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GENERAL INTEREST
Betsy Ross flag now decried by 2020 Dems, pundits was flown during Obama's 2nd inauguration 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/fox_news-betsy_ross_flag_now_decried_by_2020_dems_pundits_w-rfoxnews/category/news+

Drowning: It Doesn't Look Like You Think It Does 
https://patch.com/pennsylvania/newtown-pa/drowning-pennsylvania-it-doesn-t-look-you-think-it-does

17 Mind-Blowing Facts People Learned When They Were "Today Years Old"
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mikespohr/x-mind-blowing-facts-people-learned-when-they-were-today-1

777 jet manages to abort landing at the very last second, just ten feet off the ground in impressive display of pilot???s skill at Dutch airport
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7215965/777-jet-aborts-landing-second-just-10-feet-ground-Dutch-airport.html

HEALTH
New study examines if common cold virus could cure cancer 
https://nypost.com/2019/07/05/new-study-examines-if-common-cold-virus-could-cure-cancer/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

EDUCATION
Universities fear loss of Chinese students as result of trade war 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=8c0d2598b2d4a60abc832ee0aef0bac3_5d1f6bea_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190705&goTo=A01&artid=3&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

Here???s why America???s $1.5 trillion student-loan crisis has spiraled out of control 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-financial-education-wont-solve-the-15-trillion-student-loan-crisis-2019-06-27

CULTURE
What Conservatives Get Wrong about the Campus Wars 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/what-conservatives-get-wrong-about-campus-wars-woke-culture/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-07-05&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

The Intellectual Dark Web???s Quiet Revolution 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/intellectual-dark-web-quiet-revolution/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-07-05&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

The Overreach of LGBTQ Activism 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/lgbtq-activism-overreach/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-07-05&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

BUSINESS
Hopes dim for passage of Trump trade deal
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/451645-hopes-dim-for-passage-of-trump-trade-deal?userid=288549

VOLCANOLOGY
An Incredibly Rare Type of Lava Lake Was Just Found Hidden in Sub-Antarctica
https://www.sciencealert.com/incredibly-rare-lava-lake-only-8th-in-world-found-in-remote-sub-antarctic-volcano

LAW AND ORDER
Blue Bell ice cream licker could face 20 years in prison 
https://nypost.com/2019/07/04/blue-bell-ice-cream-licker-could-face-20-years-in-prison/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

CENSUS
Trump administration scrambles to save citizenship question on census
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-administration-scrambles-to-save-citizenship-question-on-census/2019/07/04/238fe3fa-9e85-11e9-9ed4-c9089972ad5a_story.html?noredirect&utm_term=.42661c60bece

Trump considering executive order on citizenship question for census
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/451749-trump-considering-executive-order-on-citizenship-question-for-census

Plaintiffs ask court to block Trump efforts to add citizenship question to census
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/451804-aclu-asks-court-to-block-trump-efforts-to-add-citizenship-question

POLITICS
Texas may cost Trump 2020
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/451702-texas-may-cost-trump-2020

Democratic Senate hopes hinge on Trump tide
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/451532-dem-senate-hopes-hinge-on-trump-tide

Biden urges caution about policies of 'way left' Democrats, Ocasio-Cortez 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/07/05/joe-biden-urges-caution-policies-way-left-democrats-aoc/1660272001/

"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)