PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Charles Krauthammer sends a message about his health to Fox News viewers
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/02/20/charles-krauthammer-sends-a-message-about-his-health-to-fox-news-viewers/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TheBlaze%20Daily%20AM%202018-02-21&utm_term=TheBlaze%20Daily%20AM%20-%20last%20270%20days

There's A $2 Million Treasure Hidden Somewhere In The Rockies ??? And At Least 4 People Have Died Looking For It
http://start.att.net/news/read/article/business_insider-theres_a_2_million_treasure_hidden_somewhere_in_th-newscred2/category/news

The 10,000 Year Clock
http://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html

Why Chick-fil-A is a Mom's Best Friend
https://townhall.com/columnists/kimberlyfletcher/2018/02/20/why-chickfila-is-a-moms-best-friend-n2451617?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

Roads to nowhere: how infrastructure built on American inequality
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/feb/21/roads-nowhere-infrastructure-american-inequality?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=265034&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

SPORTS
Team USA breaks Canada's streak to win women's hockey gold medal in thrilling shootout
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/team-usa-breaks-canadas-streak-win-womens-hockey-gold-medal-thrilling-shootout-071653832.html

EDUCATION
Superintendent vows to suspend students who join gun-control protests: ???Life is all about choices???
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/21/texas-school-district-threatens-suspend-students-w/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=2018&utm_term=newsletter&utm_content=newsalert

CLIMATE CHANGE
Europeans rip Trump on climate change, import record amounts of U.S. coal
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/21/trumps-european-climate-change-critics-fuel-us-coa/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=2018&utm_term=newsletter&utm_content=newsalert

Top-secret US military project hidden under ice sheet will be exposed by climate change
http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/topsecret-us-military-project-hidden-under-ice-sheet-will-be-exposed-by-climate-change/news-story/eba9d5d1fd6bb21c396c8baad32956e2

WEATHER
Michigan Child Found Dead In Standing Water
http://start.att.net/news/read/article/the_associated_press-the_latest_sandbags_used_to_hold_back_midwest_floo-ap/category/news

TWILIGHT ZONE
Mystery of the abandoned 737 plane
http://www.news.com.au/travel/world-travel/asia/mystery-of-the-abandoned-737-plane/news-story/869176e507493b6c3d505e6eb70a09bf

TECHNOLOGY
Boston Dynamics is teaching its robot dog to fight back against humans 
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/21/boston-dynamics-teaching-robot-dog-fight-back-humans?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=265034&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

DEFENSE
??US Must Overcome ???Hubris??? And Prepare For Surprise: Experts ["The United States has been fighting weak and isolated regional adversaries for the last 25 years, and a result we have a very inflated view of how good we are," warned the study's lead author, Mark Cancian of CSIS]
https://breakingdefense.com/2018/02/us-must-overcome-hubris-and-prepare-for-surprise-experts/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=60830332&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_wI0AgSp7jeuxVfuZ1iMDaIt5WOJh8yp4WI0Qer9_abOZ28lPiF9JZJVkD9qMr6fxDL1BB5-ywoA_xzljIxZVlm4bE1w&_hsmi=60830332

UN
Haley Hits Back at Palestinian Official Who Told Her to Shut Up
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/02/20/nikki-haley-shoots-back-at-palestinian-official-who-insulted-her-n2451799?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

MEDIA RUNNING AMOK
CNN harassing Ol' Timers ... Now They've Crossed the Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S5fvoJ1Bqs&feature=push-u-sub&attr_tag=TBX2fPJDbC6YTecL-6

MASS SHOOTING
Real Solutions for Curtailing Gun Violence
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/real-solutions-for-curtailing-gun-violence-1519168921-lMyQjAxMTI4MDI1MTEyMjE5Wj/

Rep. Claudia Tenney: Many mass murderers 'end up being Democrats'
https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/02/21/rep-claudia-tenney-many-mass-murderers-end-up-being-democrats/361153002/

He Almost Shot Up a School. Here's What Stopped Him
http://www.newser.com/story/255646/he-almost-shot-up-a-school-heres-what-stopped-him.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=att&utm_campaign=rss_crime_syn

FLORIDA SHOOTER
Nikolas Cruz's Caregiver Wants Control of Florida Shooter's $800K Inheritance
http://www.newsweek.com/florida-shooter-nikolas-cruzs-carer-wants-control-his-800k-inheritance-report-814207?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=yahoo_news&utm_campaign=rss&utm_content=/rss/yahoous/news

NORK
North Korea Walked Away From Pence Meeting in South Korea
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/north-korea-walks-away-from-pence-meeting-in-south-korea-1519181319-lMyQjAxMTE4MDIzMTYyNjE5Wj/

RUSSIAGATE
Don???t Overestimate Trump???s Ability to Knowingly Collude with Russia 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/donald-trump-russia-collusion-probably-did-not-happen/

Mueller Focuses on Molehills
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/mueller-focuses-on-molehills-1519169467-lMyQjAxMTI4MDI1MTEyMjE5Wj/

POTUS
The Clear and Present Danger of Trump
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/the-clear-and-present-danger-of-trump-1519169425-lMyQjAxMTI4MDI1MTEyMjE5Wj/

POLITICS
Our Government Is Not Constructed for Competence 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/our-government-is-not-constructed-for-competence/

Controversies pile up for White House, alarming GOP
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/374780-controversies-pile-up-for-white-house-alarming-gop?userid=288549

10 governors shaping the future of politics
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/374776-10-governors-shaping-the-future-of-politics?userid=288549

Back in the Halcyon Days of the Conservative Movement
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/conservatism-decline-not-really/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-02-21&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

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"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." 

G. Washington

LETTER TO MAJOR-GENERAL ROBERT HOWE | TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1779