by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, August 16. Also, check out the video of Tim Kaine and Anne Holton speaking at a rally in Asheville, NC yesterday.
- Trump seeks ‘extreme vetting’ of immigrants and visitors to the U.S. (No. No. No. No. No. No.)
- The claims Trump made in his ‘major’ speech on the Islamic State (“The GOP nominee once again uttered a slew of false statements that have been repeatedly debunked.” He doesn’t care, nor do his rabid, cult-like supporters.)
- Trump may cost the GOP a generation of voters (“To millennials, Trump isn’t attacking political correctness. He’s attacking tolerance.”)
- Trump’s anti-terrorism plan is unoriginal — except for his disturbing Muslim ban (“The GOP nominee’s only new idea remains an obsession with restricting Muslim immigration.”)
- Mr. Trump’s Foreign Policy Confusions (“Far from delivering a plausible blueprint for action, Donald Trump further exposed his ignorance and lack of understanding of world affairs.”)
- Biden Warns Trump Is Risk to U.S. Security
- Poll: Clinton Maintains Big Lead as Voters Doubt Trump’s Temperament (I can’t believe anyone could even consider voting for Trump, even if they despise Clinton. He’s utterly unqualified in every way.)
- “Extreme vetting:” Will Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell go along with Trump’s crazy immigration plan? (“Donald Trump’s “extreme” immigration plan is pretty clearly illegal, and GOP leaders need to answer for it” It’s also wildly unAmerican.)
- Tim Kaine’s Southern night: Barbecue, beer and bluegrass on the harmonica
- Early Voting Limits Donald Trump’s Time to Turn Campaign Around (“Voting actually starts in less than six weeks, on Sept. 23 in Minnesota and South Dakota, the first of some 35 states and the District of Columbia that allow people to cast ballots at polling sites or by email before Nov. 8.”)
- Team Trump is a disaster: It’s not just the candidate — his entire staff is ill-equipped for a presidential campaign
- The Appalling Last Act of Rudy Giuliani (“No matter what happens in November, we’re all but assured a raft of studies on the cultural dynamics that produced Trumpism. Almost certainly a part of its appeal—as with most mass movements, but particularly fascistic ones—is its ability to add meaning to the lives of its adherents. And improbably, pathetically, one of those lives belongs to the former mayor of New York City.”)
- Giuliani Claims There Were No Terror Attacks On US Soil Before Obama
- Why Republican Leaders Just Can’t Quit Donald Trump (“Admitting publicly that the erratic real estate mogul might not be fit to serve as president would not only cost Republicans in base turnout in November. It tempts challenges from their right further down the road and puts in jeopardy their ability to pull the party back together once the 2016 nightmare is over.”)
- Why Trumpism Will Outlast Donald Trump (“Think he doesn’t represent anything besides himself? Turns out a whopping 65 percent of white Americans say they’d support a nativist third party.”)
- VIDEO: How Right-Wing Lies Become Mainstream News (“The Fox Cycle is the process by which Fox News pushes right-wing fringe stories into the mainstream news. Fox distorts facts, spreads myths as truths and devotes heavy, one-sided coverage to make viewers believe in baseless, manufactured stories — and, worse, to convince mainstream media outlets to cover these lies.”)
- CBS And ABC Nightly News Ignore Trump Campaign Chairman’s Ties To Pro-Russian Ukrainian Politicians (“NBC Nightly News Only Broadcast Network Program To Cover Bombshell Claims”)
- Conservative Radio Host Admits Right-Wing Media’s Effort To Discredit Mainstream Outlets Paved The Way For Trump (“Charlie Sykes: ‘Having Discredited The Mainstream Media,” Conservatives Created A Right-Wing Media Landscape ‘That Bear No Resemblance To Reality'”)
- Fox’s Oliver North: Trump Critics “Don’t Belong In The Voting Process” (Oliver North, authoritarian and extreme as always.)
- Warner prescribes better electronic systems to improve veterans’ health care
- Virginian-Pilot editorial: Watch your wallet when Redskins call (Not one penny of taxpayer money to billionaire Dan Snyder, especially not to subsidize his new football stadium.)
- Tim Kaine says he now opposes offshore drilling, citing Defense Department concerns
- Gov. Terry McAuliffe says Supreme Court conservatives were ‘scared’ to buck General Assembly on felon voting
- Gov. Terry McAuliffe says outlook for revenue is not optimistic
- VRS raises investment return to 1.9% for last fiscal year (Need to divest the fund from fossil fuels.)
- U.Va. rector appoints committee to review $2.2 billion investment fund
- Jack Gravely, former head of the Virginia NAACP and radio talk show host dies
- Editorial: Culpeper’s treatment of Islamic Center is worth looking into
- Arlington studying a plan that would pay for your Uber to Metro (“The subsidized, on-demand service is planned to replace fixed bus service in Northern Arlington.”)
- Searing hot and moderately humid today; slight improvement tomorrow
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