by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, March 18.
- Trump Is Taking Out His Enemies and Turning Toward Robert Mueller
- Consultants for Trump Misused Facebook Data of Millions (“Cambridge Analytica bought private information harvested from more than 50 million users to develop techniques that were later used in the Trump campaign.”)
- The Latest: AP source says McCabe kept notes on Trump
- Putin on track for commanding win as Russians head to polls (I don’t know about you, but I’m so surprised about this! LOL)
- On heels of McCabe firing, Trump lawyer calls for end of Mueller probe (We are on the cusp of a constitutional crisis the likes of which we have never seen in our nation’s history.)
- Trump-Mueller Showdown Looms as Lawyer Urges End to Probe (Repeat previous comment.)
- Donald Trump’s corrupt firing of Andrew McCabe (“McCabe’s firing shows how Trump’s behavior corrodes faith in government.”)
- McCabe: Trump wants to destroy me to stop Mueller probe (“It is part of this administration’s ongoing war on the FBI and the efforts of the special counsel investigation”)
- The Only Relevant Known Fact About McCabe’s Firing Is That He Is a Key Witness Against Trump (“Whatever the merits of the dismissal—Fox News reports that a DOJ official says 19 FBI employees were fired for a lack candor in the last year—McCabe being stripped of that pension just as he was set to gain it sends an obvious signal to anyone in the DOJ who might stand up if and when Trump challenges the rule of law.”)
- Andrew McCabe was just offered a job by a congressman so he can get his full retirement. And it just might work.
- SNL opens with devastating takedown of Trump’s firing of McCabe and Tillerson
- Former CIA chief to Trump on McCabe firing: ‘America will triumph over you’ (We’ll see.)
- We’re not sure why McCabe was fired. But Trump’s tweet suggests the worst. (“His comments about the former FBI deputy director mirror the language of a banana republic despot.”)
- Retired Four-Star General Calls Donald Trump a “Serious Threat” to National Security (“The president seems ‘under the sway of Mr. Putin.'”)
- Gina Haspel owes us all some answers (“The nominee to lead the CIA must give a full accounting of any history with torture.”)
- I stand with Andrew McCabe (“A president who doesn’t respect the rule of law will always have the upper hand over imperfect but fundamentally decent civil servants.”)
- Trump, Flush With Power (“President Trump is doing it his way now. But soon, he’ll be doing it Mueller’s way.”)
- Democrats Are Primed for 2018 and Looking Pretty in 2020
- Top Mormon thinkers: Conservative Christians will never again be able to claim the moral high ground after Trump
- Will Democrats Benefit From a Youth Vote Surge in November? (“Donald Trump in the White House may do the trick”)
- What ‘Law and Order’ Means to Trump (“His rhetoric around crime and punishment is about the preservation of a certain social order, not the rule of law.”)
- Facebook critics want regulation, investigation after data misuse (Big time. Or shut it down.)
- Comey Uses Trump Attack to Tease His Upcoming Book
- House Republican blasts McCabe firing, says Trump’s conduct doesn’t ‘bode well’ for GOP (“I just don’t think this bodes well.” As always, thanks a LOT Trump voters!)
- In unhinged tweetstorm, Trump admits McCabe firing was about politics (“Tweets that good lawyers would not advise.”)
- Jeff Sessions’ stunningly dishonest rationale for firing Andrew McCabe (Zero integrity.)
- The Cambridge Analytica Scandal Is What Facebook-Powered Election Cheating Looks Like (It seriously might be time to shut down Facebook until it can get its act together – which is probably never, since it’s inherently flawed.)
- 2020 Dems staff up (“In addition to Halle, McAuliffe‘s inner circle includes Josh Schwerin, another former senior Clinton communications official who previously worked for McAuliffe and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. McAuliffe left office this year.”)
- Trump’s adversaries steal the spotlight after wild 24 hours (“Stormy Daniels and Andrew McCabe have a bigger platform than ever before.”)
- McCabe firing roils Washington
- Trump: ‘Mueller probe should never have been started’
- GOP pushes for ‘phase two’ of tax cuts (This is horrible economics…not sure how the politics of it will play out.)
- Senator Kaine Visits Fluvanna on Re-election Campaign
- Democratic 5th District candidates speak on weaknesses, pledge clean races at pre-convention forum (“Organized by Indivisible Charlottesville and held at Buford Middle School in the city, the four remaining candidates — Leslie Cockburn, Ben Cullop, R.D. Huffstetler and Andrew Sneathern — answered questions about where they stood on hot-button issues and how they planned to take on incumbent Republican Rep. Tom Garrett. Laurence Gaughan recently dropped out of the race.”)
- Straw Poll for Senate in Prince William County
- Editorial: The lessons Virginia can draw from the West Virginia teachers’ strike (“The basic problem with West Virginia’s economy is the same one that confronts much of rural Virginia: It’s an economy based on traditional industries that are now in decline. To the extent that West Virginia has relied on coal and timber (as have parts of Southwest and Southside Virginia), it’s an economy based on resource extraction that may have made somebody somewhere wealthy, but sure didn’t make the communities that had those resources wealthy.” If anything, coal impoverished – and sickened – the people of Appalachia.)
- Corey Stewart and Nick Freitas bring the heat in first GOP Senate forum (Far-right freak show.)
- Metro bill’s hidden cost: $100 million a year less to unclog traffic in Northern Virginia (Uh, widening roads induces demand, it does not “unclog traffic.” For that, we need transit-oriented development, not crazy sprawl development.)
- Clear path for commonwealth (“The House and Senate in Richmond must get priorities straight and give us a budget for all Virginians Our General Assembly gathers again in 24 days, on April 11, for a second run at writing the state budget for the next two years.”)
- Editorial: Climate change also puts that other coast at risk
- Schapiro: Byrds quit their last family business – newspapers
- Richmond council says it only supports continuing Redskins camp if team picks up $750K annual facility costs
- Indian tribe’s plans could bring the first casino to Virginia
- OPINION: Dominion again puts profits above people
- There were more pedestrian fatalities in Richmond last year than in any other year on record. This is why.
- Williams: ‘Shift the conversation to understanding, not winning’: Hanover’s Lee-Davis name-change issue needs empathy, not surveys
- From real estate tax cuts to new schools: What you need to know about Chesterfield County proposed budget
- Portsmouth councilman’s case has been shrouded in mystery, controversy. This week, it goes to trial.
- Virginia suffered an upset of historic proportions that will overshadow an otherwise marvelous season
- Sunny and milder today; rain and snow likely Monday night into Tuesday
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