PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Ignorance Versus Stupidity
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2017/11/08/ignorance-versus-stupidity-n2405433?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

A sea lion playing with a starfish and a towering thunderstorm: More eye-popping entries for the 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest revealed
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-5059351/Amazing-Nat-Geo-Nature-Photographer-Year-entries.html

There's a Dead Body Hiding in 1889 Van Gogh 
http://start.att.net/news/read/article/newser-theres_a_dead_body_hiding_in_1889_van_gogh-rnewsersyn/category/news

Dream Job Alert: Get Paid $10,000 a Month to Vacation in Cancun
http://start.att.net/player/category/news/article/money-dream_job_alert_get_paid_10000_a_month_to_vacation-vtime

USAFacts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAFacts

PARENTING
How to stop rearing brats 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1117/making_brats.php3

ARCHEOLOGY
As close as the US gets to Egypt’s pyramids': how Chaco Canyon is endangered by drilling 
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/08/chaco-canyon-national-park-new-mexico-drilling?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=251441&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

DEFENSE
Navy to Receive Operational Triton Sea Drone for Pacific 
https://scout.com/military/warrior/Article/Navy-to-Receive-New-High-Tech-Triton-Sea-Drone-Deploy-to-Pacific-110135124

The U.S. Navy Now Has a New Way to Track Chinese or North Korean Warships
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-us-navy-now-has-new-way-track-chinese-or-north-korean-23099

SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook says it needs your explicit photos to combat revenge porn
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/11/08/facebook-says-its-needs-your-explicit-photos-to-combat-revenge-porn/?utm_term=.b0c1e57cb3fb&wpisrc=nl_mix&wpmm=1

CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE
Alabama task force performs drug raid, man dies. Officials take his home, split the proceeds.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/11/08/another-civil-asset-forfeiture-outrage-2/?utm_term=.cdc1483d152a&wpisrc=nl_popns&wpmm=1

IMMIGRATION
Border Patrol losing agents faster than it can hire them
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/8/border-patrol-lose-agents-faster-it-can-hire-them/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTldGaU0ySXpNall6WlRReCIsInQiOiJ2a3l5SUNzS0VKdVFaa2JhODVXbDBZMlJVXC9TNUZuUDhyYTV5b0NOVW1FSFdyWDZPbE1rVU5oSmVxR3Zld0FTbkk0RVlROXNjMStJUllPeHAxeFFkbXcrRm5cLzlIaXZlNnhWRmlMcjJrcU5yZUl0RnYwOUp1eG5LNyt4YUoxUHpyIn0%3D

TERRORISM
Good reasons -- quite a few, actually -- why Obama didn't want Osama bin Laden's secret diary released
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1117/may110817.php3

RACISM
Anti-black slurs at U.S. Air Force academy prep school written by black student
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/11/08/anti-black-racist-slurs-at-u-s-air-force-academy-written-by-black-student/?utm_term=.78bc1bae6a56&wpisrc=nl_popns&wpmm=1

POLITICS
How the far right is poisoning New Zealand
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/11/08/how-the-far-right-is-poisoning-new-zealand/?utm_term=.5f0207aee704&wpisrc=nl_popns&wpmm=1

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“The last resort of the competitive economy is the bailiff, but the ultimate sanction of a planned economy
is the hangman."
                ~ F. A. Hayek