Tuesday, December 31, 2019

PLATT - CURATED News (EOY- Dec 31 2019)

GENERAL INTEREST
A coffee shop's owner went into hospice. His competitor worked there for free to help
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1219/competitor_works_for_free.php3

Christmas shoppers, don’t make these costly mistakes when returning your gifts
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/christmas-shoppers-dont-make-these-costly-mistakes-when-returning-gifts-2019-12-27

22 Things That Happened for the First Time in 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/opinion/22-things-that-happened-for-the-first-time-in-2019.html?auth=login-email&emc=edit_nn_20191229%3Fcampaign_id%3D9&instance_id=14846&login=email&nl=morning-briefing&regi_id=5893540820191229&segment_id=19927&te=1&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab

HEALTH
What A ‘High Risk, High Reward’ Drug Does for Me
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-a-high-risk-high-reward-drug-does-for-me-11577460886?emailToken=18bfe09edd19979504b09a55494d6c3a4lDRXXQwujFZLoGMxPBVBUeE/37W/78r31W6cdGrCN7JzSKwkVoxpxeyWrUXoSvVfgWy8NcYzNfzTLIQtXObeeImbDlwk37zIW6tehMCO1k%3D&reflink=article_email_share

BUSINESS
Mark Cuban denies claim diamond company he backed is a ‘scam’
https://pagesix.com/2019/12/28/mark-cuban-denies-claim-new-diamond-company-is-a-scam/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

YouTube's highest-earners list of 2019 include 8 year old at top
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/youtube-top-earners-2019

ASTRONOMY
Jupiter's Great Red Spot still has hundreds of years to rage, theory suggests
https://www.inverse.com/article/61211-jupiter-red-spot-not-disappearing

SCIENCE
The best science long reads of 2019
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48275581

TECHNOLOGY
3D printing is about to save the military billions of dollars
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1219/3D_military.php3

What Happened To Giant Ekranoplans?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVdH_dYlVB8

Texas boy sets front yard on fire after getting magnifying glass for Christmas, family says
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-boy-christmas-gift-magnifying-glass-front-yard-fire-mckiney

Video doorbell security, AirPods as hearing aids, PC bloatware and more: Tech Q&A
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/video-doorbell-security-airpods-as-hearing-aids-pc-bloatware-and-more-tech-qa

CYBER SECURITY
What Does California’s New Data Privacy Law Mean? Nobody Agrees
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/29/technology/california-privacy-law.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_nn_20191229?campaign_id=9&instance_id=14846&segment_id=19927&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=5893540820191229

The Cybersecurity 202: GOP House campaign arm uses CrowdStrike despite Trump conspiracy theories
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cybersecurity-202/2019/11/04/the-cybersecurity-202-gop-house-campaign-arm-uses-crowdstrike-despite-trump-conspiracy-theories/5dbf22d488e0fa10ffd20b34/

FOREIGN POLICY
In 2010, The Navy Surfaced 3 Nuclear Submarines To Scare China
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/2010-navy-surfaced-3-nuclear-submarines-scare-china-109016

DEFENSE
RIP, F-22 and F-35: Are Stealth Weapons Going To Soon Be Obsolete?
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/rip-f-22-and-f-35-are-stealth-weapons-going-soon-be-obsolete-109246

LAW AND ORDER
U.S. mass killings hit new high in 2019, most were shootings
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-mass-killings-hit-new-high-in-2019-most-were-shootings-2019-12-28

3 dead, including gunman, in Texas church service shooting
https://disrn.com/news/2-dead-1-critically-injured-in-texas-church-shooting

Ex-Rikers inmates use city-funded debit cards to buy booze, juul pods
https://nypost.com/2019/12/28/ex-rikers-inmates-use-city-funded-debit-cards-to-buy-booze-juul-pods/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

MEDIA
Topics We Aren't Allowed to Talk About
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1219/carlson122719.php3

IMMIGRATION
African Americans Are Taking Back Jobs Stolen By Illegal Aliens
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2019/12/28/african-americans-taking-back-jobs-stolen-by-illegal-aliens-n2558637?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/29/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

