PLATT MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Miracle staircase Santa Fe
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_ZTAxevT9-OaTVRQ0JmQVZFOHA4ZW9TX1JOZW1WSWdGelJB/view

White House mystery: Where is Macron’s gifted oak tree?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/29/oak-tree-planted-trump-macron-disappears-white-hou/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

HEALTH
Forget the Diet, Tubby -- Lettuce Will Make You Sick to Your Stomach
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2018/04/28/forget-the-diet-tubby--lettuce-will-make-you-sick-to-your-stomach-n2475616?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

BUSINESS
How Liberals Vote to Harm Their Own Interests
https://townhall.com/columnists/brucebialosky/2018/04/29/how-liberals-vote-to-harm-their-own-interests-n2474473?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

ARCHAEOLOGY
'Extraordinary Find' Made in Pompeii Bath House 
http://start.att.net/news/read/article/newser-extraordinary_find_made_in_pompeii_bath_house-rnewsernor/category/news

TECHNOLOGY
Are Democrats finally ready to unfriend Facebook and Silicon Valley?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/29/facebook-zuckerberg-obama-clinton-democrats?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=273194&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

CYBER SECURITY
Federal 'turf war' complicates cybersecurity efforts
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/385272-federal-turf-war-complicates-cybersecurity-efforts?rnd=1524865360

IMMIGRATION
The Latest: Some caravan of asylum seekers waiting at border 
http://start.att.net/news/read/article/the_associated_press-the_latest_caravan_of_asylum_seekers_head_to_borde-ap/category/news

CHINA
China’s Challenge to Democracy
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/chinas-challenge-to-democracy-1524756755-lMyQjAxMTA4MzIwODYyMzg4Wj/

NORK
Bolton seeks vow from North Korea to abandon nuclear program, as prerequisite for summit
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/29/bolton-says-kim-must-give-up-nuclear-program-before-any-summit-with-trump.html

BUREAUCRACY 
https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget17/justifications/v-ies.pdf

POLITICS
Democrats were looking at suburban districts. Now they’re glancing toward rural ones too.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/democrats-were-looking-at-suburban-districts-now-theyre-glancing-toward-rural-ones-too/2018/04/28/7268b8e4-4a53-11e8-9072-f6d4bc32f223_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d2599d70dc43

GOP more confident about W. Va. Senate as Blankenship fades
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/385283-gop-more-confident-about-w-va-senate-as-blankenship-fades?userid=288549

-- "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