PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Listen to the tales of Southern women and killer cats: The life you save may be your own 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0618/kass062518.php3

Aliens? Russians? Who owns the mysterious object that washed up on NC Outer Banks?
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article213776794.html

HEALTH CARE
Google is training machines to predict when a patient will die --- and may stay in hospitals 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0618/google_predicting_death_setting_hospital_stays.php3

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
Maxine Waters' Harassment Policy Is About To Make The United States A Hell Of A Lot Worse
https://www.dailywire.com/news/32241/maxine-waters-harassment-policy-about-make-united-ben-shapiro?utm_source=shapironewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=062518-news&utm_campaign=position1

WATCH: Left-Wing Activists Harass Florida AG Pam Bondi At Movie Theater, Spit On Her
https://www.dailywire.com/news/32228/watch-shouting-and-spitting-lefty-protesters-hound-ryan-saavedra?utm_source=shapironewsletter-ae&utm_medium=email&utm_content=062518-news&utm_campaign=modelnames

Protesters take aim at new Trump administration target -- and miss
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/25/stephen-millers-dc-apartment-targeted-protesters-h/

Decapitated Animal Carcass Placed on DHS Official’s Porch
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/dhs-official-animal-carcass-burned-decapitated-porch/

Is ‘Little House on the Prairie’ Racist? Laura Ingalls Wilder Controversy Explained
https://www.yahoo.com/news/little-house-prairie-racist-laura-174237689.html

PROGRESSIVES HINGED
Schumer Calls Out Mad Maxine: Calls To Harass Trump Officials In Public Are 'Not American'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/06/25/schumer-calls-out-mad-maxine-calls-to-harass-trump-officials-in-public-are-not-n2494338

Pelosi calls for civility after Maxine Waters encourages supporters to heckle Trump officials
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/25/nancy-pelosi-calls-civility-after-maxine-waters-en/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

WaPo Editorial Board Comes to Sanders's Defense
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2018/06/25/wapo-editorial-board-comes-to-sanderss-defense-n2494062?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

ENVIRONMENT
Derailed Train Spills 230,000 Gallons of Crude Into Flooded Iowa River (This is exactly why we need pipelines.)
https://www.ecowatch.com/train-derailment-iowa-river-2581127525.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=31a1b58bd6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-31a1b58bd6-85328381

ARCHAEOLOGY
The disappearance of the Marree Man
http://www.area51.org/the-strange-disappearance-of-the-marree-man/

LAW ENFORCEMENT
Facebook photo led to two MS-13 murders, prosecutors say
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0618/fb_ms-13_MURDERS.php3

IMMIGRATION
Trump Calls for Depriving Immigrants Who Illegally Cross Border of Due Process Rights
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/us/politics/trump-immigration-judges-due-process.html?emc=edit_nn_20180625&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180625&te=1

Ask A Liberal How Unlimited Immigration Benefits America, Then Watch Their Head Explode
https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2018/06/25/ask-a-liberal-how-unlimited-immigration-benefits-america-then-watch-their-heads-n2494048?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

IRAN
TRUMP WINNING IN IRAN: Foreign Minister Fears Collapse Of Nuclear Deal Could Topple Government
https://www.dailywire.com/news/32237/trump-winning-iran-foreign-minister-fears-collapse-hank-berrien

POLITICS
Scott Adams says Trump critics may scare him to vote: 'They're coming for you next'
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/25/scott-adams-says-donald-trumps-critics-may-scare-h/

-- 
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize
half of ’em are stupider than that.”
          -  George Carlin

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GENERAL INTEREST

Autistic boy's classmates had never heard him speak. What he finally said at graduation blew them away
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0618/autistic_speaks.php3

Why One Island Grows 80% of the World’s Vanilla
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-is-vanilla-grown?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=52ee951a1c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-52ee951a1c-68765573&ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_6_22_2018)&mc_cid=52ee951a1c&mc_eid=150134a6f2

