PLATT - CURATED news

Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop …
https://alphanewsmn.com/thoughts-from-a-hipster-coffee-shop/

GENERAL INTEREST
U.S. Pilot Who Was Shot Down During Somali Raid Responds To Omar’s 'Disgusting' Black Hawk Down Tweet
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/04/23/veterans-who-survived-somali-raid-react-to-ilhan-omars-disgusting-black-hawk-d-n2545202?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

PHYSICAL HEALTH
Untreatabe Lyme Disease Could Hit Two Million Americans 
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/newsweek-untreatabe_lyme_disease_could_hit_two_million_amer-rnewsweek

MENTAL HEALTH
Boys can play video games for as long as they like without suffering any harm but girls who join in struggle to make friends, study suggests (Nature or nurture  ??)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6947261/Boys-play-video-games-without-suffering-harm-girls-cant.html

HEALTH CARE
Ocasio-Cortez Praises Broken VA Healthcare System: Provides 'Highest Quality' Healthcare To Veterans
https://www.dailywire.com/news/46293/ocasio-cortez-praises-broken-va-healthcare-system-ryan-saavedra?utm_medium=email&utm_content=042319-news&utm_campaign=position2

HHS NEWS: HHS To Deliver Value-Based Transformation in Primary Care 
https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/hhs-news-hhs-deliver-value-based-transformation-primary-care

EDUCATION
17 Students From One School Earned Perfect ACT Scores  (Does this pass the "smell" test?)
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/newsweek-17_students_from_one_school_earned_perfect_act_sco-rnewsweek/category/news

School Expelled Student Over Conservative Views: Lawyer 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/newsweek-school_expelled_student_over_conservative_views_la-rnewsweek/category/news

PROGRESSIVES OFF THE RAILS
When Facts Get In the Way—Blame Trump
https://townhall.com/columnists/edbrodow/2019/04/22/when-facts-get-in-the-wayblame-trump-n2545147?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=04/23/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

HUMOR
The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0419/hamilton.php3

thanks, TM ...


World's funniest wildlife photos ever captured
https://ftw.usatoday.com/2018/09/worlds-funniest-wildlife-photos-of-2018?utm_source=adrizer&utm_campaign=137043&azs=adrizer&azc=137043&azw=NEWS_US~c&utm_term=NEWS_US~c

Cat Sleeps Comfortably Over Piano as Owner Plays a Lively Tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUretn3n0qo

World's funniest wildlife photos ever captured
https://ftw.usatoday.com/2018/09/worlds-funniest-wildlife-photos-of-2018?utm_source=adrizer&utm_campaign=137043&azs=adrizer&azc=137043&azw=NEWS_US~c&utm_term=NEWS_US~c

SPORTS
A Bitter Finish for Slow Runners: Get on the Bus
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/sports/slow-runners-sweeper-bus.html?emc=edit_ne_20190423&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190423&te=1&login=email&auth=login-email

FINANCIAL
Warren's massive $640 billion student loan cancellation questioned over fairness to students who paid off their debts
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/warrens-massive-640-billion-student-loan-cancellation-questioned-over-fairness-to-students-who-paid-off-their-debts

CENSUS
New Census Numbers Reveal Americans Migrating West And South, And Away From High-Tax Blue-States
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-22/new-census-numbers-reveal-americans-migrating-west-and-south-and-away-high-tax-blue

Should Noncitizens Be Represented in Congress?
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

CLIMATE CHANGE
Arctic Laughing Gas Emissions Could Accelerate Global Warming 
https://www.ecowatch.com/arctic-laughing-gas-emissions-permafrost-2635250285.html

TECHNOLOGY
Teen’s $1B suit claims Apple’s facial recognition software led to false arrest
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/teens-1b-suit-claims-apples-facial-recognition-software-led-to-false-arrest

FOREIGN POLICY
Running a high-stakes game 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=09ae928992a4bb4876f35e4d75117518_5cbf2bdb_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190423&goTo=B01&artid=1&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

NATIONAL SECURITY
China Exploits Fleet of U.S. Satellites to Strengthen Police and Military Power
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-exploits-fleet-of-us-satellites-to-strengthen-police-and-military-power/ar-BBWdrFk?ocid=spartandhp

DEFENSE
U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-navy-drafting-new-guidelines-for-reporting-ufos/ar-BBWdVrV?ocid=spartandhp

LAW AND ORDER
A social media entrepreneur needed a domain name. He decided to get it at gunpoint 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0419/domain_gunpoint.php3

LAW AND THE COURTS
Chalking tires for parking enforcement ruled unconstitutional 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0419/chalking_tires_illegal.php3

BIG BROTHER
Where are the cameras in your car and what are they looking for? 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/ownership/where-are-the-cameras-in-your-car-and-what-are-they-looking-for/ar-BBWcQZL?ocid=spartandhp

IMMIGRATION
The Immigrants We Need Most
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2019/04/23/the-immigrants-we-need-most-n2545177?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=04/23/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

TRUMPGATE
Democratic leaders double down on muzzling impeachment talk
https://nypost.com/2019/04/22/democratic-leaders-double-down-on-muzzling-impeachment-talk/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Dems plot aggressive post-Mueller moves, beginning with McGahn
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/440309-dems-plot-aggressive-post-mueller-moves-beginning-with-mcgahn?userid=288549

POLITICS
Jamie Dimon’s Timely Warning
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

Five town hall takeaways: Warren shines, Sanders gives ammo to critics
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/440140-5-takeaways-from-cnns-town-hall-marathon

Bernie Sanders: All Felons, Including Boston Marathon Bomber, Should Be Able to Vote In Prison 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/bernie-sanders-all-felons-including-boston-marathon-bomber-should-be-able-to-vote-in-prison/

-- 
"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)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/should-noncitizens-be-represented-in-congress-11555972120?emailToken=e7a30542f31480373575d0c1917847b9EeFLrukd8xz4lI1MziIm5ARYRgLfh3aY+etIbKIU9fkk5lC4b5w/R66LdjKbQLz0GZue5ELZs2/UqVJ28YxMjY1QraWDZIIKcRHxY/BIv9k%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Should Noncitizens Be Represented in Congress?

That is the deeper political and legal question behind today’s Supreme Court census case.

By

David B. Rivkin Jr. and

Richard Raile

April 22, 2019 6:28 p.m. ET

A U.S. census letter, March 23, 2018. Photo: Michelle R. Smith/Associated Press

The Supreme Court Tuesday will hear oral arguments in the Trump administration’s appeal of lower-court orders forbidding it to ask a citizenship question in the 2020 census. The justices’ task in Department of Commerce v. New York won’t be difficult: The law and facts overwhelmingly support the administration. But the case is a proxy for future battles over redistricting and reapportionment, vital components of American democracy that determine the balance of political power within and among states.