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Reality Check
This article is outrageous because it is true. Has the American Jewish establishment finally lost its mind?
Outlook
The Veep-elect's Torah leson for America
Personal Growth
It's easy to shun the idea of vulnerability. But what if it's the key to a more meaningful life?
Wellness
Winter means lots of time spent indoors. These plants will get rid of toxins in the air
Consumer Intelligence
Brick-and-mortar chains this holiday season are taking on the online giant with aplomb. The consumer, however, will be the real victor
Wealth Strategies
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[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• Chip Bok
• Taylor Jones BONUS!
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• Michael Ramirez BONUS!
Dennis Byrne: Climate change mutes fall colors
Cory Franklin: The Odds Of Predicting The Future
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1520, after navigating through a strait at the southern end of South America, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific
• 1814, The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience
• 1909, Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire
• 1914, during World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading
• 1919, Virginia-born Nancy Astor became the first woman member of the British Parliament
• 1925, The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee as WSM Barn Dance
• 1943, during World War II: Tehran Conference - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss war strategy
• 1963, Cape Canaveral, the space center in Florida, was renamed Cape Kennedy to honor the assassinated president. Area residents later voted to revert to the original name
• 1964, during the Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam
• 1971, Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization
• 1980, during the Iran-Iraq War: Operation Morvarid - Over 70% of Iraqi Navy was destroyed by Iranian Navy in The Persian Gulf. The Iranian Navy's Day
• 1994, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and a second inmate were beaten to death by another prisoner at the Columbia Correctional Center in Portage, Wis.
• 1995, President Bill Clinton signed a bill that ended the federal 55 mph speed limit
• 2001 Enron Corp., once the world's largest energy trader, collapsed after would-be rescuer Dynegy Inc. backed out of an $8.4 billion deal to take it over
• 2002, practitioners of that "religion of peace" blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya killing 15; other Muslims fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air-missiles
• 2008, at least 400 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in clashes in Nigeria when Muslims attacked Christians over local elections. ALSO: The assault on Mumbai ended after three violent days of shooting and bombings by a team of practitioners of that "religion of peace". The death toll stood at 173 with about 300 injured. The only attacker captured alive said he belonged to a terrorist group in Pakistan
• 2009, a terrorist bomb planted on train tracks between Moscow and St. Petersburg derailed Russia's high-speed Nevsky Express, killing at least 27 people and injuring close to 100. ALSO: Golf superstar Tiger Woods was treated and released at a hospital after his car slammed into a fire hydrant and a tree near his home in suburban Orlando, Fla. Police said Woods was unconscious and they were told his wife smashed a window with a golf club to pull him from the car
• 2010, reaction around the world was swift and mostly negative to a new batch of more than 200,000 confidential U.S. diplomatic documents published on the WikiLeaks whistle-blower Web site. U.S. officials denounced the release, which included many items classified as secret, and branded them a threat to global security
• 2011 Egyptians voted in the first parliamentary elections since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak; Islamist parties were the big winners
• 2012, seven expatriate Egyptians, all Coptic Christians who were involved in making an anti-Islam film, "Innocence of Muslims," were sentenced to death in absentia by the Cairo Criminal Court.
Glenn Reynolds: Men to America --- Thanks for nothing
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: The Passing Parade
Argus Hamilton's News in Zingers
Paul Greenberg: Here's to life
John Tierney: The Real War on Science? It's being waged by the Left
Travis M. Andrews: Black beauty magazine accidentally puts a white model on its cover --- apologies follow
Noah Feldman: Is fake news protected by the First Amendment?
Kelly Riddell: Using fake news against opposing views: Libs just can't abide competing points of view
Kathleen Parker: How does one revile the man who now says what you believe?
Bruce Bialosky: Fondest Hope for Trump Admin --- Watch the Movie "Dave"
Amber Phillips: Why down-ballot Dems could be in the minority for years to come
George Will: Fidel Castro and dead utopianism
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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