by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, November 20.
- The Meaning of Robert Mugabe’s Stunning Non-Resignation (“The 93-year-old kleptocrat won’t remain the ruler of Zimbabwe for long.”)
- Blow: This Is a Man Problem (“Women are not responsible for men’s bad behavior. The idea that horny men can’t control themselves is a lie!”)
- Behind Mugabe’s Rapid Fall: A Firing, a Feud and a First Lady
- Trump does the right thing for elephants. He shouldn’t back down now. (In fact, we should be doing a LOT more for wildlife conservation, not LESS!)
- The Values That ‘Values Voters’ Care About Most Are Policies, Not Character Traits (Yeah, I’m not even sure they care about that.)
- Trump Tweets “I Should Have Left Them in Jail” About UCLA Basketball Players Arrested in China (Every day, I shake my head at the fact that this f***tard is “president,” and at the people who still support him.)
- Trump administration officials use Sunday news shows to lie about GOP tax bills
- How the Trump Tax Cuts Would Reshape (and/or Break) Our Economy
- The Republican Plan Is the Opposite of Tax Reform (Agreed; so why does the media keep referring to it as “tax reform?”)
- As clock ticks on tax bill, White House signals a compromise
- Charles Manson Dies at 83; Wild-Eyed Leader of a Murderous Crew
- Special Counsel sends wide-ranging request for documents to Justice Department
- ‘A long winter’: White House aides divided over scope, risks of Russia probe
- Sean Hannity melts down on Twitter over a CNN interview about advertising boycott (Sad!)
- The walls are closing in on Jared Kushner
- How Trump Is Driving Democrats and Republicans Together (“It’s not just Bob Corker feuding with Trump. His Democratic wingman Ben Cardin says the rest of the Foreign Relations panel is on board to take on the president.”)
- Dems eager to use tax bill against GOP in ’18 (We’re not forgetting your votes, Barbara Comstock, Scott Taylor, Tom Garrett, Rob Wittmann, etc.)
- Trump slams Flake over hot-mic comments: Senator’s career is ‘toast’
- We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself
- Virginia is still the go-to state for criminals shopping for illegal guns (“Incoming governor Ralph Northam and other Democrats should restore the one-a-month purchase limit.”)
- Virginia House GOP elects Rush majority whip (“Republicans in Virginia’s House of Delegates have elected their leadership team, all while Democrats hope recounts can flip the chamber from GOP control.”)
- Demi Lovato Just Brought Virginia Rep. Danica Roem to the 2017 AMAs and Twitter Is Loving It (Ha, “Sideshow Bob” must be tearing his hair out! LOL)
- Editorial: Is McAuliffe still violating the Constitution?
- Loss of historic tax credits, on the Republican chopping block, could have big impact in Roanoke Valley
- Virginia military families emphasize impact on children during lunch with Gov. McAuliffe and the state’s first lady
- McAuliffe opens one stop career center in Norfolk
- Cool today, warmer tomorrow; mainly dry on and around Thanksgiving Day (“A bit of a lingering breeze keeps us chilled today. But tomorrow we could approach 60 again.”)
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