PLATT - MISC News

Why Zombie Politics Resonate 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/game-of-thrones-walking-dead-politics-conservative-interpretations/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-04-25&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

GENERAL INTEREST
Ode to the unsung professionals
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0419/barreca042519.php3

The best places to live in America in 2019 revealed ??? and Austin, Texas takes the top spot thanks to a low cost of living and strong job market
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6959397/The-10-best-cities-live-America-revealed.html

Socialism: The Only Cure For Western Prosperity
http://www.michellesmirror.com/2019/04/socialism-only-cure-for-western.html

How to watch the 3-hour ???Avengers: Endgame??? without a bathroom break 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-to-watch-the-3-hour-avengers-endgame-without-a-bathroom-break-2019-04-24

HEALTH
Deadly Kissing Bug Spreads to Delaware, CDC Confirms
https://www.ecowatch.com/kissing-bug-delaware-2635503319.html

Florida fisherman infected with flesh-eating bacteria 
https://nypost.com/2019/04/25/florida-fisherman-infected-with-flesh-eating-bacteria/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Why do Americans pay more for drugs? 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-do-americans-pay-more-for-drugs-2019-04-24

HUMOR
Portland (Everything You Need to Know) - Ultra Spiritual Life Ep. 154
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI194enU8_0

PROGRESSIVES DERAILED
Dog-Walking Now Regarded as Racist
https://moonbattery.com/dog-walking-now-regarded-as-racist/

Wake Me When We???re Woke Enough
https://townhall.com/columnists/chrisstigall/2019/04/25/wake-me-when-were-woke-enough-n2545359?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=04/25/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

ENVIRONMENT
Can Humans Help Trees Outrun Climate Change?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/climate/trees-climate-change.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The Way We Talk About Geoengineering Matters 
https://www.ecowatch.com/geoengineering-union-of-concerned-scientists-2635260702.html

Giant Hole the Size of Kansas Appeared in Antarctica 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/newsweek-giant_hole_the_size_of_kansas_appeared_in_antarcti-rnewsweek/category/news

NATIONAL SECURITY
Islamic Terrorism Remains The World???s Greatest Threat To Peace
https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/22/islamic-terrorism-remains-the-worlds-greatest-threat-to-peace/

DEFENSE
Russia reveals its new submarine armed with nuclear-tipped drones capable of wiping out a city by triggering a tsunami
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6958611/Russia-reveals-new-submarine-armed-nuclear-tipped-drones.html

LAW AND ORDER
Disabled Oregon woman on mobility scooter arrested after leading police on low-speed chase
https://news.yahoo.com/disabled-oregon-woman-mobility-scooter-arrested-leading-police-223100964--abc-news-topstories.html

Bob Kerrey Is Right About Investigating FBI 
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

SOCIAL MEDIA
Fear Mark Zuckerberg???s Illiberal Impulses
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

IMMIGRATION
Liberals Tell Supreme Court How Illegal Immigration Increases Their Power
https://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2019/04/24/liberals-tell-supreme-court-how-illegal-immigration-increases-their-power-n2545294?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=04/25/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

TRUMPGATE
Mueller Investigation Was Driven by Pious Hypocrisy
https://news.yahoo.com/mueller-investigation-driven-pious-hypocrisy-103026308.html

37 percent of Dems want Congress to move on from Russia-related Trump probes
https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/440623-poll-37-percent-of-Dems-want-party-to-move-on-from-russia-related-trump-probes

POLITICS

Progressive group comes out against Biden's White House bid
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/440597-progressive-group-comes-out-in-opposition-to-biden-candidacy

Biden Says He Asked Obama Not to Endorse Him 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/joe-biden-asked-barack-obama-not-to-endorse-him/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-04-25&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

The media???s endless fawning over Pete Buttigieg won???t end well
https://nypost.com/2019/04/24/the-medias-endless-fawning-over-pete-buttigieg-wont-end-well/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Buttigieg draws new scrutiny, criticism
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/440556-buttigieg-draws-new-scrutiny-criticism

-- 
"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/fear-mark-zuckerbergs-illiberal-impulses-11556145953

Fear Mark Zuckerberg???s Illiberal Impulses

Social media???s censors are too illiterate to distinguish between Charles Manson and Charles Murray.

By

Kevin D. Williamson

April 24, 2019 6:45 p.m. ET

Fisher Island, off the coast of Miami, is home to America???s richest ZIP Code by income. Residents enjoy the best of everything???the island is accessible only by yacht, and its private beach is covered in sand imported from the Bahamas. Fisher Island???s luxuries include intellectual stimulation. Its neighborhood social club recently invited Charlie Kirk, the young founder of Turning Point USA, to give a talk about his work, which largely consists of monitoring efforts to suppress the speech of conservatives on college campuses.