PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Touching moment Nashville's busy airport comes to a standstill as travelers stop to sing The Star Spangled Banner and soldiers salute the children of fallen service members who were on their way to Disneyworld
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6482691/Travelers-sing-national-anthem-kids-fallen-service-members.html

Belonging
http://www.westernconfluence.org/belonging/

HEALTH
Here’s why you should avoid hospitals this holiday season (if at all possible) 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-why-you-definitely-want-to-avoid-hospitals-this-holiday-season-2018-12-11

What is behind the spread of a mysterious allergy to meat? 
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/11/mysterious-allergy-to-meat-alpha-gal-lone-star-tick?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX1VTTW9ybmluZ0JyaWVmaW5nLTE4MTIxMQ%3D%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=USMorningBriefing&CMP=usbriefing_email

HEALTH CARE
Universal healthcare could save America trillions: what’s holding us back? (Cost reduction through limited availability ... how great is that?)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/11/universal-healthcare-could-save-america-trillions-whats-holding-us-back

HUMOR
The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1218/hamilton.php3

'If you don’t want to look at the garage, look at this': Vermont man spends $4,000 on a 5-meter tall floodlit hand statue to flip off town officials who blocked his planning application
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6483533/Vermont-man-spends-4-000-5-meter-tall-hand-flip-town-officials.html

PROGRESSIVES DERANGED
Ignorant academic characterizes the Virgin birth as rape because it's that time of year for that sort of thing
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ignorant-academic-characterizes-the-virgin-birth-as-rape-because-its-that-time-of-year-for-that-sort-of-thing

The New Iron Johns Seek Catharsis
https://www.wral.com/the-new-iron-johns-seek-catharsis/18047298/

Thanks, TM ... 


CHRISTMAS
Does 'Merry Christmas' Matter?
https://townhall.com//columnists/dennisprager/2018/12/11/does-merry-christmas-matter-n2537293?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

The Great Leveling Can’t Put Out All the Lights
https://townhall.com/columnists/robertknight/2018/12/11/the-great-leveling-cant-put-out-all-the-lights-n2537259?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

EDUCATION
The Historical Profession is Committing Slow-Motion Suicide
https://warontherocks.com/2018/12/the-historical-profession-is-committing-slow-motion-suicide/

TECHNOLOGY
Spying on the Dog (or Cat) 
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/realestate/spying-on-the-dog-or-cat.html?emc=edit_ne_20181211&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820181211&te=1

NATIONAL SECURITY
Russia sends 'White Swan' bomber planes capable of nuclear strikes to Venezuela - as America declares the move a collaboration between 'two corrupt governments'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6483105/Russian-nuclear-capable-bombers-fly-Venezuela-angering-U-S.html

Pompeo Reveals What He Says Is the U.S.'s Biggest Threat
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/12/10/pompeo-reveals-what-he-says-is-the-uss-biggest-threat-n2537234?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

DEFENSE
Incredible story of how Titanic was REALLY found: Oceanographer says US Navy funded his search for 'unsinkable' liner because it provided perfect Cold War cover for his other task - to find two missing US nuclear subs before the Russians
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6481699/Explorer-Titanic-says-mission-ruse-trick-Russians.html

LAW ENFORCEMENT
With A Mountain Of Evidence From Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers, Just Remember That A Former CIA Officer Claimed Hillary Was "Involved In Biggest Treason In History"
https://freedomoutpost.com/with-a-mountain-of-evidence-from-clinton-foundation-whistleblowers-just-remember-that-a-former-cia-officer-claimed-hillary-was-involved-in-biggest-treason-in-history/

IMMIGRATION
Trump foes scrambling to derail ‘cruel’ rule requiring immigrants to show they aren’t public burden
http://www.gopusa.com/trump-foes-scrambling-to-derail-cruel-rule-requiring-immigrants-to-show-they-arent-public-burden/

8 Million People Are Working Illegally in the U.S. Here’s Why That’s Unlikely to Change.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/us/undocumented-immigrant-workers.html?emc=edit_ne_20181211&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820181211&te=1

RUSSIA
Agents of doubt: How a powerful Russian propaganda machine chips away at Western notions of truth 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1218/agets_of_doubt.php3

POLITICS
Trump Allies in New Hampshire GOP Seek to Avoid Primary Through an Early Endorsement 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-allies-in-new-hampshire-gop-seek-to-avoid-primary-through-an-early-endorsement/

Red America and blue America depend on each other; that's how it should be 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1218/lane121118.php3

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"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to
Lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever
they might be."
           - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)