Thursday, May 30, 2019

PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
Can You Guess Your State Based Off One Iconic Image? 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/did-you-know/can-you-guess-your-state-based-off-one-iconic-image/ss-AAAN1Cp?ocid=spartandhp

This WWII-era flying wing crashed in a California prison yard after doing a 'barrel roll,' according to the NTSB 
https://taskandpurpose.com/ntsb-n9m-flying-wing-crash

Kentucky proposes ban on using tattoos to cover up scars 
https://nypost.com/2019/05/06/kentucky-proposes-ban-on-using-tattoos-to-cover-up-scars/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

HEALTH
Teen won’t survive after trying viral ‘choking game’: mom 
https://nypost.com/2019/05/06/teen-wont-survive-after-trying-viral-choking-game-mom/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Burger King’s ‘Impossible’ Whopper Has No Beef — Does This Make It Healthy?
https://www.ecowatch.com/burger-kings-impossible-whopper-no-beef-2636432292.html

PARENTING
Why I finally stopped lying to my kid 
https://nypost.com/2019/05/07/why-i-finally-stopped-lying-to-my-kid/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
Why Progressive Anti-Semitism — and Why Now? 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/progressive-anti-semitism-multicultural-left-new-york-times/

We’ve Heard Enough from Robert Mueller
https://news.yahoo.com/ve-heard-enough-robert-mueller-103017447.html

HUMOR
The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0519/hamilton.php3

EDUCATION
An NAACP Revolt on Charters
See the Wall Street Journal article, below.

High Schoolers Can Handle This? 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0519/skenazy050719.php3

BUSINESS
Amazon Prime Pulls back the Curtain on China’s Propaganda 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/amazon-prime-show-bosch-china-criticism/

Opinion: A lawyer reveals what to do when your boss demands you sign a non-compete agreement 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-lawyer-reveals-what-to-do-when-your-boss-demands-you-sign-a-non-compete-agreement-2019-05-06

FOREIGN POLICY
Pompeo says U.S. preparing to counter China, Russia expansion 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=fc6190e08c2503ad37afc1c18ee0fbe8_5cd1a573_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190507&goTo=A04&artid=1&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

NATIONAL SECURITY
Nunes Has Concerns About Intelligence Vulnerability Because Of These Findings In The Mueller Report
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/05/04/nunes-mueller-report-omits-additional-info-on-russia-linked-guy-who-tipped-off-n2545855

Trump, Senate Work Towards Retaining Talented Cyber Personnel
https://townhall.com/columnists/juliorivera/2019/05/07/trump-senate-work-towards-retaining-talented-cyber-personnel-n2545935?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=05/07/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

DEFENSE
Iran’s ‘credible threat’ moves U.S. closer to military clash
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=fc6190e08c2503ad37afc1c18ee0fbe8_5cd1a573_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190507&goTo=A01&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

John Bolton, Trump’s New War Consigliere, Dodged The ‘Already Lost’ Vietnam War 
https://taskandpurpose.com/john-bolton-trumps-new-war-consigliere-dodged-already-lost-vietnam-war

SOCIAL MEDIA
The First Rule of Social-Media Censorship Is That There Are No Rules 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/the-first-rule-of-social-media-censorship-is-that-there-are-no-rules/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-05-07&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

TURKEY
Turkey Orders New Election for Istanbul Mayor, in Setback for Opposition
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/world/europe/turkey-istanbul-mayor-election.html?emc=edit_NN_p_20190507&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408ion%3DwhatElse&section=whatElse&te=1

TRUMPGATE
'Case closed': Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declares Robert Mueller's Russia probe over
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/05/07/case-closed-senate-leader-mcconnell-declare-russia-probe-over/1126770001/

Here’s what happens if the House Judiciary Committee holds William Barr in contempt 
https://nypost.com/2019/05/06/heres-what-happens-if-the-house-judiciary-committee-holds-william-barr-in-contempt/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Jerry Nadler is just blowing smoke 
https://nypost.com/2019/05/06/jerry-nadler-is-just-blowing-smoke/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

POLITICS
Liberals attack Biden, seeking to blunt his momentum
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/442378-liberals-attack-biden-seeking-to-blunt-his-momentum

Five Bills to Move America Closer to the Socialist Ideal 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/democrats-socialism-five-bills-advancing-agenda/

The terrifying tilt of the youth vote 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=fc6190e08c2503ad37afc1c18ee0fbe8_5cd1a573_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190507&goTo=B01&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

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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)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-naacp-revolt-on-charters-11557184297?emailToken=22c6c75cf0ae9bac86ce4fec238fb9a5adRnwSX/+q+8e3geb4NCrXF21VYGFw5DLhQ85LEdsqBAGPWJrBOXJPdiCcgno3LURnFkZK/2fYSxFcFZZ8Tb3A%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

An NAACP Revolt on Charters

Three local chapters in California oppose a union-led moratorium.

May 6, 2019 7:11 p.m. ET

Photo: 
Getty Images
Good news from the front lines of school reform: Three local chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people in California are bucking teachers unions and their own national organization to oppose a moratorium on charter schools. The LA School Report saysNAACP chapters in San Diego, San Bernardino and Riverside have filed resolutions opposing a moratorium that the national NAACP has pushed under pressure from teachers unions that are a source of its funding.
Appeared in the May 7, 2019, print edition.

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