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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, December 5.
The world is laughing at President Trump. They see him for what he really is: dangerously incompetent and incapable of world leadership.
We cannot give him four more years as commander in chief. pic.twitter.com/IR8K2k54YQ
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) December 5, 2019
- Climate change models were right about global warming 30 years ago—including that of NASA scientist James Hansen
- NATO is on life support — and Trump’s the one who put it there
- China in Close Contact with U.S. on Trade, Urges Tariffs Cut
- Iran Is Secretly Moving Missiles Into Iraq, U.S. Officials Say
- Trump Administration Considers 14,000 More Troops for Mideast
- Trump cuts short Nato summit after fellow leaders’ hot-mic video
- U.S. Navy sailor shoots dead two, then himself, at Pearl Harbor base
- Trump’s misconduct a textbook case of impeachable offenses, experts say in hearing
- Democrats Hint They’re Mulling Impeaching Trump For More Than Just Ukraine
- Trump’s High Crime Was to Assault Every American’s Right to Free and Fair Elections (“Nobody put this better than Professor Pamela S. Karlan in Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing.”)
- Democrats’ new impeachment message: Expel Trump now (“Democrats are injecting an urgent new argument into their already fast-moving impeachment drive: President Donald Trump poses such a flagrant threat to the republic that there is no time to waste.”)
- The Legal Debate About Impeachment Is Over (“The expert witness called by Republicans agreed that the quid pro quo—if proven—would be an impeachable act.”)
- Giuliani, Facing Scrutiny, Travels to Europe to Interview Ukrainians (Brazen and beyond parody.)
- Trump Blocked Key Impeachment Witnesses. Should Congress Wait?
- The moral imperative of impeachment
- The Traitors Among Us (“Donald Trump likes to call his opponents traitors — but if he’s looking for treasonous behavior, he should look within his own party”)
- Law professors to Congress: So impeach the MFer already (“Spoiler alert: Trump should have been impeached months ago, first Judiciary Committee witnesses testify”)
- GOP’s constitutional expert gets basic impeachment fact wrong at hearing (Turley disgraced himself.)
- Republicans tried to turn House Judiciary’s first impeachment hearing into a sideshow (“A law professor testifying wasn’t having it.”)
- In Jonathan Turley, Republicans Find Ideal ‘Impartial’ Witness for Trump
- No wonder Jonathan Turley’s dog is mad (“For reasons not entirely clear, Republicans decided that Turley, the television pundit and George Washington University law professor, would be the best person in the land to make the legal case against impeachment. But at Wednesday’s kick-off hearing, in which three legal scholars argued that President Trump’s actions met the constitutional definition of high crimes and misdemeanors, Turley countered with a case less constitutional than canine.”)
- Trump focuses on defense in Senate as House moves toward impeachment vote
- Barr’s handpicked prosecutor tells inspector general he can’t back right-wing theory that Russia case was U.S. intelligence setup
- Let’s Not Lose Sight of the Fact That Bill Barr Is an Absolute Ghoul (“The attorney general sees local law enforcement as a protection racket”)
- Republicans Confirm Lifetime Federal Judge Opposed To Fertility Treatments (The courts are turning into a disaster.)
- Garry Kasparov: I lived in the post-truth Soviet world and I hear its echoes in Trump’s America
- Texas judge orders group to stop trying to build Trump’s border wall
- William Barr Is Making It Harder to Protect the 2020 Election
- “The world is laughing at President Trump”: Biden video seizes on NATO leaders’ hot mic
- George Conway calls out Melania Trump after she criticizes impeachment witness: ‘You’re amplifying what was a nothingburger reference’
- Jonathan Turley Is Exhibit A That the Clinton Debacle Never Really Ended (“Also, that it was destructive to good government in this country.”)
- Rudy Giuliani Teams Up With a Seth Rich Conspiracy Theorist to Save Trump (Complete deranged.)
- What Kamala Harris’s Campaign Teaches Us (“But there is something else that we learn — or relearn — from Harris’s run: the enduring practicality of black voters. They, in general, reward familiarity, fealty and feasibility. Joe Biden just fits that bill for the plurality of black voters. When it comes to picking a nominee, black people don’t adhere to racial tribalism, broadly speaking. They want their votes to matter; they want to pick a winner.”)
