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TRULY A MIND FOR THE AGES
Charles Krauthammer Announces He Has Weeks to Live
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/charles-krauthammer-announces-he-has-weeks-to-live/

The Wisdom of Charles Krauthammer
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/08/wisdom-charles-krauthammer.html

GENERAL INTEREST
A 4-Step Guide to Ranting Productively
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/your-money/how-to-rant-productively.html?action=click&contentCollection=smarter-living&contentPlacement=17&emc=edit_nn_20180608&module=stream_unit&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408orning-briefing&pgtype=sectionfront&region=stream&rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fsmarter-living&te=1&version=latest

The Week in Good News: Love in New York, a Way to Lift Depression, ‘the Tomb of the Athlete’
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/briefing/the-week-in-good-news-depression-weight-lifting-tomb-of-the-athlete.html?emc=edit_nn_20180608&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180608&te=1

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines (7 out of 11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/08/briefing/08weeklynewsquiz.html?emc=edit_nn_20180608&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180608&te=1

MENTAL HEALTH
Spending Time Alone in Nature for Mental and Emotional Health 
https://www.ecowatch.com/nature-solitude-mental-health-2575376565.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=7f208e746b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-7f208e746b-85328381

HEALTH CARE
When Saving Lives Brings on Medical Bankruptcy
http://www.freedomsback.com/when-saving-lives-brings-on-medical-bankruptcy

BUDGET
Budget deficit jumps nearly $100 billion in first eight months of fiscal 2018
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/budget-deficit-jumps-nearly-100-billion-in-first-eight-months-of-fiscal-2018?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=254

GOVERNANCE
The Trump Administration Is Following Recent Executive Norms, and That’s the Problem 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/trump-administration-norms-values-need-evaluation/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-06-08&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

RESEARCH
AI researchers should help with some military work
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05364-x?utm_source=briefing-dy&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=briefing&utm_content=20180607

ENERGY
Scientists Develop Affordable Way to Recycle CO2 Into Fuel 
https://www.ecowatch.com/carbon-capture-technology-canada-2576234738.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=7f208e746b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-7f208e746b-85328381

IRS
House Ways and Means Committee Votes to Refer Lois Lerner For Criminal Charges
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/04/09/lerner-contempt-vote-n1822069

POLITICS
You Don’t Get to Rewrite the Constitution Because You Dislike Trump
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/president-trump-strengthening-constitutional-checks-and-balances/

-- 
"But there is no turning time, inexorably it moves from under you; what you were
yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you will
be tomorrow"
          -  From "The Horizontal Man" by Helen Eustis

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GENERAL INTEREST
Trump to Introduce Plan To Dramatically Reduce the Size of Government 
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/06/07/trump-to-introduce-plan-that-will-dramatically-reduce-the-size-of-government-n2488082?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

CYBER SECURITY
VPNFilter malware sinks its teeth into more routers
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/06/07/vpnfilter-malware-sinks-its-teeth-into-more-routers.html

DEFENSE
Navy SEALs' 'smart' mini-sub can conduct missions with team of underwater drones
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/7/navy-seals-smart-mini-sub-proteus-can-conduct-miss/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

IMMIGRATION
GOP staves off immigration revolt — for now
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/391191-gop-staves-off-immigration-revolt-for-now?userid=288549

TERRORISM
Beheadings signal threat to Mozambique's $30 billion in investment
http://www.worldoil.com/news/2018/6/6/beheadings-signal-threat-to-mozambiques-30-billion-in-investment

IRAN
With nuclear deal under threat, Iran shows off centrifuges
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nuclear-deal-under-threat-iran-114107597.html

SUMMIT
Trump’s on-the-fly North Korea negotiations fuel White House worries over concessions
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/6/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-summit-fuels-white-house-/

Bolton and Pompeo Have Fully Prepared President Trump for North Korea Summit
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/06/07/bolton-and-pompeo-are-working-closely-together-as-trumps-north-korea-summit-approaches-n2488348?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

ELECTIONGATE
DOJ to Provide Lawmakers New Information on FBI Russia Probe
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/russia-investigation-doj-providing-congress-new-information/

Dems demand counterintelligence probe of Trump cellphone, warn of 'grave danger' to security
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/7/dems-demand-counterintelligence-probe-trump-phone/

Justice Department seizes New York Times reporter's phone, email records
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/7/ali-watkins-new-york-times-reporter-has-phone-emai/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

POLITICS
Democrats Strengthen House Takeover Prospects in Primary Voting
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/us/politics/california-new-jersey-primaries-house.html?emc=edit_nn_20180607&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180607&te=1

California results suggest blue wave has crested and ebbed
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/michael-barone-california-results-suggest-blue-wave-has-crested-and-ebbed

Pelosi rips Trump-era economy's 'consumer confidence,' which is at 18-year high
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/7/nancy-pelosi-rips-trump-era-economys-consumer-conf/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

