PLATT - MISC News

SPECIAL
Who’s Afraid of Jordan Peterson? [“Stand up straight with your shoulders back” and “accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.”]
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/whos-afraid-of-jordan-peterson-1516925574-lMyQjAxMTI4MDIwNjcyOTYwWj/

GENERAL INTEREST
6 International Office Rules Americans Avoid at All Costs
https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/18890-6-international-office-rules-americans-avoid-at-all-costs?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=60243969&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-96THYR2BMi4ls2OHRcjuWr8XZcmhLstP0gOkXaZDw48pMLKpZOD094dds2vSOCGtzISQvqThJdLt3RJque1Vn4g0nJiA&_hsmi=60243969

Nature, food, culture, wine: Chile is the trip of a lifetime 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nature-food-culture-wine-chile-has-it-all-2018-01-26

The Grand Canyon of Arizona
http://www.humfer.net/gcanyon/index.html

It must  have taken most of a lifetime to put this together ... it will take a goodly part of a lifetime to fully explore it.
http://www.humfer.net/index.html

Lunch Atop A Skyscraper: The Story Behind The 1932 Photo | 100 Photos | TIME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QCYDzsQ_yM

Rhode Island, Connecticut and Illinois are the 'worst possible states to live in' (but Louisiana and Mississippi aren't much better)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5315457/Rhode-Island-Connecticut-Illinois-worst-states.html

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines (7/11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/26/briefing/26weeklynewsquiz.html?emc=edit_nn_20180126&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408&te=1

HEALTH CARE
Idaho to Allow New Insurance Plans Outside of Federal Health Law 
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/idaho-to-allow-new-insurance-plans-outside-of-federal-health-law-1516887331-lMyQjAxMTI4NDIxNjUyNjY0Wj/

Bureaucrats, not doctors, are making healthcare so expensive 
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bureaucrats-not-doctors-are-making-healthcare-so-expensive/article/2647097

EDUCATION
School Choice Can Help Defeat Poverty—But Only If Government Gets Out of the Way
https://townhall.com/columnists/teresamull/2018/01/26/school-choice-can-help-defeat-povertybut-only-if-government-gets-out-of-the-way-n2439644?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

Students quizzed on ‘Pyramid of White Supremacy’
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=37614?omhide=true

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
Women's Marchers Ignore Science, Walk On Melting Ice In National Mall Reflecting Pool
https://www.dailywire.com/news/26313/womens-marchers-ignore-science-walk-melting-ice-emily-zanotti

Photos of Folks Falling through the Ice of the Reflecting Pool
https://www.popville.com/2018/01/photos-of-folks-falling-through-the-ice-of-the-reflecting-pool/

BUSINESS
Clothing Company Founder Finds Out it's Not a Great Idea to Call His Fox Viewing Customers 'Idiots'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/01/26/clothing-company-founder-finds-out-its-not-a-great-idea-to-call-his-fox-viewing-n2440312

NATIONAL SECURITY
Voting machine makers are already worried about Defcon
https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/26/voting-machine-makers-are-already-worried-about-defcon/

MILITARY
The A-10 Warthog Could Ravage North Korea. So Why Does the Air Force Hate It?
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-10-warthog-could-ravage-north-korea-so-why-does-the-air-24227

LAW ENFORCEMENT
Texas Kidnapping Victim Was Fatally Shot During FBI Raid Meant To Rescue Him: 'The System Failed'
http://start.att.net/news/read/article/people-texas_kidnapping_victim_was_fatally_shot_during_fb-rtime/category/news+

IMMIGRATION
Trump offers to triple Obama’s amnesty number in exchange for tougher security laws
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/25/trump-amnesty-cover-18-million-dreamers/

[This objection from Krikorian is why the details and fine print matter: The outline says that no new applications for the visa lottery and the chain-migration categories would be accepted, limiting family immigration to spouses and minor children. Great! But it also provides for the continuation of those categories (and reallocation of the lottery visas) until the admission of all 4 million people on the current chain-migration waiting lists. This is the same gimmick that was in the Hagel-Martinez amnesty bill in 2007 – and the estimate at the time was that it would take 17 years before all those people got their green cards. In other words, legal immigration would not actually be reduced until after President Kamala Harris’s successor took office.]

Oh Please: Tom Cotton Sees Past Dems Still Not Happy With Trump's Immigration Offer
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/01/26/dems-not-impressed-by-trumps-generous-immigration-offer-n2440167?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

MSNBC: Despite Schumer Posturing, Senate Dems Privately Acknowledge Funding Trump's Border Wall is Now On the Table
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/01/26/msnbc-despite-schumer-posturing-senate-dems-privately-acknowledge-funding-trumps-border-wall-is-now-on-the-table-n2439698?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

GUATEMALA
Op-ed: Righting an Obama-era wrong in Guatemala 
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/righting-an-obama-era-wrong-in-guatemala/article/2647053

IRAN
Iran’s Fast Boats Stop Harassing U.S. Navy, Baffling Military
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/irans-fast-boats-stop-harassing-u-s-navy-baffling-military-1516897301-lMyQjAxMTI4NDIxNjUyNjY0Wj/

MIDDLE EAST
John Kerry Sides With the Palestinians, Tells Them to Ignore Trump
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/01/25/john-kerry-sides-with-the-palestinians-tells-them-to-ignore-trump-n2439213?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

RUSSIAGATEOperation Sabotage the Memo
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/operation-sabotage-the-memo-1516925395-lMyQjAxMTI4MDIwNjcyOTYwWj/

The Russia ‘Fake News’ Scare Is All about Chilling Speech
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455825/russian-bots-twitter-scare-censoring-speech?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-01-26&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

POTUS
In a Trump Hunt, Beware the Perjury Trap
https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2018/01/26/in-a-trump-hunt-beware-the-perjury-trap-n2439840?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

Conservative Heritage Foundation Rates Trump’s First Year Better Than Reagan’s
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/conservative-heritage-foundation-rates-trumps-first-year-better-reagans/

POLITICS
GOP gets new marching orders: Sell the new tax law
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gop-gets-new-marching-orders-sell-the-new-tax-law/article/2647153

-- 
"Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues,
the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great
intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which
yields most painfully to change."
          - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929