PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
A US Air Force B-52 bomber spotted a canoe lost in the Pacific after being told to look for a boat like the one in the Disney movie 'Moana'
http://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-b-52-bomber-crew-rescues-canoe-lost-in-the-pacific-2018-7?amp%3Butm_medium=referral

You Can't Sing That Anymore
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/crosby060718.php3

Our strange relationship with the word 'patriotism'
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah070618.php3

HEALTH
The numbers that matter most in staying healthy
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0718/staying_healthy_numbers.php3

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
The Party of Hate
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2018/07/07/the-party-of-hate-n2498047?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

BUSINESS
Everything Is Not OK
https://ricochet.com/533082/everything-is-not-ok/

ENVIRONMENT
Return the EPA to the states
http://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/395841-return-the-epa-to-the-states

SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook censored a post for 'hate speech.' It was the Declaration of Independence
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0718/FB_censors_Declaration_of_Independence.php3

IMMIGRATION
That Story about Immigrants Being Discharged from the Military Is Much More Complex than the AP Makes It Seem
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/immigrant-military-recruit-discharges-blame-bureacratic-incompetence/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202018-07-07&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

GOP Rep. ‘Outraged’ at Being Turned Away from Immigrant Children’s Shelter
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/republican-congressman-denied-access-to-immigrant-children-shelter/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202018-07-07&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

MIDDLE EAST
Care about those poor, helpless and hopeless Palestinians? Immediately end their United Nations relief
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0718/glick070618.php3

Israeli air strike hits Syria at Golan frontier
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-israel-strike/israeli-air-strike-hits-syria-at-golan-frontier-idUSKBN1JW1XC

NKOR (Looks to me like the "master negotiator" got taken to the woodshed.)
North Korea thought to be developing submarine that can launch nuclear weapons
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/north-korea-thought-to-be-developing-submarine-that-can-launch-nuclear-weapons-2018-07-06

North Korea says talks with Mike Pompeo were 'regrettable'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-korea-says-talks-mike-134943005.html

SCOTUS
‘Don’t You Dare Touch Roe!’ — Judicial Confirmation Silly Season Begins
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/supreme-court-unlikely-to-overturn-roe-v-wade/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202018-07-07&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

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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