FISA-GATE
Judge Collyer Owes Us a Follow Up on FISA
https://www.wsj.com/articles/judge-collyer-owes-us-a-follow-up-on-fisa-11577461186?emailToken=70462b2444d11a6526f90c6743975b0f/+iDCMnv2RUkJ/m6wD/wXcIzNWbcWRf/whtifhTJaUp8GpEuMYeZQIGoK6Z5XJ+O0mC6k0/uug3QloP5aJcVo5zBRZntf9VKUBIc2U6aASk%3D&reflink=article_email_share

IMPEACHMENT
ANALYSIS: Trump impeachment is culmination of four-decade feud between Giuliani and Biden
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/analysis-giuliani-and-biden-spent-decades-butting-heads-before-ukraine-and-impeachment?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_12/29/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044


"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)

Saturday, December 28, 2019

PLATT- CURATED News 2019-EOYb

The Eternal and the Here and Now
https://townhall.com/columnists/erickerickson/2019/12/27/the-eternal-and-the-here-and-now-n2558479?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/27/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

GENERAL INTEREST
News Quiz: 2019 in Review (8 out of 12)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/27/briefing/year-in-review-news-quiz.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20191227&section=whatElse?campaign_id=9&instance_id=14815&segment_id=19891&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408ion=whatElse

Where Rent Is $13,500, She Lives Off What’s Left at the Curb
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/26/nyregion/collecting-cans-collectors-nyc.html?auth=login-email&emc=edit_NN_p_20191227&instance_id=14815&login=email&nl=morning-briefing&regi_id=58935408ion%3DlongRead&section=longRead%3Fcampaign_id%3D9&segment_id=19891&te=1&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab

Chart of the day: For every 100 girls/women…..
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-for-every-100-girls-women/

HEALTH
Can this artery screening tool help prevent a heart attack?
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/can-this-artery-screening-tool-help-prevent-a-heart-attack-2019-12-27

HEALTH CARE
In the U.S., an Angioplasty Costs $32,000. Elsewhere? Maybe $6,400.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/upshot/expensive-health-care-world-comparison.html?auth=login-email&emc=edit_ne_20191227%3Fcampaign_id%3D57&instance_id=14837&login=email&nl=evening-briefing&regi_id=58935408_ne_20191227&segment_id=19908&te=1&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab

CULTURE
Generation Gap: Woke vs. Joke
https://www.wsj.com/articles/generation-gap-woke-vs-joke-11577400325?emailToken=189023ff23df17f37a886addbb27f821Qf+dUQt7MPMGVujWDeTieidMzHnzu0XdBAOKzob7Gcs0ZDBRmxGSIqXgxbH9kw1o6FMwZCtyjfIpwfMX/m6PfQ%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

HISTORY
Weenies burn flag to protest cops, get attacked by bikers, need cops to save their asses
https://nypost.com/2015/07/02/cops-save-anti-nypd-flag-burners-from-angry-bikers/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

LITERATURE
"a different sort of book" -- 12/27/19
https://mailchi.mp/e2fdd97676bb/a-different-sort-of-book-83019-lllviopp1n-1148377?e=a218d00c99

ENVIRONMENT
Your electric car and vegetarian diet are pointless virtue signaling in the fight against climate change
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/your-electric-car-and-vegetarian-diet-are-pointless-virtue-signalling-in-fighting-climate-change-2019-12-26

ORNITHOLOGY
See Hummingbirds Fly, Shake, Drink in Amazing Slow Motion | National Geographic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtUQ_pz5wlo

ASTRONOMY
A giant star is acting strange, and astronomers are buzzing
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/12/betelgeuse-is-acting-strange-astronomers-are-buzzing-about-supernova/

