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"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."
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Reality Check
Nikki Haley's memoir, which reveals how State Department veterans and White House "adults" sought to thwart the recognition of Jerusalem, puts the impeachment debate in context
Wellness
Studies suggest about 1 in 4 adults suffer from chronic knee pain
Wealth Strategies
After running the numbers, we were left with 10 Dividend Aristocrats that offered projected upside of at least 10% in the year ahead. Add in the contributions from their dividends, and these primarily defensive stocks may deliver significant offense in 2020
Personal
Although we don't have children of our own, we see our niece and nephew regularly, and yet every time I play with them, I feel like I'm on a bad first date where I'm trying way too hard to make a connection. I just become this awkward weirdo
Must Know Info
Declutterers share their best tricks Why wait til spring to clean?
Ess, Ess / Eat, Eat!
Don't dare call this filling bowl of goodness "soup"!
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• Chip Bok
• A.F. Branco BONUS!
• Michael Ramirez BONUS!
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ]
On this day in . . . • 1307, according to legend, William Tell shoots an apple off of his son's head.
• 1421, a seawall at the Zuiderzee dike breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people in the Netherlands
• 1477, "The Sayings of the Philosophers" was published, the earliest known book printed in England to carry a date
• 1863, Lincoln travels to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to deliver a short speech at the dedication for the cemetery of soldiers killed during the battle there on July 1 to 3, 1863. The address he gave became perhaps the most famous speech in American history
• 1883, American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times
• 1903, the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the Americans exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone
• 1926, George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
• 1928, release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon stars Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is also considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday
• 1929, Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula area
• 1963, push-button telephones made their debut. Touch-tone service was available as an option for an extra charge
• 1970, President Nixon asks Congress for supplemental appropriations for the Cambodian government of Premier Lon Nol. Nixon requested $155 million in new funds for Cambodia ---$85 million of which would be for military assistance, mainly in the form of ammunition. He also asked for an additional $100 million to restore funds taken from other foreign appropriations during the year by "presidential determination" and given to Cambodia. Nixon wanted the funds to provide aid and assistance to Lon Nol to preclude the fall of Cambodia to the communist Khmer Rouge and their North Vietnamese allies
• 1978, in Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder-suicide that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is assassinated by members of Peoples Temple shortly beforehand.
• 1985, Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann's playing career comes to an end when a sack by the Giants' Lawrence Taylor snaps Theismann's legs, this was seen by a national audience on Monday Night Football. ALSO: The comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes," created by Bill Watterson, was first published. (The strip ran for 10 years.)
• 1991, practitioners of that "religion of peace" in Lebanon set Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland free after being held captive for 2,354 days
• 2004, Britain outlawed fox hunting in England and Wales
• 2005, eight months after Robert Blake was acquitted at a criminal trial of murdering his wife, a civil jury decided the actor was behind the slaying and ordered him to pay Bonny Lee Bakley's children $30 million
• 2006, President George W. Bush, in Hanoi for a summit of Pacific Rim countries, lined up support for pressuring long-defiant North Korea to prove it was serious about dismantling its nuclear weapons program. ALSO A Connecticut woman who pleaded guilty to sending cookies loaded with rat poison to the U.S. Supreme Court was sentenced to 15 years in prison
• 2008, pirates hijacked a Saudi oil tanker anchored about 480 miles off the coast of Somalia, loaded with about 2 million barrels of oil, worth about $100 million
• 2010, a U.N. report said the bill for global food imports would top $1 trillion for the second time, putting the world "dangerously close" to a new food crisis
• 2013, the Dow Jones industrial average topped 16,000 for the first time
• 2015, Islamic State group announced that it had killed a Norwegian man and a Chinese man after earlier demanding ransoms for the two
[ I N S I G H T ]
Mark Steyn: Once More into the Fogged Bottom
News of the Weird: Ironies
Laughing At Life by Gina Barreca Finally getting the 'quid' in the quid pro quo
Rogue Report by Argus Hamilton
Lenore Skenazy: Releasing Kids Into the Wild
John Kass: The cancel culture and 'Whatsoever things are true'
John Manzella: Don't destroy what makes America great
Michael Reagan: The impeachment follies
Dan Balz: Warren's latest health proposal could alleviate some concerns BUT exposes her to new questions
The Fact Checker: The Truth Behind the Rhetoric: Warren's misleading pitch for her tax on billionaires
• Bloomberg apologizes for succesful anti-crime policy ahead of likely presidential run
• TALK ABOUT BAD BAGGAGE! Dem Rep. busted at airport with four bags of cocaine
• U.S. animals now have a medal for wartime bravery
Sean Sullivan: Obama tells Dem candidates to ease off talk of revolution
David Von Drehle: How impeachment will upend the Dem primary
Michael Scherer: Dems fear a long primary slog could drag into summer
Carl P. Leubsdorf: Buttigieg gains steam in Iowa. Why he's still a bad bet
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