PLATT - MISC News

Shooting Ourselves In The Foot
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2018/07/11/shooting-ourselves-in-the-foot-n2498527?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

GENERAL INTEREST
Brisket Burnt Ends | Smoked Beef Brisket and Burnt Ends on Ole Hickory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=655&v=FVOh8430oCs

Quiz: Are you an energy efficiency wiz? (6/9)
https://energyfactor.exxonmobil.com/science-technology/quiz-are-you-an-energy-efficiency-wiz/#.W0YBjEtf2aI.email

Post Office owes $3.5M for using wrong Statue of Liberty on a stamp
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/post-office-owes-3-5m-for-using-wrong-statue-of-liberty-on-a-stamp/

HEALTH
Father Who Contracted Flesh-Eating Bacteria While Crabbing in N.J. Now Faces Losing All 4 Limbs
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/father-contracted-flesh-eating-bacteria-193157958.html

Artificial intelligence helps researchers predict drug combinations' side effects
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180710072013.htm

Triclosan, often maligned, may have a good side—treating cystic fibrosis infections
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-07-triclosan-maligned-good-sidetreating-cystic.html

PARENTING
Dads Needed
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0718/stossel071118.php3

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
How the #WalkAway Campaign is Drowning the Blue Wave Democrats
https://townhall.com/columnists/joyoverbeck/2018/07/11/how-the-walkaway-campaign-is-drowning-the-blue-wave-democrats-n2499243?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

California, Socialists, and the Debt Bombs
https://townhall.com/columnists/patrickbobko/2018/07/10/california-socialists-and-the-debt-bombs-n2499043?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

BUSINESS
Elon Musk Launches Bizarre Public Spat with Thai Hero Rescue Chief (Gotta wonder if we really want this guy involved in the USA space program.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-11/elon-musk-launches-bizarre-public-spat-thai-hero-rescue-chief

CLIMATE CHANGE
Elusive trigger for cooling 13,000 years ago might have been found
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/elusive-trigger-for-cooling-13000-years-ago-might-have-been-found/

CONSTRUCTION ROBOTICS
Meet SAM, Brick Laying Robot That Does The Work Of 6 Humans
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-27/me

Meet Hadrian, The Brick Laying Robot That Will Make Construction Workers Obsolete
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-02/meet-hadrian-brick-laying-robot-will-make-construction-workers-obsolete

Fastbrick Robotics: Hadrian 105 First Look Revealed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zw7qHxMtrY

Fastbrick Robotics: Hadrian 105 Time Lapse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YcrO8ONcfY

DEFENSE
Close Air Support Fly-off Farce
http://www.pogo.org/straus/issues/weapons/2018/close-air-support-fly-off-farce.html

U.S., Mexican forces carry out military drills focused on border security
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/11/us-mexican-forces-carry-out-military-drills-border/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

LAW ENFORCEMENT
Police Reveal 4 Common Ways to Get Pulled Over
http://blog.esurance.com/police-reveal-4-most-common-ways-to-get-pulled-over/?utm_medium=discovery&utm_content=Behind+the+Blue%3A+Police+Tell+Us+4+Reasons+They+Pull+People+Over%0D&utm_source=outbrain&utm_campaign=TopPerformersMB&utm_term=005531106a00746af7d515d354e0b5510d&PromoID=OTBDA0003

Drunk driving suspect gives cops worst excuse ever
https://nypost.com/2018/07/10/drunk-driving-suspect-gives-cops-worst-excuse-ever/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

NATO
NATO Has A Good Story To Tell, But Is Its Audience Of One Listening?
https://breakingdefense.com/2018/07/nato-has-a-good-story-to-tell-but-is-its-audience-of-one-listening/?utm_campaign=Breaking%20News&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=64368560&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8jEzvlyWAy5g_fA9OCpeBNMpk4QqdMDN5yAOrPUMz1WXE2rs7KtZD-JTcr3YdQYzCXwRZvFF3mYzjZu9qKIeQ5sYqAuw&_hsmi=64368560

NATO Makes ‘Unwavering Commitment’ to Increase Defense Spending
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/nato-defense-spending-increases-pledged/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-07-11&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

MEDIA RUNNING AMOK
CNN Critiques Kavanaugh For Being White
https://townhall.com//columnists/marinamedvin/2018/07/11/cnn-critiques-kavanaugh-for-being-white-n2498853?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

The Media Vs. Brett Kavanaugh
https://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozellandtimgraham/2018/07/11/the-media-vs-brett-kavanaugh-n2499173?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

IMMIGRATION
Poll: Voters Oppose Abolishing ICE
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/poll-voters-oppose-abolishing-ice/

Border Patrol Catches Another MS-13 Member Claiming 'Asylum,' Illegal Aliens With Child Sex Abuse Records
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/07/11/border-patrol-catches-another-ms13-members-claiming-asylum-n2499412?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

TRUMPGATE
Byron York: Mueller reveals tenuous link between Manafort charges and Trump
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-mueller-reveals-tenuous-link-between-manafort-charges-and-trump?utm_source=Examiner%20Today_07/11/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner%20Today

Brett Kavanaugh Won’t Shield Trump from Robert Mueller
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/brett-kavanaugh-mueller-insurance-trump-no/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-07-11&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

SCOTUS
What Kind of Supreme Court Will We Have Now?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/supreme-court-predictions-brett-kavanaugh-careful-narrowly-tailored-decisions/

Shameless: Schumer's Hilarious, Desperate Flip Flop on SCOTUS Nominees and the 'Ginsburg Standard'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/07/11/schemers-shameless-flip-flop-on-the-ginsburg-standard-n2499361?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

POLITICS
Wisconsin Democrats fear another debacle in November
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/10/tammy-baldwin-wisconsin-senate-midterms-november-707778?utm_source=Examiner%20Today_07/11/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner%20Today

Is Hillary Clinton secretly planning to run in 2020?
https://nypost.com/2018/07/07/is-hillary-clinton-secretly-planning-to-run-in-2020/

A Fresh-Faced Political Outsider Tries to Turn Her Blue California District Red 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/elizabeth-heng-campaign-brings-conservative-values-to-california-race/

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"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found;
they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along."
           - Carl Sandburg