by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, February 19.
- Suppressing free press is ‘how dictators get started’: Senator McCain
- Donald Trump Will Leave You Numb (“There’s a dizzying secret to our erratic president’s survival.”)
- Trump attacks ‘dishonest media’ while making false claims at Florida rally (“The president returned to the speech lines of his campaign and insisted that the White House is running ‘so smoothly’ despite reports of chaos and infighting”)
- How Can We Get Rid of Trump? (“So while Democrats can gnash their teeth, it’ll be up to Republicans to decide whether to force Trump out. And that won’t happen unless they see him as ruining their party as well as the nation.” Right now Trump’s “only” ruining the nation, so Republicans don’t care.)
- Struggling to Fill Jobs When Total Loyalty Is a Must (“President Trump is presiding over a government where the upper echelons remain sparsely populated.”)
- Trump administration drafts plan to raise asylum bar, speed deportations
- Trapped in Trump’s Brain (“The Emperor of Chaos spirals into aggrievement and denounces journalists as ‘the enemy of the American people!’ even as he praises Putin.”)
- White House dismisses NSC aide after harsh criticism of Trump (“The aide, Craig Deare, was serving as the NSC’s senior director for Western Hemisphere Affairs. Earlier in the week, at a private, off-the-record roundtable hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center for a group of about two dozen scholars, Deare harshly criticized the president and his chief strategist Steve Bannon and railed against the dysfunction paralyzing the Trump White House, according to a source familiar with the situation.”)
- Leaked Trump tape: ‘You are the special people’ (“Exclusive audio shows how Trump lets loose at his clubs — inviting guests to join him on staff interviews”)
- Donald Trump’s presidency ‘likely to be second shortest in history’, says presidential historian (Would Pence be any better?)
- Four weeks into his presidency, Trump returns to campaign mode (“The president used an adoring crowd in an airport hangar to project his strength after a rocky first month in the White House.” Sick.)
- Trump cites non-existent terrorist attack ‘last night in Sweden’ to justify Muslim ban at Florida rally
- Mark Zuckerberg’s theory of human history (“Zuckerberg is articulating an ambition that is in some ways grander than the US presidency: he wants to use Facebook as the platform on which to build a global civil society, creating a service that encourages communities and cooperation and political participation on a transnational scale. He frames national governments as merely one piece of ‘social infrastructure,’ and suggests that the world might need something to push beyond their limits. He wants Facebook to help humanity take its ‘next step.’ But to do that, he’ll need to make some changes to Facebook…Facebook wants to start making more distinctions between worthy ways of spending time on the platform — ways that create real social bonds and cooperation — and less worthy ones.”)
- In Interview to Haaretz, Tim Kaine Warns Trump: Israeli-Palestinian Peace Is About People, Not Real Estate
- Tim Kaine column: Abstract ACA figures represent real Virginians
- Practicality — not politics — is what’s important in choosing the new FBI headquarters
- Schapiro: The Institute is heard from – again (“Considering the dearth of VMI graduates at the highest levels of Virginia government — currently there are two in the state legislature, both senior Republicans — the Northam and Adams candidacies could prove historic.”)
- Editorial – Gov. McAuliffe keeps throwing your money around like confetti (“The gift from taxpayers to Owens & Minor comes on top of $16 million Virginia and Arlington are giving to Nestlé to lure the company away from California. Maybe a few years from now California will offer Nestlé even more money to move back.”)
- GOP candidates for governor stay surprisingly civil in first debate
- GOP candidates play nice at millenial debate (Yep, the Daily Press can’t spell “millennial”)
- Wittman to helm Navy plan for larger fleet
- Some hope to increase diversity among Va. legislative aides
- Williams: Richmond’s Mayor Stoney must weather outside forces
- A. Barton Hinkle column: Good news – there’s another election to fight about!
- Glenn Davis Takes Lt. Governor Race to Shenandoah Valley
- You don’t have to ride Metro to care about its future
- Coalfields legislators using power of the purse to push new economic development initiative
- Trump’s new veterans secretary supports Hampton Roads health center
- Editorial: The House GOP’s despicable defense of gerrymandering
- Editorial: In Virginia Beach, time for a disparity study
- Spring fever again today, then briefly cooler before another big warm-up
