PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
The plot thickens
http://www.commanderzero.com/?p=5923

Get ready for the 'Super Blood Wolf Moon': First full moon of the New Year will come with a lunar eclipse and appear amazingly close to Earth
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6533629/Super-Blood-Wolf-Moon-appear-sky-month.html

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines (6 out of 11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/28/briefing/28newsquiz.html?emc=edit_nn_p_20181228&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408section%3DwhatElse&section=whatElse&te=1

HEALTH
Researchers fear mysterious polio-like illness may spread in US
https://nypost.com/2018/12/27/researchers-fear-mysterious-polio-like-illness-may-spread/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Soil from Northern Ireland contains bacteria which 'can kill four of the world's top superbugs' and could be key to fighting antibiotic resistance
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6535579/Soil-rural-Ireland-contains-bacteria-kill-four-worlds-superbugs.html

PARENTING
Fatherhood and Football
https://www.city-journal.org/name-suffix-trend-among-black-athletes

FINANCIAL
Social Security tells family to pay $100,000 debt left by man who faked death in 1960s
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/social-security-tells-family-to-pay-100-000-debt-left-by-man-who-faked-death-in-1960s

ENVIRONMENT
The Trees That Sail to Sea
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-trees-that-sail-to-sea/

FOREIGN POLICY
The Frustrating Necessity of Staying in Syria and Afghanistan, Explained 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/the-frustrating-necessity-of-staying-in-syria-and-afghanistan-explained/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-12-28&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

BIG BROTHER
Lame-Duck Congress Plays Grinch to Citizens by Passing Anti-Privacy Database Bill
https://townhall.com/columnists/kareneffrem/2018/12/28/lameduck-congress-plays-grinch-to-citizens-by-passing-antiprivacy-database-bill-n2538151?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/28/2018&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

MEDIA
Get Wrecked: The Top 10 Rake-Stepping Fake News Stories The Liberal Media Trafficked In 2018
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/12/28/the-top-10-most-awesomely-fake-news-of-2018-n2538087?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

IMMIGRATION
What Am I Missing When It Comes to Immigration?
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2018/12/27/what-am-i-missing-when-it-comes-to-immigration-n2538118?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/28/2018&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

TRUMPGATE
Michael Cohen denies new claim his phone was in Prague at time of meeting with Russians described in anti-Trump 'dirty dossier' as he insists he's never been ANYWHERE in the Czech Republic
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6533445/New-claim-Michael-Cohens-phone-Prague-time-meeting-described-Trump-dossier.html

POLITICS
Fox News guest: Democrats want a 'Muslim transgender candidate' but will get Joe Biden
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fox-news-guest-democrats-want-a-muslim-transgender-candidate-but-will-get-joe-biden

A New Democrat Party: 95 Progressive Caucus Members in 116th Congress? 
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/zacharypetrizzo/2018/12/27/a-new-democrat-party-95-progressive-caucus-members-in-116th-congress-n2538119?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/28/2018&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

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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)