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GENERAL INTEREST
Our Shrinking Military and the Loss of Male Purpose
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/our-shrinking-military-and-the-loss-of-male-purpose/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-02-25&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Do Not Disturb: How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/business/cell-phone-addiction.html?emc=edit_NN_p_20190225&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408ction%3DaBreak&section=aBreak&te=1

Keillor:  It is a good and pleasant thing not to rant 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0219/keillor022519.php3

HEALTH
Drinking two liters of water a day will NOT help: The SEVEN myths and truths about achieving healthy skin
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6742401/The-SEVEN-myths-truths-healthy-skin.html

HEALTH CARE
The Medical Tech that Helps You When Your Doctor Can’t
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/smarter-living/-medical-tech-startups-insurance.html?emc=edit_NN_p_20190225&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408ction%3DaBreak&section=aBreak&te=1

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
South Dakota transgender student athletes policy is challenged 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/south-dakota-transgender-student-athletes-policy-is-challenged/ar-BBU2t6u?ocid=se

‘The four states of the apocalypse’ 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=b7d7fa82d7a75aa5654a4e0b06ea30dc_5c74239d_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190225&goTo=B01&artid=1&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

Op Ed: Use ‘Partner’ Instead of ‘Boyfriend’ or ‘Girlfriend’ to Be ‘Politically Correct’ 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/op-ed-use-partner-instead-of-boyfriend-or-girlfriend-to-be-politically-correct/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-02-25&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

The New Nihilism 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0219/hanson022519.php3

HUMOR
The News in Zingers 
http://jewishworldreview.com/0219/hamilton.php3

BUSINESS
Time for the next generation of clockmakers gets set in Arizona
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6006878985001/#sp=show-clips

WEATHER
Tucson Police Investigate Strange White Powder Falling From Sky
https://weather.com/storms/winter/video/tucson-police-investigate-strange-white-powder-falling-from-sky?pl=pl-the-latest

SCIENCE
Have Dark Forces Been Messing With the Cosmos?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/science/cosmos-hubble-dark-energy.html?emc=edit_ne_20190225&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190225&te=1

High tech fiber could be used as skin for ROBOTS! Engineers create wonder material with the strength of metal and the elasticity of rubber
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6734675/Engineers-create-wonder-material-strength-metal-elasticity-rubber.html

ARACHNOLOGY
How FALSE WIDOW spiders are invading new countries and killing off other insects and wildlife
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6742369/How-FALSE-WIDOW-spiders-invading-new-countries-killing-insects-wildlife.html

ENTOMOLOGY
The Crazy Snake Worm Invasion You Haven’t Heard About 
https://www.ecowatch.com/snake-worm-invasion--2629720092.html

CYBER SECURITY
'Spectre' flaw returns to haunt security experts: Hardware issue that affects almost every computer worldwide and could let hackers steal passwords and emails is here to stay and software can't safeguard against it
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6734303/Spectre-flaw-returns-haunt-security-experts.html

NATIONAL SECURITY
Special ops to turn focus from war on terror to China, Russia
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=b7d7fa82d7a75aa5654a4e0b06ea30dc_5c74239d_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190225&goTo=A01&artid=2&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

A Tale of Two Defectors 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0219/epstein022519.php3

FOREIGN POLICY
Steely-eyed aide to Kim aims to outwit Trump’s negotiators 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=b7d7fa82d7a75aa5654a4e0b06ea30dc_5c74239d_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190225&goTo=A01&artid=4&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

Say what you will about Trump, but his tactics on North Korea are working
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-tactics-north-korea-working-110009174.html

Pompeo says Maduro’s days are numbered 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=b7d7fa82d7a75aa5654a4e0b06ea30dc_5c74239d_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190225&goTo=A09&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

LAW AND ORDER
Long Island Man Arrested For Shooting Down Drone That Looks For Missing Dogs
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/long-island-man-arrested-for-shooting-down-drone-that-looks-for-missing-dogs/ar-BBU0XLS?ocid=se

Police chief in charge of Jussie Smollett investigation says there is MORE proof he staged attack as first photograph of the backdated, $3,500 check he paid Nigerian brothers 'to beat him' emerges
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6742651/Police-say-evidence-Jussie-Smollett-staged-attack-not-public.html

LAW AND THE COURTS
Does a War-Memorial Cross Violate the Establishment Clause? 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/peace-cross-supreme-court-case-establishment-clause-2/

Lawyers call for guidance on interpreting emoji 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0219/emoji_lawyers.php3

IMMIGRATION
FYI: The Obama Administration, Not Trump, Determined ISIS Bride Isn’t an American
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/02/25/reminder-the-obama-administration-determined-isis-bride-isnt-an-american-n2542152?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

POLITICS
Kamala on How She'd Pay For Her Big Government Agenda: 'It's Not About a Cost'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/02/25/kamala-on-how-shed-pay-for-her-big-government-agenda-its-not-about-a-cost-n2542125?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&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)