by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, August 21.
- Navy destroyer arrives in Singapore after collision that left 10 sailors missing (“The USS John S. McCain was damaged during an incident with an oil tanker more than three times its size. Rescue efforts were underway to find the crew missing from the collision. The incident comes two months after seven sailors died when another destroyer in the 7th Fleet, the USS Fitzgerald, was struck by a container ship south of Japan.”)
- Blow: Failing All Tests of the Presidency (“We are leaderless. America doesn’t have a president. America has a man in the White House holding the spot, and wreaking havoc as he waits for the day when a real president arrives to replace him. Donald Trump is many things — most of them despicable — but the leader of a nation he is not. He is not a great man. Hell, he isn’t even a good man.”)
- NASA Prepares for August 21 Total Solar Eclipse (“On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the Sun. The eclipse’s path will stretch from Salem, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. Observers outside this path will still see a partial solar eclipse. NASA will cover the eclipse live from coast to coast, beginning at noon EDT.”)
- Krugman: What Will Trump Do to American Workers?
- Trump’s White Nationalist House
- The Trump Economy Is a Gilded Mediocrity
- Dick Gregory’s devastating, and funny, attack on racism
- Jerry Lewis, Comedic Force of Nature, Dies at 91
- Trump may be planning to make a very bad decision on the Iran deal
- The White House’s secretiveness is getting so bad, it’s probably illegal (“Opacity about visitor logs means the courts may have to step in.”)
- Steve Bannon Readies His Revenge (“The war on Jared Kushner is about to go nuclear.”)
- Tucker Carlson and the Daily Caller: Taking white nationalism mainstream (“Carlson’s media empire steers just clear of the alt-right, while telling racists their beliefs are respectable” One of the worst people in America…))
- Five times in one week cable news couldn’t get a Republican to go on TV to talk about Trump
- Tucker Carlson and Trump’s Confused Defenders
- Is It Time for Trump Aides to Resign? (“Many presidential appointees face an agonizing choice—leave the president with fewer restraints on his darker impulses, or stay to serve the republic even if it costs their integrity.”)
- Trump Official Once Praised a Defender of Holocaust Deniers (“Now she’s in charge of family planning policy.”)
- Vice reporter says Charlottesville marchers barely mentioned Lee monument: ‘They chanted about Jews’
- Falwell Jr.: Trump praised participants at white supremacist rally because he had ‘inside information’ (I can’t believe anyone in their right mind attends Falwell’s “college.”)
- Trump repeatedly called for withdrawal from Afghanistan, now will reportedly announce troop surge
- How Big Is The Bannon Wing Of The Republican Party? (“Among Trump voters, approximately 15 percent supported all five positions, including a B or better for their local police. So let’s call this 15 percent the ‘core Bannon’ voter. This isn’t a particularly large group.”)
- Why the ACLU is adjusting its approach to “free speech” after Charlottesville (“The ACLU positioned itself to lead the resistance. Now its deepest traditions could be at stake.”)
- Kaine: Virginia should consider a statue of Pocahontas instead of Robert E. Lee
- Who can change the names of roads in Virginia?
- Tom Walls column: Taking sides in Charlottesville (“The peddlers of moral equivalence might ask themselves why they are trying so hard to find a way to excuse people who arrived in Charlottesville with an unabashed, explicit agenda of white supremacy, anti-Semitism, intimidation and violence. The apologists ought to consider whether reprehensible, violent people who trash American ideals are somehow less odious when some who oppose them are violent in response.”)
- McAuliffe to talk revenues Monday, shadowed again by federal budget uncertainty
- ACLU calls for removal of Confederate memorials in Virginia
- Local school pulled into Confederate controversy (“Organizers on both sides plan to share their petitions with the Hanover County School Board, and anyone else who may be able to bolster efforts.”)
- Peninsula progressive groups rally for name change at Hampton’s Davis, Lee schools
- CASEY: KKK leader counsels kinder, gentler & ‘Christian’ white nationalism (Warped.)
- Candidate vying to be Va.’s first openly transgender lawmaker gets major boost from 800 miles away (“Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele, a Democrat, has given $115,000 to Roem’s candidacy, nearly half of the money she has raised so far, and plans to keep contributing through the November election.”)
- The Velvet Facilitator (“Meet the Charlottesville icon who stood up to Jason Kessler and had a stroke after being attacked by white nationalists…By Wednesday, a fundraising campaign to help support Tyler’s recovery had already surpassed its original goals twice as the figure closed in on $100,000 dollars, with about 8,600 shares”)
- Some blacks in Prince William County are grateful to Corey Stewart. Others are deeply suspicious. (“NAACP chapter condemns the fiery Republican’s aggressive stance on Confederate monuments, while residents of Carver Road praise him for fighting to protect their historic community.”)
- The ACLU is half-right about Metro’s violation of free speech (“The D.C. transit agency’s advertising guidelines are vague, and it enforces them inconsistently.”)
- VCU professor who lost son to overdose aims to change opioid prescribing practices
- Imperiled monarch butterflies get help from Pr. William families
- Fairfax Co. election will fill at-large school board seat (“The election is Tuesday, Aug. 29. The last day for in-person absentee voting is Saturday, Aug. 26.” If you are a registered voter in Fairfax County, make sure you vote for Democrat Karen Keys-Gamarra!)
- Scattered clouds today won’t mar your chance to take in the eclipse
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