by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, March 30. Also check out Anderson Cooper correctly telling Donald Trump that his constant “he started it” line is the “argument a five-year-old makes.” Yeah, Trump is pretty much a psycho five-year-old.
- All three Republican presidential candidates back away from pledge to support eventual nominee
- Stands on social issues tear at the two main conservative bases
- Trump sticking by his campaign manager despite battery charge (How about charging Trump with incitement to violence, which he most certainly has engaged in?)
- Mr. Trump’s defense of his campaign manager shows his lack of judgement (I mean, this is the same guy who’s a raving bigot and misogynist, who wants America to torture people, who doesn’t “believe” in man-made climate change, who wants to tear up NATO and who wants to encourage more countries to develop nuclear weapons. And those are just a few of his fine qualities. In sum, Trump represents the absolute dregs of America, the worst of the worst.)
- A Global Tragedy: Coral Bleaching Now Widespread in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (Horrific. We need to get off fossil fuels basically…yesterday. But ASAP will have to suffice. And yes, that includes natural gas…sorry Gov. McAuliffe!))
- Why Trump Won’t Fire Lewandowski (“And why decisions like that will be his undoing.”)
- How To Make Sense Of The Baffling Order The Supreme Court Just Handed Down On Birth Control
- Donald Trump’s Campaign Manager Led a Double Life as a Solar Power Lobbyist (“Corey Lewandowski privately sought earmarks for a solar company while publicly leading the fight against taxpayer-funded green-energy projects.” WTF???)
- Chuck Grassley’s amazing SCOTUS cowardice: Now he’s avoiding his constituents because they want him to appoint Merrick Garland
- Donald Trump’s self-destructive campaign: Why Team Trump is compelled to bring pain down on itself (“Donald Trump’s top aide is charged with battery, and Trump’s team did everything possible to make sure it happened”)
- The Media, Nick Kristof Included, Still Doesn’t Understand Its Role in Creating Donald Trump (“This is not new—it was decades in the making.”)
- They’re radicals, pure and simple: The GOP has finally destroyed the political press’ most destructive narrative (“For years, we’ve been told both sides are to blame for government dysfunction. Not anymore, not after this primary”)
- No, Nothing Pat McCrory Says In Defense Of North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT Law Is True
- State AGs Vow To Tackle Climate Change And Fossil Fuel Industry Fraud (The fossil fuel industry is the equivalent of the tobacco industry, except orders of magnitude worse.)
- Gabrielle Giffords: ‘Stopping gun violence takes courage’ (True, but it also takes good strategy, and I don’t think coming into Virginia AFTER the horse has left the barn is necessarily the smartest one…)
- McAuliffe vetoes bill blocking Planned Parenthood funding
- Warner, Kaine Call for New Resources to Combat College Campus Sexual Assaults
- Virginia’s Terry McAuliffe: The New Political Model (Strongly doubt it.)
- Virginia Lawmakers Aim to Remember Virginia Slaves
- Virginia defeated own transgender bathroom bill in February
- Portsmouth’s proposed budget is balanced, but it kicks infrastructure projects down the road
- Loudoun County school board votes down controversial rezoning plan
- Schapiro: The man who introduced NoVa to RoVa (“Using personal diplomacy and, in 1993, a gubernatorial candidacy, Earle Williams worked to narrow a gap between NoVa and Rova that a governor of yore described, in frustration, as unbridgeable.”)
- Danville council candidates debate Confederate flag
- Libertarian enters 5th District fray
- 9th District Democratic candidates to appear at forum Thursday
- UVa swim team hazing lawsuit settled, but both sides still disagree
- Sunny 60s and less windy today, warmer 70s tomorrow
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