Tuesday News: “Ala. drama nears an explosive end”; “One of Our Attorneys Is a Jew”; “How is my daughter a pervert?”; Bizarre Election Eve Moore Rally

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, December 12.

• France awards climate grants to U.S.-based scientists on summit eve
• Manhattan subway explosion ‘was attempted terrorist attack’, says mayor
• The Depth of Roy Moore’s Deceit (“The Alabama Senate candidate is unfit to be a United States senator.”)
• Alabama Senate election: 5 things to watch (“Doug Jones’ chances hinge on African-American turnout and college-educated crossover voters, while Roy Moore is banking on an animated conservative base.”)
• The Memo: Many in GOP are rooting against their own candidate
• Ala. drama nears an explosive end
• Trump angered by Haley saying his accusers ‘should be heard’: report
• #MeToo spotlight increasingly pointed at past Trump conduct (Trump needs to be fired, aka impeached, for his despicable conduct on many levels.)
• Condoleezza Rice: Alabama Senate election one of history’s most significant
• ‘How is my daughter a pervert?’: Alabama dad’s plain-spoken rebuke of Roy Moore strikes a nerve
• The Comprehensive Case against Roy Moore (“There is no good reason for a faithful conservative to support this man.”)
• You Couldn’t Invent a Better Test of Political Tribalism Than Today’s Alabama Election (“It’s a perfect storm for Republicans, but the deeply compromised Roy Moore might still win.”)
• Russian Propagandists Are Pushing for Roy Moore to Win (“Kremlin-linked trolls have also joined Trump and Fox News in targeting the FBI.”)
• Roy Moore Emerges From Hiding for Election Eve Rally, and Good Lord, Was It Weird (“Have you ever traveled down a dirt path in rural southeast Alabama in December and arrived at a barn in the woods to find Steve Bannon, Representative Louie Gohmert, Sheriff David Clarke, Roy and Kayla Moore, a woman performing an interpretive dance in front of a tree, and several inflatable alligators?”)
• Roy Moore’s Wife: We’re Not Anti-Semitic, ‘One of Our Attorneys Is a Jew’
• The Polls Agree: Jones Leads Moore by 10 – or Trails Him by 9
• The White Supremacy Caucus (“But as Trump has shown, when ideologically extreme figures achieve political power, they’re able to push the boundaries of public discourse. Moore in the Senate would send the message that defending slavery — never mind segregation — is no longer beyond the pale.”)
• Manhattan Bombing Suspect Leaves a Trail of Mystery
• Speaker at Moore event says he accidentally went with Moore to a brothel with child prostitutes (“There were certainly pretty girls. And they were girls. They were young. Some were very young.”)
• Right-wing group sends 12-year-old girl to interview Roy Moore (“[We wanted] to show that there was a wide range of people who support Roy Moore.”)
• Breitbart radio is a bigoted and misogynistic cesspool (“Stephen Bannon claimed Media Matters ‘can’t find any’ racism or misogyny on Breitbart radio — Here’s plenty in just the past two months”)
• ‘Wow’: Don Lemon speechless after Roy Moore’s wife insists they’re not anti-Semitic because they have a Jewish lawyer
• What Roy Moore’s campaign can teach us (“I spent the weekend talking to Roy Moore supporters in Alabama. Here’s how they see the world.”)
• What The Hell Is Happening With These Alabama Polls?
• The Partisan, Nihilist Case Against Robert Mueller (“Attacks on the special counsel aren’t about misconduct—instead, they’re aimed at discrediting the very idea of professionalism.”)
• Sarah Sanders Completely Rattled as Jim Acosta and WH Reporters Grill Her On Fake News Claims
• State panel weighs key approval for Atlantic Coast Pipeline (“The Virginia State Water Control Board will meet for a second day Tuesday to consider whether to issue a water quality certification for the natural gas pipeline that would cross West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina. An executive of Dominion Energy, the pipeline’s lead developer, has also said the project could expand into South Carolina.”)
• Atlantic Coast Pipeline Faces Last Hurdle in Virginia (It needs to be soundly rejected.)
• Belleville and Santucci: Northam should intervene on pipeline
• Virginia has a teacher shortage. Are fast-tracked degrees a solution?
• Virginia launches program to connect entrepreneurs with investors
• Study estimates one-third of Virginia children not ready for kindergarten (We need universal pre-k.)
• Editorial: For the Virginia GOP, ABC should mean Anyone But Corey (Ha, you think Ewwww would be any better???)
• Firebrand E.W. Jackson jumps into GOP race for U.S. Senate in Va, attacks Corey Stewart (Why use words like “firebrand,” when in fact – and it IS a fact – E.W. Jackson is a bigot, extremist, theocrat, etc? Why not say those words??? This is the corporate media for you, though…)
• Virginia’s McAuliffe takes emergency steps to curtail teacher shortage
• Va. student says teacher yanked him out of his seat, sent him out of class for not saying Pledge of Allegiance (“Officials said the action was ‘unacceptable’ and that the teacher would not be returning to the classroom. The teacher’s lawyer called the allegations ‘without merit.'”)
• How an informant named ‘Platinum’ anchored a federal takedown of a Va. gang
• Hampton gifted with 72 acres near Grandview with goal of conservation (“The family of New York businessman Emil Tsakis is giving nearly 72 acres near Grandview Nature Preserve to the city of Hampton to be held as conservation land. The undeveloped land — mainly salt marsh and woods — lies between Grundland Creek and Back River…”)
• D.C.-area forecast: Mild today, frigid tonight and more snow potentially on the way (“A big cold front swings through this afternoon, behind which temperatures are going to plummet.”)