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Inspired Living
Don't 'study' the Good Book! What is not being celebrated on Simchas Torah, the last festival of the High Holy Days season
Cyberwarfare
The Jewish state hacked Kaspersky, believed by many to facilitate espionage
Prevent A Divorce!
You feel you've been cheated. And you have very good reasons. It's still not too late.
Mayo Clinic Medical Edge
How it can be done
Life Continues To Get Better
Some of the newest high-tech and low-tech beds, mattresses and more
Etc.
Turns out a club about the world's dullest people is one of the more interesting things you'll ever see
Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
Hearty Mexican Chicken Soup is an easy, sumptuous and brightly flavored crowd pleaser
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• Michael Ramirez BONUS!
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1582, because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1811, inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey)
• 1868, Thomas Alva Edison filed papers for his first invention: an electrical vote recorder to rapidly tabulate floor votes in the U.S. Congress. Members of Congress rejected it
• 1910, former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri
• 1942, during World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance, on the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island
• 1950, the Federal Communications Commission issued to CBS the first license to broadcast color television
• 1954, during the first Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam
• 1958, NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up
• 1962, Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years
• 1968, Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard
• 1976, George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford. .
• 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in ReykjavÃk, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
• 1991, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of harassing her; Thomas re-appeared before the panel to denounce what he called a "high-tech lynching."
• 2001, the Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection
• 2006, the charge of treason was used for the first time in the U.S. war on terrorism, filed against Adam Yehiye Gadahn, who'd appeared in propaganda videos for al-Qaida. (Gadahn remains at large.)
• 2008, the U.S. State Department removed North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. In return, North Korea agreed to give international inspectors access to its nuclear facilities and to continue disabling its plutonium processing project
• 2010, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu proposed a halt to Jewish community building in Judea and Samaria if "Palestinians" recognize Israel as a Jewish state. ALSO: Rescuers in Chile finished reinforcing a hole drilled to bring 33 trapped miners to safety and sent a rescue capsule nearly all the way to where the men were trapped, proving the escape route worked
• 2016, President Barack Obama, in an op-ed on CNN's website, sought to reinvigorate his six-year-old call for the U.S. to send humans to Mars by the 2030s. ALSO: Samsung Electronics said it was stopping production of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones permanently, a day after halting global sales of the ill-fated devices amid reports that batteries were catching fire
[ I N S I G H T ]
(PROFOUND) Harvey C. Mansfield: The Virtue Of Party Politics
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Bluffs Called
L. Brent Bozell III: The Russian Facebook Fizzle
Robert Barnes: Justices' decision not to review conviction of top bin Laden lieutenant leaves military tribunals' powers in place
Rich Lowry: Tillerson Should Go
Cheryl K. Chumley: California crazy: Calling a 'he-she' a 'he' can now get you jailed
John Stossel: Let Them Leave
Byron York: 10 reasons to stay calm about those Russia Facebook ads
Michelle Malkin: Obama Lied. My FOURTH Health Plan Died
David Nakamura: Trump scores a win in the culture war as NFL asks players to stand for national anthem
Jonah Goldberg: Weinstein scandal leaves a trail of hypocrisy
• Justice Department may more aggressively seek encrypted data from tech companies
• A hospital threw a stillborn baby out with dirty laundry
• Where killing your kid brings life sentence --- but not if the child is adopted
Walter Williams: Our Broken Moral Compasses
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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