| Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... |
by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, March 3.
- Can Israel Survive Without Netanyahu? Israelis Imagine the Future (They’d be a lot better off without him, IMHO.)
- How the Trump-Kim Summit Failed: Big Threats, Big Egos, Bad Bets (And utter incompetence by Trump.)
- Acquiescence to Trump is now the GOP’s defining trait (“At times erasing the principles that conservatives had claimed as the foundation of the party for more than a half century, Republicans are wholeheartedly accepting behavior and policies from President Trump that would spark outrage in the GOP if they came from a Democratic president.”)
- Trump derides Mueller probe, mocks Democrats and his former attorney general
- The 7 most bizarre moments from Trump’s long-winded CPAC rant
- Trump’s 10 wildest CPAC quotes (“Trump makes fun of Jeff Sessions by adopting a southern accent” Why aren’t people with a southern accent offended by this? Oh yeah, because they’re in a #MAGA cult.)
- Trump lets loose at CPAC in longest speech of his presidency (“Trump frequently went off-script in a wide-ranging speech that ran more than two hours.”)
- Self-Care Is a Self-Celebration for Trump at CPAC
- The Republican Party is dead: GOP strategist stunned by reception to Trump’s ‘unhinged’ CPAC speech
- Trump whipped up public emotion over Otto Warmbier’s death. Now it’s boomeranging back on him.
- Saudi Arabia Is Said to Have Tortured an American Citizen (Trump doesn’t give a crap.)
- Trump Says He Was in a ‘Horrible Position’ Between Negotiating With Kim, Warmbier’s Death (So sad.)
- Even senators who back the wall should reject Trump’s emergency — for the good of the country
- What You Should Know About Progressives’ Ambitious New Medicare for All Bill
- Mike Pence isn’t ‘decent.’ He’s insidious. (Agreed, he most certainly is *not* a “decent guy.”)
- Republicans pound abortion ‘infanticide’ message (Expect this Big Lie through 2020.)
- ‘We will keep fighting’: inside the push to put Democratic women in power for the long haul
- Former Clinton Adviser Mark Penn Arrives at His Inevitable Destination: Trump’s GOP (He sucked in 2008…and continues to suck 11 years later.)
- The revenge of Rod Rosenstein (“New developments make it likely that Trump will fight a hundred duck-sized horses, in the form of alleged collateral crimes rather than collusion. None appears life threatening in their own right, so the real question here is what they will represent collectively during the next two years of this administration.”)
- SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks With International Space Station
- Donald Trump’s Phony America (“As Michael Cohen made clear, this is the land of the fraud and the home of the knave.”)
- No Criminal Charges For Sacramento Police Officers Who Fatally Shot Stephon Clark (This shit has to stop.)
- Sacramento policemen won’t faces charges in killing of unarmed black man (Appalling.)
- SNL: Ben Stiller’s Michael Cohen Berated by Bill Hader’s Jim Jordan
- A Day of Reckoning for Michael Jackson with “Leaving Neverland”
- Mark R. Herring column: An opportunity for honesty and action to address racial inequities (“Soon after that incident in college, I thankfully moved beyond the insulating forces that had blinded me to the realities of white privilege and the experiences of others. I grew and matured, and became more conscious about considering and empathizing with others.” Yep, that’s the Mark Herring I’ve known for years…someone VERY different from how he was at 19 years old in college. Which is exactly what we all want, right? For people to change for the better?)
- Kirk Cox column: The General Assembly delivered on issues that matter most to Virginians (HUGE lie. In fact, Cox’s House of Delegates killed almost every single piece of progressive, pro-environment, and pro-clean-energy legislation. That includes ERA ratification, of course, and much much more. This November, we need to change the seats of as many House Republicans as possible!)
- Threatened by Corporate Criminal Mountain Valley Pipeline, Attorney General Mark Herring and State Water Control Board Members Fold Like Cheap Suits
- CPAC Gives Out “Conservative Achievement” Awards to Three of the Most Bigoted, Extremist, Unhinged Virginia Elected Officials (“Those three would be Senators Dick Black and Amanda Chase, also Del. Dave LaRock”)
- Bob McNab & Tancy Vandecar-Burdin: Internet infrastructure vital to Virginia
- Gordon C. Morse: Jones speech raises question of what’s next
- Editorial: Changes to the RTD Opinions Pages (The big change they need is to the *content* of their right-wing editorials. Unless and until that changes, the rest is just window dressing.)
- Proposed 500-MW Solar Farm Offers Huge Advantages to Virginia, Spotsylvania County. It Should Be Built.
- How ‘a kid from Essex Village’ helped steer Virginia’s black caucus through a storm of scandals (“Del. Lamont Bagby was sitting in a parking lot waiting to pick up his 13-year-old son from school when the yearbook photo flashed across his phone.”)
- Virginia’s public rail strategy calls for funding private rail fixes
- Del. Danica Roem: $16,438 from 409 Donations Received in a Few Hours After Her Statement on the “Westboro Baptist Church” Story (#WestboroBackfire)
- “This is not how we love each other”: Local United Methodists react to church’s controversial ruling
- CNU pounds Alfred 88-53 to advance to return to NCAA Sweet 16 (I included this because my nephew is an assistant coach on this team. Congratulations Jeremy!)
- D.C.-area forecast: Wintry slop today; quite a chill through midweek (“Increasing chance of slick spots heading north and west of Beltway this afternoon and evening”)
