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GENERAL INTEREST
How to quit your job and travel the world, in 7 simple (-sounding) steps
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-to-quit-your-job-and-travel-the-world-in-7-simple--sounding-steps-2019-04-29

LIRR worker who made $256K in overtime logged a dangerous number of hours
https://nypost.com/2019/04/29/lirr-worker-who-made-256k-in-overtime-logged-a-dangerous-number-of-hours/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

HEALTH CARE
Health Mandates Need to Have Some Caveats
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
Maine Becomes Latest State to Ditch Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples??? Day
https://www.ecowatch.com/columbus-day-indigenous-peoples-2635852990.html

Sports Illustrated Tries To Sell America On The 'Burkini' As Female Empowerment
https://townhall.com/columnists/kiradavis/2019/04/29/sports-illustrated-tries-to-sell-america-on-the-burkini-as-female-empowerment-n2545561?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=04/30/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

SPORTS
The secret to getting a ride in the Kentucky Derby
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/columnist/dan-wolken/2019/04/30/kentucky-derby-jockeys-need-help-get-ride-years-biggest-race/3621408002/

A new rite of passage for NFL draft hopefuls: Scrubbing your social media history 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0419/NFL_scrub.php3

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



BUSINESS
Yes, Amazon Pays Taxes [???Everything is simple, if you don???t know a f*****g thing about it.???]
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/amazon-pays-billions-corporate-taxes/

How to Avoid a 5G Boondoggle
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

Family farmers flee the field amid trade war, sagging prices 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/family-farmers-flee-the-field-amid-trade-war-sagging-prices/ar-AAAJAsR?ocid=spartandhp

WEATHER
Floodwaters Sweep Through Saudi Arabia Desert
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/floodwaters-sweep-through-saudi-arabia-desert?pl=pl-the-latest

SPACE
NASA chief warns asteroid threat is real: ???It???s about protecting the only planet we know to host life'
https://www.foxnews.com/science/nasa-chief-asteroid-threat

FOREIGN POLICY
Pompeo: U.S. ???Fully Supports??? Venezuelan Opposition???s Move to Topple Maduro
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/mike-pompeo-full-support-venezuelan-oppositions-move-topple-maduro/

DEFENSE
China???s vast fleet is tipping the balance in the Pacific
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-army-navy/

Inside the Stryker Turret: New targeting tech destroys drone swarms
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/inside-the-stryker-turret-new-targeting-tech-destroys-drone-swarms

LAW AND ORDER
Our ???Angry, Violent Young Men??? Problem 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/poway-synagogue-massacre-young-violent-men-problem/

VENEZUELA
Maduro was 'ready' to leave Venezuela before Russia convinced him to stay, Pompeo tells Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/world/maduro-was-ready-to-leave-venezuela-before-russia-convinced-him-to-stay-pompeo-tells-fox-news

Armored Vehicles Crush Anti-Maduro Protesters in Caracas 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/armored-vehicles-crush-anti-maduro-protesters-in-caracas/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-04-30&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Head of Venezuela's secret police breaks with Maduro 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/head-of-venezuelas-secret-police-breaks-with-maduro/ar-AAAKMHl?ocid=spartandhp

TRUMPGATE
Why Trump Wants to Block Deutsche Bank From Sharing His Financial Records
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-trump-wants-to-block-deutsche-bank-from-sharing-his-financial-records/ar-AAAKju4?ocid=spartandhp

POLITICS
Dems, Trump pull $2T surprise on infrastructure
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/441461-dems-trump-pull-2t-surprise-on-infrastructure

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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)

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/health-mandates-need-to-have-some-caveats-11556649750?emailToken=9e30d71ba4313da6c3af96f1f081f392t5QIbqeX4C2YUYxH2VRzjh0BeXBB221cFjBkTankzoWYIMj9Gc1EK0mwEklwSmozk/VJhbYN5wmVSJUlEqWt+L/dqGS0IzWGwtNOaNpB014%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Health Mandates Need to Have Some Caveats

The main problem is the health insurance mandate doesn???t come with caveats. Automobile insurance is also required (mandated), but some level of driving competence is also required.

April 30, 2019 2:42 p.m. ET

An insurance agent speaks to a customer about ObamaCare in Miami, Nov. 1, 2017. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Regarding Alan Binder???s ???The Individual Mandate Is Here to Stay??? (op-ed, April 15): The main problem is the mandate doesn???t come with caveats. Automobile insurance is also required (mandated), but

Larry Townsend
Pinehurst, N.C.

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-avoid-a-5g-boondoggle-11556663864?emailToken=c6eee7b10e7baaf70cf55c4e34d2ee88oW+WfcERyOKiCaf9hIJC+EDRl7zApBczgrghHrxovRp1ub1VtSeLBguIHbXxc+ybJnNoZSUs6u/tq4YubxzFHQ%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

How to Avoid a 5G Boondoggle

Let businesses experiment and let Washington keep a respectful distance.

By

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

April 30, 2019 6:37 p.m. ET

The Federal Network Agency headquarters in Mainz, Germany, March 19. Photo: kai pfaffenbach/Reuters

Consumers should be heartened that wireless carriers are squabbling about whose network is more ???5G.??? Operators understand that a reputation for network quality remains important to their customers.