by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, November 23. Again, note that the graphic Trump tweeted out is wildly false and racist. In fact, “According to the most recently released set of crime statistics from the FBI (which are from 2014), 82 percent of white homicides are committed by other white people, while black offenders account for just 14 percent of white homicides.” This guy Trump is beyond pathological, as are his supporters.
- Donald Trump: My Fans Were Right To Beat Up Black Protester
- Donald Trump Tweets Fake, Racist And Wildly Inaccurate Murder Statistics
- We Found Where Donald Trump’s “Black Crimes” Graphic Came From (“So there you have it. Donald Trump is posting racist imagery that comes directly from neo-Nazis.”)
- Charles Blow: Anti-Muslim Is Anti-American (Big time.)
- Trump’s outrageous claim that ‘thousands’ of New Jersey Muslims celebrated 9/11 attacks (“There is absolutely no evidence of the celebration cited by the candidate.”)
- America’s leaders are hurting the nation’s image (“Standing strong against terrorism includes avoiding self-inflicted wounds.” Headline should say REPUBLICAN leaders, by the way, as it’s 99% them making the wild, false, bigoted, irresponsible comments.)
- Trump won’t rule out independent run for president
- Poll: Trump retakes lead, Cruz surges in IA; Rubio second in NH (All three are exremists. Add in Carson and that makes four. Not a “moderate”/non-extreme bone in any of them.)
- The poisonous fear of Donald Trump: A recent history of the most politically destructive emotion (“Donald Trump has risen to the top of the GOP field by stoking the fear of the right. Here’s what it means”)
- Brussels on lockdown as British PM pushes for more action against Islamic State
- Macri topples Argentina’s Peronists, tough reforms ahead
- Editorial: Virginia high court blocks the sunlight (Wow, what is this, the third day in a row I’ve agreed with the Republican Times-Disgrace editorial board? LOL)
- Virginia Retirement System benefits to get review by General Assembly (For starters, divest from fossil fuels; they’re bad for the environment and a bad long-term investment as well.)
- Meeting about Virginia mosque exposes deep divide (“The Islamic Center of Fredericksburg received letters and gestures of support after protesters interrupted a hearing on a plans to build a bigger mosque.”)
- UMW poll shows candidates for governor are relatively unknown (“Among registered voters, 9 percent had a favorable impression of Gillespie, 9 percent had a negative impression and 77 percent said they had not heard enough to express an opinion. For Northam, 8 percent of registered voters had a favorable impression, 4 percent had an unfavorable impression and 82 percent said they didn’t know enough about him to form an impression.”)
- D.C. area forecast: Cold start to week, but mild by Thanksgiving
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