune it out. My professional background is news reporting and law; so I was trained to be careful about factual accuracy, and reach conclusions by a process of fact-based reasoning. In my lines of work, getting the facts right mattered. But then, th[...]
GOP attack ad puts blackface on black mayor
“Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has accused a conservative super PAC of darkening her skin in a television ad meant to slam Illinois’ Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker,” the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail reported on Wednesday, August 24, 2022 (read story and see video of ad here). T[...]
August 23rd, 2022 - 5:45 pm § in Politics
Vote first, ask questions later
A South Carolina GOP state legislator claims he’s been losing sleeping after being told by a doctor the fetal heartbeat bill he voted for could’ve killed a teenage girl. Sounds like he has more conscience than most Republicans, but wouldn’t it have been better to consider the conse[...]
Are “In God We Trust” posters in schools really a problem?
“Civil rights advocates are ringing alarm bells about officials distributing ‘In God We Trust’ posters in Texas schools after a state law took effect requiring public campuses to display any donated items bearing that phrase,” the Guardian reported on Sunday, August 21, 2022 [...]
Most GOP voters still think Trump should be above the law
An NBC News poll conducted Aug. 12-16, 2022, asked if the investigations of Trump should continue. The results were: All voters, 57% yes; Democrats, 92% yes; Independents, 67% yes; Republicans, 21% yes. Read story here, see detailed poll results here. The poll shows about three-fourths of American[...]
Ban abortions or the sewer gets it!
No abortion enforcement, no flood control money. That’s the position of Louisiana attorney general Jeff Landry, a sanctimonious Republican anti-abortion zealot who’s flipping the (mostly black) citizens of New Orleans a big bird because their city government asked local law enforcers to [...]
August 19th, 2022 - 2:26 pm § in Politics
Why you look at images before posting them
A Republican group in Alabama is “super sorry” they copied a GOP elephant logo from the internet and posted it on their Facebook page without looking at it first. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
August 19th, 2022 - 2:10 pm § in Politics
You can’t judge a candidate by his Bible quotes
Joshua Schopp (photo, left), 20, is a Republican school board candidate in Central, Louisiana, a Baton Rouge suburb. Living in Washington state, I don’t see much logic in electing 20-year-olds to school boards, but maybe in Louisiana they already have kids in school by then. In any case, Schop[...]