PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
10 Mysterious Destinations That People Are Banned From Visiting
http://www.theoccultmuseum.com/10-mysterious-destinations-people-banned-visiting/

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines (6 out of 11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/04/briefing/04weeklynewsquiz.html?emc=edit_nn_20180504&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180504&te=1

The Week in Good News: Humpback Whale Baby Boom, Special Rocks, Mo Salah
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/briefing/the-week-in-good-news-humpback-whale-baby-boom-special-rocks-mo-salah.html?emc=edit_nn_20180504&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180504&te=1

EDUCATION
Mom suspects racism after sons are pulled from college tour
https://www.yahoo.com/news/apnewsbreak-mom-angry-sons-pulled-college-tour-182235828.html

UC Berkeley: ‘Hard to defend’ free speech of conservatives who ‘incite’ liberal students
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/4/uc-berkeley-hard-to-defend-free-speech-of-conserva/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

BUSINESS
A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/upshot/fast-food-jobs-teenagers-shortage.html?emc=edit_nn_20180504&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180504&te=1

LAW ENFORCEMENT
Criminals used a drone swarm to disrupt an FBI hostage rescue
https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/04/drone-swarm-fbi-hostage-rescue/

IMMIGRATION
Is Deporting Immigrants the Same as Returning Fugitive Slaves?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/california-sanctuary-supporters-not-like-fugitive-slave-rescuers/#slide-1

NORK/SKOR
On North Korea, Trump should refuse to take the bait
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0518/thiessen050518.php3

Time for change: North Korea moves clocks forward to keep up with South
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/05/time-for-change-north-korea-moves-clocks-forward-to-match-south

Trump Orders Pentagon to Consider Reducing U.S. Forces in South Korea
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/world/asia/trump-troops-south-korea.html?emc=edit_nn_20180504&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180504&te=1

His Predecessors Failed. Can Moon Jae-in Make Peace With North Korea?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/world/asia/north-korea-moon-trump-kim.html?emc=edit_nn_20180504&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180504&te=1

TRUMPGATE
Trump’s De Mini-Mess Is Becoming a Maxi-Mess 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/donald-trump-stormy-daniels-overreaction-magnifies-problem/

Rod Rosenstein Has Botched the Mueller Probe
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/mueller-probe-rod-rosenstein-responsible-for-state-of-investigation/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-05-04&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

‘C’Mon Man’ — Judge in Manafort Case Accuses Mueller’s Team of ‘Lying’
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/robert-mueller-paul-manafort-team-accused-lying/

Trump says he would ‘love’ talk to Mueller, but fears being mistreated in ‘witch hunt’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/4/trump-says-he-would-love-talk-mueller/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

POLITICS
John Kelly and the Rise of Courtly Government 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/john-kelly-president-trump-inner-circle-too-powerful/

How Maine might change politics 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/david/shribman050418.php3

-- 
"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