by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, April 2. Also see President Obama speaking from the “Nuclear Security Summit on one of the greatest threats to global security-terrorists getting their hands on a weapon of mass destruction, such as a nuclear weapon.”
- Nightly Newscasts Ignore Distressing New Study On Climate Change And Sea Level Rise (The corporate media is utterly pathetic.)
- Conservative Media Push Conspiracy That Obama “Censored” “Islamic Terrorism” From French President’s Remarks (“White House Updated The Video To Include All Remarks And Explained Technical Glitch Led To The Audio Being Dropped”)
- Cracks in the GOP wall: The Republicans’ hardline Supreme Court obstruction is crumbling
- Obama Rebukes Donald Trump’s Comments on Nuclear Weapons
- Trump’s many racist supporters (“Not all his backers are bigoted, but it’s impossible to ignore a growing body of public-opinion data.”)
- Trump learns that thinking is hard
- Ted Cruz is no savior: Sorry, Republicans, you’re (probably) still screwed and stuck with Trump
- Uh-oh: Where does all the white rage go when Donald Trump loses?
- North Carolina May Lose U.S. Funding Over Gay Rights Law
- Fact checking the Clinton-Sanders spat over Big Oil contributions (“In the context of her overall campaign, the contributions are hardly significant. It’s especially misleading to count all of the funds raised by lobbyists with multiple clients as money ‘given’ by the fossil-fuel industry.”)
- Whose Foreign Policy Is Scarier: Cruz’s or Trump’s? (“One guy listens to a wild-eyed paranoiac. The other guy listens only to himself.” They’re both terrifying.)
- Sen. Tim Kaine: Netanyahu, Erdoğan Expressed Concern To Me Over Presidential Race
- Trump Takes His Fourth Position On Abortion In Three Days. He’ll Need To Change This One Immediately
- How Bernie Learned to Love the Polls (“Sanders brags about surveys that show him routing ‘nutcase’ Donald Trump.”)
- This Ted Cruz Endorser Would Have Sent Married Gay Couples to Jail
- Senators Kaine; Warner push for funding for National Parks
- McAuliffe vetoes immigration enforcement bills – in English and Spanish
- Government urges justices to reject McDonnell appeal
- Gunman who shot Virginia state trooper had 143 rounds of ammo in his luggage (Greeeeaaaat.)
- Goodlatte criticizes embrace of ‘sanctuary city’ idea (Of course “BADLatte” does.)
- Sen. Warner talks sea level rise impact in Norfolk
- Man slain, second wounded in Arlington near Glebe Road south of Route 50
- Portsmouth Vice Mayor Elizabeth Psimas speaks out against Mayor Kenny Wright, city auditor
- Rain then clearing today; Tonight’s cold front delivers squalls, roaring wind, and a chilly Sunday
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