Jewish World Review
Tuesday November 18, 2014


Discouragement is a moral state, a failure of heart; you treat it by taking courage, not Prozac.
— David Gelernter

UPDATED


Dennis Prager: Poverty Causes Crime?

Mallard Fillmore

Argus Hamilton: The News in Zingers

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Government in Action

Mitch Albom: Player, fan use social media to let their idiocy shine

Tom Purcell: I've Been Stupid, but Not THAT Stupid!

Paul Greenberg: It happens every time

Bernard Goldberg: If You Put Obama's Narcissism Aside --- What Do You Have?

Richard W. Rahn: The stupidity of 'experts'

Andrew C. McCarthy: The menace of civil forfeiture: Runaway crime has been replaced by rogue executive power

Armstrong Williams: A new strain of racism from the newest Americans

Wesley Pruden: Shootout time on the Potomac

Rich Lowry: Can science survive a garish shirt?

Debra J. Saunders: Think Obamacare's Affordable? You're Stupid

Dana Milbank: Purity politics, Democrat-style overseas

Bruce Fein: Is Obama lying about the Islamic State?

Byron York: Dems' path after Obamacare: Down, down, down

Michael Barone: Where The Polls Were Wrong --- And, Maybe, Why

Cal Thomas: Unfaithfully executing the law

David Limbaugh: A Smoking Gun for Us 'Stupid American Voters'

Thomas Sowell: A Legacy of Liberalism


THINK TOONS


Robert Arial

Cameron Cardow

Matt Davies

Bob Englehart

Bob Gorrell

Walt Handelsman

Riber Hansson

Joe Heller

Olle Johansson

Jimmy Margulies

Dana Summers

Gary Varvel

Gary Varvel BONUS!

Michael Ramirez


Cultcha
'Jewish' or 'Jewy'? A guide for the perplexed
By Andrew Silow-Carroll

As the Incredible Shrinking People continue to, well, shrink, is a new sense of identity emerging?



Reality Check
Wage war, have the world give you billions --- Oh, you didn't know?
By Jonathan Tobin

Sorry, wealthy terrorists don't need foreign aid



Build a Better Child
3 better ways to compliment your kid
By Leah Perri

Studies show that the wrong kind of praising can be harmful to children.

Find out how you can better compliment your child



Personal Growth
It's time for men to speak up about work-life balance
By Greg Kratz

In a recent survey, 78 percent of female respondents reported that they had never heard a successful man talk about the difficulty of having a career and a family.

So why aren't more men making noise about work-life balance?






Stock Watch
Five Ways to Cash In on Corporate Spin-offs
By David Milstead

As companies look to unlock value by breaking up, investors have a variety of opportunities



Value Added
Why This Bull Market Will Keep Running
By Steven Goldberg

A top strategist explains --- and what it means for you



Prevention
Coffee's Number One Antioxidant Helps Keep The Weight Off
By Stephanie Castillo

Let's talk about the reason coffee is so good for you



Gezunt/ On Health
There Is A Way For Diabetics To Have Their Cake And Eat It, Too
By Stephanie Castillo

Who said sweet treats aren't diabetes-friendly?



Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Faye Levy

Tomatoes, Peppers and Eggplant: A Tasty Trio with endless potential. Here are three MOUTHWATERING MEDITERRANEAN MASTERPIECES


4 books


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[ L I F E S T Y L E S ]

Gary Lee Clothier: Stump Mr. Know-It-All

Ask Doctor K by Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D.: Drooping eyelid is rarely the result of serious problem

Bruce Williams on JWR: Home-based business deserve close scrutiny; more



[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

Archie
Dilbert
Ripleys Believe It Or Not!
Andy Capp
Bliss
The Born Loser
Frank & Ernest
The Grizzwells
Herman
Moderately Confused
One Big Happy
Prickly City
Shoe
The Wizard of Id





Chip Bok
Chip Bok BONUS!
Daryl Cagle
Daryl Cagle BONUS!
John Deering
Walt Handelsman
Jerry Holbert
Taylor Jones
Jeff Koterba
Jimmy Margulies
Gary McCoy
Rick McKee
Steve Sack
Bill Schorr
Gary Varvel
Paul Zanetti
Paul Zanetti BONUS!
Adam Zyglis



Marilyn Penn: Foxcatcher - A Review

Peter Brookes: 'Green men' returning to Ukraine





[ I N S I G H T ]

Christine M. Flowers: There's dignity in defying death

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Medical Marvels

Argus Hamilton: The News in Zingers

The Village Idiot by Jim Mullen: The unhandy man

Heidi Stevens: Kardashian's flaunting her chassis exposes her value system --- and nobody else's

Star Parker: How Dems Defeated Themselves

Armstrong Williams: The two-party system is killing America

David Shribman: New rules favor GOP moderates in 2016

MUGGER: Why GOP Ignores John Kasich At Its Own Peril

Alicia Colon: Stupid really is as Stupid does

A. Barton Hinkle: Four little words could kill Obamacare

Bruce Bialosky Dodd-Frank Still Stalling Economy

Lib columnist Dana Milbank: Nancy Pelosi, partisan warrior in denial

Jack Kelly: Vote fraud is not imaginary --- yet Dems keep trying to dismiss it

George Will: A murderer's warped idealism

Mallard Filmore

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