PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
More than 50 dead geese fall from Idaho sky in 'freak accident'
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/04/10/more-than-50-dead-geese-fall-from-idaho-sky-in-freak-accident.html

The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0418/hamilton.php3

The WIRE: Your week in review
https://personalliberty.com/wire-week-review-20-88/

HEALTH
Center for Digestive Diseases calls out for feces donors
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/diet/centre-for-digestive-diseases-calls-out-for-faeces-donors/news-story/ed7889d2b14309665214508d81aee8cd

Man eats world's hottest chili pepper – and ends up in hospital 
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/09/competitive-eater-taken-to-hospital-after-eating-worlds-hottest-chilli-pepper?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=270836&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

EDUCATION
Who Misbehaves? Claims that school discipline is unfairly meted out ignore actual classroom behavior (Well, duh.)
http://jewishworldreview.com/0418/mac_donald041018.php3

BUSINESS
White House says China ‘blinked’ in trade feud
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/10/white-house-says-china-blinked-trade-feud/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

FINANCE
Kudlow Rejects CBO Projections About Trump Tax Cuts...Offers His Own Prediction
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/04/10/kudlow-rejects-cbo-projections-about-trump-tax-cuts-n2469523?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

US sheriff once said it was 'financially better' to kill than badly injure suspects
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/09/us-police-killings-kern-county-sheriff-donny-youngblood?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=270836&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

POWER
New England faces 'horror story' of expensive power
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/new-england-faces-horror-story-of-expensive-power

EPA
Threats against EPA’s Pruitt wildly exaggerated, security precautions unnecessary: Senate Democrats
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/10/threats-against-epas-pruitt-wildly-exaggerated-sec/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

NAVY
The Navy wants just one littoral combat ship this year, but it may get three
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/the-navy-wants-just-one-littoral-combat-ship-this-year-but-it-may-get-three

BIG BROTHER
Kevin Williamson and the Twitter Mob
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/kevin-williamson-atlantic-firing-twitter-mob/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-04-10&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

TERRORISM
Muslim group sues to block Trump terrorism report
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/10/muslim-group-sues-block-trump-terrorism-report/

S. E. ASIA
Philippines Eyes Joint Exploration Deal In S. China Sea Within Months 
https://www.rigzone.com/news/wire/philippines_eyes_joint_exploration_deal_in_s_china_sea_within_months-09-apr-2018-154170-article/

RUSSIAGATE
Trump: 'Many people have said' I should fire Mueller
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/382378-trump-many-people-have-said-i-should-fire-mueller

Rand Paul warns gloating Trump critics: Mueller’s ‘great overstep’ a danger to all Americans
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/10/rand-paul-warns-gloating-trump-critics-muellers-gr/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

The Memo: Fears rise of Trump move against Mueller
http://thehill.com/homenews/the-memo/382583-the-memo-fears-rise-of-trump-move-against-mueller?userid=288549

Trump at crisis point on Mueller
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/382586-trump-at-crisis-point-on-mueller?userid=288549

POLITICS
Republicans are worried about the quality of their Senate challengers
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/republicans-are-worried-about-the-quality-of-their-senate-challengers

-- "Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946