by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, April 15. Love that shirt, by the way, photo courtesy of a Facebook friend from the Nats game yesterday. Go Nats! Go impeachment! LOL
- North Korea flaunts long-range missiles in massive parade
- North Korea and the Risks of Miscalculation (“As tensions rise in East Asia, they highlight the dangers of Trump’s unpredictability.”)
- Ex-acting CIA chief: Trump is making North Korea situation worse
- White House says it won’t make visitor logs public (Trump’s really draining that swamp, eh?)
- Trump claims he can’t be sued for inciting rally violence
- White House showdown on Paris deal set for next week (Not only shouldn’t we be pulling out, we should be pushing ahead as fast as possible on the transition from dirty to clean energy!)
- Trump is now destroying a healthy health-care system (“He’s undoing Obamacare through a system of confusion and retreat.”)
- MOAB Bombing Shows CNN Is Actually More Obsessed Than Fox News With Bomb Videos (CNN is a disgrace. Do not watch it.)
- Report Traces How The “Alt-Right” Spread Pro-Assad Propaganda (And Virginia’s own State Senator Dick Black.)
- EPA chief Scott Pruitt tells ‘Fox & Friends’ U.S. should exit Paris climate deal (So much for the “Protection” part of the “Environmental Protection Agency.”)
- Arctic meltdown: Sea and land ice are cracking up at a record pace (“The images from the Arctic ice death spiral are haunting. The impacts will be terrifying.” And Pruitt doesn’t care. Criminal negligence – or worse.)
- Secret White House Visits: Now Easier Than Ever!
- Is Trump Actually in Charge? Or Is It Worse Than We Feared? (“I haven’t felt this shaky about the world in half a century.” I really don’t think we can make it through four years like this. Great job, Trump voters, you really showed ’em!)
- GOP Sen. Flake was asked to defend Trump’s Mar-a-Lago trips. It didn’t go well.
- The Uninjured Victims Of The Virginia Tech Shootings
- Our Revolution endorses Perriello in Va Democratic primary for governor
- Editorial: Kaine is still right about war
- Kaine critical of strikes against Syria (“You shouldn’t approve military action without a discussion about the plan.”)
- Forest Service questions FERC conclusion on merging two pipelines
- LG candidate Susan Platt and husband resolved unpaid U.S. tax bill of nearly $100,000
- Reps. Bob Goodlatte, Morgan Griffith decline to attend town hall meetings (Voters should decline to vote for them in November 2018.)
- After McAuliffe’s cheerleading for Redskins stadium, Democrats running to succeed him take tougher stances on team’s name (I’m more concerned with giving Dan Snyder any taxpayer money to bribe him here. Just N-O.)
- Students at Hampton quiz Perriello on abortion, refugees
- Allegations of sexual harassment, cronyism and impropriety: Did ex-Sheriff Bob McCabe abuse his power?
- Haas: Some gun laws have changed
- Campaign 32 pushes other states to follow Virginia’s example on background check
- D.C.-area forecast: Warm today then warmer tomorrow, and pretty much the same beyond
