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Thought
Nakedness and a Desert Full of Snakes BRILLIANT essay from a world-renowned lecturer and ambassador for Judaism, the Jewish people, the State of Israel and Sephardic Heritage
Pop Cultcha
Nine decades ago this week, the talkies were born: On October 6th 1927
Reality Check
Last week, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, was widely thought to have "stepped in it"
Build A Better Child
Want happy, successful, well-adjusted kids? There's somebody you know who needs to read this!
Wellness
A look at the pros and cons
Consumer Intelligence
If you hate travel planning, you can hire a company to do it all for you --- including choosing the destination
Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
This filling soup is beautiful, earthy with a subtle tangy-sweet flavor --- and a cinch to make
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1795, Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a "Whiff of Grapeshot", using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention)
• 1824, Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic
• 1830, creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands
• 1853, the Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia
• 1883, the first run of the Orient Express
• 1895, the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island
• 1927, Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore
• 1940, meeting between Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass
• 1941, Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post
• 1957, the Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth
• 1958, the Fifth Republic of France is established. ALSO: The first trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service was begun by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) with flights between London and New York
• 1983, Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert of Nevada
• 1993, the Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside
• 1997, the second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken
• 2001, Rickey Henderson homered to pass Ty Cobb and become baseball's career leader in runs scored with 2,246 during San Diego's 6-3 win over Los Angeles
• 2003, a female practitioner of that "religion of peace", shouting praises to Allah, blows herself up at the Maxim restaurant in Haifa, Israel. 21 were killed, including three children and a baby girl. Another 60 were wounded. The bomber was a 29-year-old lawyer from Jenin
• 2004, SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space
• 2008, the U.S. Labor Department announced the United States lost 159,000 jobs in September, the most in five years
• 2012, police in Chicago said they had destroyed marijuana plants "as big as Christmas trees" in the largest operation of its kind in the city's history. The "marijuana farm" -- as large as two football fields -- was discovered two days earlier by a Cook County sheriff's deputy on helicopter patrol. No arrests had been made
• 2016, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine repeatedly challenged Mike Pence during their vice presidential debate, attempting to tie the Indiana governor to some of Donald Trump’s most controversial statements about women, immigrants and foreign policy while Trump’s running mate maintained a folksy, soft-spoken demeanor as he defended the New York billionaire
[ I N S I G H T ]
(SUPERB) Ben Shapiro: The Power of Good
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: YIKES --- Government in Action!
L. Brent Bozell III: The Inevitable Bias Avalanche in Las Vegas
Byron York: What Americans think about NFL protests --- and Trump
John Stossel: Get Out of the Way
Andrew Malcolm: Two Republican parties confront each other --- and tax reform
Salena Zito: The Creators Who Also Destroy
David Weigel: Facing an uphill climb in Alabama Senate race, Dems hesitate to engage
Ed O'Keefe: Deal or no deal on DACA? Republicans say no. Dems say not yet
Niall Ferguson: Polarization and fake posts: How social media won the day
• How an email prankster punked a series of White House marks
• French Muslims enraged by passage of Macron's version of Patriot Act
Jonah Goldberg: GOP base is beyond Trump's control
Michelle Malkin: We Need Fallacy Control Now!
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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