Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, January 22. Stay safe tonight and all through this weekend!
- D.C. area braces for potentially record-breaking blizzard
- Sarah Palin takes the GOP campaign to a new low ("Palin plus Trump equals a worst-case Republican scenario.")
- Trump and Palin join forces in the war against reason ("The reality TV stars move the GOP from healthy anti-elitism to mindless anti-intellectualism." And much, much worse...)
- Kasich’s rise is bad news for the GOP: How the Ohio governor’s surge could actually derail any hope of thwarting Trump and Cruz ("To stop Trump and Cruz, the GOP establishment needs a New Hampshire breakthrough, and John Kasich could spoil it")
- Sarah Palin’s feel-bad politics: The dark allure of right-wing nihilism, self-pity and curdled nostalgia for a once-“great” America
- Depraved Indifference Toward Flint ("Newly released emails reveal an appalling lack of urgency in responding to Flint’s water problems.")
- Krugman: How Change Happens ("There’s a sort of mini-dispute among Democrats over who can claim to be Mr. Obama’s true heir — Mr. Sanders or Mrs. Clinton? But the answer is obvious: Mr. Sanders is the heir to candidate Obama, but Mrs. Clinton is the heir to President Obama." Agreed, which is why I'm supporting Hillary Clinton -- as much as I like Bernie Sanders.)
- Oil Prices Drop, but U.S. Economy Isn’t Reaping the Benefits (Weird.)
- National Review Launches Conservative War On Donald Trump ("National Review And 22 Conservative Media Personalities Call Trump A 'Philosophically Unmoored Political Opportunist'" Also a sociopath.)
- Forest Service rejects proposed route of Atlantic Coast Pipeline (Awesome, now just kill this @#$@#$! project!)
- Bill: Make governor release appointee resumes
- How the Supreme Court can change politics as usual ("Quid pro quo politics, as in the case of Robert McDonnell, should be criminalized." Absolutely! Is this really such a difficult concept?)
- Luxury 'Skins tickets for McAuliffe cabinet member re-open ethics debate (Exactly the type of behavior that should be criminalized.)
- Virginia General Assembly calls a rare snow day ("The snow day will be only the second time in 48 years that weather has stood in the way of Va. lawmaking.")
- Police: Woman who smashed window at General Assembly Building sought arrest to get out of cold
- Attorneys for Virginia and NAACP defend new congressional boundaries
- Dominion prepares for power outages as winter storm approaches ("The utility is advising its 2.5 million customers to use the website dom.com/outages to report and track power failures. Customers also can sign up to receive text message alerts about outages and restoration times.")
- Senate bill is meant to exclude turtles, but in a good way ("Jay Ford, who directs an environmental group called Virginia Eastern Shorekeeper, is hoping that this year will bring a change. He helped craft a bill introduced last week by state Sen. Lynnwood Lewis that would require some crab pots to be outfitted with cheap, easy-to-install devices that keep diamondback terrapins out.")
- Kerry Dougherty: Legislators' pure and precious ears
- Editorial: $120 million bet on Norfolk's future
- House GOP wants to help 'women in crisis' arm themselves (How about taking guns away from their abusers, stalkers, etc?!?)
- North Korea says U-Va. student arrested for ‘hostile acts’ (Why would anyone in their right mind travel to North Korea?!?)
- Police: Woman who smashed window at General Assembly Building sought arrest to get out of cold (Tragic and deeply sad.)
- Norfolk and Virginia Beach police change stun gun policies in response to court ruling
- Most area school systems announce closure Friday, ahead of major storm
- Central Virginia expecting 'big range' of snow totals
- Storm takes shape over the South; snow could arrive in D.C. region as early as noon