by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, August 7.
- Pence calls rumors he will run in 2020 ‘absurd’ (He doth protest too much?)
- China Warns North Korea Tensions Entering “Critical Phase” After New U.N. Sanctions
- Blow: America’s Whiniest ‘Victim’ (“Donald Trump is the reigning king of American victimhood…This projection of vice, claiming of victimhood, and complaining about vanishing privileges make Trump an ideal front man for the kind of cultural anxiety, desperation and anger that disguises itself as a benign debate about public policy.”)
- Krugman: What’s Next for Progressives? (“What would I do instead? I’d enhance the A.C.A., not replace it, although I would strongly support reintroducing some form of public option — a way for people to buy into public insurance — that could eventually lead to single-payer.”)
- A Senseless Immigration Proposal (“Slashing legal immigration would do nothing but energize the president’s nativist supporters.”)
- Diplomats Question Tactics of Tillerson, the Executive Turned Secretary of State (“Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson was expected to quickly revamp the agency, but critics say the former Exxon Mobil chief has been focused on minutiae.”)
- Fight over Trump wall could lead to shutdown
- Under Trump, Coal Mining Gets New Life on U.S. Lands (“The intervention has roiled conservationists and many Democrats, exposing deep divisions about how best to manage 643 million acres of federally owned land.”)
- Trump’s malignant pattern: He woos people, rips them off and then abandons them — and he won’t stop
- A day after leaving CNN, Trump supporter reads ‘real news’ on his Facebook page (“Kayleigh McEnany goes from ‘Fake News’ to state news”)
- Trump’s government overhaul hits a speedbump (“Now there’s no nominee to run the Office of Personnel Management. Who’s going to tackle the federal workforce?”)
- The Congressional Map Is Historically Biased Toward The GOP (“The Senate hasn’t had such a strong pro-GOP bias since the ratification of direct Senate elections in 1913.”)
- 5 Steps Republicans In Congress Are Taking To Trump-Proof The Government
- It’s not just Democrats. Rep. Barbara Comstock also faces a challenge from the right. (“Shak Hill, a bit player in Virginia GOP politics, lost a 2014 bid for U.S. Senate and appears poised to campaign like Corey Stewart.”)
- Why Congressman Don Beyer hikes the Appalachian Trail
- Virginia faces pressures on groundwater supply east of I-95
- Editorial: Roanoke’s Hispanic future
- Richmond’s debate over Confederate statues begins with remarkable civility. Will it last?
- Editorial: Shredded trust at Norfolk City Hall
- Heavy rain and storms today but nice midweek
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