by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, February 26.
- ‘Dictator for life’: Xi Jinping’s power grab condemned as step towards tyranny (“Experts and activists react to ‘bombshell’ decision to scrap two-term limit that was designed to guard against Mao-style personality cult in China”)
- CNN Poll: Trump approval slides, matches lowest point of presidency
- Trump’s Approval Rating Drops Back To His Worst With 2 New Polls (“Gun policy looms as key threat to president’s support, polls find.”)
- ‘See the facts’: top Democrat defends Russia memo as Trump fumes (“Democrats’ memo, initially blocked by White House, responds to claim FBI wrongfully obtained a wiretap on Trump adviser”)
- Blow: America Is the Gun (“First, we must repeal the N.R.A.-backed Dickey Amendment..We also must allow the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to track gun sales, and keep the data it collects electronically and also searchable. At present, it is prevented from doing so.”
- Kelly and Kushner stuck at an impasse after Trump’s punt on clearance (“The chief of staff is unlikely to grant the president’s son-in-law a permanent clearance, but isn’t likely to quit over the issue, either.”)
- Exclusive: Trump privately pushing personal pilot to run FAA
- The Left Is Energized. Now It Needs to Vote. (In droves.)
- Exclusive: Trump privately talks up executing all big drug dealers (Trump’s Duterte streak comes out.)
- Anti-secrecy lawsuits soaring against Pruitt’s EPA (“Freedom of Information Act litigation is pouring in as the agency refuses to divulge details about the administrator’s activities and travels.”)
- The Second Amendment Is No Barrier to Stricter Gun Laws
- Democrats march toward single-payer health care
- If this is what conservatism has become, count me out
- Labor’s Lost (“The Supreme Court’s latest union case is designed to kneecap the Democratic Party.”)
- California Democrats show the party’s competing shades of blue
- Survivor David Hogg calmly destroys Dana Loesch for duping NRA members: ‘Everything she says is spectacle’
- NRA spokeswoman confronted with the facts on the assault weapons ban. She had no answers. (“Rather than face the facts, NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch ducks, dodges, and distracts.” She is absolutely heinous, as is her blood-on-its-hands organization.)
- Death threats force Parkland shooting survivor to leave Facebook (“Cameron Kasky says he has received ‘graphic death threats.'”Part of the reason these conspiracy theories, and the death threats against survivors that accompany them, become so popular is because they manage to exploit the algorithms of major social media platforms that dictate what content is ‘trending.'” This illusttrates an enormous, possibly un-fixable problem with social media sites like Facebook.)
- It’s time to say last rites over American conservatism (“The Republican Party, and the ideals it once stood for, have been cast aside by a far-right ideology.”)
- Northam responds to deadly Florida massacre
- Sen. Tim Kaine to meet with group in Richmond about gun violence
- Va. lawmakers’ conflict-of-interest forms won’t be public until they leave town
- Who Gets Shouted Down on Campus? (“University of Virginia is latest campus to see disruption of events featuring speakers from Israel.”)
- Editorial: Virginia’s problem with restoring rights (“Virginia has the dubious distinction of joining Florida as one of only four — along with Iowa and Kentucky — where a felon’s voting rights are not automatically restored after he or she has completed a criminal sentence.”)
- Editorial: Social media attacks on Ferris are misleading and naive (“Roanoke City Council member Ray Ferris is being singled out for criticism by gun-control advocates.”)
- Editorial: Replacing the Richmond Coliseum will require original thinking
- February ends quietly, while March starts off stormy
