PLATT MISC - News

GENERAL INTEREST
No 6207 A Study in Steel 1935
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx6hmSclbRE&t=11s

Danny Macaskill: The Ridge
https://www.youtube.com/embed/xQ_IQS3VKjA

How Your Brain Can Trick You Into Trusting People
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/29/smarter-living/unconscious-bias-trust.html?emc=edit_nn_20180502&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180502&te=1

HEALTH
States scrambling to get life-saving drug into the hands of more opioid addicts 
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/1/surgeon-general-household-naloxone-access-vital-op/

Tick and Mosquito Infections Spreading Rapidly, C.D.C. Finds
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/health/ticks-mosquitoes-diseases.html?emc=edit_nn_20180502&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180502&te=1

PARENTING
Should parents apologize to their kids? And if so, what's the best way to do it?
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0518/parent_child_apology.php3

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
Utah teen blasted in U.S. for ‘cultural appropriation’ over prom dress wows China
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/2/keziah-daum-blasted-in-us-for-cultural-appropriati/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

BUSINESS
What Apple’s $100 Billion Buyback Plan Says About the Trump Tax Cuts 
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2018/05/02/What-Apple-s-100-Billion-Buyback-Plan-Says-About-Trump-Tax-Cuts

Facebook taps former Republican senator to probe claims of anti-conservative bias
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/2/facebook-brings-in-jon-kyl-to-probe-political-bias/

JUDICIARY
We Need a National Injunction-Review Law
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/daca-injunctions-need-expedited-review-abuse-by-judges/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-05-02&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

UN
Haley 'taking names': Report reveals which nations have America's back at UN – and which ones don't
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/01/haley-taking-names-report-reveals-which-nations-have-americas-back-at-un-and-which-ones-dont.html

MEDIA BIAS
A Pennsylvania Cop Carried an AR-15 at a Gun Control Rally. What Happened Next May Surprise You
https://townhall.com/columnists/salenazito/2018/05/02/a-pennsylvania-cop-carried-an-ar15-at-a-gun-control-rally-what-happened-next-may-surprise-you-n2476457?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

TERRORISM
A Muslim and a Hindu thought they could be a couple. Then came the 'love jihad' hit list 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0518/love_jihad.php3

TRUMPGATE
Giuliani: Yes, Trump Will Answer Questions From Mueller Investigators 
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/05/02/giuliani-trump-will-answer-questions-n2476822?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

The Memo: Leak fuels new Mueller intrigue
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385762-the-memo-leak-fuels-new-mueller-intrigue?userid=288549

Ty Cobb to Be Replaced By Former Bill Clinton Lawyer
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/05/02/ty-cobb-to-be-replaced-by-former-bill-clinton-lawyer-n2476794?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

Rudy Giuliani says Trump repaid lawyer $130,000 for Stormy Daniels hush money
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/2/rudy-giuliani-says-donald-trump-reimbursed-michael/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

POLITICS
Karl Marx, You Were Wrong 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/karl-marx-legacy-millions-murdered-enslaved-in-poverty/
  
Democratic blue wave now challenged by a ‘progressive tsunami’ and a ‘Clinton wave’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/2/democratic-blue-wave-now-challenged-by-a-progressi/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

How endangered GOP Sen. Dean Heller is seeking to hang on
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/385758-how-endangered-gop-senator-dean-heller-is-seeking-to-hang-on?userid=288549

Reuters Poll: Millennials Shifting Away From Democrats
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/05/02/marist-poll-millennials-shifting-away-from-dems-n2476120?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

-- "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