by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, April 13.
- Paul Ryan is not running for president — or passing a budget
- North Carolina Governor Pretends To Fix Anti-LGBT Law With Symbolic Executive Order
- What Happens To Democracy After You Gut The Voting Rights Act, In One Map
- The Cruz-Drudge rift: How Donald Trump has sparked battle between the right and the conservative media giant
- The Secret Origins of the Tea Party (“How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Partnered with the Koch Brothers to Take Over the GOP”)
- The GOP’s pathetic SCOTUS games: Why its Merrick Garland obstruction just got even more embarrassing (“Facing heated criticism, Sen. Judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley agreed to meet with Garland. The meeting was a joke”)
- David Brooks is totally, painfully, irredeemably clueless: Why his latest paean to the good ol’ days is so hard to read (“The New York Times columnist descended into self parody yesterday with his latest indictment of modern politics”)
- Bigotry raises its hideous head in North Carolina
- Questions CNN Town Hall Attendees Should Have Asked the Trump Kids (How about why they enjoy killing and posing with endangered species?)
- Rush Limbaugh Is Facing A Big Pay Cut (“With His Contract Up, Limbaugh’s Radio Boss Teeters On Bankruptcy”)
- Larry Wilmore launches #ForeheadSolidarity: ‘Here’s my forehead tattoo’ F**K U O’Reilly
- Donald Trump, Losing Ground, Tries to Blame the System (And the narcissistic, sociopathic bully goes “waaaaaaaaaah!!!!”)
- Sen. Warner to meet with Supreme Court Justice nominee (More importantly, Warner should tell his Republican buddies to stop subverting the U.S. judicial system and the constitution.)
- Schapiro: Bid to name law school for Scalia triggers injudicious debate (Bizarre and wrongheaded op-ed, with the last paragraph really taking the cake.)
- Virginia hospitals prescribe guidelines to treat opiate epidemic (“Virginia hospital executives on Tuesday announced a plan to keep people from shopping for painkillers in their emergency rooms and to help combat the rise in opioid abuse and deaths.”)
- GOP contender Pat Cardwell excluded from congressional candidate debate in Virginia Beach (“Although Virginia Beach attorney Pat Cardwell was the first person to announce he’s running to succeed retiring Rep. Scott Rigell, the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce has not invited him to its May 20 candidate debate, which may be the only debate before the June GOP primary.”)
- The ugly truth about Confederate memorials (“Why that Johnny Reb statue in Alexandria, Va., belongs in a cemetery”)
- Our view: Should Democrats field a 6th District congressional candidate?
- Norfolk police, firefighters would get raises of 5 to 6 percent under proposed budget
- Virginian-Pilot editorial: Portsmouth governance out of tune
- Cool today, but settling into a nice stretch of sunny spring days
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