The Arabian Gazelles: Trailblazing women who make up Dubai's first all-female supercar club – and pose for glamorous photos with their luxury vehicles
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5874887/The-Arabian-Gazelles-Trailblazing-women-make-Dubais-female-supercar-club.html

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines (6 out of 11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/22/briefing/22weeklynewsquiz.html?emc=edit_nn_20180622&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180622&te=1

He saw a woman stranded in a wheelchair by the side of the road. What happened next made the world take notice
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0618/wheelchair_woman.php3

HEALTH
Is your (grand)kid getting enough to drink? Here's what you need to know about hydration 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0618/hydration.php3

Venomous Asp Caterpillar Stings Florida Teen 20 Times
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/venomous-asp-caterpillar-stings-florida-teen-20-times?pl=pl-the-latest

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
'Occupy ICE' protests emerge across the country
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/393790-occupy-ice-protests-emerge-across-the-country

Don’t Get Played; Get Woke to the Outrage Scam
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/06/21/dont-get-played-get-woke-to-the-outrage-scam-n2492614?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

BUSINESS
Supreme Court Widens Reach of Sales Tax for Online Retailers
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/us/politics/supreme-court-sales-taxes-internet-merchants.html?emc=edit_nn_20180622&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180622&te=1

Elon Musk promised a Tesla 'alien dreadnought' factory — but what we got was a tent (TSLA)
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/elon-musk-promised-tesla-apos-125700851.html

Metrics often have unintended consequences 
http://jewishworldreview.com/0618/McArdle062118.php3

CLIMATE CHANGE
Good News From Antarctica: Rising Bedrock Could Save Vulnerable Ice Sheet 
https://www.ecowatch.com/antarctica-bedrock-ice-sheet-2580330632.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=27d94c7ac5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-27d94c7ac5-85328381

HERPETOLOGY
Police stopped traffic so a venomous snake could cross the road unharmed
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0618/rattlesnake_crossing.php3

NATIONAL SECURITY
New fears over Chinese espionage grip Washington
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/393741-new-fears-over-chinese-espionage-grip-washington?userid=288549

DEFENSE
US Must Hustle On Hypersonics, EW, AI: VCJCS Selva & Work
https://breakingdefense.com/2018/06/us-must-hustle-on-hypersonics-ew-ai-vcjcs-selva-work/

IMMIGRATION
Desperate Democrats Dismiss Trump’s Executive Order
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/trump-family-separation-reversal-left-not-satisfied/#slide-1

Mexican Prez Candidate Calls For Mass Exodus To U.S.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/32202/mexican-prez-candidate-calls-mass-exodus-us-paul-bois?utm_medium=email&utm_content=062318-news&utm_campaign=position1

Trump Moves to Obama’s Position on Family Detention, Democrats Outraged
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/donald-trump-family-separation-executive-order-obama-policy/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202018-06-24&utm_term=VDHM

ACLU RUNNING AMOK
The ACLU Abandons Its Free-Speech Absolutism
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/aclu-abandons-free-speech-embraces-progressive-advocacy/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202018-06-23&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

MIDTERM ELECTIONS
All Politics Is Trump 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/president-trump-dominates-american-politics-midterm-elections/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202018-06-23&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

POLITICS
Is The United States On A Road To Becoming Ungovernable?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-21/united-states-road-becoming-ungovernable

-- 
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize
half of ’em are stupider than that.”
          -  George Carlin

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OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Observing Krauthammer

GENERAL INTEREST

Sears Roebuck Kit Homes

http://www.arts-crafts.com/archive/sears/

One of the World’s Largest Steam Locomotives Is About to Make a Triumphant Return

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-can-i-see-big-boy-steam-locomotive

Southern Poverty Law Center Agrees to $3.4 Million Settlement for Smearing Muslim Reformer

http://jewishworldreview.com/0618/SPLC_payout.php3

Blind to Real Problems

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams062018.php3

HEALTH

Higher vitamin D levels linked to lower colorectal cancer risk, study finds

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0618/vitamin_d_cancer.php3

HEALTH CARE

Medicare Part G Works for Me

http://americandigest.org/wp/medicare-part-g-works-for-me/

Thanks, DW ...

