by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, February 19. Also check out the video from last night’s Democratic town hall in Las Vegas.
- Republican primary in South Carolina narrows to three-man contest
- Trump repeats claim that he opposed Iraq war — then backtracks after pro-war interview surfaces
- Scalia was an intellectual phony: Can we please stop calling him a brilliant jurist? (“No one wants to disrespect the dead. But we disrespect the truth to hail his legal mind and phony, grand principles”)
- Donald Trump and the politics of the middle finger (“His philosophy embraces a double standard of un-American nastiness.”)
- Donald Trump’s campaign of conspiracy theories (“Trump has risen in part because of his embrace of dangerous conspiracy theories.”)
- Will South Carolina be the end of the road for Jeb Bush?
- Bernie Sanders’s statistical shenanigans (“Promises of big growth are usually too good to be true.” I can’t stand when Republicans do this crap, don’t like it when Dems do it either!)
- Bernie Sanders’s outlandish plans make Republicans look serious
- Pope Francis is just the latest world leader to call out Donald Trump
- Biden: Obama seeking court nominee who enjoys GOP support
- Clinton campaign first on the air in Virginia
- Paul Krugman: Varieties of Voodoo (“By endorsing outlandish economic claims, the Sanders campaign is basically signaling that it doesn’t believe its program can be sold on the merits, that it has to invoke a growth miracle to minimize the downsides of its vision. It is, in effect, confirming its critics’ worst suspicions.”)
- Kevin Drum: Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Has Crossed Into Neverland
- U.S. Strikes ISIS Camp in Libya, Killing Over 30
- Virginia bill to keep officers’ names secret would be first in the nation, experts say
- Victims of forced sterilization deserve a gesture of justice from Virginia
- Virginia bill to protect the religious is really about continuing the fight over same-sex marriage
- Virginia becomes Cuba’s largest U.S.-based agricultural exporter
- Editorial: Access blocked to court records, which should be public
- Our view: The General Assembly at its midpoint
- Budget expected to include pay raises for state workers
- Trump wrong for calling pope ‘disgraceful,’ Va. faith leaders say
- Garrett revels in Senate pyrotechnics (“…even if he occasionally gets burned when he sets them off.”)
- Under revised funding plan, new water crossings for Hampton Roads pushed far into future
- Audit puts hold on millions of dollars in federal funding for Virginia Beach schools
- Cool today, sunnier and warmer this weekend; Saturday is a real gem
