by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, November 27.
- Mueller says Manafort lied after pleading guilty, should be sentenced immediately
- NASA just landed InSight, a robot geologist, on Mars (“NASA landed on Mars for the first time since 2012.”)
- Ukraine Parliament Approves Martial Law After Naval Skirmish With Russia
- Humanity Is Overseeing Its Own Destruction (“The latest U.S. government climate report is a pre-emptive coroner’s report, and our politics aren’t equipped to deal with it”)
- The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial (“Risking civilization for profit, ideology and ego.”)
- Trump Deals New Blow to Paris Climate Accord Ahead of Conference (Yep, depraved.)
- U.S. Ignores Actual Climate Threat, Takes Action Against Illusory Migrant One
- I was wrong on climate change. Why can’t other conservatives admit it, too?
- Trump Expects to Move Ahead With Boost on China Tariffs (“President, in interview, calls it ‘highly unlikely’ that U.S. would hold off on increase to 25% on $200 billion of goods” That’s a big tax, by the way, for all you anti-tax Republicans out there.)
- Russia’s escalation against Ukraine shows how little Putin worries about the West
- Our climate reality will catch up to us, no matter how hard Trump tries to bury the evidence (“The federal government’s new report on climate change makes clear what is at risk in terms of life, property and the economy.”)
- The world is on fire — and Trump is playing with matches (“His climate-change policy — ignore, obfuscate, delay, deny — amounts to environmental vandalism on a tragic scale.”)
- Trump On Climate Change Report: ‘I Don’t Believe It’ (How the hell can this disgraceful f***tard be our “president?”)
- Trump loves kids. So his border guards are firing tear gas at them. (“What doesn’t kill them will make them stronger, right?”)
- Republicans say they want free-market innovation. Then they should want a carbon tax. (“Government regulations can speed the innovation Republicans say is key to fighting climate change”)
- Another Warning Sign That the U.S. Economy Will Slow Next Year (“Trade war, fading boost from tax cuts haunt economic outlook” The “boost” from the tax cuts was a sugar high. Now time for the crash?)
- Beto is No Longer Ruling Out a 2020 Presidential Run
- Research predicted this wave of right-wing domestic terrorism. Republicans tanked the report.
- GM layoffs, shutdowns suggest U.S. economy may be slowing — and dent Trump’s claim of an industrial renaissance
- We Bear Responsibility for the Conditions in Honduras Causing Its People to Flee (“The question is how much of the turmoil we own—and how we’re going to make good on our moral debts.”)
- Democrats smash Watergate record for House popular vote in midterms (“Nationally, Democrats have 53.1 percent of all votes counted while Republicans took 45.2 percent.” It’s great, but still astounding that 45% of Americans would vote for the climate-science-denial, white-nationalist-loving, corrupt, anti-democracy party…)
- Trump judicial pick is one defection away from failure
- Democrats push to mobilize black Mississippi voters in racially charged Senate runoff (“Racially charged” is a worthless, cop-out corporate media phrase they use because they are terrified to call Republicans like Cindy Hyde-Smith or Donald Trump racist.)
- Trump drags Hyde-Smith across the finish line (“Democrat Mike Espy has momentum on the eve of the Mississippi special Senate election, but the race is Hyde-Smith’s to lose.”)
- Mississippi’s Upcoming Election Is a Test of Character (“The president* went to Mississippi on Monday to last-minute stump for Cindy Hyde-Smith.”)
- Anti-Pelosi forces stumble over strategy (Seth Moulton needs to be primaried.)
- Sunday shows finally talk about climate change (but that doesn’t mean the coverage was good) (“After bombshell climate report, Sunday political talk shows bring on climate deniers” Inexcusable bordering on criminal by Chuck Todd, CNN, etc.)
- No Labels Wanted To Go After Pelosi (“The putatively nonpartisan organization considered a primary challenge against the California representative now running for speaker—and attacking her during the midterms as a ‘bogeyman.'”)
- The 5 most competitive Senate races of 2020 (Susan Collins needs to go. Doug Jones needs to stay!)
- Fox & Friends guest defends use of pepper spray on migrant caravan: “It’s natural. You could actually put it on your nachos and eat it.” (Yep, that’s Fox.)
- After some adjustments, federal government takes over Virginia’s Medicaid work requirement application
- Virginia submits Medicaid work requirement proposal to feds
- Virginia looks to boost Medicaid reimbursement to attract more doctors
- What Northern Virginia’s Shift To The Left Says About The GOP’s Future In Suburbia (First of all, Northern Virginia didn’t “shift to the left,” it shifted to the CENTER, which is exactly where Jennifer Wexton is, from votes-97%-with-Trump Barbara Comstock. This is an issue of the Republican Party lurching to the far-right, and sensible suburban voters not wanting that.)
- Climate Science Blockbuster: Can Virginia Pass the Big Test? (“Step one: Stop, immediately, all new expansion of Virginia’s existing fossil-fuel system.”)
- Editorial: School safety panel can’t ignore guns (It can and it will, as long as it’s controlled by Republicans.)
- CASEY: A lame duck’s last gasp (“Rep. Bob Goodlatte 13th (and last) term his worst one yet? He launched it by trying to hamstring a congressional watchdog. And he appears to be closing it out by doing the bidding of the Trump White House.”)
- Virginia says insurers can handle Medicaid expansion, but doctor shortages remain
- Ralph Northam’s Latest Air Pollution Control Board Move Proves He Must Think Virginians Are All Complete Idiots
- New air board members won’t be seated until after Dec. 10 vote on compressor station for Atlantic Coast Pipeline
- Sports-betting bills come to Virginia after Supreme Court decision
- Editorial: RTD hires James Bacon as editorial writer; promotes Beres and Paris (Because another climate science denier/minimizer and pro-fossil-fuels/pro-pipelines voice is just what the Republican Times-Disgrace editorial page needed! LOL)
- Editorial: Is Virginia violating the 14th Amendment? One legal scholar thinks so.
- “Independent expert” Norfolk hired to review Virginia Natural Gas pipeline did work for VNG
- Woodley: Pipelines best for environment (Orwellian! The question is why the Roanoke Times would publish this crap. Of course, yesterday they published an anti-ERA piece by “Sideshow Bob” Marshall, so…)
- Hopewell GOP chairman’s armed protest outside city election office stirs debate over civil rights
- Voters, taxpayers in Chesapeake win if local elections are switched to November
- Man Charged in White Nationalist Rally Killing to Argue Self-Defense (“James Alex Fields Jr. is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer at the ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville”)
- Recounts for 3 Virginia Beach City Council races could cost more than $100,000
- Retired CEO to run again for Northern Neck’s 99th District House seat (“Democrat Francis Edwards, the former chief executive officer of QVC Germany, announced Monday that he will seek his party’s nomination ahead of the Nov. 5, 2019, general election.”)
- GOP candidates make their pitch for 2019 (“Republican Corey Stewart lost Prince William by 30 points earlier this month. But 2019 candidates say next year will be different”)
- Sun returns, along with wind and winter cold
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