Friday News: Terrorist Attack in Nice; Pence “Boring, Incoherent, and Inept;” Kaine “Nails Most of His Lines”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, July 15. Also, check out that haunting, disturbing ad by the Clinton campaign…

• Truck rams Bastille Day crowd in Nice, France, killing at least 84 (“Incident in Nice is treated as terrorism”)
• Statement by the President on the Attack in Nice, France
• Newt Gingrich: Test every Muslim in U.S. to see if they believe in Sharia (Wildly, insanely unconstitutional and unAmerican.)
• Obama confronts critics at town hall on race
• Obama Addresses Critics, Renews Calls for Unity at Town Hall on Police
• The sad incurious case of Mike Pence: Why he’s a perfect fit for Donald Trump (“Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is the perfect hype man for Donald Trump’s rolling circus”)
• Mike Pence, Cigarette Truther
• This Isn’t Funny Anymore. American Democracy Is at Stake. (“Anyone who supports Donald Trump is a traitor to the American idea.”)
• Trump’s Apparent VP Pick Is Boring, Incoherent, and Inept (“But at least Mike Pence has no political future.”)
• Bengazhi, Bill Clinton’s scandals: Republicans poised to break out their greatest hits at convention circus (“The GOP is going back to the well, building at least the first 2 nights of the convention around stale attacks”)
• Trump delays V.P. announcement, even as Pence emerges as probable choice
• Obama has helped us peer into the racial divide (And a LOT of white people remain deeply in denial.)
• Why Republicans’ new anti-immigrant platform likely spells doom for them
• Democrats ‘freaked out’ about polls in meeting with Clinton
• Tim Kaine teaches Clinton supporters to say ‘ready for Hillary’ in Spanish
• In Audition With Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine Nails Most of His Lines
• Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine: An Adorably Benign Ticket
• In VP audition with Hillary Clinton, Sen. Tim Kaine shows off his Spanish, attacks Donald Trump
• GOP Cleveland organizers beg Adelson for $6 million (“The GOP admits two dozen companies have pulled out because of Trump.”)
• Report: Roger Ailes Is Trying To Cover Up Widespread Sex Discrimination Claims
• Everything You Need To Know About The Extremists Who Will Highlight Trump’s Republican Convention
• Hannity Will Stop At Nothing To Help Trump. He May Have Finally Gone Too Far.
• Anne Holton, Tim Kaine’s Wife: 5 Fast Facts You Need To Know
• Editorial: Virginia’s open but is business buying?
• Indiana Gov. Mike Pence a favorite of Virginia’s social conservatives (Blech.)
• What’s a nice guy like Sen. Tim Kaine doing in a campaign like this?
• McAuliffe in Bidding War to Get FBI Building to Move to Northern Virginia
• The mystery of the felon voting-rights list (More wisdom – not! – from the Republican Times-Disgrace editorial board.)
• Virginian-Pilot editorial: It’s not a U.Va. slush fund (“Her two terms completed on the University of Virginia Board of Visitors, former Rector Helen Dragas slammed the door on her way out, muttering all the way. A little more reflection and a more judicious good-bye might have made a more constructive contribution to Virginia higher education.”)
• Update: Lawmakers question UVa on fund’s creation
• He said it was consensual. She said she blacked out. U-Va. had to decide: Was it assault? (“They met at a raucous, drunken party and ended up in a bathroom together. The case, in many ways typical of those on U.S. campuses, tore through both their lives.”)
• Metro planners trying to see beyond SafeTrack (“Will new trains and better tracks be enough to lure more riders and ease Metrorail’s budget problems?”)
• Norfolk’s new “Nighthawks” program will launch Friday for young adults in high-crime neighborhoods
• Navy veteran, LGBT activist Nicole Carry appointed to Norfolk City Council
• Hot and a little less humid today into the weekend, with passing storm chances