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED

Leftist Group Shows Activists How to Kill an ICE Agent, Pledges to Go After Their Families

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/06/20/left-shows-activists-how-to-kill-an-ice-agent-pledges-to-go-after-their-families-n2492637?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

EDUCATION

Professor: Learning Math Can Cause ‘Collateral Damage’ to Society

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/math-can-cause-collateral-damage-to-society-professor/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-06-20&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

BUSINESS

Starbucks burned by social-justice appeasement as growth stalls, stock plunges

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/20/starbucks-burned-social-justice-appeasement-growth/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

SCIENCE

A Strange Type of Matter Might Lie Inside Neutron Stars, And It Breaks The Periodic Table

https://www.sciencealert.com/lower-ground-state-up-down-quark-matter-indicates-search-limits?utm_source=ScienceAlert+-+Daily+Email+Updates&utm_campaign=5bd9512f05-MAILCHIMP_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fe5632fb09-5bd9512f05-365889541

MEDIA

OOPS! I $^^&-ed up your life

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin062018.php3

IMMIGRATION

On Mexico’s Migrant Trail: Trump Policy Means Tough Choices

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/world/americas/mexico-family-separation-immigration.html?emc=edit_nn_20180620&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180620&te=1

Canada aims to avoid detaining migrant children, but it happens

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/canada-detention-children-united-states-1.4709632

Reasonable politicians need to take immigration more seriously

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah062018.php3

POLITICS

The blue Muslim wave: American Muslims launch political campaigns, hope to deliver ‘sweet justice’ to Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-blue-muslim-wave-american-muslims-launch-political-campaigns-hope-to-deliver-sweet-justice-to-trump/2018/04/15/a8794a9c-31cc-11e8-8abc-22a366b72f2d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.38e2bed8c093

Texas billboard tells liberals to keep driving until they leave the state

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/19/texas-billboard-tells-liberals-to-keep-driving-until-leave-state.html

-- 
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize
half of ’em are stupider than that.”
          -  George Carlin

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GENERAL INTEREST
Slow driver backed up traffic in the left lane. People love this officer's response
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article213374269.html

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

Big Lemonade lawyers give 'Legal-Ade' to squeezed lemonade stands
Big Lemonade lawyers give 'Legal-Ade' to squeezed lemonade stands

HEALTH
Nearly Eradicated in Humans, the Guinea Worm Finds New Victims: Dogs
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/health/guinea-worms-dogs-chad.html?emc=edit_nn_20180619&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180619&te=1

CIVIL FORFEITURE
Supreme Court Will Decide If Civil Forfeiture Is Unconstitutional, Violates The Eighth Amendment
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2018/06/19/supreme-court-will-decide-if-civil-forfeiture-is-unconstitutional-violates-the-eighth-amendment/#41fad92c7165

ENVIRONMENT
Giant hogweed, plant that causes blindness and third-degree burns, discovered in Virginia
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/giant-hogweed-plant-causes-blindness-third-degree-burns-discovered-in-virginia-other-states/

LAW ENFORCEMENT
Elizabeth Warren’s Criminal-Justice Illiteracy
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/low-level-drug-offenses-do-not-drive-mass-incarceration/

IMMIGRATION
'Do Your Job, Fix the System': ICE Director Hits Back at Gillibrand for Calling Trump Admin 'Evil'
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/06/19/kirsten-gillibrand-calls-trump-administration-evil-acting-ice-director-thomas-homan

Republicans Propose Stand Alone Fix for Family Separations
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/family-separation-republicans-senate-back-standalone-fix/

Analysis: Amid the Shouting, Ted Cruz Has a Sensible Plan to Alleviate the Child Separation Crisis
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/06/19/sensible-ted-cruzs-good-plan-to-alleviate-child-separation-crisis-n2492229?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

