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THOUGHT PROVOKING
War on Jihad
This fight against Muslim terrorism will be decisive for women's rights --- and may be decided by female soldiers
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Personal Growth
How to handle the most obnoxious without feeling belittled or a coward
Wellness
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Consumer Intelligence
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[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• Chip Bok
• Jerry Holbert BONUS!
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1772, during the American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence
• 1783, in Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army"
• 1898, cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team
• 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour proposed a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Israel became a reality 31 years later
• 1920, in the first significant news broadcast, KDKA in Pittsburgh reported the U.S. presidential election results for Warren G. Harding and James Cox
• 1936, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers
• 1947, in California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built
• 1957, the Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history
• 1959, Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance. ALSO: After being struck in the face with a puck, goalkeeper Jacques Plante returns to play wearing a protective mask for the first time in professional play
• 1962, U.S. President John Kennedy announced that Soviet missile bases in Cuba were being dismantled
• 1983, President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
• 1988, the Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT
• 2000, an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts became the first residents of the international space station, christening it Alpha; their arrival marked the beginning of a decade of continuous habitation of the orbital outpost
• 2001, President George W. Bush, saying the war in Afghanistan was unraveling Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, chided critics for clamoring for more action, and said the U.S. military campaign would not pause for the Muslim holiday of Ramadan
• 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was slain in Amsterdam after receiving death threats over his movie "Submission," which criticized the treatment of women under Islam. (Mohammed Bouyeri is serving a life sentence for killing van Gogh.)
• 2006, a foiled British terror plot by practitioners of that "religion of peace" to blow up 10 passenger airplanes with liquid bombs was meant to occur over U.S. cities, a senior FBI official said
• 2010, Republicans won control of the House of Representatives, picking up 63 seats in midterm elections, while Democrats retained a majority in the Senate; Republican governors outnumbered Democrats after gaining six states
• 2014, Islamic State group terrorists shot dead at least 50 Iraqi men, women and children from the same Sunni tribe. ALSO: A Taliban suicide bomber killed 60 in an attack on a paramilitary checkpoint in Pakistan close to the Wagah border crossing with India
• 2015, NASA and its global partners celebrated the 15th anniversary of continuous residency at the International Space Station, where six U.S., Russian and Japanese crew members held a special dinner
Glenn Harlan Reynolds: Voluntarily elect an out of control president?
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Boldface Names in News of the Weird!
Erik Wemple: Some questions for CNN on Donna Brazile
Margaret Sullivan: Nate Silver blew it when he missed Trump --- now he really needs to get it right
(FOREIGNER'S VIEW) Leonid Bershidsky: Clinton's latest fable about Trump and Putin
John Stossel: The Rest of Your Ballot
Jonah Goldberg: Team Clinton has a laughable double standard on protocol
Bill Whalen: Before Anyone Whines About Comey and Clinton, Try Revisiting Weinberger And Walsh
Chris Cillizza: This poll number should make Dems very nervous
Marc A. Thiessen: Get ready for four more years of Clinton scandals
Kathleen Parker: Perving the presidency
George Will: A Fitting Final Chapter To The Sleaze Sweepstakes
Walter Williams: The Rich and Us
Thomas Sowell: The Left's Vision
Thomas Sowell: Has Economics Failed? (BONUS!)
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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