Tuesday News: Melania Trump Plagiarizes Michelle Obama; Cooch Throws a S***-Fit; Actually, America’s Safer Than Ever

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, July 19.

• The GOP’s backward-looking agenda
• The GOP’s coronation of a charlatan
• Republicans use opening night to assail Clinton, appeal to a divided base (Right, with outright lies, slanders, viciousness, etc.)
• The crazy face of Trump’s GOP (“On the first day of the Republican convention, a Trump advisor teams up with conspiracy theorists.”)
• The conspiracy convention: Alex Jones and the fringe right get their Cleveland spotlight (Alex Jones is one of the most demented people in America, and that’s saying a lot.)
• Chaos erupts on GOP convention floor after voice vote shuts down Never Trump forces (“Backroom unity talks failed, and so the party feuded publicly.”)
• What Has Happened to Rudy Giuliani? (“He used to be a pragmatic moderate. Now he’s spewing nonsense.”)
• On trade, Trump pushes — and the GOP caves
• Joining forces in Cleveland: European-style nationalism is poised to unite with Trump’s GOP (“Nigel Farage and Geert Wilders attending the RNC is evidence of the GOP’s embrace of the extreme right”)
• Congressman Steve King Makes White Supremacist Comments on Live TV
• The Most Extreme G.O.P. Platform in Memory (Here’s a link)
• Murdochs Have Decided to Remove Roger Ailes — the Only Question Now Is When
• Melania Trump’s speech appears to have cribbed from Michelle Obama’s in 2008
• Why Melania Trump’s plagiarized speech should be fatal to Donald Trump’s campaign (“So how can Trump go forward now, after admitting that the Obamas’ values are his values? He cannot—he simply has no argument left to make.”)
• Melania Trump’s Pathetic Attempt to Humanize Her Husband
• Trump’s RNC Wants to ‘Make America Safe Again,’ But We’re Safer Than Ever (“The opposite is true: We are living in an era in which Americans are more secure than any time in the past 45 or 50 years, in any number of categories. Violent crime is down. Crime against property is down. Crime committed by immigrants is as low as it has ever been (and it has been generally low). Terrorist incidents are lower than they were 30 and 40 years ago, and the casualties from those incidents are low.”)
• Virginia delegation joins short-lived convention revolt over RNC rules
• Never Trump Delegates Have One Last Chance to Stand Up to Trump (“The Trump opposition plans to go down swinging on Tuesday.”)
• Convention Update: How Not to Create Party Unity, Part Leventy Billion
• Parliamentary Sham at the RNC Convention
• Corey Stewart Couldn’t be More Wrong about the Grassroots
• The Democrat challenging Barbara Comstock ties her to Trump
• Schapiro: In Cleveland, Va. GOP buzzing about possibility Clinton-Kaine ticket would open his Senate seat
• Vilsack stock rises as Clinton nears VP pick (“The former Iowa governor is the subject of increasing speculation within Clinton’s political orbit.”)
• Donald Trump’s very white convention (And very, very extreme.)
• Virginia delegation in prime spot as Republican convention gavels in
• Virginia’s two openly gay legislators file bills to repeal statutory bans on same-sex marriage
• Cuccinelli throws fit on GOP convention floor in Cleveland
• Virginia delegation joins revolt over RNC rules
• Republican delegates re-file three bills that Gov. Terry McAuliffe vetoed
• UVa center article: Millennials will have great impact in Va. 2016 voting
• Editorial: Virginia makes play for self-driving car makers
• Protest in solidarity with Black Lives Matter stops traffic on I-95; 13 arrested
• Price tag for Forbes’ failed 2nd District primary campaign: $2 million
• Virginia Needs to Fix Its Racist Voting Law
• More than 40% of cases in which Fairfax police used force involved black residents
• Charlottesville father of Muslim U.S. soldier killed in Iraq to speak at Democratic Convention
• Martin Thomas set to win Norfolk council seat after opponent backs out
• Humidity and temperatures drop today before a late-week heat wave