by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, September 23. Also check out Gary Johnson proving that he’s a far-right-wing lunatic who would trash the planet (and who doesn’t care because in BILLIONS of years, the sun is going to burn up the planet!).
- The Many Times Donald Trump Has Lied About His Mob Connections (“He apparently lied under oath to deny he associated with organized crime figures.” Why is Trump not in jail?)
- WATCH: Three Minutes Of Race Baiting From CNN’s Paid “Law Enforcement Analyst” Harry Houck (“Where Is The Crime? African American Neighborhoods. Hispanic Neighborhoods.” CNN is a cesspool.)
- Charlotte police refuse to release shooting video; mayor imposes curfew
- Presidential debates seriously distort our democratic system (“The ‘winner’ is determined by one-liners, which have nothing to do with governing.” Agreed, I’d get rid of them.)
- The Constitution can’t protect us from Trump (Nor can our system of checks and balances.)
- On foreign policy, Trump is the worst of all worlds (“The candidate is uninformed and dangerously outspoken about it.”)
- Ex-Russian foreign minister: Trump’s autocratic ways make me panicky (“The GOP nominee’s power grab feels eerily familiar.”)
- Media Matters’ Do’s And Don’ts For Moderators And Media Covering The 2016 Presidential Debates (“Do: Fact-Check The Candidates In Real-Time; Don’t: Perpetuate Media’s Double Standard; Do: Use On-Screen Text And Graphics To Rebut Lies In Real-Time; Don’t: Get Bullied By Trump Into His No-Lose Debate Trap; Do: Talk About Candidates’ Specific Policy Plans; Don’t: Feed Into A False Equivalence Between Clinton and Trump”)
- Here are 12 ways Gary Johnson is a hardcore right-wing radical
- On climate change, Gary Johnson is thinking about the future—the far, far, far future. (The dude is smoke wayyyy too much weed.)
- Fear, Anxiety, and Depression in the Age of Trump (“Therapists and their patients are struggling to cope amid the national nervous breakdown that is the 2016 election.”)
- Tim Kaine Attacks Trump, Promotes ‘Stronger Together America’ At UNR Visit
- Tim Kaine on Passing Muster with Bill Clinton: ‘I Felt Like a Prospective Son-in-Law’
- Sen. Warner: Yahoo! Hack Shows Need For Data Breach Bill
- Hey, Lester Holt: We Made a Cheat Sheet of Trump’s Favorite Lies for You
- Donald Trump isn’t backing down from his terrifying climate policy (“His approach would revoke crucial climate protections and open up huge amounts of land to fossil fuel drilling.” Say goodbye habitable planet Earth if Trump, god forbid, becomes president.)
- Paul Krugman: The Lying Game (“Here’s what we can be fairly sure will happen in Monday’s presidential debate: Donald Trump will lie repeatedly and grotesquely, on a variety of subjects…Here’s what we don’t know: Will the moderators step in when Mr. Trump delivers one of his well-known, often reiterated falsehoods?”)
- A conservative intellectual explains why the GOP has fallen to Donald Trump (“The conservative movement has failed. Its traditional package of ideas — free market economics, social conservatism, and an interventionist foreign policy — has long dominated the Republican Party but has clearly failed to win over enough actual voters to secure the White House.”)
- Clinton has modest lead over Trump in Virginia, new polls say
- McAuliffe attracts heat from pipeline foes but kudos from clean energy sector during Roanoke visit
- 4th Circuit judges weigh Virginia voter ID with N.C. case in mind
- Va. economic development office to lose international trade division, refocus mission
- Appeals court to hear challenge to Virginia’s voter-identification law
- Va. Del. Richard Morris is charged with assaulting family members (The party of “family values” strikes again.)
- This small-city Virginia government may have solved the pay gap (“Detailed study by Alexandria, Va., shows women in city government are paid 94 cents of every dollar their male counterparts receive.”)
- We needed rain, but a flood? Here’s how the 3-day downpour affected people across the region
- One of the most prolific meth dealers in recent Hampton Roads history handed 25-year sentence
- Heat spike today, but it turns splendid as the weekend progresses
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