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Weekend of January 31-February 2, 2014


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QUIP FOR THE DAY


"Happiness is not something that happens to you but something that happens through you."

--- Rabbi David Aaron



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[ T O P  S T O R I E S ]

thought
What 'doctors' of the soul grasp far better than most mental health professionals
By Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski

The fourth in a periodic series for serious students of theology who aren't scared to examine their most personal beliefs.

The author, a world renowned psychiatrist, will leave believers stronger in their faith and skeptics challenged and maybe even changed



reality check
Scaring the Jewish state straight
By Caroline B. Glick

Fact-checking the political bogeymen --- American and Israeli

MUST-READ!





fantas-tech
Food in the sky? Highrise farming idea gains ground

It may soundd like the setting for a futuristic movie about humans colonising a new planet. It isn't



ess, ess/eat, eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Faith Durand

AFFOGATO with a different kind of warmth



[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

Archie
Dilbert
Ripleys Believe It Or Not!
Andy Capp
Bliss
The Born Loser
Frank & Ernest
The Grizzwells
Herman
Moderately Confused
One Big Happy
Prickly City
Shoe
The Wizard of Id



Baloo
Eric Allie
Robert Arial
Nate Beeler
Lisa Benson
Lisa Benson BONUS!
Bob Gorrell
Riber Hansson
Jerry Holbert
Steve Kelley
Jeff Koterba
Michael Ramirez

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[ L I F E S T Y L E S ]

Gary Lee Clothier: Ask Mr. Know-It-All

Ask Doctor K by Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D.: How to treat toddler's constipation

Bruce Williams on JWR: I-bonds are easily passed to heirs; equity index annuity overcharge


[ T O D A Y  I N  H I S T O R Y ]


1606, Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England

1747, the first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital

1865, during the Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, submitting it to the states for ratification. ALSO: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief

1915, during World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russia

1917, during World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare

1929, the Soviet Union expelled communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky. He was assassinated in Mexico in August 1940

1930, 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape

1942, during World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore

1943, German Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of World War II's fiercest battles

1945, US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War

1950, President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb

1958, the launch of Explorer 1, the first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit. ALSO: James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt

1968, Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive

1982, the Israeli Cabinet agreed to a multinational peacekeeping force to act as a buffer between Israel and Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula

1990, the first McDonald's restaurant opened in Moscow

1999, a team of international scientists reported it traced the predominant strain of the AIDS virus to a subspecies of chimpanzee that lived in parts of Africa

1995, President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy

2000, Illinois Gov. George Ryan halted all executions in his state after several death row inmates were found to be innocent of the crimes for which they were to be put to death

2001, in the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988

2002, the Bush administration handed abortion opponents a symbolic victory, classifying a developing fetus as an "unborn child" as a way of extending prenatal care to low-income pregnant women under the State Children's Health Insurance Program. ALSO: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a speech that the United States had to prepare for potential surprise attacks "vastly more deadly" than those on 9/11.

2007, nine blinking electronic devices planted around Boston threw a scare into the city in what turned out to be a marketing campaign for a late-night cable cartoon

2011, a federal judge in Florida declared the Obama administration's health care overhaul unconstitutional, siding with 26 states that argued people cannot be required to buy health insurance. ALSO: Egypt's military promised not to fire on peaceful protests and recognized "the legitimacy of the people's demands." Myanmar opened its first parliament in more than two decades, an event greeted with cautious optimism by opposition lawmakers despite the military's tight management of the event.

2012, a U.S. congressional report accused the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives of bungling a sting operation called "Fast and Furious" in which guns were sold to illegal "straw buyers" in an effort to catch drug cartel leaders, but some of the weapons were used in crimes, including the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent

2013, Chuck Hagel emerged from his grueling confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee with solid Democratic support for his nomination to be President Barack Obama's next defense secretary


[ I N S I G H T ]

Wesley Pruden: The Republican suicide strategy

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: The Aristocrats! Armed & Clumsy (all-new!)

Argus Hamilton: The News in Zingers

Lenore Skenazy : The Real Housewife Scandal of New Jersey

Greg Crosby: We're all Eloi Now

Suzanne Fields: Hatred of the Jews: More Than the Banality of Memory

Linda Chavez: Reducing College Costs

Michelle Malkin: School Choice and Common Core: Mortal Enemies

Mona Charen: The Little Victims of the State

Jonah Goldberg: Davis, Democrats sneak past inconvenient realities of abortion

Paul Greenberg: State of the Union: All drift, no real direction

Andrew Malcolm: Obama bemoans worsening income inequality as if he hasn't been president

Michael Gerson: Obama's thin agenda: The State of the Union lacked a theme

Rich Lowry: The Picayune President

Dana Milbank: America doesn't need a lame-duck president

Diana West: War is hell. But now so is marine sergeant's life --- courtesy of his own country

David Limbaugh: The Man Who Would Be King

Mallard Filmore

Dry Bones

Charles Krauthammer: No to war on women': The GOP should not focus on female sexuality



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