by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, August 26.
- Clinton Says Trump Has Helped Promote Racist Ideology (Uhhh…it’s not just “Clinton Says,” it’s fact and the media should report it as such.)
- Obama to create the largest protected marine area on the planet (“He’s expanding the protected area off of the coast of Hawaii. With Friday’s action, a total of seven presidents have taken steps to safeguard part of the archipelago — one of the most biologically diverse areas of the world.”)
- Hillary Clinton’s Alt-Right Speech Was Shrewd Strategy (“It was the speech GOP leaders should’ve given when they had the chance.”)
- Fox’s Shepard Smith: Clinton’s Speech Tying Trump To The Alt-Right “Used Donald Trump’s Own Words” Against Him (Clinton “Just Tagged Her Republican Rival As A Racist, Fearmongering Conspiracy Theorist” And “Was Historically Accurate On His Policies, On All Reviewed Points”)
- What Is The “Alt-Right”? A Guide To The White Nationalist Movement Now Leading Conservative Media
- Hillary Clinton Microwaves Donald Trump’s Axis of Tinfoil
- Hillary’s Lifeboat to the GOP (“The Democratic nominee offered her rivals a way to save themselves from the catastrophe that is Donald Trump.”)
- Hillary’s Best Speech Ever. (It really might have been.
- Hillary Clinton’s Alt-Right Speech Isolated and Destroyed Donald Trump (“By definitively linking him to the alt-right, she shredded any remaining legitimacy he had with sane Republicans.”)
- The disturbing dawn of the alt-right: Donald Trump’s the leader of a dark movement in America
- How Donald Trump Won Over Europe’s Right-Wing Xenophobes (“‘Don’t blame me if I say I hope that Donald J. Trump will win,’ says Dutch ethno-nationalist leader Geert Wilders.” Shuddderrr….)
- Trump’s repellent inner circle
- Donald Trump is a flake and a fraud (“It’s an illusion to think that a vote for Donald Trump is a vote for any particular policy.”)
- Economists Who’ve Advised Presidents Are No Fans of Donald Trump (“In a WSJ survey, no former members of the White House Council of Economic Advisers—spanning eight presidents—openly support Mr. Trump”)
- The Farage factor: He’s just like Donald Trump, but much better at shilling his nationalism and xenophobia (“The U.S. should feel lucky that Trump isn’t as effective as his radical European counterpart”)
- Hillary and the alt-right: The toxic endurance of political extremism (“Hillary Clinton takes on a right-wing racist fringe that will live on long after Donald Trump is done exploiting it”)
- Australians are mortified by Trump’s rise
- Donald Trump must think we’re all fools
- Jill Stein’s fairy-tale candidacy (She’s batty, and her running mate is even worse.)
- Hillary Clinton Denounces the ‘Alt-Right,’ and the Alt-Right Is Thrilled
- Krugman: No, Donald Trump, America Isn’t a Hellhole (“Taken literally, that’s nonsense. But today’s increasingly multiracial, multicultural society is a nightmare for people who want a white, Christian nation in which lesser breeds know their place. And those are the people Mr. Trump has brought out into the open.”)
- Tim Kaine Scoffs at Trump’s ‘Bigot’ Attack on ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’
- Kaine gets friendly reception and gentle ribbing on the “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”
- McAuliffe entertains lawmakers at mansion on eve of revenue shortfall announcement
- Same-sex marriage is legal. Virginia’s constitution should catch up with the law.
- Will Don Beyer’s Fundraising Ability Land Him a Senate Seat? (My guess is that it will be Bobby Scott.)
- Lawmakers want to know why U-Va. stockpiled $2.2 billion but raised tuition anyway (“While many prestigious public universities have similarly large funds, the practice often stirs controversy in an era of skyrocketing education costs and student debt.”)
- Trump’s Virginia Mini-Me: Corey Stewart ties his ambitions to the GOP candidate (Corey Stewart is truly evil.)
- Veteran federal prosecutor joins 2017 race for Virginia lieutenant governor
- Gov. Terry McAuliffe sums up Trump’s pitch to black voters as ‘Your life sucks’ (And to white voters as “America sucks.”)
- EDITORIAL: Virginia’s budget deficit could be worse
- Rainy Day Fund will help soak up Virginia’s budget shortfall – for now
- Mike Pence to campaign in Loudoun County on Saturday
- Tragedy and transition: One year after the WDBJ shootings
- Metro board grills transit agency’s execs over mishaps and stumbles
- Today’s forecast: Hot and oppressive
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