PLATT - MISC News

SPECIAL
How Conservatives Are Being Destroyed by Facebook, Twitter and Google Without Even Realizing It
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2018/01/13/how-conservatives-are-being-destroyed-by-facebook-twitter-and-google-without-even-realizing-it-n2433962?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

Black Protest Has Lost Its Power
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/black-protest-has-lost-its-power-1515800438-lMyQjAxMTE4NjEyNTExNzU5Wj/

Condoleezza Rice urges caution on #MeToo movement: ‘Let’s not turn women into snowflakes’
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=37201?omhide=true

GENERAL INTEREST
One Of The Biggest Diamonds In History Has Just Been Discovered. It's The Size Of 2 Golf Balls
http://start.att.net/news/read/article/fortune-one_of_the_biggest_diamonds_in_history_has_just_be-rtime/category/finance

On This Border, The Problem Is a Shed, Not a Wall
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/on-this-border-the-problem-is-a-shed-not-a-wall-1515938400-lMyQjAxMTI4MzEwNTQxNTUzWj/

Husky argues about stealing shoe, eventually brings it back
https://www.yahoo.com/news/husky-argues-stealing-shoe-eventually-135007519.html

EDUCATION
Editorial: In the land of opportunity, education should be King 
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in-the-land-of-opportunity-education-should-be-king/article/2645906

SPORTS
NFL wields clout to get Raiders stunning stadium deal from state of Nevada
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/14/in-raiders-stadium-deal-nevada-unable-to-impose-ne/

MARKET
How Facebook’s newsfeed change is stoking uncertainty about its future
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-facebooks-newsfeed-change-is-stoking-uncertainty-about-its-future-2018-01-13

BUSINESS
Supreme Court should reverse the 9th Circuit's flawed deference to administrative state
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/supreme-court-should-reverse-the-9th-circuits-flawed-deference-to-administrative-state/article/2645749

AUTOMOTIVE
Now Ford Accused Of Diesel Cheating
https://dieselprogress.com/now-ford-accused-diesel-cheating/

EPA Bureaucrats Go Rogue on ‘Glider Truck’ Emissions
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/epa-bureaucrats-go-rogue-on-glider-truck-emissions-1515800360-lMyQjAxMTI4NDE3NTcxMzU5Wj/

2018 Detroit Auto Show: Achates, Aramco Launch 37-MPG Pickup Engine
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3622562/posts

SCIENCE
Gene editing – and what it really means to rewrite the code of life 
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jan/15/gene-editing-and-what-it-really-means-to-rewrite-the-code-of-life?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=260528&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

A New Clue to the Mystery Disease That Once Killed Most of Mexico
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/salmonella-cocoliztli-mexico/550310/

TECHNOLOGY
Boeing shows its vision for a hypersonic spy aircraft
https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/15/boeing-shows-hypersonic-spy-aircraft-demonstrator/

MILITARY
Military Quietly Prepares for a Last Resort: War With North Korea
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/14/us/politics/military-exercises-north-korea-pentagon.html?emc=edit_nn_20180115&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408&te=1

NATIONAL SECURITY
Hawaii False Alarm Hints at Thin Line Between Mishap and Nuclear War (This article is really about what happened when the Russians shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in 1983.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/14/world/asia/hawaii-false-alarm-north-korea-nuclear.html?emc=edit_nn_20180115&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408&te=1

LAW ENFORCEMENT
Artists' impressions: sculptors help to identify victims found on US-Mexico border
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/15/new-york-sculptors-border-deaths?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=260528&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

IMMIGRATION
‘I’m not a racist,’ Trump says, as he warns DACA is ‘probably dead’ 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/daca-is-probably-dead-trump-says-blaming-democrats-2018-01-14

Immigration Lobbyist Wants to Limit Immigration Because of His Commute
https://www.redstate.com/rs_insider/2018/01/10/immigration-lobbyist-wants-limit-immigration-commute/

Washington state gives driver’s-license info to immigration officers; legislators freak out
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=37154?omhide=true

ICE pledges immigration crackdown on businesses. Here's what it looks like
http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/15/news/economy/ice-immigration-work-site-crackdown/

NORK
Cigarettes and Murky Joint Ventures Help North Korea Evade Crackdown 
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/opaque-joint-ventures-help-north-korea-evade-crackdown-1515931201-lMyQjAxMTI4MzEwNTQxNTUzWj/

North Korea's Kim Jong Un 'Is Actually Pretty Clever' Says Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
http://www.newsweek.com/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-actually-pretty-clever-says-former-secretary-state-781489?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=yahoo_news&utm_campaign=rss&utm_content=/rss/yahoous/news

SYRIA
Drone Attacks on Russian Bases in Syria Expose Security Holes
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/drone-attacks-on-russian-bases-in-syria-expose-security-holes-1516017608-lMyQjAxMTI4MzEwNTQxNTUzWj/

POTUS
Multiple people in meeting deny Durbin’s ‘sh**hole’ story, point out history of misrepresenting
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=37164?omhide=true

Rand Paul Reveals What Trump Did For Haiti As A Private Citizen, Delivers Blow To 'Racist' Narrative
https://www.dailywire.com/news/25855/watch-rand-paul-reveals-what-trump-did-haiti-ryan-saavedra

RUSSIAGATE
FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/355749-fbi-uncovered-russian-bribery-plot-before-obama-administration

POLITICS
Return of the Ultimate Swamp Creature
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455432/trump-earmarks-idea-corruption-not-worth-easing-gridlock?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=180114_Jolt&utm_term=Jolt

Axios: 'Probable' GOP Will Lose the House
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2018/01/15/axios-republicans-have-basically-lost-the-house-n2434634?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

The Left's 1942
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/the_lefts_1942.html

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