PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Family Realizes Pet Dog Might Be a Bear After Animal Starts to Walk Around on Hind Legs
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/family-realizes-pet-dog-might-174149755.html

The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0518/hamilton.php3

BUSINESS
The ELD Rule Is Hurting The Trucking Industry And Our Nation
https://townhall.com/columnists/erichreimer/2018/05/15/the-eld-rule-is-hurting-the-trucking-industry-and-our-nation-n2480592?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

CLIMATE CHANGE
Researchers Uncover 'New Phase of Globalization' With Major Climate Consequences 
https://www.ecowatch.com/new-phase-of-globalization-2568824216.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=263cdfd6f8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-263cdfd6f8-85328381

SCIENCE
https://www.nytimes.com/section/science?emc=edit_nn_20180515&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180515&te=1

FOREIGN POLICY
Pompeo lifts hiring freeze at State Department
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/387719-pompeo-lifts-hiring-freeze-at-state-department?userid=288549

NATIONAL SECURITY
Warner vote clears path for Haspel confirmation
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/387799-warner-to-back-haspel-making-confirmation-likely?userid=288549

LAW ENFORCEMENT
WTF: Guardsmen Can Patrol The US Border But Can’t Look Across It?!
https://taskandpurpose.com/national-guard-cant-look-across-us-mexico-border/?bsft_eid=84147d9c-0e0c-4afc-a55d-6073a249a29f&utm_campaign=tp_daily_tuesday_pm&utm_source=blueshift&utm_medium=email&utm_content=tp_daily_pm_ricks&bsft_pid=c4323527-622b-41e1-b26a-c5ff8481a6fb&bsft_clkid=be7b4cf2-ea87-49e8-9b95-d03d268fc305&bsft_uid=df717f26-aeb2-4430-a1ad-847cc6d3c6cf&bsft_mid=52bceb16-abe6-4059-bcf3-3830815fddaf&bsft_pp=7

IMMIGRATION
Trump’s tweets could sink efforts to end DACA, appeals court says  (That effing tweeter strikes again.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/15/trumps-tweets-could-derail-efforts-end-daca-appeal/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

IRAN
Policymakers Would Be Wise to Heed Iranian Resistance Predictions
https://townhall.com/columnists/jamesmorrison/2018/05/15/policymakers-would-be-wise-to-heed-iranian-resistance-predictions-n2480589?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

NORK
North Korea Suspends Talks with South Korea over Military Drill
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/north-korea-south-korea-talks-suspended-us-military-drill/

Trump, North Korea, and the Reagan Doctrine 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/north-korea-negotiations-human-rights-must-be-starting-point/

Negotiations with Pyongyang: Are We Ready for This Uphill Battle?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/north-korea-negotiations-pyongyang-will-make-task-difficult/#slide-1

SKOR
The Latest: South Korea says military drills will go on
https://www.yahoo.com/news/latest-us-says-going-ahead-nkorea-summit-plan-200634561.html

POLITICS
WaPo: Dems Now Openly Fretting About Rising Trump Approval, Deteriorating 2018 Prospects
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/05/15/wapo-dems-now-fretting-about-rising-trump-approval-sinking-2018-polling-n2480568?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

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yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you will
be tomorrow"
          -  From "The Horizontal Man" by Helen Eustis