PLATT-MISC News

Debunking the equality illusion 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0119/goldson_equality_illusion.php3

GENERAL INTEREST
Stamp Price Increase Will Start This Weekend 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/newsweek-stamp_price_increase_will_start_this_weekend-rnewsweek/category/news

PHYSICAL HEALTH
Being in shape may not protect your heart
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0119/heart_health_myths.php3

MENTAL HEALTH
Man wrecks own home with ax after fit over action figures: cops
https://nypost.com/2019/01/22/man-wrecks-own-home-with-ax-after-fit-over-action-figures-cops/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Why those resolutions won't make you happy 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0119/brooks012319.php3

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
The Covington Rorschach Test
https://townhall.com//columnists/michellemalkin/2019/01/23/the-covington-rorschach-test-n2539906?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

BUSINESS
This was the No. 1 most-Googled career question of 2018 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-was-the-no-1-most-googled-career-question-of-2018-2019-01-23

TRAVEL
China's new mega project: Beijing's £9 billion airport is near completion as it welcomes the first test plane
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6619177/Beijings-new-9-billion-mega-airport-welcomes-test-plane.html

COVINGTON HIGH SCHOOL
Who are the Black Israelites at the center of the viral standoff at the Lincoln Memorial? 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0119/black_israelites.php3

This ‘Black Israelite’ from Brooklyn sparked the Covington controversy
https://nypost.com/2019/01/22/this-hebrew-israelite-from-brooklyn-sparked-the-covington-controversy/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

The High School Deplorables
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

ENVIRONMENT
A Teen Scientist Helped Me Discover Tons of Golf Balls Polluting the Ocean 
https://www.ecowatch.com/golf-balls-ocean-pollution-2626713638.html

TECHNOLOGY
Xiaomi unveils the 'world's first double folding mobile' with THREE screens (and the Chinese tech giant is asking for help naming the radical device)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6623111/Xiaomi-unveils-worlds-double-folding-mobile-THREE-screens.html

Not your bog-standard toilet brush! World's first portable lavatory cleaning robot is being sold online for $500
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6622577/Worlds-portable-lavatory-cleaning-robot-sold-online-500.html

CYBER SECURITY
Update your iPhone NOW: Apple launches iOS 12.1.3 with fix for major bug that allowed hackers to remotely control FaceTime calls
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6621329/Update-iPhone-Apple-launches-iOS-12-1-3-fix-major-FaceTime-bug.html

Are YOU too smart to fall for an online scam? Take the Google quiz that tests users' ability to spot phishing emails
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6620831/Are-smart-fall-online-scam-Google-quiz-tests-users-spot-phishing-emails.html

NATIONAL SECURITY
DHS reports cyberattack on government websites
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/dhs-reports-cyber-attack-on-government-websites

US government spent MILLIONS researching invisibility cloaks, laser-powered weapons, warp drive and wormholes in top-secret programme, declassified documents reveal
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6622861/US-government-spent-MILLIONS-researching-invisibility-cloaks-laser-powered-weapons-wormholes.html

BIG BROTHER
China 'launches an app that tells you if you are within 500 yards of someone in debt - and encourages you to report them if they seem capable of paying up'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6620879/China-launches-app-tells-500-yards-debt.html

VENEZUELA
Maduro Cuts Ties With U.S. After Trump Recognizes New Leader in Venezuela
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/world/americas/venezuela-protests-guaido-maduro.html?emc=edit_ne_20190123&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190123&te=1

SHUTDOWN
Trump Looks for New Venue for Speech, as Democrats Draft Border Security Plan
Video
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/us/politics/government-shutdown-democrats-deal-trump.html?emc=edit_ne_20190123&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190123&te=1

TRUMPGATE
What if Mueller doesn't give Democrats what they want?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-what-if-mueller-doesnt-give-democrats-what-they-want

Cohen postpones testimony, citing threats from Trump
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/426641-cohen-postpones-testimony-citing-threats-from-trump?userid=288549

POLITICS
Momentum for earmarks grows with Dem majority
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/426525-momentum-for-earmarks-grows-with-dem-majority?userid=288549

The Making of Kamala Harris
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

Trump could very well face a primary challenge 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah012319.php3

-- 
"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)

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission) (see link for FULL story)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-high-school-deplorables-11548202058?emailToken=85b6ea7025033b8091881ff0158b369aKYB46rB9jG4Fm+SFIHDg1xWlLEFr1M/r1XGa05NdZCxk4yisZIwWNZ6xq66KznTYqycgkLh1kydYP81W6ea+wg%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

The High School Deplorables

MAGA hats, the March for Life, Covington Catholic—and the mob.

By

The Editorial Board

Jan. 22, 2019 7:07 p.m. ET

Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Ky., Jan. 20. Photo: Lisa Cornwell/Associated Press

Of the most culturally deplorable boxes one can check in progressive America in 2019, the boys of Covington Catholic High School have most of them: white, male, Christian, attendees at the annual March for Life in Washington, and wearers of MAGA hats. What’s not to dislike? So when four minutes of video footage emerged online this weekend showing the students appearing to harass a Native American Vietnam veteran named Nathan Phillips, America’s media and cultural elite leapt to judgment.