by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, December 11. Also check out Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” on “fake news” and how Donald Trump needs to get off the internet and how they “know he is watching.”
- Trump likely to tap Tillerson for secretary of state (The head of ExxonMobil. Yep, what we’re about to get is government of/for/by the huge corporations, fossil fuel interests and super-rich. Is that what the “white working class” voted for???)
- What It Really Means to Be a ‘Friend of Putin’ (“Reported Secretary of State frontrunner Rex Tillerson is close to Vladimir Putin. Here’s what that costs these days.”)
- Trump, CIA on collision course over Russia’s role in election (Yep, Trump’s attacking our intelligence agencies and defending Russia. Amazing…and not in any good way.)
- Lawmakers alarmed Exxon chief could empower Putin (“Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain are likely to mount aggressive opposition to Exxon CEO Tillerson as secretary of state.” How about other Republicans? Hello? Anyone have any balls out there?)
- The GOP could wreck the health-care system, and soon (“The ‘repeal and delay’ Obamacare strategy could have immediate and negative effects on the insurance market.”)
- ‘Lessons learned’ about Russia (“President Obama should disclose the findings of the full review of the role Moscow played in Donald Trump’s election.”)
- Trump Widens Rift With Russia Experts Over Hacking
- Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America (“In this scorched-earth op-ed, Lauren Duca takes on Trump’s systematic attempts to destabilize the truth and weaken the foundation of American freedom.”)
- Big Republican donors are even more extreme than their party — and they drive its agenda
- Fiorina praises Trump’s ‘brilliant’ moves ahead of visit to Trump Tower (“Fiorina’s remarks came as she endorsed Ed Gillespie for Virginia governor” That kind of says it all.)
- Donald Trump isn’t yet president, and the Hamilton Electors have one shot to make sure he never is
- How Mitch McConnell Prevented Stronger Action Against Russian Election Meddling
- AP: Ethics Experts Concerned Over NBC’s “Mind-Boggling” Ties To Trump
- Truth and Lies in the Age of Trump (“Donald Trump understood at least one thing better than almost everybody watching the 2016 election: The breakdown of a shared public reality built upon widely accepted facts represented not a hazard, but an opportunity.”)
- Gordon Morse: Virginia in search of leaders (“Not so many years ago, the Chamber took the field, active and engaged, helping to influence and direct the state’s fortunes. It willingly kicked up some dust on transportation improvements and advanced a point of view on what gathers prosperity. These days, not so much. “)
- Schapiro: Virginia’s great tax giveaway (“The arithmetic lays waste to claims, primarily by Republicans, that Virginia — despite being 25th among the 50 states in per capita state and local taxes, and 43rd in state and local taxes as a percentage of personal income — has somehow shed its special distinction as a tax-hostile haven that gives the widest berth to individuals and business.”)
- As Trump era dawns, 2017 Va. GOP hopefuls court supporters at Richmond gathering
- A Va. politician is giving away an AR-15 rifle as a Second Amendment statement (“Giving away the style of gun used in several mass shootings, candidate Corey Stewart says he ‘will never compromise on your God-given right to keep and bear arms.'” Yep, that’s Corey Stewart to a “t.”)
- Gov. McAuliffe holds holiday reception for families of deployed service members
- Who should Virginia have a beer with in 2017?
- He helped make legal history in Loving v. Virginia. At 80, he’s still fighting for justice.
- Metro board must decide if there’s light at end of SafeTrack tunnel
- New study critical of Virginia driver’s license suspensions for drug offenses
- Maryland reaps benefits of Virginia ban on casinos
- The 2016 Richmond mayoral race was most expensive in the city’s history
- Editorial: How Wise County’s court clerk became a visionary economic developer
- Friday Night Flights? Military helicopter makes emergency landing on high school football field
- Cold today with a brief wintry mix possible tonight; stronger winter blast mid-to-late week
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