Two GOP county commissioners and their attorney, who gave outside parties unauthorized access to voting machines, owe the Pennsylvania secretary of state nearly $1 million, CNN reported on Monday, September 2, 2024 (read story here). The attorney and outside parties were connected to Sidney Powell, [...]
Archive for September, 2024
Rusty cans in a woodchipper
That’s not the actual name of the song, it’s how a critic describes Lara Trump’s singing (story here). Another critic said, “both my dogs ran in and begged me to shoot off fireworks instead,” while another suggested improving the soundtrack by dubbing in a “scream[...]
Republicans for Harris?
It’s true, dozens of prominent Republicans are supporting Harris. They include “former White House officials and national security staff, … White House lawyers who served Republican presidents going back to Ronald Reagan, … even members of [Trump’s] own cabinet who once[...]
September 1st, 2024 - 7:03 pm § in America, Biden, Democrats, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Politics, Republicans
Untangling the Arlington Cemetery controversy
Ceremonies honoring America’s war dead and other heroes are common, and politicians often participate, so why is Trump’s visit to Arlington last week stirring controversy? For starters, federal law prohibits using national cemeteries for political purposes. In addition, Arlington prohibi[...]
How Republicans might win in Washington
Actually, I don’t know if they could, but cutting the anchor rope would be a good way to start. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
September 1st, 2024 - 4:19 pm § in Politics
Election errors aren’t fraud
Here is an example of an inadvertent error by election workers. It resulted in 188 voters in a Wisconsin town not being able to vote in the 2024 GOP primary election for a state assembly seat. This happened because staff in the county election clerk’s office mixed up recently redrawn state leg[...]
Republicans can’t spell
I find a lot of typos in news stories, too, now that the media’s business model has been upended and they can’t afford copyeditors anymore; but this is different, these are spelling errors, not typos. But let’s face it, it’s not only Republicans, but literacy in general that&[...]