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Wednesday, July 13, 2016


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Reality Check
Days of Shame
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson


Every day things seem worse than the day before. But there is a solution, if we have the courage to take it.





WOW!
Surprised? Obama administration sent taxpayer money to campaign to oust Netanyahu
By Stephen Dinan


What the congresional investigation uncovered




 


War on Jihad
Islamic State readies for fall of 'caliphate'
By Joby Warrick & Souad Mekhennet

The terror group's leaders are bracing their followers for military defeat while urging them to unleash Muslim mayhem





Then & Now
Austria seizes Hitler's birth home to deter neo-Nazi visitors
By Melissa Etehad

Evil man's house becoming shrine





Wellness
Touting the virtues of apple cider vinegar
By Ellie Krieger

The science behind those "miracle cure" claims



Wealth Strategies
Best of the Online Brokers, 2016
By Daren Fonda

What to search for in finding the first-rate financial handlers

Analysis by needs, personal situation



Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Dorie Greenspan

You won't believe how creamy, rich, rich, rich tiramisu gets even better


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Nate Beeler

Lisa Benson

Jerry Holbert

Gary McCoy

Rick McKee

Bob Gorrell

Dave Granlund

Milt Priggee

Gary Varvel

Adam Zyglis

Michael Ramirez



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On this day in . . .


1787, the Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery

1793, French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday

1863, New York City draft riots: in New York, New York, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.

1878, the European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman empire

1898, Guglielmo Marconi was awarded a patent for wireless telegraphy, the radio

1919, the British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight

1923, the Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949

1973, Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the Nixon tapes to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in

1977, in New York ,amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting

1978, Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II

1979, a 45-hour siege by practitioners of that "religion of peace" began at the Egyptian Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, killing two guards and taking some 20 hostages. (The guerrillas surrendered 45 hours later.)

1985, the Constitution's presidential disability clause was invoked for the first time as President Ronald Reagan transferred power temporarily to Vice President George H.W. Bush before undergoing surgery for colon cance. ALSO: "Live Aid," an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, took place to raise money for Africa's starving people

1990, the U.S. Senate gave final legislative approval to a bill that would forbid discrimination based on disability, including that caused by AIDS or alcoholism. President George H.W. Bush signed the measure into law July 26

1998, a jury in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., ruled that the Rev. Al Sharpton and two others had defamed a former prosecutor by accusing him of raping Tawana Brawley. Oddly, Sharpton is still invited as a guest on cable TV and conservative talk radio

2001, a judge in San Jose, Calif., sentenced Andrew Burnett, the man who'd tossed a fluffy little dog to its death in a bout of road rage, to the maximum three years behind bars

2003, the new 25-member Iraqi council, representing all major religious and ethnic groups in the country, had its first meeting in a major step toward self-government. ALSO: A senior U.S. official said North Korea apparently had begun reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods, suggesting the country planned to produce nuclear weapons

2005, former WorldCom Inc. boss Bernard Ebbers was sentenced to 25 years in prison for leading the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history. ALSO, a fuel gauge that mistakenly read full instead of empty forced NASA to call off the first shuttle launch in 2 1/2 years

2008, the U.S. Treasury Department announced a plan to save two major government-backed mortgage companies known as Fannie Mac and Freddie Mac with billions of dollars in investments and loans

2010, four months before the 2010 midterm elections, 58 percent of voters surveyed in a Washington Post-ABC News poll indicated doubt in U.S. President Barack Obama's leadership

2011, three coordinated bombings in India's busy financial capital killed 26 people in the worst terror attack in the country since the 2008 Mumbai siege

2013, neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman was acquitted in the 2012 shooting death of black teenager Trayvon Martin in a gated community in Florida. The case provoked a national debate on "stand your ground" laws and racial profiling

2014, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell met privately with dozens of governors as the Obama administration tried to get support from states that would host thousands of Central American children who were sent by their parents to weasel their way illegally into America via the Mexican border



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Michelle Malkin: Congressional Black Corruption

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Well that certainly explains it

Arlington National Cemetery wants people to stop catching Pikachu on its hallowed ground

Ed O'Keefe & Dan Balz: GOP moves closer to base in platform

John Stossel: Cops, Blacks and Crime

Jonah Goldberg: Week of tragedy reveals our ideological blind spots

Byron York: Harvard study: As Trump won, media coverage turned sharply negative

Paul Ryan: Hillary Clinton is unfit to handle classified information

Charles Hurt: Obama tramples on high ideals of America, fuels Black Lives Matter racism

Kathleen Parker: David Brown, the voice America needs

Dick Morris: Hillary Backs Socialized Medicine: The Other Shoe Drops

Walter Williams: Challenges for Black People

Thomas Sowell The War on Cops: Part II

Dry Bones

Mallard Filmore

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