AUTOMOTIVE
‘They Go Absolutely Insane and Tear Everything Apart’: Weasels Love German Cars
https://www.wsj.com/articles/they-go-absolutely-insane-and-tear-everything-apart-weasels-love-german-cars-11577377251?emailToken=107428ee357ead1b8a00736f8aa5608dBaJrPUeXuzXciCjb1/BvqwqMY+DOKbdpaoazei/pcxvkzJ2u3JT8VjWBcmGZWKuf3K5aJC9rYTEhhfGkt26wkS0r4euC6TIjnAbxPTJW+G6ZBUX6rLDSroi6qi+vUi5YZpTNvOWD8WOnBl0K7lDgqg%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Colorado father and son 3D-printing a Lamborghini replica got a ride in a real one for Christmas
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/colorado-father-son-3d-printing-lamborghini

TECHNOLOGY
Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2020
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-that-will-change-your-life-in-2020-11577456561?emailToken=17cc4b2b457be254b4346d52651dc06fqR0N0umMphgfa3hM/BBs0YGwAnmJaIikMX73+12ZfjJkG66Nob/F62pP3bcJHnwJ6GH5IGygSDVZvTk1x3uaB+ORQQ38UzbrgZAtcIshsDc%3D&reflink=article_email_share

CYBER SECURITY
How ransomware exploded in the age of Bitcoin
https://decrypt.co/15394/how-ransomware-exploded-in-the-age-of-btc

NATIONAL SECURITY
FAA wants to track most drones flying in U.S. airspace within next 3 years
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/faa-wants-to-track-most-drones-flying-in-us-airspace-within-next-3-years-2019-12-26

Former CIA officer on North Korea falling short on 'Christmas gift' to US: 'The threat is real'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/north-korea-falls-short-on-christmas-gift-to-us

DEFENSE
US base near North Korea border had 'error' emergency siren, sparking fears of attack
https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-military-base-north-korea-error-emergency-siren

Russia Deploys Hypersonic Weapon, Potentially Renewing Arms Race
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-deploys-hypersonic-weapon-potentially-renewing-arms-race/ar-BBYpcM3?ocid=spartandhp

MILITARY
Anguished SEALs Recall Chief as 'Evil' and 'Toxic'
https://news.yahoo.com/anguished-seals-recall-chief-evil-130611429.html

LAW AND ORDER
FBI investigating Jeffrey Epstein 'facilitator' Ghislaine Maxwell
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-investigating-jeffrey-epstein-facilitator-ghislaine-maxwell?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_12/27/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044

thanks, TM ...


TERRORISM
Trump pushed drug cartel policy despite Cabinet objections: report
https://thehill.com/policy/international/drugs/475994-trump-pushed-drug-cartel-policy-despite-cabinet-objections-report

POLITICS
Chaotic 2020 primary battle raises prospect of brokered convention: Could it really happen?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2020-primary-brokered-convention

How the Working Families Party fails charter school families
https://nypost.com/2019/12/26/how-the-working-families-party-fails-charter-school-families/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Target Amy: Klobuchar has 'fair share of hits' coming over prosecutor record
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/target-amy-klobuchar-has-fair-share-of-hits-coming-over-prosecutor-record?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_12/27/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044

‘Brand is not what it used to be’: Kennedys brace for 2020 election tests
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/brand-is-not-what-it-used-to-be-kennedys-brace-for-2020-election-tests?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_12/27/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044



"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)



GENERAL INTEREST
NonPoliticalNews (NoPo)
https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?e=5256653b0b&u=695cd01d0ec29d2b01fcb6e83&id=cb563b9fe8

How power shutoffs are changing California's way of life
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/25/california-power-shutoffs-089678

Americans retiring to Vietnam, for cheap healthcare and decent living standard…
https://clarion.causeaction.com/2019/12/26/americans-retiring-to-vietnam-for-cheap-healthcare-and-decent-living-standard/

PHYSICAL HEALTH
Crisis Looms in Antibiotics as Drugmakers Go Bankrupt
https://news.yahoo.com/crisis-looms-antibiotics-drugmakers-bankrupt-195938339.html


Number of children swallowing dangerous magnets surges as industry largely polices itself
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/number-of-children-swallowing-dangerous-magnets-surges-as-industry-largely-polices-itself/ar-BBYlkiV?ocid=spartandhp