-- 
"But there is no turning time, inexorably it moves from under you; what you were
yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you will
be tomorrow"
          -  From "The Horizontal Man" by Helen Eustis

PLATT - MISC News

D Day, 06th June

Normandy Speech: Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-Day 6/6/84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=eEIqdcHbc8I

GENERAL INTEREST
An Afghan Girl
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/fatemah-qaderyan-afghan-robotics-team-oslo-freedom-forum/

How to Make Tough Decisions Easier
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/smarter-living/how-to-finally-just-make-a-decision.html?emc=edit_nn_20180606&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180606&te=1

A Constitutional Amendment for Gay Rights?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/gay-rights-constitutional-amendment-oppressing-religious-dissent/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-06-06&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

Social Security now running a deficit; insolvency set at 2034
http://washingtondailyreport.com/social-security-running-deficit/

HEALTH
Mom warns of copperhead snakes after toddler is seriously injured by poisonous serpent
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/06/06/mom-warns-copperhead-snakes-after-toddler-is-seriously-injured-by-poisonous-serpent.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fhealth+%28Internal+-+Health+-+Text%29

The Dirt On Colonoscopies 
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/betsymccaughey/2018/06/06/the-dirt-on-colonoscopies-n2487724

Severed Rattlesnake Head Bites Texas Man, Leaving Him Needing 26 Doses Of Anti-venom
https://www.yahoo.com/news/severed-rattlesnake-head-bites-texas-152017925.html

BUSINESS
North Dakota's oil boomtowns are facing an uncertain future — here's what it's like to live there
http://www.businessinsider.com/oil-north-dakota-towns-2018-6?utm_source=feedburner&%3Butm_medium=referral&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20businessinsider%20(Business%20Insider)

WEATHER
Unhurried hurricanes: Study says tropical cyclones slowing
https://www.yahoo.com/news/unhurried-hurricanes-study-says-tropical-cyclones-slowing-170237817.html

GEOLOGY
Concern Grows After Yellowstone's Largest Geyser Erupts For 8th Time Since March
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/06/06/concern-grows-after-yellowstones-largest-geyser-erupts-for-8th-time-since-march/#45f7b9122c02

NATIONAL SECURITY
Democrats' IT scandal set to explode with possible plea deal
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/06/06/democrats-it-scandal-set-to-explode-with-possible-plea-deal.html

MEDIA
Apologies for being so sick of apologies 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0618/malcolm060618.php3

EXTORTION
David Hogg still waiting for $1 million GoFundMe donation from Publix
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/6/david-hogg-still-waiting-publix-1-million-donation/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

IMMIGRATION
Mogadishu, Minnesota
https://www.city-journal.org/html/mogadishu-minnesota-15924.html

Nikki Haley Slams UN 'Hypocrisy' Over Criticism of US Immigration Policy
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2018/06/05/nikki-haley-slams-un-over-criticism-of-us-immigration-policy-n2487675?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

TERRORISM
Anyone Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ Will Be Shot, Venice Mayor Claims
https://mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.src=ym&reason=myc#6576801230

ELECTIONGATE
Inspector general report says Comey 'insubordinate,' raps Loretta Lynch for Clinton server probe
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/6/inspector-general-report-says-james-comey-defied-a/

Andrew McCabe wants immunity for testimony on Clinton email probe -- or he'll plead Fifth
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/5/andrew-mccabe-wants-immunity-testimony-hillary-cli/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

POLITICS
There’s No Pardon for Partisan Hypocrisy 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/donald-trump-pardons-hypocritical-criticism-by-democrats-media/

Asian-Pacific American Community Responds Positively to RNC's New Efforts
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiezehnder/2018/06/05/asian-pacific-american-community-responds-positively-to-rnc-training-program-n2487602?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

-- 
"But there is no turning time, inexorably it moves from under you; what you were
yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you will
be tomorrow"
          -  From "The Horizontal Man" by Helen Eustis

PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST

Past Versus Present Americans
http://walterewilliams.com/past-versus-present-americans/

The Changing Conservative Disposition 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/youtube-conservatives-changing-right-wing-disposition/

The Smell of Death
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/05/the-smell-of-death

The Unintended Consequences of the Welfare State on the Human Spirit
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/05/09/the-unintended-consequences-of-the-welfare-state-on-the-human-spirit/

Adam Carolla: Don't Make Things Worse
https://www.prageru.com/videos/adam-carolla-dont-make-things-worse

Different standards for the left
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas060518.php3

HUMOR
The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0618/hamilton.php3

SPORTS
Trump Is Wrong To Disinvite The Eagles. He's Even More Wrong To Lie About Them.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/31449/trump-wrong-disinvite-eagles-hes-even-more-wrong-ben-shapiro?utm_medium=email&utm_content=060518-news&utm_campaign=position3

STAY CLEAN
Oregon Is Running Out of Workers Who Can Pass a Drug Test
http://www.wweek.com/news/2018/05/30/oregon-is-running-out-of-workers-who-can-pass-a-drug-test/

Thanks, TM ...


