Reality Check
Who speaks for the Jews, and why do we let them?
By Jonathan Tobin

Most Members of the Tribe are clueless when it comes to knowing how what's best for our collective "interests" is decided.

Shhh --- don't tell the world at large!

Build A Better Child
How NOT to teach kids to overcome disappointment
By Meghan Leahy

Hint: Logic won't help

Your Castle
Carpet edges always look dirty? Cleaning is difficult, but possible. Here's how
By Jeanne Huber

"Soil filtration" is caused by carbon particles, and it's not easy to get out

Wealth Strategies
7 Growth Stocks That Will Pay You Cash, Too
By Charles Lewis Sizemore, CFA

It's nice getting paid something in cold, hard cash. If anything, the dividend allows you to realize a small portion of your gains along the way without having to sell your shares

It Could Happen to You!
Doctors dismissed her, but she turned out to be right after years of needless suffering
By Sandra G. Boodman

She was chided for "Google medicine." Then her health got so bad she needed nine hours of complicated surgery

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Bonnie S. Benwick

A chicken-tortilla soup that's spicy with a subtle sweetness --- and creamy smooth

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• Lisa Benson

• Chip Bok

• A.F. Branco

• Ed Gamble

• Joe Heller

• Jerry Holbert

• Rick McKee

• Tom Stiglich

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

• Michael Ramirez BONUS!

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On this day in . . .

• 1764, Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• 1783, the Montgolfier brothers Hot air balloon: first human ascent by Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier, (tethered balloon)

• 1815, Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean

• 1860, 11-year-old Grace Bedell of Westfield, N.Y., wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, suggesting he could improve his appearance by letting his whiskers grow

• 1863 during the American Civil War: The CSS H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley

• 1878, the Edison Electric Light Company begins operation

• 1888, the "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by the investigators

• 1894, the Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying

• 1917, Mata Hari, a Dutch dancer who had spied for the Germans, was executed by a French firing squad outside Paris

• 1928, the airship, the Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey

• 1938, the District of Columbia formally adopts a design for its flag

• 1945, the former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, was executed

• 1946, Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering, ym"sh, poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed

• 1951, "I Love Lucy," TV's first long-running sitcom, made its debut

• 1964, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was ousted and replaced by Alexei Kosygin as premier and Leonid Brezhnev as first secretary

• 1966, President Johnson signed a bill creating the Department of Transportation

• 1976, in the first debate of its kind between vice-presidential nominees, Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole faced off in Houston

• 1984, astronomers in Pasadena, Calif., displayed the first photographic evidence of another solar system 293 trillion miles from Earth

• 1989, Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL

• 1990, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev was named the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

• 1991, after facing s exual harassment allegations by Anita Hill, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, 52-48

• 1997, the first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom), exactly 50 years and 1 day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Earth's atmosphere

• 2002, Iraqis turned out for a national referendum on whether Saddam Hussein should remain their president for another seven years; Saddam won with a reported 100 percent of the votes cast

• 2004, the FDA ordered that all antidepressants carry strong warnings that they "increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior" in children who take them. ALSO: Several thousand people opposed to gay marriage gathered on the National Mall in Washington to call for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between a man and a woman

• 2005, a riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested

• 2009, a report of a 6-year-old Colorado boy trapped inside a runaway helium balloon engrossed the nation before the boy, Falcon Heene, was found safe at home in what turned out to be a hoax. (Falcon's parents served up to a month in jail.)

• 2010, the U.S. Social Security Administration announced that more than 58 million Americans receiving monthly benefits wouldn't get a cost-of-living adjustment in 2011

• 2012, Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating education for girls, arrived at a hospital in Britain. (After her release, she continued to promote education, spoke at the United Nations and, in 2014, won the Nobel Peace Prize.)

• 2013, Abu Anas al-Libi, a practitioner of that "religion of peace" who was snatched off the streets in Libya, pleaded not guilty in New York to bombing-related charges. He died on January 2, 2015 at a hospital in New York, aged 50, while in the United States custody. He reportedly had liver disease as a result of hepatitis C, and liver cancer.

• 2017, former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick filed a grievance against the NFL, alleging that he was still unsigned because of collusion by owners resulting from his protests during the national anthem

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Henry I. Miller: Fit to Serve? Perhaps it's time to consider cognitive and psychological testing of politicians

News of the Weird: Weird Science | Unexpected Hazard

Argus Hamilton's The News In Zingers

Floyd Abrams: Forcing vendors to put a warning on your cup of joe would violate the 1st Amendment

Lance Morrow: The Irrepressible Conflict: Reflections on the War Between the Stars --- Kanye and Taylor, that is

Ed Rogers: Dems and the lib media are afraid of Kanye West. What else explains their behavior?

The Fact Checker: The Truth Behind the Rhetoric: Dem attack ad falsely knocks Republican on preexisting conditions

Sally Tyler: The false, but persistent, rumor that Neil Armstrong converted to Islam

David Von Drehle: The rediscovery of Earth — from Apollo 8

(INCL. 'OFFENDING' VIDEO) Cynthia M. Allen: Why TCU's response to conservative comedian on 'rape culture is a myth' was flawed

Bernard Goldberg: The Lunatics, the Asylum, and the Democratic Party

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin gets the spies he deserves

• Court strikes down Native American adoption law, saying it discriminates against non-Native Americans

• 'Faux-cahontas' builds expansive Dem campaign effort ahead of likely 2020 bid

• Sears goes bankrupt, mired in debt and deserted by shoppers

David Winston: Memo to GOP: You've Got a Winning Message and It's Not Pelosi

Bill Whalen: 4 Considerations, With Less Than Four Weeks Until Election Day

Glenn Harlan Reynolds: Brett Kavanaugh will bring change to the Supreme Court, but maybe not what you think

Ramesh Ponnuru: Angry libs have no one to blame but themselves

Michael Reagan: The Party of Evil

George Will: We have an epidemic of loneliness. How can we fix it?

• Mallard Filmore