by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, August 13.
- Turkish lira crisis: central bank action fails to quell contagion fears
- Trump policies ‘destroying economic growth,’ senior German official says (“German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier lashes out at Trump tariffs, sanctions”)
- New wave of sex-abuse scandals threatens to tarnish Francis’s papacy (“Analysts say the Vatican has been unable to take the dramatic steps that can help an organization get out from under scandals — and avoid repeating them.”)/li>
- ‘Unite the Right’ flops while the left triumphs
- Anti-hate protesters far outnumber white supremacists as groups rally near White House
- Drowned out by protesters, Washington white supremacist march fizzles (“1,000 counter-demonstrators jeer some 20 marchers; heavy police presence and rain prevent recurrence of violence that marked last year’s deadly rally in Charlottesville”)
- The Rise and Fall of Paul Manafort: Greed, Deception and Ego
- An assault on minority voting continues in North Carolina
- Omarosa Says the Trump N-Word Tape is Real, But We Already Have Enough Proof of His Racism (“By making a few slurs the only undeniable evidence of racism, we let bigots like Trump off the hook.”)
- John Oliver: Donald Trump is a racist the way Kermit is a frog ‘You have to admit he’s a f*cking frog’
- Shifting Stance on Voting Rights, U.S. Embraces Limits (“The Obama Justice Department fought voter-ID laws, aggressive purges of voter rolls and dilution of minority votes. Under President Trump, the department often does the opposite.”)
- White House exploring legal options against Omarosa Manigault Newman for making secret recording in Situation Room
- Inside Omarosa’s reign of terror
- Omarosa’s Bold Claim of Breaching the Situation Room (“Ex-Trump aide Omarosa Manigault Newman said she has a secret recording from one of the most iconic, secure, technologically advanced places in all of American government.”)
- Unions see Missouri win as red state watershed (Let’s hope so!)
- D Is for Defense (“The only reason Democrats have a chance to retake the Senate is because a handful of incumbents are getting the job done in Trump country.”)
- Of course the tax cuts are good for the banks (“It’s not a bad time to be in the banking industry, and the GOP tax bill has made it even better.”)
- UN human rights chief: Trump’s attacks on press ‘close to incitement of violence’
- Juan Williams: The real danger of Trump’s media war (“Trump’s war on the media is not really about harassing me or any one news outlet. He is going after a pillar of the nation’s liberties — the protections for a free press.”)
- Trump’s Supreme Court pick calls Antonin Scalia a ‘role model’ and a ‘judicial hero’
- White House struggles to name a single senior African-American working in the West Wing (“Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to President Trump, could not name a single senior official working today in the West Wing who is African-American.”)
- Online activists hit hatemongers like Alex Jones where it hurts the most — in the wallet
- Dinesh D’Souza and the Decline of Conservatism (“Under President Trump, the most outrageous and aggrieved polemicists are thriving.” D’Souza is down there with the Alex Jones of the world…)
- Who is America? episode 5 review: Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on the right to start genocide: ‘Look, I don’t know about that’
- Pro-gun activist duped into sucking sex toy to fight terrorism in latest Sacha Baron Cohen show (“The final lesson was in how to survive a beheading, something Cohen said he managed to do twice. The tactic was in ‘attacking the groin area’ of the terrorist attempting to behead you…Cohen explained that Roberts must grab onto the dildo and bite hard and not let go no matter what. That’s exactly what Roberts managed to do, chasing Cohen around the gym with the dildo in his mouth.”)
- History will wonder why these men defended Trump but not their country (“The truth about Russia is out there, and it is staring every Republican in the face.”)
- Rep. Keith Ellison denies abuse allegations from ex-girlfriend
- Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe: Trump ‘failed’ to show moral leadership after Charlottesville
- Kaine: Trump has made ‘concerted effort’ to divide people based on race (No doubt about that.)
- Transcript: Sen. Tim Kaine on “Face the Nation,” August 12, 2018
- Warner’s Plan to Ruin the Internet (So stupid, although typical for the Wall St. Journal editorial page.)
- One year after Unite the Right rally, Susan Bro returns to site where her daughter was struck by car; 4 people arrested Sunday
- State begins study to stabilize insurance markets, lower premiums
- Editorial: What Appalachia could learn from Atlantic Canada (“Why don’t rural communities in the United States follow the Canadian example and actively encourage immigration? …Stewart, like the president he tries to emulate, spends a lot of time complaining about illegal immigration. If either Stewart or Trump really cared about rural Virginia or rural America in general, they’d be making the case for why we need more immigration, not less.” 100% agree with the Roanoke Times on this one.)
- 1 arrested at Vienna Metro station for assaulting Virginia police (“Fairfax County police Chief Edwin C. Roessler said that beyond the arrest, the day had been generally peaceful.”)
- York County Republicans to name nominee for treasurer Monday
- Stormy start to the week, 90-degree days return Wednesday