Remote second opinion program
https://www.uchealth.org/services/cancer-care/remote-second-opinions/

11 Dead, 300 Hospitalized After Drinking Poisonous Coconut Wine (Contains naturally occurring methanol.)
https://www.ecowatch.com/lambanog-alcohol-holidays-death-2641678909.html

Strange but true: The biggest medical shockers of 2019
https://www.foxnews.com/health/strange-but-true-shocking-medical-stories-2019

MENTAL HEALTH
Should emotional support animals be allowed on planes? ('Nos' win, 86-14.)
https://news.yahoo.com/should-emotional-support-animals-be-allowed-on-planes-175734402.html

Why I quit Twitter — and you should, too
https://nypost.com/2019/12/26/why-i-quit-twitter-and-you-should-too/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

MIND BOGGLING
A Liberal Order That Seeks To Shut Down Christian Charities Doesn’t Deserve To Survive
https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/26/a-liberal-order-that-seeks-to-shut-down-christian-charities-doesnt-deserve-to-survive/

Holy Crap: San Francisco Spent $94 Million Trying to Keep Its Streets Clean
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/12/26/holy-crap-san-francisco-spent-94-million-trying-to-keep-its-streets-clean-n2558561?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

????????
Vegan influencer is now a hunter-gatherer teaching people to kill animals
https://nypost.com/2019/12/26/vegan-influencer-is-now-a-hunter-gatherer-teaching-people-to-kill-animals/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

HISTORY
The Great Land Robbery
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-land-was-our-land/594742/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20191226&silverid-ref=NjE5NTIxNTEzMTM2S0

Opening day at Disneyland -- 12/26/19
https://mailchi.mp/4fbf742ea09e/1953-and-sunday-evenings-wonderful-world-of-disney-1148369?e=a218d00c99

HUMOR
thanks, TM ...
How Things REALLY Work –KC-10 version


EDUCATION
Conservatives should stop funding anti-American Studies on campus
https://nypost.com/2019/12/22/conservatives-should-stop-funding-anti-american-studies-on-campus/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

BUSINESS
The Town That Lost Its Walmart
https://news.yahoo.com/town-lost-walmart-141558104.html

ENVIRONMENT
The Roundup Stickup (lawyers running amok)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-roundup-stickup-11577299381?emailToken=283c8077959e91bab6d29fccdc983f4464A6JAOVfOt+6hHWGeyIwxbxeEdseK0DIj492bThn6ENuTIW/CNfcai0g5QpZCYV&reflink=article_email_share

AUTOMOTIVE
The electric Rivian R1T pickup spins like a tank
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/the-electric-rivian-r1t-pickup-tank

SCIENCE
The Science Behind Why No Two Snowflakes Are Alike
https://www.wired.com/story/the-science-behind-why-no-two-snowflakes-are-alike/

GEOLOGY
Yellowstone’s Steamboat Geyser breaks eruption record, stuns scientists
https://nypost.com/2019/12/26/yellowstones-steamboat-geyser-breaks-eruption-record-stuns-scientists/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

LAW AND ORDER
Behind a U.A.W. Crisis: Lavish Meals and Luxury Villas
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/26/business/uaw-gary-jones-investigation.html?auth=login-email&login=email

North Carolina couple call 911 after mistaking vacuum for home intruder: 'Better safe than sorry'
https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-carolina-couple-call-911-after-mistaking-vacuum-for-home-intruder-better-safe-than-sorry

NATIONAL SECURITY
U.S. Preparing to Respond to 2020 Russian Election Interference by Releasing Kremlin Officials’ Personal Info
https://news.yahoo.com/u-preparing-respond-2020-russian-182113147.html

CHINA
China sails carrier group through Taiwan Strait as election nears
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-china-election/china-sails-carrier-group-through-taiwan-strait-as-election-nears-idUSKBN1YU0H0

RUSSIA
‘Cutting each other's throats’: Allies fear Russia will annex Belarus to save Putin’s life
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/cutting-each-others-throats-allies-fear-russia-will-annex-belarus-to-save-putins-life?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_12/26/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044

