PLATT-MISC News

Barbara Bush in failing health, won’t seek additional treatment (regardless of her family's politics, this is a classy lady.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/15/barbara-bushs-health-failing/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

GENERAL INTEREST
In his stirring meditation on what makes life worth living, Walt Whitman asked: “After you have

exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains?” He answered simply: “Nature remains.”

PHYSICAL HEALTH
Running shoes cost between $20 and $200 — why you should spend at least $100
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/running-shoes-cost-between-20-and-200-why-you-should-spend-at-least-100-2017-07-03

MENTAL HEALTH
Environmentalist Burns Himself to Death to Protest Fossil Fuels
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2018/04/14/environmentalist-burns-himself-to-death-to-protest-fossil-fuels-n2471020?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

PARENTING
The Four Terrible Things That Are Destroying Boys In Our Culture
https://www.dailywire.com/news/29311/walsh-boys-matt-walsh?utm_medium=email&utm_content=041518-news&utm_campaign=position2

HUMOR
I Don't Look Good Naked Anymore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=21&v=OOgd9hitEAE

The Snake Oil Willie Band
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Gz2BDR5hAHtJo5AIkoeTQ

Movie Trailer
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/885651637741658112/pu/vid/640x360/3j42P0YtBnK81gSd.mp4

FOOD
Is This Tomato Engineered? Inside the Coming Battle Over Gene-Edited Food
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/is-this-tomato-engineered-inside-the-coming-battle-over-gene-edited-food-1523814992-lMyQjAxMTI4NjE5NTUxNTUzWj/

Restaurants are cooking your steak wrong on purpose
https://nypost.com/2018/04/10/restaurants-are-cooking-your-steak-wrong-on-purpose/

EDUCATION
AP U.S. History Text: White, Christian Americans Finding It ‘Difficult to Adjust’ to Becoming Minority
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/14/ap-u-s-history-text-white-christian-americans-finding-it-difficult-to-adjust-to-becoming-minority/

WELFARE
Trump order targets wide swath of public assistance programs
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/383106-trump-order-targets-wide-swathe-of-public-assistance-programs?userid=288549&utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=14874

BUSINESS
Supreme Court Weighs Widening States’ Reach on Online Sales Taxes
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/supreme-court-set-to-weigh-online-sales-taxes-1523790801-lMyQjAxMTI4MDE4NTUxNzU5Wj/

The Interstate Tax Grab
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/the-interstate-tax-grab-1523819493-lMyQjAxMTA4NjExNTYxNDU0Wj/

Facebook spent nearly $9 million on private jets and security for CEO Zuckerberg
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-spent-nearly-9-million-on-private-jets-and-security-for-ceo-zuckerberg-2018-04-13

About a third of people think that FaceBook has a 'negative impact on society'
https://moneyish.com/ish/about-a-third-of-people-think-facebook-has-a-negative-impact-on-society/

ENVIRONMENT
'Plastic is literally everywhere': the epidemic attacking Australia's oceans
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/16/plastic-is-literally-everywhere-the-epidemic-attacking-australias-oceans

HERPETOLOGY
Python trackers find record breeding group in Florida
https://www.freep.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/04/15/python-trackers-find-record-breeding-group-florida/518581002/

METALLURGY
‘New’ Metal Made From Melted Down Guns Is Based On A False Premise
https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2018/04/14/new-metal-made-guns-based-false-premise/?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

DEFENSE
Pentagon reports increase in Russian trolls since Syria strike
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/383169-pentagon-reports-increase-in-russian-trolls-since-syria-strike?userid=288549&utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=14874

LAW ENFORCEMENT
Indian Tribe Won’t Let National Guard Into “Most Notorious Area for Drugs Entering the County”—Border Patrol: “They Told Us They Don’t Want White Man on Their Land”
http://tennesseewatchman.com/2018/04/indian-tribe-wont-let-national-guard-notorious-area-drugs-entering-county-border-patrol-told-us-dont-want-white-man-l/

Machete Attack Every 90 Minutes in ‘Gun-Free’ Britain
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/04/15/machete-attack-every-90-minutes-gun-free-britain/

RIGHT TO VOTE
Don’t Fiddle with the Franchise
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/2018/04/15/dont-fiddle-with-the-franchise-n2471028?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

TRUMPGATE
Comey’s last stand for the deep state
http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/383166-comeys-last-stand-for-the-deep-state?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=14874

Partisan tensions rise as Mueller bill delayed
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/383120-partisan-tensions-rise-as-mueller-bill-delayed?userid=288549

Stormy Daniels’ lawyer says Michael Cohen will be indicted within 90 days
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/15/michael-avenatti-stormy-daniels-lawyer-says-michae/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

POLITICS
GOP devotes $250M to midterm strategy: Keep House majority
https://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2018/04/15/gop-devotes-250m-to-midterm-strategy-keep-house-majority-n2470926

-- "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