ELECTIONGATE
Horowitz Report Day 5
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/56625?mailing_id=3553&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3553&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Peter Strzok escorted out of FBI building
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/19/peter-strzok-escorted-out-fbi-building-reports/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

POLITICS
20 weeks out from midterms, Dems and GOP brace for surprises
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/392872-20-weeks-out-from-midterms-dems-and-gop-brace-for-surprises?userid=288549

Trump changed the electoral map; new polling shows it’s changing back
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/19/17474984/trump-state-polling

This is what voter suppression doesn't look like
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/noemie-emery-this-is-what-voter-suppression-doesnt-look-like?utm_source=Examiner%20Today_06/19/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner%20Today

‘Future Pres’ Hillary — the Font of all the Scandals
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/clinton-email-investigators-broke-rules-to-please-hillary/

I Think My Dog's a Democrat
https://www.youtube.com/embed/H3VLqLLWxbQ?rel=0

-- 
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize
half of ’em are stupider than that.”
          -  George Carlin

PLATT - MISC News

Ten Paradoxes Of Our Age 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0618/hanson061818.php3

GENERAL INTEREST
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (Live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkM71JPHfjk

Potato Bombs recipe by the BBQ Pit Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aUNmtSgB0c

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

PHYSICAL HEALTH
Arthroscopic Knee Surgery is Usually Useless
http://www.drmirkin.com/joints/1259.html

MENTAL HEALTH
Depression and the Healing Desert 
https://www.ecowatch.com/depression-and-the-healing-desert-2577810868.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=3a0bb07bc3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-3a0bb07bc3-85328381

Rebel developers are trying to cure our smartphone addiction --- with an app
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0618/smart_phone_addiction_app.php3

Not a Surprise: DC Has Highest Concentration of Psychopaths in the United States 
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2018/06/17/not-a-surprise-dc-has-more-psychopaths-per-capita-than-anywhere-else-in-the-united-states-n2491666?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=



PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
What Is Intersectionality?
https://www.prageru.com/videos/what-intersectionality

EDUCATION
AP World History course is dropping thousands of years of human events --- and critics are furious
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0618/AP_history_modified.php3

BUSINESS
All Apple employees now get standing desks — and Tim Cook has said he believes 'sitting is the new cancer'
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-employees-now-standing-desks-211518637.html

California Farm Workers Fight Their Union — and the State — in Court
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/gerawan-farming-labor-dispute-workers-fight-union-state-bureaucrats/

Free-Market Republicans Risk Irrelevance by Ignoring the Concerns of Blue-Collar Voters 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/free-market-republicans-must-help-working-class-voters/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-06-18&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

ENVIRONMENT
'Historic First': Nebraska Farmers Return Land to Ponca Tribe in Effort to Block Keystone XL
https://www.ecowatch.com/nebraska-farmers-keystone-xl-2578444895.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=3a0bb07bc3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-3a0bb07bc3-85328381

TECHNOLOGY
Check to stay dead 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0618/bershidsky061818.php3

CYBER SECURITY
Are any encrypted messaging apps fail-safe? Subjects of Mueller probe are about to find out
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0618/encryption_safe_or_not.php3

SOCIAL MEDIA
Moderate Islam Falters in the Face of Silicon Valley Censorship 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/facebook-twitter-censorship-unfair-and-unequal/

IMMIGRATION
DHS head wades into Twitter maelstrom after denying 'a policy of separating families at the border'
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dhs-head-wades-into-twitter-maelstrom-after-denying-a-policy-of-separating-families-at-the-border?utm_source=Examiner%20Today_06/18/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner%20Today

Trump doubles down on family separation policy
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/392757-trump-doubles-down-on-family-separation-policy?userid=288549

POLITICS
How Donald Trump and Chuy Garcia Broke the Chicago Machine
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/17/chicago-donald-trump-chuy-garcia-machine-218825?utm_source=Examiner%20Today_06/18/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner%20Today

-- 
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize
half of ’em are stupider than that.”
          -  George Carlin