Memorial Day 2016 News: Trump Keeps Airing Grievances, Attacking Republicans; Krugman Says “Feel the Math”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, Memorial Day 2016.

• Virginian-Pilot editorial: Remember this day and these names
• Donald Trump’s dangerous, nonsensical energy plan (Of all the insane things Trump has said, this arguably the worst, because if followed it would destroy the planet’s environment and basically doom us.)
• Even in victory, Trump can’t stop airing his grievances (This guy is seriously disturbed, needs help badly.)
• Editorial: ‘Their last full measure’
• 700 migrants drowned trying to cross Mediterranean in a week, aid groups say
• Donald Trump keeps giving Republicans major cause for alarm — because he’s still attacking them
• Gary Johnson wins Libertarian presidential nomination
• Marco Rubio on Donald Trump’s White Nationalist Support: ‘It is What it Is’ (Marco Rubio is utterly pathetic.)
• In gorilla’s death, critics blame mother, Cincinnati Zoo
• Chris Wallace Calls Out Trump Campaign Manager: You’re Not Winning With Women, Hispanics
• WSJ editor: Trump needs to be destroyed in the November election to teach GOP voters a lesson
• Paul Krugman: Feel the Math (“So far, election commentary has been even worse than I imagined it would be. It’s not just the focus on the horse race at the expense of substance; much of the horse-race coverage has been bang-your-head-on-the-desk awful, too. I know this isn’t scientific, but based on conversations I’ve had recently, many people — smart people, who read newspapers and try to keep track of events — have been given a fundamentally wrong impression of the current state of play.”)
• Shortchanged by loose money (“When, in just the past 2012-2015 election cycle, the Republican and Democratic leaders of the state Senate, Thomas K. “Tommy” Norment Jr., R-James City County, and Dick Saslaw, D-Fairfax, received between them more than $650,000 just from Dominion, Verizon, beer and wine wholesalers, bankers, car dealers and high interest rate loan companies, was that a triumph of corporate civic spirit?”)
• 2017 look ahead: GOP candidates lined up for statewide offices
• Virginia Tech researchers, public health officials prepare for Zika
• Prosecutors, McAuliffe squabble over list of people with restored rights
• Hike in Roanoke Mountain calls for another century of stewardship for national parks
• Decreasing rain today, then a pleasantly summerlike week