PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
Alone, Happily Alone, in the Tatra Mountains
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/travel/52-places-tatra-mountains-slovakia.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190522&section=whatElse&login=email&auth=login-email

17-year-old to graduate Harvard 11 days after graduating high school
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/17-old-graduate-harvard-11-days-graduating-high-080209547--abc-news-topstories.html

US government offers $1K to adopt a wild horse 
https://nypost.com/2019/05/21/us-government-offers-1k-to-adopt-a-wild-horse/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Day at the Beach Turns to Terror for Tourists in Oregon
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/day-at-the-beach-turns-to-terror-for-tourists-in-oregon?pl=pl-latest-forecasts

HEALTH
Aurora Packing Company, Inc. Recalls Beef Products Due to Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination 
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/recall-case-archive/archive/2019/recall-057-2019-release

9 Foolproof Tricks to Avoid Tick-Borne Illnesses 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/9-foolproof-tricks-to-avoid-tick-borne-illnesses/ss-AABKYIg?ocid=spartandhp

BUSINESS
Don???t ???Reclassify??? Contractors as Employees 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/dont-reclassify-contractors-as-employees/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-05-22&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Kamala Harris??? Latest Unconstitutional Scheme: Banning Right-to-Work
https://townhall.com/columnists/bobwickers/2019/05/22/kamala-harris-latest-unconstitutional-scheme-banning-righttowork-n2546693?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=05/22/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Amazon is selling houses for less than $20,000, with free shipping 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/amazon-is-selling-houses-for-less-than-dollar20000-with-free-shipping/ar-AABKs0Z?ocid=spartandhp

Does Fear Ring a Bell? 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0519/skenazy052219.php3

WEATHER
Why Oklahoma didn't see more big tornadoes after dire warnings
https://www.axios.com/oklahoma-tornadoes-warnings-d40e3176-1122-4a98-960b-6be204dccf87.html

Plane Struck by Lightning Over Alaska
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/plane-struck-by-lightning-over-alaska?pl=pl-the-latest

ENVIRONMENT
Study Pinpoints Source of Banned Gas That Saps Ozone Layer: Eastern China
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/climate/china-cfcs-banned-chemicals-ozone.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190522

Keep Europe???s Sick Shellfish Out of America
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

SCIENCE
Why Heated Concrete Can Explode Like Popcorn
http://mentalfloss.com/article/582845/why-concrete-can-explode-like-popcorn-at-high-temperatures

TECHNOLOGY
Rocket Report: A new Delta 2, Blue Origin inks with NASA, a fiery Falcon Heavy
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/rocket-report-a-new-delta-2-blue-origin-inks-with-nasa-a-fiery-falcon-heavy/

Teenagers trying to make phone call on ancient apparatus
https://twitter.com/LukasStefanko/status/1126249519111450624

DEFENSE
The Army is getting its first full brigade of souped-up Abrams tanks sooner than expected
https://taskandpurpose.com/army-m1a2c-abrams-brigade-summer

The Pentagon finally admits it investigates UFOs
https://nypost.com/2019/05/22/the-pentagon-finally-admits-it-investigates-ufos/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

LAW AND ORDER
Why no one seems to know what ???obstruction of justice??? actually means
https://nypost.com/2019/05/21/why-no-one-seems-to-know-what-obstruction-of-justice-actually-means/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Concern over facial recognition technology unites progressives and conservatives in Congress
https://news.yahoo.com/concern-over-facial-recognition-technology-unites-progressives-and-conservatives-in-congress-234327186.html

BIG BROTHER
How China Uses High-Tech Surveillance to Subdue Minorities
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/world/asia/china-surveillance-xinjiang.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190522

IMMIGRATION
Trump Admin Notifies 500,000+ Employers They Have Workers With Bogus Social Security Numbers
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/trump-admin-notifies-500000-employers-they-have-workers-with-bogus-social-security-numbers/

TRUMPGATE
Don McGahn???s Immunity
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

Rex Tillerson meets with House committee as other White House aides avoid Congress
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/05/21/rex-tillerson-meets-house-foreign-affairs-committee/3760981002/

House Intel postpones enforcement action after DOJ offer to share some Mueller files
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/444949-house-intel-postpones-enforcement-action-after-doj-agrees-to-produce?userid=288549

Dem wants Trump officials jailed for not turning over tax returns
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-wants-trump-officials-jailed-for-not-turning-over-tax-returns

Jerry Nadler???s cynical, cowardly show 
https://nypost.com/2019/05/21/jerry-nadlers-cynical-cowardly-show/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

POLITICS
???Wrong on most everything???: GOP smacks down Biden???s bipartisanship
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/22/republicans-biden-bipartisan-1338090?cid=apn

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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/don-mcgahns-immunity-11558479763?emailToken=75e65ea0307b7b4aa18d40907a9a7a33IRkKRoTiPnn6n//pUHktMfZCzZ2hq0ZU3QRNVjZfh89yH/tV+1GdaEgi7DLoWNxsAH+WT7HPh8L72fQ2iaAKIg%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Don McGahn???s Immunity

Why Congress can???t force the former White House counsel to testify.

By

The Editorial Board

May 21, 2019 7:02 p.m. ET

Don McGahn on September 4, 2018. Photo: chris wattie/Reuters

Democrats are fuming that Don McGahn skipped a Congressional hearing on Tuesday, and they plan to hold the former White House counsel in contempt. But Mr. McGahn has every constitutional right not to appear, and this isn???t a close legal call.
???Our subpoenas are not optional,??? declared House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, speaking to the TV cameras in front of an empty witness table with Mr. McGahn???s name card. The symbolism is more apt than Mr. Nadler recognizes. Congress???s authority to force one of President Trump???s intimate advisers to appear before Congress is also empty.