ENERGY
EPA's new super fuel could spell trouble for ethanol
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/epas-new-super-fuel-could-spell-trouble-for-ethanol

ASTACOLOGY
A Crayfish Amputated Its Own Claw to Avoid Being Boiled Alive in a Hotpot
https://www.yahoo.com/news/crayfish-amputated-own-claw-avoid-155750665.html

CYBER SECURITY
The White House's battle against botnets
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/the-white-houses-battle-against-botnets

LAW ENFORCEMENT
Police swarmed the home of high school shooting survivor and gun safety advocate David Hogg after prank phone call
http://www.businessinsider.com/home-of-gun-safety-activist-david-hogg-swatted-after-prank-call-2018-6?amp%3Butm_medium=referral

IMMIGRATION
Leaked photo shows mass trial with 37 accused illegal immigrants, shackled hand and foot, being processed at once (I'm glad the DoJ is honoring the constitutional requirement of a speedy trial ... get those guys out of the pokey and on their way home sooner.)
http://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-photo-shows-alleged-37-illegal-immigrants-at-mass-trial-2018-6?r=UK&IR=T

DACA fix will spur new wave of illegal immigration, ICE chief says
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/5/daca-fix-will-spur-wave-illegal-immigration-ice/

FLOTUS
Melania Trump makes first appearance in nearly a month and no one is buying it
https://www.yahoo.com/news/melania-trump-makes-first-appearance-143642362.html

POLITICS
Rep. Keith Ellison is calling it quits in Congress; will run for Minnesota attorney general
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/5/rep-keith-ellison-enters-race-minnesota-attorney-g/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

The question that could decide the 2020 election
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0618/hiatt060518.php3

-- 
"But there is no turning time, inexorably it moves from under you; what you were
yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you will
be tomorrow"
          -  From "The Horizontal Man" by Helen Eustis

PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST

Here's What We Know So Far About The New Alfa Romeo 8C Supercar
http://start.att.net/news/read/article/fortune-heres_what_we_know_so_far_about_the_new_alfa_romeo-rtime/category/lifestyle

HUMOR
The News in Zingers 
http://jewishworldreview.com/0618/hamilton.php3

INSIGHT
Conservatives Must Build Their Own Culture or Be Exiles Inside Their Own Society
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/06/04/conservatives-must-build-their-own-culture-or-be-exiles-inside-their-own-society-n2486976?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

Nation V. Tribe 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0618/hanson060418.php3

If politics worked the way the Food Network works
http://jewishworldreview.com/jeff/jacoby060418.php3

PARENTING
Another Lesson in Fear 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0618/skenazy060418.php3

SPORTS
Trump Cancels Eagles Reception Over National Anthem Protests
http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/04/trump-cancels-eagles-reception-amid-national-anthem-protests/

BUSINESS
Why Publix Shouldn’t Have Tried To Pander To Gun Control Protesters
http://thefederalist.com/2018/06/04/publix-shouldnt-tried-pander-gun-control-protesters/

Netflix Approval Plummets Among Republicans Amid Obama Production Deal, Susan Rice Board Appointment
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/06/03/netflix-approval-plummets-among-republicans-after-obama-deal-susan-rice-board-appointment/

Iconic Leader and Visionary Entrepreneur Howard Schultz to Bid Farewell to Starbucks after Nearly 40 Years 
http://start.att.net/news/read/article/the_associated_press-iconic_leader_and_visionary_entrepreneur_howard_sc-ap/category/finance

ENVIRONMENT
A Fishing Town in India Is Building a Road to a Plastic-Free Ocean
https://www.ecowatch.com/fishermen-kerala-india-plastic-pollution-2573989533.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=0ebf4df1f0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-0ebf4df1f0-85328381

CYBER SECURITY
Ticketfly hacker stole more than 26 million email and home addresses
https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/04/ticketfly-hack-email-home-address-phone-numbers/

NATIONAL SECURITY
Ex-defense intelligence officer accused of being Chinese spy
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/4/ron-rockwell-hansen-arrested-accused-being-chinese/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

NORK
Planning Trump-Kim Meeting: Who Sits Where, What Will They Eat and Who Pays?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/03/world/asia/trump-kim-summit-singapore.html?emc=edit_nn_20180604&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180604&te=1

Senate Dems Send Trump Letter Demanding Terms for NoKo Summit (Where were these guys when the Iran deal was being negotiated by John Kerry?)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/06/04/senate-dems-send-letter-demanding-terms-for-noko-summit-n2487200?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

POLITICS
Republicans' Millennial Problem Isn't What You Think 
http://jewishworldreview.com/0618/olsen060418.php3

-- 
"But there is no turning time, inexorably it moves from under you; what you were
yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you will
be tomorrow"
          -  From "The Horizontal Man" by Helen Eustis