by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, August 19. Also, check out video of Virginia’s disgrace, the buffoon I call “neo-Confederate Corey,” making a fool of himself yet AGAIN on national TV. How the hell can ANYONE support this guy???
- Trump claims he allowed White House counsel McGahn to ‘fully cooperate’ with Mueller probe (“The tweet comes after the New York Times reported that McGahn is trying to protect himself as the wide-ranging probe advances.”)
- McGahn, White House Counsel, Has Cooperated Extensively in Mueller Inquiry
- What John Dean Has to Say About the NYT’s Blockbuster Don McGahn Story (“Trump does not like people doing the right thing, like recusing when you have a conflict and you are attorney general, or representing the office when you are White House counsel.”)
- Krugman: The Slippery Slope of Complicity (“At this point, you have to be a truly fanatical practitioner of bothsidesism not to see that Trump is every bit as terrible a human being, and every bit as much a menace to the republic, as some of us warned when all the cool kids were busy snarking about Clinton’s emails.” Personally, I despise those “cool kids” – people like Chris Cillizza – and will never forgive them.)
- ‘I’m not going there’: As Trump hurls racial invective, most Republicans stay silent (Which basically tells you what you need to know about Republicans these days.)
- Trump’s Implicit Defense of Alex Jones Is an Echo of Birtherism (“In a Saturday tweetstorm, the president complained that ‘too many voices are being destroyed’ by social media, amid an ongoing controversy about the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s use of Twitter.”)
- ICE Arrests Husband Who Was Taking Wife to Give Birth at Hospital (This agency is completely out of control and needs to be reined in big time.)
- Boogeywomen — GOP vilifies big-name female Dems (That also tells you a GREAT deal about today’s Republican Party — nothing good.)
- Trump buys into conspiracy that social media censors conservatives (Because OF COURSE he does!)
- Supercharged by Pollution, Florida’s Toxic Algae Crisis Continues Unabated
- Why a New Fisheries Bill Is Being Dubbed the “Empty Oceans Act” (“Five ways H.R. 200 could ‘undercut the important role science plays in management decisions.'”)
- Sex Abuse Report Lists a Beloved Pastor, and a Pennsylvania Church Reels (“The Rev. John David Crowley was once adored by his parishioners. Then came the news that he was among the priests who abused more than 1,000 children.”)
- The Clergy Abuse Crisis Has Cost The Catholic Church $3 Billion (Should be many billions more.)
- Trump’s ‘good person’ defence could affect jurors in Manafort trial (“Weighing in on active trial is highly unusual move for sitting president – one legal expert says: ‘He shouldn’t have done it’”)
- GOP Lawmaker Doesn’t Care If President Used the N-Word Before Becoming President (“Holding Trump accountable would set a ‘bad precedent.'” Surprised?)
- Trump Won Pennsylvania. Democrats Want the State (and His Voters) Back.
- As state board takes up pipeline permits, thousands of comments await (“More than 13,000 written comments have been submitted to the water board since it invited public comment on the sufficiency of federal permits granted to Mountain Valley and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a similar project that will run through Central Virginia. Tuesday’s meeting [of the State Water Control Board in Richmond] comes at a critical time for Mountain Valley.”)
- We, the press, will not be bullied (OK, good that the Daily Press finally weighed in on this! Any Virginia newspaper that did NOT weigh in on the importance of a free press, given Trump’s unrelenting attacks, should be ashamed of itself.)
- The Baptists and the yogis join to fight a pipeline (The most laughable quotes in this article are, predictably, from Dominion’s spokesman Aaron Ruby – “We have a profound respect for the Union Hill and Yogaville communities” – and from Ralph Northam’s Secretary of Natural Resources Matt Strickler – “We’re listening to them.” Hahahahahaha.)
- Video: People’s Caravan for Clean Air and Water’s “No Mountain Valley/Atlantic Coast Pipelines” Rally in Richmond
- Video: Person Who Owns Home Where Shaun Brown Is Registered to Vote Says Brown Never Lived There or Rented From Her
- Editorial: Gov. Northam’s tax plan wallops the middle class (The first line of this editorial tells you ALL you need to know about the Republican Times-Disgrace editorial page. Ignore these morons.)
- Opinion/Editorial: Report lifts cloud from juvenile center (No, it certainly does not.)
- Push to revive Virginia horse racing blurred lines between gambling interests and state regulators
- Nicole Riley column: Unless Virginia acts, state taxes could slam small businesses (Yeah, as soon as someone calls the Republicans’ godawful, deficit/debt-exploding tax cuts for the super-rich and for major corporations “historic,” I immediately don’t take them seriously anymore.)
- Editorial: Stanley’s bold bid on school modernization channels Francis Pickens Miller
- Virginia County Approves Plan To Arm Teachers
- Rob Blizard: Does Hampton Roads need 14 animal separate shelters?
- Teen’s complaints of illness went unheeded for days, staffer at mental health care center told medic
- Only an isolated shower chance today; entering an extended break from the 90s
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