- The Self-Sabotaging of Kamala Harris (“Winning campaigns have a message”)
- Kamala Decamps, Iowa’s Still Crowded, Trump’s Still Trump (“For Democrats, it’s Des Moines for the holidays.”)
- Tulsi Gabbard, Andrew Yang teeter on debate bubble (“The two outsider candidates are just shy of the polling threshold for the POLITICO/PBS NewsHour debate later this month, with just over a week left to qualify.”)
- The attacks on Ilhan Omar reveal a disturbing truth about racism in America (“A Muslim, a black woman, and a refugee, Ilhan Omar faces Islamophobia, racism, misogyny, and anti-immigration strains in American culture.”)
- George Zimmerman sues Trayvon Martin’s parents and others for $100 million (Absolute evil right here.)
- The Cruelty Does Not Stop for High-Profile Hearings (“The Trump administration* takes a machete to food stamps, just in time for the holidays.”)
- Cline: Impeachment proceedings are fundamentally flawed (Cline is violating his oath of office to uphold and defend the constitution of the United States of America.)
- A congressman could go to prison for misusing campaign funds. What he did is totally legal in Virginia. (Which shows how appallingly lax Virginia’s campaign finance and ethics laws are. That needs to change.)
- Northam hits ‘pause’ on Virginia’s Medicaid work requirement
- Medicaid work requirement in doubt in Virginia after Democrats win legislature
- What We Still Don’t Know About Solitary Confinement in Virginia
- What’s Not to Like About Biomass? Deforestation, Pollution and Overpriced Power.
- Virginia Counties Declare They Won’t Abide By New Gun Laws. Is That Legal? (“…while cities have the right to decline to voluntarily work with deportation services, localities cannot legally refuse to enforce gun laws. ‘This Second Amendment sanctuary idea is something different because first they’re saying that they’re not going to follow gun laws enacted in their states that they don’t happen to like. And that is expressly illegal’.”)
- Meet Philip Van Cleave, the Gun Extremist Leading “Second Amendment Sanctuaries” Push in Virginia
- Editorial: Will Democrats be tempted to embrace gerrymandering? (More idiocy from the Roanoke Times editorial page, where idiocy – and typos! – are sadly “commonon.” In fact, this a false choice, as we can pass a law mandating non-partisan redistricting; we do *not* have to pass a flawed amendment, but we should work to get this right.)
- Albemarle supervisors hear support for gun sanctuary
- Video: Loudoun Chair Phyllis Randall Refuses to Take Off “Moms Demand Action” Button, Says She’s “Embarrassed” for GOP Colleagues
- Charlottesville City Council Member-Elect, Attorney Lloyd Snook Analyzes Del. Jay Jones’ Request for AG Mark Herring’s Opinion on “Second Amendment Sanctuaries”
- Republican Party of Virginia executive director is leaving this month (After a wildly unsuccessful run…)
- RPV’s Executive Director Leaving – Updated (Sounds like it might not be Shaun Kenney afterall…maybe Hanover County Republican Committee chair and self-proclaimed “conservatarian” – whatever that is – Nick Collette.)
- Get ready for the RPV ‘Dirge’ (“Wilson is the current RPV chairman and one in a series of chairs dating back to the late great Pat Mullins to preside over Virginia becoming a Blue state due to doing business as usual and failing to look outside the box on what the state party can do better. Perhaps calling it the ‘RPV Dirge’ -which runs December 6 and 7 at the Omni Homestead in Hot Springs, VA — would be more suitable!”)
- Lost Cause Exhibit: Reframing History at the Museum of the Confederacy
- No State Standards, Limited Oversight of Seclusion and Restraint Training for Virginia Teachers
- In Virginia, Union Hill and racial tensions have put environmental justice back on the map
- Video: Arlington County Board Member Nancy Van Doren Says It’s “Time to Pass the Baton”
- Fairfax Connector Bus Workers To Strike Thursday, But Some Routes Will Still Run
- Sunny and brisk today. Then a cool weekend before milder weather early next week.
