by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, July 16.
- Turkey foils bloody coup attempt, closes in on remnants of renegade forces (“More than 1,500 members of the armed forces arrested”)
- Turkey’s trend towards authoritarianism may now accelerate (“What we know about last night’s attempted coup—and what is likely to come next”)
- Erdogan Vows to Punish Rebels as Leaders Say Coup Foiled
- Mike Pence’s hypocritical decision to run on Trump’s ticket
- Two Times Mike Pence Brushed Off Science (Science denial should be an automatic disqualifier for holding public office in America.)
- For Trump, it’s (white) America First (“There are many more, but this column is 800 words — far shorter than Trump’s catalogue of racial animus.”)
- GOP Platform Proposes To Get Rid Of National Parks And National Forests (Yes, these people are utterly demented.)
- Obama calls Gingrich’s sharia-law test ‘repugnant and an affront to everything we stand for as Americans’ (Exactly.)
- Did Trump Just Make a Huge Mistake? (“Mike Pence was billed as a great communicator and smart political player. But in Indiana, his repeated fumbles nearly cost him his political career.”)
- Trump’s “Worst Rollout Ever” Of A Vice-Presidential Pick Widely Mocked (Definitely the gan that can’t shoot straight.)
- Jeb Bush: Trump does not represent the future of the country — or the GOP (“JEB” really doesn’t understand that Trump’s not an aberration, he’s the culmination of how Republicans have behaved for decades now.)
- A Hard Look at the Trump-Pence Campaign’s Penetrating New Logo (“Without question, no serious design house was involved in the making of this logo. Why pay the markup when an intern can throw it together in Microsoft Paint? And, better still, it very accurately conveys the attributes Trump wants associated with his political and personal brand—namely, that he has a penis and he uses it to screw people.”)
- Samantha Bee reveals the hidden meaning behind the new Trump-Pence 2016 logo
- Clinton’s Response to the Terror in France Was Disciplined, Presidential. Trump’s Was… (A train wreck, just like everything else he does.)
- He’s back: Jon Stewart will reunite with Stephen Colbert to cover the RNC
- Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump in Virginia, NBC News poll says
- Attorney General Mark Herring leads rivals in fundraising in first half of year
- Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has cited Indiana Gov. Mike Pence in urging Medicaid expansion
- ‘You should be hung for treason’: Top Trump ally threatens anti-Trump GOP delegate
- Both Trump and Clinton stiff-arm the media. Only one is a genuine threat to it.
- Mark Warner on Donald Trump: ‘I don’t think he has the temperament’
- Virginia Leveraging Military Assets for New Spending, Industry
- Tim Kaine, the ‘boring’ Hillary Clinton VP possibility, isn’t actually that boring
- Please don’t pollute our Potomac (“The coal ash fight is far from over.”)
- History, Va. Constitution the focus in Tuesday Supreme Court hearing (“Tuesday’s special session of the Virginia Supreme Court will be historic, pitting state legislative leaders against the governor in a battle over the limits of executive power. This will be the court’s first special session in 23 years.”)
- Senators in contempt get day before SCOVA, too (“The group held in contempt includes five Democrats and a Republican: State Sens. John Edwards, D-Roanoke, Richard Saslaw, D-Springfield, David Marsden, D-Burke, and George Barker, D-Alexandria, as well as former state Sens. Charles Colgan and Ralph Smith, a Republican.”)
- David Brat may run for Senate if Kaine becomes VP (Please do!)
- Senator Mark Warner talks tech in Charlottesville
- Arlington residents say blizzard cleanup is still making them sick
- A storm risk this afternoon and evening, hot through the weekend
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