by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, November 26.
- As Egypt grieves after mosque massacre, security forces ramp up strikes on militants
- Who Will Be Running Consumer Agency on Monday? It’s Unclear
- No Moore Pretense (“Republicans offer a sham defense of Roy Moore.”)
- Editorial: The Republican Tax on the Future
- Despite a skeptical public, GOP pushes ahead on tax plan
- Kushner’s Role Seemed to Have No Limits. Then Kelly Arrived.
- Why Trump Stands by Moore, Even as It Fractures His Party
- GOP tax bill draws fire from AARP, universities
- CNN fires back at Trump: It’s your job to represent the US to the world
- Dem lead in generic ballot polls worries GOP
- Nazis Are Just Like You and Me, Except They’re Nazis (“Despite what you may have read in The New York Times” The NY Times disgraces itself yet again. Very said to see what’s happening to this once-great paper.)
- Nobody seems happy to meet The New York Times’ polite Midwestern Nazi (“The New York Times briefly switched its motto to ‘All The News That’s Fit To Piss People Off’ today, earning widespread ire for a profile on an Ohio white supremacist that seemed more happy to praise his good manners than condemn his hateful rhetoric.”)
- Trump derides CNN days after administration moves to block media merger
- Trump recommends reading this insane website (“MagaPill gets the POTUS seal of approval.”)
- All the risks of climate change, in a single graph (“There are a lot of them.” We need to switch to clean, increasingly cheap energy – solar, wind, efficiency, wave, tidal, geothermal, etc. – ASAP.)
- WSJ: Mueller’s Attention Turns To Flynn’s Documentary On Turkish Cleric
- Editorial: Responsibility for global warming is in our hands
- Republican congressional tax plan gets thumbs down from Virginia leaders
- Virginia tops country for second straight year in recidivism rate
- EDITORIAL: Rail project is about capacity, not speed
- Elaine Luria: GOP tax plans are bad for businesses like mine (Luria is a former Navy Commander, reportedly planning to run for Congress – VA02 – in 2018.)
- Parole board changes 3-strikes stance after Pilot investigation, could free more than 200 inmates
- Why a historically conservative county in Virginia is making national Republicans nervous (The Liberal Women of Chesterfield County are heroes.)
- A. Donald McEachin: We owe America’s veterans our very best
- Boosting your right to know (“It’s encouraging that one of the very first bills filed for the 2018 General Assembly addresses a gap in our Freedom of Information Act.”)
- Cities want Virginia to tax streaming video, audio
- Next on Virginia’s extensive toll-road system: Interstate 395
- This NHL star is one of Putin’s biggest — and now, most outspoken — fans. The question is, why? (“The Washington Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin, a Russian native, has never hidden his affection for the Russian president, but he recently raised the stakes, announcing that he was organizing a movement dubbed “PutinTeam” to support him. Ovechkin has said it was his idea, but there are signs that a Kremlin-backed public-relations firm might have played a role.”)
- D.C.-area forecast: Cooler and breezy today, turning milder midweek
