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Outlook
How compliments and criticism may be partners in crime
War on Jihad
More than a half-decade on, horror by practitioners of that "religion of peace" still persist Why does the world remain silent?
For the Man of Faith Who Has Everything
The tablet weighs 115 pounds and is believed to be at least 1,200 years old --- but there's a stipulation the buyer must agree to
Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
I wasn't bowled over by soup for the holiday --- until now
Coupling
You thought you already were a happy couple? Well these 15 things will take you to the next level
Gezunt/ On Health
In the United States, about 70 percent of people ages 65 and older take NSAIDS once a week, with half of them taking at least seven doses each week, according to a 2013 study in the American Journal of Managed Care. More than 100 million prescriptions are written for the drugs each year in this country
Oy, America!
Purely for your amusement ---- unless you have to pay up
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• David Hitch BONUS!
Marilyn Penn: Arrival: A Departure
Peter Brookes: 'Hillarisms' are here: The making of the last female President
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1776, the United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States, the first country in the world to do so (This is a controversial statement, because other sources say that the Kingdom of Morocco was the first to extend diplomatic recognition to the new United States)
• 1821, Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail
• 1849, a Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor
• 1896, the first transmission of electricity between a power plant and a city was sent from the Niagara Falls hydroelectric plant to industries in Buffalo, New York
• 1904, John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube
• 1914, the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens
• 1933, the United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations
• 1938, LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland
• 1940, New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison. ALSO: In occupied Poland, Nazis, ym"sh, close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world
• 1945, the United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists & engineers to help in the production of rocket technology
• 1965, the Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet
• 1966, Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his second trial of charges he'd murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954
• 1973, US President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline
• 1981, Luke and Laura marry on the U.S. soap opera General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history
• 1984, the space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth with the first two satellites ever plucked from space
• 1985, a research assistant is injured as a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes
• 1999, Nathaniel Abraham, at 13 one of the youngest murder defendants in U.S. history, was convicted in Pontiac, Mich., of second-degree murder for shooting a stranger outside a convenience store with a rifle when he was 11. (Nathaniel was sentenced to juvenile detention until his 21st birthday; he was released in January 2007. However, he was sentenced in January 2009 to at least four years in prison for a drug-related conviction.)
• 2000, Al Gore won a legal fight to expand manual recounts as he struggled to trim George W. Bush's 300-vote lead in Florida's presidential race
• 2001, investigators found a letter addressed to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., containing anthrax; it was the second letter bearing the deadly germ known to have been sent to Capitol Hill
• 2004, Margaret Hassan, the kidnapped Iraqi CARE director, was believed to have been killed by practitioners of that "religion of peace" after al-Jazeera television received a video of a woman's slaying
• 2006, Democrats embraced Nancy Pelosi as the first woman House speaker in history, but then selected Steny Hoyer as majority leader against her wishes. ALSO: Turkey severed military ties with France over a century-old dispute involving the deaths of some 1.2 million Armenians
• 2008, after nearly a year of negotiations with the United States, the Iraqi Cabinet agreed to withdrawal of U.S. combat troops by Dec. 31, 2011
• 2010, New York Democrat congressman Charles Rangel was convicted on 11 of 13 charges related to financial misconduct, prompting fellow lawmakers to censure the 80-year-old
• 2014, ISIS released a video featuring a masked terrorist standing over the severed head of Peter Kassig, a former U.S. soldier-turned-aid worker in Syria
• 2015, President Barack Obama, in Turkey for a meeting of world leaders, conceded that the Paris terror attacks were a "terrible and sickening setback" in the fight against the Islamic State, but forcefully dismissed critics who were calling for the U.S. to change or expand its military campaign against the extremists --- or as the non-PC crowd refer to them, "jihadists"
Michelle Malkin: The Slacker Mandate and the Safety Pin Generation (SPOT ON)
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Ironies
Stephen L. Carter: There's legal intrigue at the world chess match
Paul Greenberg: Fermi conducted the music of the atomic particles
Jonah Goldberg: Obsession with race is stretching beyond reason
Charles Hurt: Hey, racists: Prezident Kool 'mansplains' his party's humiliating losses
Stephen Moore: How Trump will double growth and jobs
Andrew Malcolm: Hillary wasn't the only big election loser
Kathleen Parker: Is Steve Bannon really as bad as all that?
Bob Tyrrell: British viewers get a jug of moonshine to drown post-election sorrow
Walter Williams: Blacks and Politicians
Thomas Sowell: What Now?: Part II
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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[ I N S I G H T ]
Jeff Jacoby: In defense of the Electoral College
Glenn Reynolds: Official safe spaces marginalize Republicans as the 'other' and turn universities into a joke
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