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GENERAL INTEREST
Couple's dream trip sinks with their sailboat that stranger replaces for $1
http://abcnews.go.com/US/Travel/couples-dream-trip-sinks-sailboat-stranger-replaces/story?id=53465053

Snopes Fact Checks Christian Website...There's Just One MAJOR Problem 
https://townhall.com/notebook/micahrate/2018/03/02/snopes-fact-checks-christian-satire-website-n2456638?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

HEALTH
Cardiologists advise making one tweak to your workout to make it last
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cardiologists-advise-making-one-tweak-to-your-workout-to-make-it-last-2018-03-01

HEALTH CARE
The Multi-Billion Dollar Solution – Repeal Safe Harbor
https://townhall.com/columnists/andrewmangione/2018/03/03/the-multibillion-dollar-solution--repeal-safe-harbor-n2456781?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

BILLY GRAHAM
Billy Graham: An Extraordinary Journey On FOX, 7–8 p.m. ET, Sunday, March 4
http://links.mkt1529.com/servlet/MailView?ms=NTYxMDg4MTAS1&r=MTk4NzQxMTM2NzQxS0&j=MTM2MDQwMDgwNAS2&mt=1&rt=0

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
Girls empowerment camp canceled because boy can’t go
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=40477?omhide=true

SPORTS
64-year-old says Jon Gruden offered him training camp tryout
https://247sports.com/nfl/oakland-raiders/Bolt/64-year-old-RU-Faster-says-Jon-Gruden-offered-him-training-camp-tryout-115753874/

BUSINESS
Gun Maker’s Strategy Backfires as Retailers Protest Some of Its Brands 
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/gun-makers-strategy-backfires-as-retailers-protest-some-of-its-brands-1520016445-lMyQjAxMTE4MjA3MzEwNzM3Wj/

ARCHAEOLOGY
After Thousands of Years, Western Science Is Slowly Catching Up to Indigenous Knowledge
https://www.ecowatch.com/indigenous-knowledge-systems-2540329986.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=47ebe8ab0f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-47ebe8ab0f-85328381

ORNITHOLOGY
Smith Oaks Bird Sanctuary
https://houstonaudubon.org/sanctuaries/high-island/smith-oaks.html

Smith Oaks Rookery
https://houstonaudubon.org/sanctuaries/high-island/rookery/rookery.html

CLIMATE CHANGE
Southern Californians know: climate change is real, it is deadly and it is here
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/03/california-climate-change-fires-flood-landslide?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=266159&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

WATER
Tiny Canada town defeats oil firm in court fight over drinking water
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/03/canada-oil-drilling-town-lawsuit-ristigouche-sud-est?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=266159&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

Parched South Africa City Struggles to Avoid ‘Day Zero’: Water Shutdown 
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/parched-south-africa-city-struggles-to-avoid-day-zero-water-shutdown-1520078401-lMyQjAxMTE4MzA5MzkwODMyWj/

SCIENCE
Will Congress Finally Get Tough on Junk Science?
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2018/03/03/will-congress-finally-get-tough-on-junk-science-n2456605?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

CYBER SECURITY
Bitcoin Heist: 600 Powerful Computers Stolen In Iceland
http://start.att.net/news/read/category/tech%20news/article/the_associated_press-big_bitcoin_heist_2_held_over_stolen_computers_in-ap

DEFENSE
We Now Know Why Russia Wants a 100-Megaton Nuclear Torpedo
https://www.yahoo.com/news/now-know-why-russia-wants-032000431.html

LAW ENFORCEMENT
"Don't Touch the Gun"
https://mobile.twitter.com/INTJutsu/status/949109148154847232/video/1

IMMIGRATION
Detained and divided: how the US turned on Vietnamese refugees 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/03/vietnamese-refugees-immigration-us-detention?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=266159&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

ISRAEL
Israeli Ground Units Building Drone Air Force 
https://breakingdefense.com/2018/03/israeli-ground-units-building-drone-air-force/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=61087146&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--2upNEDvSbq-CUlpJmOcj-KD3AWxzIMR0PvLlYvEgh-OJaho28dTlY1iTK0lQlLxhrOE0tqvjI94Y7qPiY1689_epjdA&_hsmi=61087146

NORK
Russia may be helping North Korea skirt sanctions through smuggling
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-may-helping-north-korea-162025026.html

POLITICS
Vulnerable lawmakers answer a noisy gun debate with silence
https://www.yahoo.com/news/vulnerable-lawmakers-answer-noisy-gun-debate-silence-182843150--politics.html

Pennsylvania Redistricting Leads To Bad Blood Among Some Democrats Forced To Shuffle Electoral Plans
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pennsylvania-redistricting-leads-bad-blood-201005346.html

Messing with Texas, Yet Again
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/beto-orourke-democrat-dream-turn-texas-blue-never-die/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-03-02&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

-- "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