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Weekend of October 14-16, 2016


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"Man is what he is, not what he used to be."

--- Jewish saying



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Inspiration
Repression of the Sublime
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb

A renown master of the mind -- and spirit -- has a message for people of faith; all faiths




 


Reality Check
Iran wishes to replace the US as the regional hegemon, at the America's expense
By Caroline B. Glick


The strategic endgame of Barack Obama's administration. And it ain't pretty



War on Jihad
DIY submachine guns are popping up across the West Bank
By William Booth


What are those practitioners of the "religion of peace" up to?



Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Pati Jinich


Hold that tortilla shell, buddy: A Mexican dishes about salads (3 RECIPES: Fresh-tasting and light, with zippy dressings and unexpected combinations)



Coupliing
65 super specific questions you MUST ask before getting married
By Amberlee Lovell


No one goes into marriage thinking, "I really hope we get divorced!" But it happens ... a lot. These questions will fight divorce from the very beginning





Wellness
Trendy and tasty, yes. But claims aside, coconut oil is far from being a cure-all
By Ellie Krieger


Why you shouldn't replace your olive oil just yet



Wealth Strategies
7 Mistakes Even Informed Investors Can Make with Their 401(k)s
By Allen Neuenschwander, CPA, CFP


Avoid these issues because you may never get a chance to fix them


[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]



Lisa Benson

Chip Bok

Bob Gorrell

Dave Granlund

Taylor Jones

Rick McKee

Gary Varvel

Gary Varvel BONUS!

Michael Ramirez

Michael Ramirez BONUS!




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On this day in . . .


1656, Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive

1773, during the American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis

1789, George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day

1812, work on London's Regent's Canal starts

1884, George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film

1888, Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene

1910, English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House

1912, while campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivers his scheduled speech

1926, the children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published

1933, Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations

1943, prisoners at the Sobibor death camp in Poland revolt, resulting in the death of 11 SS. About half of the camp's 600 prisoners escape; about 50 survive the war

1947, Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight

1949, eleven leaders of the U.S. Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government

1968, first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft, the Apollo 7. ALSO: American Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the ten second barrier in the 100 metres Olympic final at Mexico City with a time of 9.95 sec. He would be the only man to do so until 1983

1987, a 58-hour drama began in Midland, Texas, as 18-month-old Jessica McClure slid 22 feet down an abandoned well at a private day care center; she was rescued on Oct. 16

1994, terrorist Yasser Arafat, ym"sh, and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize

2008, a grand jury in Orlando, Fla. returned charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter against Casey Anthony in the death of her 3-year-old daughter, Caylee. ALSO: Syria formally recognized Lebanon for the first time by establishing diplomatic relations with its neighbor

2012, Daredevil skydiver Felix Baumgartner became the first man to shatter the sound barrier without traveling in a jet or a spacecraft, jumping from a balloon 24 miles above the New Mexico desert. ALSO: Sixty-five years after becoming the first human to fly faster than the speed of sound, 89-year-old retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager commemorated the event by smashing through the sound barrier again, this time in the backseat of an F-15.

2013, a court in Malaysia ruled that non-Muslims may not use "Allah" to refer to God.

2014, after a conspicuous public absence of nearly six weeks, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appeared in images released by state media attending a pair of events, dispelling rumors that he was gravely ill, deposed --- or worse

2015, hundreds of soldiers fanned out in cities across Israel and authorities erected concrete barriers outside some Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem in a stepped-up effort to counter a monthlong wave of Palestinian violence





[ I N S I G H T ]

Wesley Pruden: Trash talk and the White House

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Leading Economic Indicators

Greg Crosby: Jack 'Big Gate' Teagarden

Jonah Goldberg: Billy Bush is collateral damage in Trump tape controversy

David Limbaugh: Still Voting for Trump; Must Defeat Clinton

Deroy Murdock: How Hillary hides dangers of plan for Syrian refugees

Mona Charen: The War On Women Is Back

Suzanne Fields: The Presidential Candidates We Deserve

Michael Barone: Donald Trump's Invisible Shackles

Kelly Riddell: Top 10 Hillary Clinton scandals exposed by WikiLeaks

Rich Lowry: Evangelicals Without Standards

Charles Krauthammer: Trump's 'locker room talk' --- that's what's generating uproar?

Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

Mallard Filmore

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