Monday News: “Lie big, lie often, never back down;” Virginia Veto Session This Wednesday

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, April 18. Also, check out the public service announcement by President Obama and Stephen Curry. And yes, I’m going to miss President Obama badly, just wish he could run for a third term!

• Brazil’s Leader Is Impeached by Wide Margin in Lower House
• Ecuador Earthquake Toll Expected to Rise ‘in a Considerable Way’
• Trump on contested convention: ‘I hope it doesn’t involve violence’ (Hint hint.)
• Charles Blow: Sanders Dismisses the Deep South (“That’s how revolutions work: From the ground up, in unlikely places and against the odds. A revolution is not evidenced by your success in territory you already control, but in territory that you don’t.” Bingo.)
• Oil sinks after producers fail to agree on freezing output
• What Clinton and Sanders owe progressives (“They need to put their bad blood behind them so young Democrats don’t stay home in November.” Actually, this is what they owe the country and the planet.)
• Ted Cruz’s 5-percent flim-flam: His latest economic promise is a real laugher (“Ted Cruz and the author of the Kansas tax-cut disaster are going to make trickle-down work this time, honest”)
• There Is No Bernie Sanders Movement (“Almost every modern Democratic primary has had a progressive insurgency. Bernie’s isn’t anything new. But it can be.”)
• Lie big, lie often, never back down: Donald Trump, Fox News and the real reason why right-wing lies stick (“Misinformation spreads rapidly — and intentionally — in right-wing echo chambers. Here’s how they do it”)
• More Than Immigration at the High Court (“Until and unless we reckon with what might have been at the high court this term, it’s impossible to understand why there will be no hearings for Judge Garland. GOP senators aren’t just angry about losing Justice Scalia’s seat. They are angry because the court as the weapon of choice to screw the president has been taken from them, and they want it back.”)
• NBC’s Chuck Todd Destroys Pat McCrory’s Defense Of North Carolina Anti-LGBT Law (Wow, Chuck Todd actually performed an act of journalism???)
• As legislators return Wednesday, drama might come on amendments, not vetoes (“Virginia lawmakers return to Richmond Wednesday to consider Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s amendments and vetoes of legislation passed during the General Assembly session that concluded in March.”)
• Del. Patrick Hope – For Va.: Life in prison, or a more humane death?
• Editorial: Southern heritage ignores slavery, Jim Crow
• Editorial: An amazing 80 years of Virginia state parks
• Bay’s crab population hits four-year high, survey finds (Good news, but a lot more work to do.)
• Our view: The real reason Democrats can’t win in Appalachia (Important topic, but another hard-to-follow, rambling/meandering editorial by the Roanoke Times.)
• Unopposed, Norfolk School Board’s Rodney Jordan still seeks to prove himself to voters
• Virginian-Pilot editorial: In Norfolk’s superwards (“IN NORFOLK’S superward 7, Vice Mayor Angelia Williams Graves has earned her return to the City Council.”)
• Neighborhoods a keystone issue in Roanoke’s council, mayoral races
• Today’s 80 degrees open fantastic week; shower chances restricted to Friday