Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, October 22. Also check out the video of Sen. Bernie Sanders talking about ExxonMobil possibly breaking RICO laws by spending millions of dollars to deny that their product causes disastrous climate change, just as the tobacco industry did with tobacco.
- Study: Climate Change Could Shrink Global Economy 23 Percent
- ‘Supermajority’ of Freedom Caucus supports Paul Ryan’s speaker bid ("While hard-right conservatives cleared a path, it remains unclear if the support would meet the most challenging condition Ryan requires: unity among all of the House GOP's warring factions.")
- Bewilderment after Netanyahu says Palestinian gave Hitler the idea for the Holocaust (Serious question: has "Bibi" gone bonkers?)
- Biden’s decision gives Clinton a further boost
- Making the House Republicans behave ("Toughness means taking votes that the bloviators on talk radio will not like, not just those that pass a conservative purity test.")
- Navy poised to promote powerful admiral who illegally punished suspected whistleblowers (Absolutely unacceptable. This guy should be fired not promoted!)
- Proof That The Benghazi Investigation Is Totally Unlike Any Other, In Two Charts
- Bad Predictions, Bad Polls, Bad Pundits: The Legacy Of The Biden Campaign That Never Was
- Here's the Truth About Benghazi: Clinton's Going to Be Just Fine (Republicans have nothing of any substance. This is a show trial, a mockery of justice, un-American, etc.)
- Good riddance, Jim Webb: He was running to lead a Democratic Party that doesn’t — and shouldn’t — exist anymore ("The ex-senator says he may run as an independent. That's fine, because his running as a Democrat never made sense")
- Jim Webb's Campaign Ends, Leaving More Questions Than Answers ("For example: What was the Jim Webb campaign, anyway?
- Paul Ryan is too far left? The media lunacy beyond Fox News which lets the right get wackier and more extreme
- The raging disgrace of the Benghazi show trial: Today’s Hillary Clinton-Trey Gowdy showdown is theater for suckers
- Joe Biden’s fatal conceit: His farewell speech shows why it’s good he’s not running ("The vice president made the right decision, and a major analytical flaw in his explanation reveals exactly why")
- Brat says pick for speaker depends on adherence to 10 commitments (Brat's a right-wing thug.)
- Kaiser report finds state budget savings in some Medicaid expansion states
- Major Virginia Senate TV buy from Bloomberg's gun control group ("Everytown for Gun Safety, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's group, plans to spend $700,000 on commercials in Virginia's 10th Senate District. The metro Richmond district is probably key to control of the state Senate, which Republicans hold now by a single seat.")
- Va, others win settlement from UPS
- Three state Senate races on pace to break fundraising records ("The contests for the seats of John Watkins, Frank Wagner and Chuck Colgan all topped $1.5 million by Sept. 30, an indication of the high stakes Nov. 3.")
- Virginia judge's words in transgender case called 'labeling' ("A judge who repeatedly referred to a transgender student’s “mental disorder” should be removed from presiding over the teenager’s lawsuit challenging a policy that bars him from using the boys’ restrooms at his high school, his attorneys said in court papers Wednesday." Absolutely.)
- Coal exports from Virginia taking steep decline (Time for the U.S. and other countries to stop exporting their planet-killing pollution.)
- Virginia's AG's office to utility: abandon plans for reactor (This reactor would be a massive taxpayer ripoff.)
- A First: Virginia Regulators Want Competitive Bids on Solar
- Army, Coast Guard practice emergency evacuations together on James River
- Suburban school board race attracts focus from anti-LGBT activists (Absolutely appalling.)
- Controversial ex-Norfolk official fired from city of Richmond job ("During her tenure in Norfolk, McDonald drew scrutiny for hiring her two daughters to work in her office, clashing with other city officials and using a city credit card to pay for lobbying trips." Sounds like a real winner not!)
- Roanoke's Court Rosen left council meeting minutes before drug charge
- Forecast: Highs today near 80, but the warmth will be fleeting.
