by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, August 31.
- Death of senior leader al-Adnani caps bad month for ISIS
- Can Trump Be This Stupid? (Not a Trick Question) (“Peña Nieto has massive and overlapping reasons to want to embarrass Trump. “)
- Internet erupts with hilarity over Trump’s visit to Mexico: ‘Keep him until he releases his taxes’
- 9 days, 11 positions: Donald Trump’s spectacular immigration flameout
- Tim Kaine Presses Donald Trump on Health, Mocking a Doctor’s Letter
- Kaine Launches Attack on Trump’s ‘Threat to American Democracy’
- Colin Powell’s foundation and Hillary Clinton’s are treated very differently by the media (The media consistently holds the Clintons to different, and MUCH higher, standards than almost anyone else. Why?)
- Trump’s brazen immigration flip-flops (“Whatever he says on Wednesday, he is almost certain to have previously said very nearly the opposite.”)
- Trump can’t fake love of ‘the blacks’ (“‘The,’ as Trump uses it, effectively functions as a separatist term, which tells us a great deal.”)
- Donald Trump’s surrogate circus (“One frequently has to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find people willing to make Trump’s case.”)
- Clinton camp thinks Trump fell for old trick (“The Democrat’s team telegraphs a red-state push and then cheers Trump’s detour outside the battleground zone.”)
- Trump will meet with Mexico’s president (Bizarre; the central premise of Trump’s campaign is “build a wall” and “deport the ‘illegal’ immigrants.” Without that, what’s he got? The meaningless, nonsensical “make America great again” slogan?)
- Trump surrogate apologizes for Clinton blackface tweet
- Trolls, true believers and Trump: Decoding the alt-right’s nihilistic revolution (“Some alt-right Trumpians truly want to destroy liberal democracy; others just want a front-row seat at the circus”)
- The GOP’s war with itself: Rumors spread of a brewing coup against Paul Ryan — but that’s only the beginning (“Rumors of an anti-Ryan coup roil the Beltway, but the real story is a long war between moderates and the far right”)
- Here’s the Republican Who Can Stop Trump From Becoming President (“Hint: He was conspicously absent from the Republican National Convention.”)
- The Real Clinton Foundation Revelation (“Everyone in Washington plays favorites. It’s not illegal, even if it isn’t pretty.”)
- McCain and Rubio win Senate primaries but face tough fights ahead
- Trump Pushes Right-Wing Media’s Nonsense Conspiracy Theory That Huma Abedin Is A Threat To America
- Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway: ‘Rape would not exist’ if women were strong enough
- Judge in Trump University case shoots down latest attempt to dismiss fraud lawsuit
- Gavin Grimm just wanted to use the bathroom. He didn’t think the nation would debate it.
- Craft beer and China won’t solve Virginia’s economic woes
- Virginian-Pilot editorial: Democracy wins in GOP primary
- Supreme Court of Virginia may take up Confederate flag issue (“It takes one justice out of seven to decide whether the entire Supreme Court of Virginia will hear the Heritage Preservation Association’s appeal of the Danville Confederate flag case.”)
- Schapiro: Morrissey’s tough to beat because he’s a tough act to follow (“Defeating Morrissey for Richmond mayor could require the Establishment to throw over one or more of its candidates. But who?”)
- Editorial: Another allegation against Joe Morrissey surfaces
- In Norfolk and Virginia Beach, some city employees earn thousands in bonuses
- Princeton Review gives Virginia Tech top ranking for quality of life, love of school
- Forecast: Another day of hot and humid weather ahead
