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Inspired Living
Those who have embraced utopian social notions -- including, tragically, too many Jews -- fail to grasp a fundamental understanding about how humanity functions
A fascinating article by a rabbinic scholar and psychotherapist
Reality Check
Why is the rhetoric denounced in Charlottesville as repugnant so often otherwise perfectly acceptable when proclaimed by the Left?
They've Finally Started Killing Each Other
Gotta just love that "religion of peace"
Huh!?
Remembering the daring artists who fought in World War II with different sorts of weapons
Prevent A Divorce!
Finally somebody had the guts to say this. You almost certainly know who to "share" this with. Do so Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
This rustic French dessert pancake is elegant in its simplicity -- glorious, golden brown and sugar dusted. And healthful, too
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• Chip Bok
• Gary McCoy BONUS!
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1227, Genghis Khan, the Mongol leader who forged an empire stretching from the east coast of China west to the Aral Sea, died in camp during a campaign against the Chinese kingdom of Xi Xia
• 1572, wedding in Paris of the future Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre with Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics
• 1587, Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island, N.C. (However, the colony she was born into ended up mysteriously disappearing.)
• 1838, the first marine expedition sponsored by the U.S. government set sail from Hampton Roads, Va.; the crews traveled the southern Pacific Ocean, gathering scientific information
• 1868, French astronomer Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen discovers helium
• 1894, Congress established the Bureau of Immigration
• 1909, Tokyo mayor Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River
• 1920, Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage
• 1938, the Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York State, United States with Ontario, Canada over the St. Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• 1941, Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests
• 1965, during the Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins; United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war
• 1982, Lebanon and the Palestine Liberation Organization approved a plan for withdrawal of PLO fighters from besieged West Beirut. Israel approved it the following day
• 1990, U.S. warships fired warning shots over the bows of two Iraqi tankers, the first salvos of a U.S. embargo
• 1998, in the wake of his admission of an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, U.S. President Bill Clinton was urged to resign by several members of Congress and more than 100 daily newspapers
• 2002, Abu Nidal, one of the most feared of the Palestinian terrorists, was found shot to death, an apparent suicide
• 2003, authorities estimated as many as 10,000 people died because of the heat in France during a European heat wave
• 2005, Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings. ALSO: Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people
• 2006, President George W. Bush criticized a federal court ruling the day before that his warrantless wiretapping program was unconstitutional, declaring that opponents "do not understand the nature of the world in which we live."
• 2010, U.S. combat troops completed their withdrawal from Iraq, where 50,000 American troops remained, primarily as trainers, U.S. military officials said. More than 4,400 U.S. troops died in combat that began in March 2003
• 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama formally called on Syrian President Bashar Assad to resign "for the sake of the Syrian people." Obama also announced "unprecedented sanctions" to further isolate Syria financially
• 2016, for the first time since declaring his presidential run, Republican Donald Trump offered an apology to those who might have been hurt by his caustic comments, saying he regretted some of what he had said "in the heat of debate."
[ I N S I G H T ]
Wesley Pruden: To arms! The Confederates are coming! The Confederates are coming!
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Bright Ideas
Lenore Skenazy: 'Kidnap' Adds To Parental Paranoia Pileup
Bernard Goldberg: Where Does It End?
Michael Barone: What Identity Politics Hath Wrought
Suzanne Fields: Scapegoats, Gulls and Google
L. Brent Bozell III: Colin Kaepernick: History's Hero?
• A restaurant charged a 'minimum wage' fee. Outrage ensued
• 'It knew what you were going to do next': AI learns from pro gamers --- then crushes them
Greg Crosby: Kim Jong Un-acceptable
Rich Lowry: Welcome to the 'Breitbart White House'
Harry Stein: What Trump got right at his 'disturbing' press conference
David Limbaugh: The Tragedy and Exploitation of Charlottesville
Jonah Goldberg: Alt-right's despicability doesn't make 'antifa' the good guys
Mona Charen: Is the Party of Lincoln Now the Party of Lee?
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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