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GENERAL INTEREST

The surprisingly radical politics of Dr Seus
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190301-the-surprisingly-radical-politics-of-dr-seuss

Fed up Paris locals look to BAN Instagrammers who flood their cobbled street to take 'perfect' social media photos
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6786223/Fed-Paris-locals-look-BAN-Instagrammers-flood-cobbled-street.html

Nazi diary 'that reveals ELEVEN secret treasure hauls hidden across Poland - including 28 tonnes of gold and stolen art' - is unveiled by German Freemasons' lodge
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6786621/Nazi-diary-reveals-ELEVEN-secret-treasure-hauls-hidden-Poland-unveiled.html

Over or under? Toilet roll debate finally settled thanks to 128 year-old manual
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/smart-living/over-or-under-toilet-roll-debate-finally-settled-thanks-to-128-year-old-manual/ar-BBUtDw6?ocid=spartanntp

HEALTH
Beer is now being sold as a ‘wellness’ product 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/beer-is-now-being-sold-as-a-wellness-product-2019-03-07

Eight surprising facts about getting old in America
https://nypost.com/2019/03/09/eight-surprising-facts-about-getting-old-in-america/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

EDUCATION
It Pays to Be A Wyoming Cowboy
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

The College ‘Grass-Roots’ Organizations That Aren’t
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

BUSINESS
Facebook built a 'panic chute' escape tunnel for Mark Zuckerberg in case of emergencies and spends $10 MILLION each year on personal security to protect the CEO from bomb threats, stalkers and angry employees
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6788003/Facebook-spends-10-MILLION-year-Mark-Zuckerbergs-personal-security-report-claims.html

ENERGY
Shocking footage reveals some of the 370 CRACKS in a Scottish nuclear power plant reactor that EDF Energy wants to bring back to life
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6786017/Footage-reveals-cracks-nuclear-reactor.html

TECHNOLOGY
Microsoft’s secret test labs revealed: From labs that stick needles in players' hands to measure their muscles to the ‘mini factory’ it uses to build prototypes
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6787389/Microsofts-secret-test-labs-revealed.html

LAW AND ORDER
A Child's Face Said 'Help,' So a Kentucky Waitress Did
http://www.newser.com/story/272264/a-childs-face-said-help-so-a-kentucky-waitress-did.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=att&utm_campaign=rss_crime_syn

IMMIGRATION
Judge calls Trump administration push for citizenship question on census forms arbitrary, capricious and a threat to democracy 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/judge-calls-trump-administration-push-for-citizenship-question-on-census-forms-arbitrary-capricious-and-a-threat-to-democracy-2019-03-09

NKOR
Activity at a SECOND North Korean missile site could mean the country is preparing for a potential launch following failed talks between Trump and Kim Jong-Un

OMAR
Ilhan Omar: Obama’s a ‘pretty face’ who got ‘away with murder’
https://nypost.com/2019/03/08/ilhan-omar-obamas-a-pretty-face-who-got-away-with-murder/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

No Need for Thanks
https://www.city-journal.org/ilhan-omar-immigration

TRUMPGATE
Impeachment may lead Democrats off the cliff
https://nypost.com/2019/03/08/impeachment-may-lead-democrats-off-the-cliff/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6788859/Activity-discovered-second-North-Korean-missile-site.html

POLITICS
Pelosi: Texas ‘Ground Zero’ in 2020—Will Change World When It Turns Blue
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/07/pelosi-texas-ground-zero-in-2020-will-change-world-when-it-turns-blue/

Warren struggles to gain traction amid Sanders surge
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/433332-warren-struggles-to-gain-traction-amid-sanders-surge

The Collapse of the Center-Left 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/ilhan-omar-democratic-party-excuses-victimhood-politics/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202019-03-09&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

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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)  full stories at links
https://www.wsj.com/articles/it-pays-to-be-a-wyoming-cowboy-11552087148?emailToken=2af069cfcabb5a6c2f2f72820c73d53eKe3x/lFpYZ5BWq7SIK3Pv1VC+KLKuDcfQrDD7zTNjraWNqi0fMoiUY9RKRiT5RO3tromAM7zX+bdzh2hTNlxpg%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

It Pays to Be A Wyoming Cowboy

Here’s what happens when a university ignores identity scolds.

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The Editorial Board

March 8, 2019 6:19 p.m. ET

University of Wyoming Cowboys mascot Pistol Pete during the National Western Stock Show Kick-Off Parade in Denver, Colorado on January 4, 2018. Photo: jason connolly/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

After Evergreen State and the University of Missouri caved to identity-politics demands, they were shunned by alumni, parents, prospective students and fans. Those are cautionary tales, but the University of Wyoming provides a counterpoint. Turns out there are rewards for not yielding to campus radicals.
Last summer the University of Wyoming unveiled its new marketing slogan, “The world needs more cowboys.” The campaign lauded self-reliance, grit and courage and suggested that anyone with this caliber of character can be a cowboy.The university also won regional awards from the American Advertising Federation in a competition not limited to higher ed.

Administrators elsewhere, take heart and cowboy up. The social-justice warriors may try to lasso you into submission, but they don’t reflect genuine public opinion.

Appeared in the March 9, 2019, print edition as 'It Pays to Be a Wyoming Cowboy.'

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-college-grass-roots-organizations-that-arent-11552085834?emailToken=06f84988b93b86f5d30eb9e2ad6f5c65FAQMA94iwuq+8NOR7ujtQMQhs55d5qtUCaL775a1rOzB78oTfNtHV/mfhB1LYNovd0j0YKunmRiND7Y8vFtIYj+tGmB0tzlcKivVegTYgSM%3D&reflink=article_email_share

The College ‘Grass-Roots’ Organizations That Aren’t

Groups pretending to be student-led movements are often political operations with billionaire backers.

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By

Daniel M. Bring

March 8, 2019 5:57 p.m. ET

Anti-Trump billionaire Tom Steyer in Charleston, S.C., Dec. 4, 2018. Photo: Sean Rayford/Getty Images

If college students are politically conscious and impressionable, they might find themselves pawns of national political nonprofits masquerading as student groups. Such outfits, on both left and right, are expanding rapidly on campuses and recruiting students to advocate for their ideological agendas

These groups are well-organized, well-funded political operations, not grass-roots gatherings or student-led movements. There’s nothing necessarily wrong or unethical about them, but they often convey a deliberately false image of themselves as bottom-up movements when in fact they are top-down, highly purposive national organizations. Students approached by their recruiters—or handed “educational” material by their activists—should ask about their sponsors and objectives.
Mr. Bring studies history and economics at Dartmouth College.