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Weekend of September 30-October 2, 2016


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Inspiration
What is there in a sound that words cannot express --- and why do we have this sound only once a year?
By Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo


The great challenge, defined and illuminated





Reality Check
Obama's New Middle East
By Caroline B. Glick


The outgoing president let Syria burn. He let Iran and Hezbollah transform the country into their colony. And he let Putin transform the Mediterranean into a Russian lake


 


Personal Growth
15 healthy habits that will make you feel unstoppable
By Courtnie Erickson


How to improve your life. Guaranteed



Wellness
Beyond BMI: The other health markers you should be watching
By Carrie Dennett, M.P.H., R.D.N.


Think it's impossible to be both obese and healthy?



Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Diane Rossen Worthington


Make the Best Brisket Ever!



Wealth Strategies
12 Stocks to Buy No Matter Who the Next President Is
By James K. Glassman


The U.S.'s long-neglected infrastructure is set to get a spending boost, and these stocks stand to benefit.


[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]



Sean Delonas

Chip Bok

John Deering

Jake Fuller

Bob Gorrell

Dave Granlund

Steve Kelley

Jerry Holbert

Jimmy Margulies

RJ Matson

Rick McKee

Michael Ramirez



Monica Crowley: The real reason why Trump won the debate

Marilyn Penn: JCC Harlem



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On this day in . . .


1452, the first section of the Guttenberg Bible, the first book printed from movable type, was published in Germany

1630, John Billington, one of the first pilgrims to land in America, was hanged for murder -- the first European criminal executed in the American colonies

1791, the first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria

1882, Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin

1846, a dentist in Charleston, Mass., extracted a tooth with the aid of an anesthetic -- ether. It was the first time an anesthetic had been used

1927, Babe Ruth set a Major League Baseball record with his 60th home run of the season. The mark would stand for 34 years

1935, the Hoover Dam, astride the border between Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated

1938, the League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations". ALSO: 1938, Germany, France, Britain and Italy met in Munich, Germany, for a conference after which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain predicted "peace for our time." World War II began less than one year later.

1941, during World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre

1946, the verdicts were handed down in the Nuremberg war crimes trial. Twelve Nazi leaders were sentenced to death by hanging

1947 , the World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time

1954, the U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel

1968, the Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory

1975 , the Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight

1977, because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down

1982, cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all

1996, United States Congress passes an Amendment that bars the possession of firearms for people who were convicted of domestic violence, even misdemeanor level

2006, Congress ordered construction of a 700-mile, $1.2 billion fence along the U.S.-Mexican border in a move to control immigration. Mexico said the barrier would hurt relations between the two countries

2011, a missile from an American drone aircraft strike over Yemen killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born Islamic teror mastermind and subject of a two-year manhunt

2014, U.S. Secret Service chief Julia Pierson told a U.S. House committee there would be a full review of the agency in the wake of an incident in which a man jumped a fence, got past security officers and entered the White House. Pierson resigned the day after her House appearance

2014, mere hours before a midnight deadline, a bitterly divided Congress approved, and President Barack Obama signed, a stopgap spending bill to keep the federal government open



[ I N S I G H T ]

Wesley Pruden: Rough justice for Obama and the Saudis (SPOT ON)

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Leading Economic Indicators

Deep in the Amazon, 'it was Donald Trump's hair hanging out on a tree'

Suzanne Fields: No Camouflage for Character in First Debate

John Kass: How -- and why -- Trump rightfully infuriates the Dems

Bernard Goldberg: The Angry Little Teapot Strikes Again

Jonah Goldberg: From Congress to Obama, a 'dis' best served cold

Paul Greenberg: She was a loner

Michael Barone: What the Debate Tells About How Candidates Would Govern (SMART)

Rich Lowry: The media's not even pretending to be 'objective' about Trump

Charles Hurt: Lester the Media Molester and Hillary's ever-evolving 'convictions'

Mona Charen: Trump Threatens Clinton Over Lewinsky --- Really?

Dave Weinbaum: Memo to Trump: Take the spotlight off yourself and shine it on Hillary

David Limbaugh: Unorthodox Thoughts About the Unorthodox Debate

Deroy Murdock: Temperamentally unfit for president, indeed

Charles Krauthammer: When facts, logic and history don't matter

Mallard Filmore

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