JUDICIARY
Trump's revenge? He's quietly remaking a once-liberal Circuit Court impacting the lives of 60 million people
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1219/trump_revenge.php3

WEST WING
The Survivors: These Trump officials have weathered controversies from the start – and are still here
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/the-survivors-these-trump-officials-have-weathered-controversies-from-the-start-and-are-still-here

FISA-GATE
Durham interviewing former NSA leader who alerted court of other FISA abuses
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-durham-interviewing-former-nsa-leader-who-told-court-about-other-fisa-abuses?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_12/26/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044

"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)



‘Christmas’ has become a bad word everyone is too afraid to say
https://nypost.com/2019/12/21/christmas-has-become-a-bad-word-everyone-is-too-afraid-to-say/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

GENERAL INTEREST
We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously
https://spectator.us/just-best-decade-human-history-seriously/

Old Movie Stars Dance to Uptown Funk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=M1F0lBnsnkE&feature=emb_logo

How to Cut a Christmas Tree in a National Forest
https://www.getgreenbewell.com/how-to-cut-christmas-tree-national-forest

HEALTH
Harvard scientist develops DNA-based dating app to reduce genetic disease that critics call eugenics
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1219/DNA_dating_app.php3

HEALTH CARE
Trump chips away at Obamacare
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/trump-chips-away-at-obamacare?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_12/22/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044

HUMOR
The Far Side® - The Daily Dose
https://www.thefarside.com/

BUSINESS
A RECOVERY SQUANDERED
https://www.hbs.edu/competitiveness/Documents/a-recovery-squandered.pdf

Praise for Trump's uranium plan – It doesn't deserve three cheers but it merits two
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/trump-uranium-plan-stephen-moore

ENVIRONMENT
Michigan interstate's mysterious green ooze identified, police say
https://www.foxnews.com/us/mysterious-green-slime-michigan-highway-identified

TECHNOLOGY
Your photos are a mess: 3 steps to organization bliss
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/your-photos-are-a-mess-3-steps-to-organization-bliss

CYBER SECURITY
What does your car know about you? We hacked a Chevy to find out
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1219/chevy_hack.php3

FOREIGN POLICY
Pompeo slams Russia, China over veto of humanitarian aid to Syria
https://thehill.com/policy/international/middle-east-north-africa/475625-pompeo-slams-russia-china-over-veto-of

Russian gas pipeline stalled as US imposes sanctions on contractor
https://nypost.com/2019/12/21/russian-gas-pipeline-stalled-as-us-imposes-sanctions-on-contractor/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

'Rhetorical policy': Bolton says Trump administration is bluffing on vow to denuclearize North Korea
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rhetorical-policy-bolton-says-trump-administration-is-bluffing-on-vow-to-denuclearize-north-korea?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_12/22/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044

NATIONAL SECURITY
Round Top Mountain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Top_Mountain

U.S. research institutions are waking up to the China threat
http://jewishworldreview.com/1219/rogin122019.php3

LAW AND ORDER
thanks, TM ...


MEDIA
CNN Pays 58 Airports $100,000 Each to Play Channel at Gates
https://warroom.org/cnn-pays-58-airports-100000-each-to-play-channel/

SE ASIA
A Jungle Airstrip Stirs Suspicions About China’s Plans for Cambodia
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-jungle-airstrip-stirs-suspicions-about-chinas-plans-for-cambodia/ar-BBYfIE3?ocid=spartandhp

IMPEACHMENT
Nancy Pelosi can hold onto her articles of impeachment forever for all anyone cares
https://nypost.com/2019/12/20/nancy-pelosi-can-hold-onto-her-articles-of-impeachment-forever-for-all-anyone-cares/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

POLITICS
The Voter-Purge Myth
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/12/the-voter-purge-myth/

Why identity politics and minority candidates aren’t winning over Dem voters
https://nypost.com/2019/12/21/why-identity-politics-and-minority-candidates-arent-winning-over-dem-voters/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app


"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)