PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
The Week in Good News: Dementia Treatment, a Young Fly-Casting Champion, Two Lost Goats
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/briefing/the-week-in-good-news-dementia-treatment-maxine-mccormick-two-lost-goats.html?emc=edit_nn_20180824&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180824&te=1

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines (11/11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/24/briefing/24weeklynewsquiz.html?emc=edit_nn_20180824&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180824&te=1

This 15-story underground doomsday shelter for the 1% has luxury homes, guns, and armored trucks 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/business_insider-this_15story_underground_doomsday_shelter_for_the-newscred2/category/news+

PETA Puts Up Billboard Telling Marylanders to Stop Eating Crabs
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2018/08/24/peta-puts-up-billboards-telling-marylanders-to-stop-eating-blue-crabs-n2512772?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&profileid=

HEALTH
Whatever Amount of Alcohol You're Drinking Is Too Much, New Research Says
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/fortune-whatever_amount_of_alcohol_youre_drinking_is_too_m-rtime/category/lifestyle

HEALTH CARE
Don’t Limit Health Care by Calling It a ‘Right’
https://townhall.com/columnists/sarahlee/2018/08/23/dont-limit-health-care-by-calling-it-a-right-n2512396?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&profileid=

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
Tarboro Child Punished For Calling Teacher 'ma'am'
http://bestsellermagazine.com/news/Tarboro-child-punished-for-calling-teacher-%27ma%27am%27/

DEMOGRAPHY
As The Wealthy Flock To The Major Cities On Both Coasts, Poverty And Suicide Soar In Rural Areas
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-23/wealthy-flock-major-cities-both-coasts-poverty-and-suicide-soar-rural-areas

CYBER SECURITY
Attempted Hacking of Voter Database Was a False Alarm, Democratic Party Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/us/politics/democratic-hacking-voter-database-false-alarm.html?emc=edit_nn_20180824&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180824&te=1

DEPT OF JUSTICE
The Extortion of Big Pharma
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/trump-administration-drug-industry-lawsuit-over-opioid-crisis-extortion/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-08-24&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook and WhatsApp aren’t just flawed — they’re downright dangerous 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-and-whatsapp-arent-just-flawed-theyre-downright-dangerous-2018-08-24

Tech Titans Made Serious Mistakes, and More Censorship Won’t Right the Ship 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/social-media-companies-made-mistakes-censorship-wont-fix/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-08-24&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

IMMIGRATION
The November Election Is About Illegal Alien Crime
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/08/23/november-must-be-the-mollie-tibbetts-election-n2511999

The Diversity of Illegal Immigration
https://www.hoover.org/research/diversity-illegal-immigration

SCOTUS
Brett Kavanaugh and the Encroaching Administrative State
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/brett-kavanaugh-nomination-he-will-interpret-law-preserve-due-process/

Dems officially request delay in Kavanaugh hearing
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/24/dems-officially-request-delay-kavanaugh-hearing/?bt_ee=SdlaZHkzrDatWu290mQLCSO97EmfOzxpt7D7SbOHEl4IayvMs04acEdRPF8kWxyn&bt_ts=1535135831817

TRUMPGATE
Immunity Agreements for AMI Execs Aimed to Shore Up Case against Michael Cohen 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/immunity-agreements-for-american-media-executives-shore-up-cohen-case/

Trump Organization Could Face Criminal Charges From Manhattan D.A.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/nyregion/trump-organization-criminal-charges-vance.html?emc=edit_nn_20180824&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180824&te=1

Fair-Minded Investigation or Partisan Witch Hunt? 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/campaign-finance-law-clinton-campaign-committed-worse-violations/

POLITICS
Feds charge 19 noncitizens with illegally voting in 2016
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/24/feds-charge-19-noncitizens-illegally-voting-2016/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=6Bm1Hm6YK9LIW70AevMYACGy5Vw+W5pwasLK0gs/36d/sX2W3BMQmbuvsC292sTy&bt_ts=1535137254588

CIA Crimes: How John Brennan Weaponized the CIA and FBI, and Conspired with Russia and Harry Reid to Frame Trump—PART A
http://www.chaletbooks.com/chaletreports/

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