by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, March 28.
- Kim Jong-un paid ‘unofficial’ visit to Beijing, Chinese state media confirms (“North Korean leader pledges his commitment to denuclearising the Korean peninsula during his first overseas trip since he took power in 2011”)
- How the U.S. and North Korea Are Preparing for the Trump-Kim Summit
- Tech problems send world shares skidding again
- Zuckerberg’s refusal to testify before UK MPs ‘absolutely astonishing’ (F*** Z***)
- Report: Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Testify Before Congress (Oh thanks, so gracious of you! LOL)
- Congress should stop the Trump administration from fouling the census (But Republicans in Congress won’t do that, of course.)
- Trump’s war cabinet is now complete
- The debt crisis is on our doorstep (Republicans just made it much, much worse, particularly through their insane tax bill.)
- I Tried to Befriend Nikolas Cruz. He Still Killed My Friends. (“Suggesting students’ kindness could have made a difference is deeply dangerous.”)
- ‘Extreme’ fossil fuel investments have surged under Donald Trump, report reveals (This is completely bonkers.)
- Trump attack unleashes oppo against Mueller (Disgraceful. What’s the Republican-controlled Congress doing to protect Mueller?)
- GOP ponders how to fill rest of 2018 (Resign? Heh.)
- Alex Jones’ Infowars releases video depicting Parkland survivor Emma Gonzalez as member of the Hitler Youth (“Jones also played video with Adolf Hitler dubbed over David Hogg speech”)
- Mitt Romney Is Not Joining the Resistance (“With remarks stressing his hawkish views on immigration, the Senate candidate provided a reminder that his opposition to Trump is rooted in his conservatism.”)
- Mitt Romney goes extreme on immigration, attacks DREAMers (Yep, that’s our Willard.)
- California Sues Trump Administration Over Census Citizenship Question
- Justice John Paul Stevens isn’t helping the gun debate (“It’s a provocative claim, but it also raises serious questions about what planet Justice Stevens is living on. As University of Texas legal scholar Sanford Levinson writes, ‘the U.S. Constitution is the most difficult to amend of any constitution currently existing in the world today.’ There is nothing ‘simple’ about removing a constitutional amendment, much less one that shapes the identity of a significant minority of the electorate.” Right, I’d say there is ZERO chance of repealing the 2nd amendment, or any other amendment, for the foreseeable future.)
- The NRA’s narrative about Maryland school shooting collapses (“A good guy with a gun wasn’t enough to prevent two deaths and an injury.”)
- Nervous Republicans Are Spending Big to Break a Special Election Losing Streak
- POLITICO’s top 10 Senate races
- GOP donors fret about Dem wave
- Manafort Asks Federal Judge in Virginia to Dismiss Fraud Case
- FBI doubles personnel to respond to Goodlatte requests (Typo: should be BADlatte.)
- The sliming of Parkland students shows the spreading stain of media polarization (“What we’re seeing here is a spreading stain, in which conspiracy mongering from the likes of Infowars and, yes, Gateway Pundit is adopted by some elements of the formerly mainstream right and peddled to a receptive audience softened up for decades by Fox News.” Good point, although why throw in the “both sides” crap when this is only happening on the right?)
- We All Have the Distinct ‘Privilege’ of Ignoring David Brooks (“The New York Times’ star white conservative guy weighs in on the March for Our Lives—badly.”)
- Just Elect a Better Congress (“There’s no need to repeal the Second Amendment, because it permits regulation.” Even more important in many ways – elect better state legislatures and governors!)
- Governor promises Va. will be No. 1 place to do business (How about focusing on workers and the environment for a change?)
- Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam puts his Norfolk home up for sale
- GOP Senate candidates widely disagree at UVa debate
- Miles Morin: Virginia’s offshore opportunity with oil, gas (All you need to know about his absurd op-ed: “Miles Morin is the executive director of the Virginia Petroleum Council.”)
- Congress fully funds Chesapeake Bay cleanup — again
- At debate, GOP U.S. Senate candidates differ on violent Charlottesville rallies
- Debbie Easter column: Horse racing is coming home to Virginia
- Gas pipeline forges ahead as environmentalists call on Northam to slow process (If these pipelines continue, they will be a permanent and deep scar on Ralph Northam’s governorship.)
- Arlington board calls for veto of golf-course tax bill as a ‘dangerous precedent’
- At Virginia State Bar hearing, lawyers who represented Joe Morrissey defend their conduct and his
- Scott Lingamfelter will not run in 2019 (Good; let’s hope a bunch of the Virginia Republican House incumbents who got their butts kicked in 2017 don’t run in 2019. Although it WOULD be fun to kick their butts yet again, LOL)
- Newly Elected Lynchburg GOP Chair Wendell Walker Will Release 6th District Delegates List
- Man who threatened Scott Taylor also threatened Virginia Beach mayor, prosecutors say
- Henrico supervisors, School Board members plan joint meeting on teacher pay
- EDITORIAL: New monument in Richmond honors Native Americans
- Virginia Beach city manager boxes himself into a corner with text about punching official
- Regional jail needs reform
- Temperatures head toward 60 today, with light showers possible; 70 tomorrow?
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