JewishWorldReview.com
The intersection of faith, culture and politics
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
PLEASE use our "share" features to spread our articles on Facebook and elsewhere!
*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*
PONDERABLE
"Some mistake an act of willfulness for an act of will."
*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*
Outlook
When we turn a blind eye, moral blindness afflicts us all
Reality Check
16 years after the failed Camp David summit, the fiction of the two-state solution is about to be shattered once and for all. The only relevant question today, is what does Israel intend to do next?
Living
The transformation of Robbie "Z.Z." Ludwick
Personal Growth
The secret recipe for improving self-worth in anyone
Wellnesss
A seven-step plan for empowering children to take responsibility for their health
Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
A cook's best friend, with a Middle Eastern vibe
Consumer Intelligence
These discount retailers stock plenty of bargains, but some of the merchandise isn't worth the buck
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• David Fitzsimmons BONUS!
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1056, Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill, dying suddenly a few days later, without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty • 1422, Henry VI, becomes King of England at the age of 9 months • 1803, explorer Meriwether Lewis departed Pittsburgh, sailing down the Ohio River; he joined up with William Clark in Louisville, Ky., the following October. (The next year, Lewis and Clark began their famous expedition toward the Pacific coast.) • 1864, during the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta • 1881, the first U.S. tennis championships (for men) were played, in Newport, R.I. • 1888, Mary Ann Nichols was found murdered in London's East End in what is generally regarded as the first slaying committed by "Jack the Ripper" • 1897, Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector • 1920, the first radio news program broadcast by station 8MK in Detroit • 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Neutrality Act, or Senate Joint Resolution No. 173, which he calls an "expression of the desire . . . to avoid any action which might involve [the U.S.] in war." The signing came at a time when newly installed fascist governments in Europe were beginning to beat the drums of war • 1941, the radio program "The Great Gildersleeve" debuted on NBC • 1944, the British 8th Army breaks through the Germans' "Gothic Line," a defensive line drawn across northern Italy • 1951, following a hiking and mountain climbing trip through Asia, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas issues a statement calling for the recognition of the communist People's Republic of China. His comments touched off an angry partisan debate in the U.S. Senate • 1955, William G. Cobb of the General Motors Corp. (GM) demonstrates his 15-inch-long "Sunmobile," the world's first solar-powered automobile, at the General Motors Powerama auto show held in Chicago • 1959, Brooklyn Dodgers left-hander Sandy Koufax strikes out 18 batters, setting a new National League record for most strikeouts in a single game • 1967, Senate Preparedness Investigating Committee issues a call to step up bombing against the North, declaring that McNamara had "shackled" the air war against Hanoi, and calling for "closure, neutralization, or isolation of Haiphong" • 1978, William and Emily Harris, founders of the Symbionese Liberation Army, plead guilty to the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst • 1980, Poland's Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day-old strike • 1986, the Soviet passenger ship Admiral Nakhimov collided with a merchant vessel in the Black Sea, causing both vessels to sink; up to 448 people reportedly died • 1994, the Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire • 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales and her "companion", Dodi Al-Fayed, and driver Henri Paul die as a result of a car crash in Paris • 2004, practitioners of that "religion of peace" praised Allah as they blew up two buses in Beersheba, Israel, killing 16 passengers. A female practioner of that "religion of peace" strapped with explosives blew herself up outside a busy Moscow subway station, killing 10 people • 2006, Iran defied a U.N. deadline to stop enriching uranium. ALSO: Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream is recovered from a raid by Norwegian police. AND: President George W. Bush, addressing an American Legion convention in Salt Lake City, predicted victory in the war on terror, likening the struggle against Islamic fundamentalism with the fight against Nazis and communists • 2008, with Hurricane Gustav approaching New Orleans, Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded with the last of its residents to get out, imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on those who were staying and warned looters they would be sent directly to prison • 2010, President Barack Obama ended the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, declaring no victory after seven years of bloodshed and telling those divided over the war in his country and around the world: "It is time to turn the page." • 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama, in a TV speech from the White House Rose Garden, said , "Ten days ago, the world watched in horror as men, women and children were massacred in Syria in the worst chemical weapons attack of the 21st century." He said the United States had presented a "powerful case" that the Syrian government was responsible for the attack and was ready to take military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It was just empty words • 2014, on the Sunday talk shows, leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees prodded President Barack Obama to take decisive action against what they said were growing threats from Islamic State militants on U.S. soil • 2015, President Barack Obama, opening a three-day visit to Alaska, painted a doomsday scenario for the Arctic and beyond if climate change wasn't dealt with fast: entire nations submerged underwater, cities abandoned and refugees fleeing in droves as conflict broke out across the globe. ALSO: The State Department released roughly 7,000 pages of Hillary Clinton's emails, including about 150 emails that were censored because they contained information deemed classified. AND: Frazier Glenn Miller, a white supremacist who admitted killing three people at two suburban Kansas City Jewish sites, gave jurors in Olathe, Kansas, a Nazi salute after they convicted him of murder and other charges for the shootings. (The same jury sentenced Miller to death.)
Jonah Goldberg: In denouncing alt-right, Hillary treads where GOP will not
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Least Competent Criminals
Lenore Skenazy: Is the Walk to School Really So Terrifying?
Michelle Malkin: Colorado's Anti-Fracking Crackup
Paul Greenberg: Bye-bye, kudzu, or: The South will rise again
Robert Samuelson: How the snooze economy is helping Hillary
Declassified by Eli Lake: Obama's CIA director wants to stick around for Clinton
Craig Timberg & Andrea Peterson: Could hackers tip an American election? You bet
Walter Williams: Economic Conspiracies
Thomas Sowell: A Gem in Chicago
Our Front Page: http://www.JewishWorldReview.com/
++++ Become a fan of JWR on FACEBOOK!
Want to drop us a note? You may send it to JWR's editor in chief by replyng to this newsletter.
(c) 2015, JewishWorldReview.com: Permission to distribute this newsletter -- NOT articles' text -- is not only granted, it's also ENCOURAGED, as is using the "e-mail a friend" and "share" features!
<^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^>
~~ In case your newsletter stops arriving, PLEASE check your spam filter --- or let us know. We'll re-send that day's issue.
You can ALSO always access it via our Front Page: JewishWorldReview.com
~~~ SUBSCRIBE to this newsletter: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/subs.php
Open Season on Everyone
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson
The end of Mahmoud Abbas
By Caroline B. Glick
You'll never believe what this star of the cult film 'Heavy Metal Parking Lot' does now
By John Kelly
The one real secret to good self-esteem
By Kim Giles
Yes, your kids can and should pack their own lunches
By Casey Seidenberg
The Kosher Gourmet
By Joe Yonan
7 Things You Should Never Buy at Dollar Stores
By Bob Niedt
On this day in . . .
[ I N S I G H T ]
Byron York: Hillary bleachbits her past
Fred Barnes Anti-Hillary Dems: Why aren't there any?
http://www.facebook.com/pages/JewishWorldReviewcom/55720892273
EVERY letter is read and valued!