by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, September 3. Also check out President Obama’s weekly address, in which he touts the labor movement (“all of that progress is stamped with the union label) and the tremendous economic progress made over the course of his administration.
- Obama’s national monument expansion shows why conservation matters more than ever (“Biodiversity is crucial to human safety.”)
- FBI Memo Confirms Clinton Email Classification Story Has Little To Do With Her Private Server
- Trump’s anti-Muslim tirades have costly consequences
- Memo to GOP: Forget your obstructionist policies. They backfired. (“They contributed to the decline of the GOP brand and the rise of Trump.” Very much so.)
- The New York Times Screws Up Its Clinton Coverage, Part Infinity (And how about the Washington (Com)Post?)
- Trump just hired the Captain Ahab of Clinton haters (“New deputy campaign manager David Bossie has been on the hunt for over 20 years.”)
- Trump and the academy: Political science refashions itself to deal with the Republican nominee (“Racial resentment was tightly linked to Mr Trump’s supporters. These results held true when we controlled for region, race and religion, among other factors: 59% of Trump supporters in the Republican primary scored in the top quartile on racial resentment, compared with 46% of Republicans who backed other candidates and with 29% of voters overall”)
- The decline of the black Republican (“From Ed Brooke and Frederick Douglass to Donald Trump’s race-baiting ‘top pastor.'” Shocker that blacks, Latinos, Asian Americans and non-bigoted whites wouldn’t want to be part of the party of white nationalism.)
- Reality interrupts the Trump Show (“And reality is not as kind to him as reality TV is.”)
- Trump’s kids try painting him as an ‘outsider’ — and the Internet roasts them
- Why Isn’t It a Bigger Deal That Trump Is Being Advised by Sadistic Pervert Roger Ailes? (“A vicious misogynist and workplace predator is working with the Republican presidential nominee. This is not normal.” Can you imagine if Hillary Clinton hired someone like Ailes? The media would go NUTS!)
- Latinos for Trump founder warns of “taco trucks on every corner” if Hillary Clinton wins (“Trump has all the best surrogates” Basically, if you’re a Trump surrogate, you’re a tool, a wacko and/or a complete loser.)
- Putting lives in danger: Trump’s vile Phoenix speech was terrifying — and the result could be tragic (“In Phoenix, Trump gave one of the most violent, vicious and repugnant speeches in modern U.S. political history”)
- Trump Must Burn (“…it’s clear conservatives have no duty to support this clown. Once he is defeated, we must ensure Corey Stewart’s defeat in 2017 for the gubernatorial nomination, and on down the ballot to House of Delegates and various local offices. The Trump movement must be comprehensively crushed. It must BURN.” Note that this article was published on the right-wing blog The Bull Elephant.)
- Fox News’ Chris Wallace Named Presidential Debate Moderator, Despite Massive Conflict (“The final presidential debate will be ‘fair and balanced.'”)
- Trump Campaign Reportedly Saved By Not Paying At Least 10 Top Staffers
- In Honduras, a Spiritual and Political Awakening for Tim Kaine
- North Carolina Tempts The Wrath Of An Angry Court With Its Latest Round Of Voter Suppression (“You lost. Get over it.”)
- Inside the Republican creation of the North Carolina voting bill dubbed the ‘monster’ law (“Drawing from the emails and other evidence, the 83-page ruling charged that Republican lawmakers had targeted ‘African Americans with almost surgical precision.'” That’s what these voter ID and other voter suppression laws are all about, NOT about combating mythical, non-existent “voter fraud.”)
- How the Press is Making the Clinton Foundation into the New Benghazi
- Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe declares emergency for Hermine
- Forest Service wants re-evaluation of pipeline stream crossings
- Libertarian Gary Johnson, Green Party’s Jill Stein, independent Evan McMullin make Virginia’s presidential ballot
- Democrats say Norment’s voting rights proposal would ‘permanently marginalize’ violent felons
- U.S. Attorney’s Office recommends retrial of Bob McDonnell
- Richmond Democrats plan mayoral forum ahead of endorsement; two candidates call process flawed
- Virginia Attorney General calls for federal civil rights investigation of Hampton Roads Regional Jail
- Joe Morrissey hasn’t won the Richmond mayor’s race — yet
- Bicycles and breweries go together, especially in Northern Virginia
- Anne Holton champions college access plan at Virginia Western
- New program will give some Fairfax students their own laptops
- Hampton Roads will be windy and water-logged, thanks to Hermine
- Hermine begins its dance with the region, with the worst impacts staying east
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