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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, December 24.
- India’s protests should be regarded as a moment of truth for Modi (“Trying to silence the opposition will only serve to undermine the country’s democracy.”)
- Saudi Arabia’s Khashoggi verdict is a mockery of justice
- The Khashoggi verdict is exactly what impunity looks like. It must be denounced.
- We still don’t have answers on Khashoggi’s murder
- New satellite images show expansion of North Korea long-range missile plant
- Recovering from Madrid: Climate summit is no match for the crisis (“Troubling signs at the Madrid summit, even as capital moves decisively away from fossil fuels to renewables”)
- Festive world markets pause for breath near record highs (The contrast between the climate crisis and “festive world markets” is glaring.)
- Pentagon Eyes Africa Pullback as First Step in Global Troop Shift
- The Cruelty of a Trump Christmas (“Republicans aren’t Scrooges — they’re much worse.”)
- A Trump Christmas, with ill will to all
- A Trump Policy ‘Clarification’ Removed Protections for Birds (Absolutely appalling.)
- A Conversation With Rudy Giuliani Over Bloody Marys at the Mark Hotel —
- Rudy Giuliani, a Catholic, says he is ‘more of a Jew’ than George Soros, who survived the Holocaust (Giuliani is insane.)
- A War on Christmas Story: How Fox News built the dumbest part of America’s culture war (“Propaganda works, and right-wing media have it down to an art form”)
- A technical argument is Trump’s new line of attack (“The President is seizing on the idea that he hasn’t been impeached if the House hasn’t sent the articles of impeachment to the Senate”)
- How House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Steered A Split Democratic Caucus To Unity
- Bill Barr’s DOJ Tells the Courts and Congress to Get Lost (“By Barr’s twisted logic, a president would have a strong incentive to get impeached by the House to gain, quite literally, a license to break the law without recourse.”)
- Text messages reveal former golfer’s role in Ukraine scandal
- Trump elevates Mulvaney aide weeks after he defied impeachment subpoena
- Report Finds One-Third of Trump Appeals Court Judges Have History of Anti-LGBT Bias
- An Attempt to Fact Check Trump’s Rant Against Windmill Fumes
- Trump’s attacks on wind turbines, low-flow toilets and LED lightbulbs set up key campaign clash with Democrats (This headline is horrible, setting it up as part of a political, partisan contest, rather than as…Trump being wrong and demented, basically, which he is on both counts. This is the “both sides,” “horse race,” “objective journalism” media at its worst.)
- Future generations will look back on Trump’s latest wind turbines rant in awe and horror (“Trump’s incoherent riffing about wind energy and ‘fumes,’ decoded.” Now THIS is an excellent headline!)
- What Trump was talking about in his baffling rant about wind energy
- For Boeing’s New CEO, Saving the Max Is Just First Hurdle
- ‘The surge is real’: Klobuchar makes late push in Iowa (“Her strong debate performance and Midwestern sensibility raises hopes of a surprise showing in Iowa.”)
- Warren embraced high-priced events for years — until just before 2020 race (“From her first Senate run in 2011 through her reelection last year, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was extremely successful with her high-dollar fundraising program. Her transformation on the issue has led to clashes with her rivals.”)
- Tulsi Gabbard and the Return of the Anti-Anti-Trump Left (“Ironically, the same dynamic has brought anti-anti-Trump leftists into their own strange-bedfellow alliances. Leftists like Mate and Glenn Greenwald sometimes appear on Tucker Carlson’s show, giving an edgy, trans-ideological sheen to his increasingly overt white nationalism.”)
- Former Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie Urges Tulsi Gabbard To Resign From Congress
- House counsel suggests Trump could be impeached again
- With an odd lie about the FBI, the GOP’s McCarthy stoops lower (Any relation to Joe McCarthy?)
- G.O.P. Lawmaker Had Visions of a Christian Alternative Government (“A Washington State legislator was accused of participating in the occupation of a federal wildlife refuge. Behind the scenes, he and right-wing activists were preparing for civil strife.”)
- Why New Jersey Congressman Jeff Van Drew Ditched the Democrats and Sided With Trump (“Jeff Van Drew panicked. — Last week, the first-term conservative Democrat polled his district about his opposition to impeachment. The results were very one-sided.”)
- The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts (“A dispute between a small group of scholars and the authors of the The New York Times Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of American society.”)
- 26 Top Virginia Political Stories of 2019
- BREAKING: Professor Vanessa Tyson, Who Has Accused Virginia LG Justin Fairfax of Sexual Assault, Announces Candidacy for California State Assembly District 57
- Virginia’s Clean Economy Act: Are Its Analytical Underpinnings Unduly Pessimistic?
- A Republican senator wants students to approve tuition increases before governing boards do
- Governor’s office seeks legislation to replace Lee statue at U.S. Capitol
- Two Virginia Democrats want to replace Lee statue in U.S. Capitol (“Options include Nat Turner, Oliver Hill and Barbara Johns, lawmakers said.”)
- Reps. Donald McEachin (D-VA04), Jennifer Wexton (D-VA10) Send Letter to Gov. Ralph Northam Asking to Replace Robert E. Lee Statue in U.S. Capitol with One of African-American Leader
- Senator Scott Surovell Reintroduces Legislation to Ban Hand-Held Phones While Driving
- Virginia Lawmakers Will Consider Statewide Ban On Hand-held Cellphone Use
- Richmond’s Navy Hill Development Advisory Commission Report Released (Majority finds “proposed, publicly financed $300 million arena” is NOT “a sound and reasonable public investment in the redevelopment of Downtown [Richmond]”)
- Commission Report: Coliseum Redevelopment Proposal “Poses A Risk” To School Funding
- Fairfax prosecutor will not seek charges in Bijan Ghaisar case before he leaves office (“A letter from Sens. Warner and Grassley seeking information from the Justice Department reveals the case will not be heard again in Fairfax this year” Yep, now it’s in incoming Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano’s hands…)
- Richmond City Council to pay Chicago-based consultant $215,000 for Navy Hill proposal review
- Mother of a former Virginia lawmaker indicted on felony embezzlement charges dies two weeks before Hampton court appearance
- Most injured released from hospital following 69-vehicle crash on I-64
- How an Arlington neighborhood avoided the Christmas tree culture wars
- Mild and dry holiday-week weather continues
