by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, March 28.
- Death toll in Pakistan Easter suicide attack climbs past 70
- Tawdry tenor of race leaves some Republicans ashamed (I love it, the “tawdry tenor” is what has “some” Republicans “ashamed?” Not the bigotry, extremism, etc? And not “all” or “most” Republicans? Wonderful.)
- How the G.O.P. Elite Lost Its Most Faithful Voters to Trump (Gee, I can’t imagine why anyone would lose faith in the GOP, after its great economic and foreign policy accomplishments of the Bush/Cheney years! /end snark)
- Hillary Email Scandal Continue To Be Dumb But Non-Scandalous (Right, how is it even a “scandal?” Seems like pretty common behavior, including by Clinton’s Republican predecessors.)
- We’re not a poor country, Mr. Trump (Nor are we a weak country. Nor do we fail to “win” anymore; in fact, we “win” all the time. Nor do we need to make our country “great again,” since we’ve never stopped being “great.”)
- Paul Ryan is still a grifter: The GOP has become a tax-avoidance scam for the 1 percent (“GOP’s propaganda campaign to end estate tax proves it’s a cleverly disguised grifting operation for the rich”)
- Kerry says Republican campaign ‘an embarrassment’ (You can say that again.)
- Paul Krugman: Trade, Labor, and Politics (“Republicans, who claim to stand for free markets, are likely to nominate a crude protectionist, leaving Democrats, with their skepticism about untrammeled markets, as the de facto defenders of relatively open trade.”)
- Republicans Want Guns In Schools But Not At Their National Convention (Nope, no hypocrisy there. LOL)
- The bucks stop with Brat, the economics professor, on federal spending (Worst “economist” – using that word VERY loosely! – in human history? Quite possibly.)
- Our view: From Garbutt to Grundy, do towns deserve to die? (“That’s essentially what a controversial article in the conservative journal National Review recently proposed.”)
- Obama and family attend Easter service at historic Va. church
- Editorial: Portsmouth loses millions city can’t afford
- Syracuse comeback stuns Virginia one win shy of Final Four
- Showers exit early today, then a few nice spring afternoons
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