PLATT - CURATED News

New tariffs on China pose major risk for Trump
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/trade/443031-new-tariffs-on-china-pose-major-risk-for-trump

GENERAL INTEREST
Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdIjYBtnvZU

HEALTH
What Are Ginger Shots? Everything You Need to Know 
https://www.ecowatch.com/ginger-shots-2636443779.html

HEALTH CARE
Republicans Need a Health-Care Offensive
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
California Sex Ed Guidelines Encourage Teachers to Explain Gender Identity to Kindergartners
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/california-sex-ed-guidelines-encourage-teachers-to-explain-gender-identity-to-kindergartners/

Maya McKinney, second Colorado shooting suspect, identifies as male named Alec
https://nypost.com/2019/05/09/maya-mckinney-second-colorado-shooting-suspect-identifies-as-male-named-alec/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Racist Liberals Attack Tiger Woods
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2019/05/09/racist-liberals-attack-tiger-woods-n2546033?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=05/09/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

UN Elects Somalia, Congo to Women’s Rights Boards
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2019/05/09/un-elects-somalia-congo-to-womens-rights-boards-n2546048?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=05/09/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

CULTURE
Notable Factors in the Colorado Attack
https://patriotpost.us/articles/62899?mailing_id=4262&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4262&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Too Dumb To Make It
https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=17046

ECONOMY
Most of America's Rural Areas are Doomed to Decline
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/most-americas-rural-areas-are-doomed-decline

BUSINESS
2019 Best & Worst States For Business: An Overview
https://chiefexecutive.net/2019-best-worst-states-for-business-an-overview/

It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/sunday/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Chris Hughes’s Call to Break Up Facebook: 5 Takeaways
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/chris-hughes-facebook.html

BUDGET
Senate GOP grows frustrated with Trump chief of staff 
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/442830-senate-gop-grows-frustrated-with-trump-chief-of-staff

Trump's 'Infrastructure' Plan Versus Obama's 'Stimulus': What's the Difference? (EXACTLY !!!!)
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2019/05/09/trumps-infrastructure-plan-versus-obamas-stimulus-whats-the-difference-n2546058?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=05/09/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

ARCHAEOLOGY
Mystery of the Spanish coins that predate Christopher Columbus by 200 years and have been found deep in the Utah desert
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7009641/Mystery-Spanish-coins-Utah-desert-predate-Columbus-200-years.html

Abrupt climate change 8,200 years ago that caused long dry spells and periods of heavy rains led to dramatic declines in early South American cultures, carbon dating study reveals
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7009569/Abrupt-climate-change-8-200-years-agoled-dramatic-declines-early-South-American-cultures.html

ENTOMOLOGY
Insects Must Be Saved to Prevent Collapse of Humanity, Top Scientist Warns 
https://www.ecowatch.com/insects-biodiversity-importance-2636588187.html

TECHNOLOGY
Autonomous boat makes oyster run
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48216966

NATIONAL SECURITY
Pompeo Attacks China and Warns Britain Over Huawei Security Risks
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/technology/pompeo-huawei-britain.html?emc=edit_NN_p_20190509&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408tion%3DtopNews&section=topNews&te=1

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

New missile gap leaves U.S. scrambling to counter China
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-army-rockets/

DEFENSE
The Pentagon says it can track every weapon given to partner forces. It can't even track how many websites it has
https://taskandpurpose.com/pentagon-websites-weapons-tracking

TRUMPGATE
Top Dems Now Have Access to All But Two Full, Seven Partial Lines of Mueller’s Obstruction Report 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/mueller-report-volume-ii-available-top-congressional-democrats/

Progressives Face a Bleak Post-Mueller Landscape 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/mueller-report-progressive-anger-bill-barr/

Dems agree to give Trump details on their quest for his bank records
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-agree-to-give-trump-details-on-their-quest-for-his-bank-records

POLITICS
Why Jerry Nadler’s ‘constitutional crisis’ talk is utter bull 
https://nypost.com/2019/05/08/why-jerry-nadlers-constitutional-crisis-talk-is-utter-bull/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Data Disprove the ‘Voter Suppression’ Myth
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

-- 
"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/republicans-need-a-health-care-offensive-11557355332?emailToken=84b71d2c6d9b80965ad35245f45aa985K+gbGusQK3DTEV8xUsK0XvWOUBVpnAfO0pVej9nbxSGf54hvuILXMMcz4rb8+aNVrah0K0tbaM2qtAPsHpYNQgMMvUjh2nu3HIe+i6WPAbA%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Republicans Need a Health-Care Offensive

Jobs won’t be enough to win in 2020. The GOP must challenge Democratic strength.

By

Karl Rove

May 8, 2019 6:42 p.m. ET

Nursing-union members wave Medicare for All signs in Washington, April 29. Photo: Bill Clark/Zuma Press

It’s the paradox of success. With 3.6% unemployment and 3.2% growth in gross domestic product, voters are turning to other issues. When the May 1 NBC/Wall Street Journal survey asked what “should be the top priority for the federal government,” 24% chose health care and 18% said immigration and border security. Job creation and growth came in third, at 14%. While this shouldn’t stop Republicans from selling their economic success, it points to a central challenge for 2020.