PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Record $3.1 million paid in New Year's tuna auction at Japan's new market
https://www.yahoo.com/news/record-3-1-million-paid-years-tuna-auction-233919441.html

Stars turning to CBD to survive hours in high heels
https://pagesix.com/2019/01/05/stars-turning-to-cbd-to-survive-hours-in-high-heels/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

PARENTING
The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/25/upshot/the-relentlessness-of-modern-parenting.html

5 ways to teach your kids the art of negotiation 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-ways-to-teach-your-kids-the-art-of-negotiation-2019-01-04

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
Progressive Crazies Are Getting The Kids Killed
https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2019/01/04/progressive-crazies-are-getting-the-kids-killed-n2538500?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=01/05/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

EDUCATION
400 free Ivy League university courses you can take online in 2019
https://qz.com/1514408/400-free-ivy-league-university-courses-you-can-take-online-in-2019/

L.A.’s Teachers Union Can’t Do Simple Math 
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

TRAVEL
United Airlines: No more puppies on its planes
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/united-airlines-no-more-puppies-on-its-planes-2019-01-04

ENVIRONMENT
Mission to clean up ocean pollution put on hold indefinitely
https://nypost.com/2019/01/04/mission-to-clean-up-ocean-pollution-put-on-hold-indefinitely/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Appalling' toilets and rule-breaking as US shutdown hits national parks (Leaving the parks open without staff is JUST. PLAIN. STUPID !! ... IMHO)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/04/national-parks-government-shutdown?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTAxMDU%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

CYBER SECURITY
Fake texts to GOP House members spark security concerns at White House
https://nypost.com/2019/01/04/fake-texts-to-gop-house-members-spark-security-concerns-at-white-house/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

NATIONAL SECURITY
Russia to Deploy Precision Strike Missiles in Western Atlantic
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-to-deploy-precision-strike-missiles-in-western-atlantic/

DEFENSE
Brazil's Bolsonaro sees threat in Russia, considers US base
https://www.yahoo.com/news/brazils-bolsonaro-opens-doors-host-u-military-145137366.html

IMMIGRATION
'The US can't dump people in Mexico': Trump asylum policy in doubt 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/05/mexico-us-immigration-policy-overhaul?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTAxMDU%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

DHS forced to release 2K illegal aliens into U.S. due to crowded detention centers
https://www.oann.com/dhs-forced-to-release-2k-illegal-aliens-into-u-s-due-to-crowded-detention-centers/

Dems Have No Arguments Left For Opposing Border Security
https://townhall.com/columnists/markserrano/2019/01/04/dems-have-no-arguments-left-for-opposing-border-security-n2538512?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=01/05/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

TRUMPGATE
Mueller probe grand jury extended for six months
https://nypost.com/2019/01/04/mueller-probe-grand-jury-extended-for-six-months/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

SOCIALISM
Rich kid of Communism: Fidel Castro's model grandson flashes his wealth and love of the high life on Instagram as he travels the world
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6558991/Rich-kids-COMMUNISM-Fidel-Castros-model-grandson-flashes-wealth-European-vacations.html

Thanks, DW ...


POLITICS
The Coming Democratic Disillusion
https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-coming-democratic-disillusion/

This socialist wants AOC to quit tweeting and get to work
https://nypost.com/2019/01/04/this-socialist-wants-aoc-to-quit-tweeting-and-get-to-work/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Why Nancy Pelosi doesn’t dare worry about civility
https://nypost.com/2019/01/04/why-nancy-pelosi-doesnt-dare-worry-about-civility/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

72-9: Romney’s Puzzling Move
https://www.ammoland.com/2019/01/72-9-romneys-puzzling-move/

Lessons From a Republican Survivor
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

-- 
"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/l-a-s-teachers-union-cant-do-simple-math-11546646904?emailToken=0b10f370845e366b10aa8048009407aa6JsYFZ/b1GpdXPLbXq91Cd11yGTOfmxy5sULDOf+njoXx8pjEFSvujydQYm7mR2DJbw1ZnVN6/306AsgDPRYzzuN81wJXOClNUogfP8Rsb8%3D&reflink=article_email_share

L.A.’s Teachers Union Can’t Do Simple Math

The school district is hemorrhaging cash and students, but the union plans to strike anyway.

By

Allysia Finley

Jan. 4, 2019 7:08 p.m. ET

Thousands of teachers march in Los Angeles, Dec. 15, 2018. Photo: Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press

Los Angeles
As the federal government shutdown heads toward its third week, parents in Los Angeles are also bracing for a possible shutdown of the public-school system. On Jan. 10, the 33,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles plan to go on strike. The Los Angeles Unified School District is trying to stanch red ink and avert a state takeover, while UTLA seeks to arrest a decade long decline in membership. But like the standoff between President Trump and congressional Democrats over funding a border wall, this brewing schoolyard brawl is as much about politics as it is about money.