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GENERAL INTEREST
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PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
Virginia Teacher Fired after Refusing to Call Trans Student by Preferred Pronoun
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/virginia-teacher-fired-after-refusing-to-call-trans-student-by-preferred-pronoun/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202018-12-08&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

What's Your Intersectionality Score? Take the Quiz and Find Out
https://pjmedia.com/trending/whats-your-intersectionality-score-take-the-quiz-and-find-out/
and
https://intersectionalityscore.com/ (I am a 13)

SPORTS
Oklahoma's Murray beats Alabama's Tagovailoa for Heisman 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/the_associated_press-oklahomas_murray_edges_alabamas_tagovailoa_for_hei-ap/category/sports

CLIMATE CHANGE
'We live in a lobstocracy': Maine town is feeling the effects of climate change
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/08/we-live-in-a-lobstocracy-maine-feeling-effects-of-climate-change-lobster-fishing?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMDg%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

ASTRONOMY
This Is How Much Starlight the Universe Has Produced
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-much-starlight-universe-has-produced-180970938/

HERPETOLOGY
Swampy Thing: The Giant New Salamander Species Discovered in Florida and Alabama 
https://www.ecowatch.com/giant-new-salamander-species-discovered-2622582825.html

TECHNOLOGY
Arguably The Most Earth-Shattering Text Message Of All Time Was Sent 77 Years Ago Today 
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/the_drive-arguably_the_most_earthshattering_text_message_of-rtime

Is Airwave Nimbyism Holding Back 5G?
See the Wall Street Journal article, below.

DEFENSE
Let's Mobilize An Army Of Stone Throwers On Border
https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2018/12/07/lets-mobilize-an-army-of-stone-throwers-on-border-n2537167?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

LAW AND ORDER
Al Sharpton’s daughter gets $95K settlement for sprained ankle
https://nypost.com/2018/12/07/sharptons-daughter-gets-95k-settlement-for-sprained-ankle/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Bill Barr, New Nominee For Attorney General, Has Backed Trump's Call For New Clinton Probe
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bill-barr-potential-attorney-general-192251115.html

TRUMPGATE
Mob mentality: how Mueller is working to turn Trump's troops 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/08/robert-mueller-donald-trump-loyalty-organized-crime?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMDg%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

What has Robert Mueller told us about Cohen, Flynn and Manafort? (This is the "Guardian" so, a bit of salt is advised.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/07/robert-mueller-trump-russia-investigation-cohen-flynn-manafort?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMDg%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

POLITICS
John Kelly to leave White House at year's end
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/420401-john-kelly-to-leave-white-house-at-end-of-the-year?userid=288549

‘The party could explode’: Democrats prepare for wild 2020 ride
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/08/democrats-2020-possible-presidential-candidates-liberal-progressive-split?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMDg%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

What Does Beto O’Rourke Actually Stand For?
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/12/what-does-beto-orourke-actually-stand-for?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX1RoZVJlc2lzdGFuY2VOb3ctMTgxMjA4&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=TheResistanceNow&CMP=resistancenow_email

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Lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever
they might be."
           - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-airwave-nimbyism-holding-back-5g-1544227402?emailToken=4d14b16c4bba9b6ddfa0d06c3ee9e41c+jjS96PuH/4gqjb9T1m6KpDrX8xUc7v8fXfSDr6wZ4rY94qXE4H4ZfW/+V6/HNRSKwStBHmdfwS4TJ2MNt2QfA%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Is Airwave Nimbyism Holding Back 5G?

The GPS industry has been keeping spectrum hostage for a decade.

By

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

Dec. 7, 2018 7:03 p.m. ET

A sign outside the headquarters of Ligado Networks in Reston, Va., June 9. Photo: Kristoffer Tripplaar/Sipa USA via Associated Press

Who else is making a list and checking it twice? The companies looking to bring superfast 5G mobile wireless to

CONTINUE at WSJ LINK above