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PONDERABLE
"Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain - so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe."
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Kosher Kontroversy
This would be pretty pathetic satire ... if it were NOT true
Reality Check
The only way to end what is essentially an Arab war of extermination against Israel is to call out the Palestinians on their fundamental lies and to treat them not as statesmen-in-waiting, but as international pariahs
For more than three decades, long-time JWR contributor Melanie Phillips has served as Britain's political conscience. A journalist and author, in 1996, she was awarded the prestigious Orwell Prize for journalism
Ah, Modern Mating!
It's considerably more complicated than you think
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If Walmart is on your list of stores to shop on Black Friday, get ready to score huge savings
Must Know Info
It's not easy to see the true holiday shopping deals through the haze of this year's early barrage of Black Friday sales, coming days or even weeks before the actual Black Friday, November 29, the day after Thanksgiving
Must Know Info
Every day between now and November 29, the e-commerce giant offers new deals on a wide variety of product categories for up to 50% off -- from electronics to home goods to skincare
Ess, Ess / Eat, Eat!
Use these "chef's dozen" tips to fast-hack Thanksgiving!
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• Mike Shelton BONUS!
• Mike Shelton BONUS!
• Michael Ramirez BONUS!
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• 1901, U.S. Army War College is established in Wahington, DC
• 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad began service at New York's Pennsylvania Station.
• 1924, in New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held
• 1934, bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI
• 1945, General George C. Marshall was named special U.S. envoy to China to try to end hostilities between the Nationalists and the Communists
• 1954, Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury
• 1960, Gordie Howe was the first player to reach the NHL landmark of 1000 points
• 1964, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster"
• 1965, during the Vietnam War, the Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations were to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000
• 1973, the Twenty-fifth Amendment in practice, when the United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35)
• 1990, the British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1991, the United Nations Security Council adopts UN Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia
• 1997, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York was marred when a gust of wind knocked part of a lamppost onto a 34-year-old woman, fracturing her skull and leaving her in a coma for almost a month
• 1999, Northern Ireland's biggest party, the Ulster Unionists, cleared the way for the speedy formation of an unprecedented Protestant-Catholic administration
• 2001, a hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet
• 2002, President Bush appointed former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to lead an investigation into why the government failed to foil the Sept. 11 attacks. (The following month, Kissinger stepped down, citing controversy over potential conflicts of interest with his business clients.) ALSO: Bush gave the go-ahead to open U.S. highways to Mexican trucks
• 2004, after 40 years in North Korea and less than one month in a U.S. military jail near Tokyo, U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins became a free man. ALSO: The Ukraine parliament declared the recently held presidential election invalid
• 2005, the first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France
• 2008, Indian commandoes fought to wrest control of two luxury hotels and a Jewish center from Muslim terrorists, a day after a chain of attacks across Mumbai. ALSO: Iraq's parliament approved a pact requiring all U.S. troops to be out of the country by Jan. 1, 2012
• 2010, South Korea and the United States shrugged off North Korean warnings and started four days of naval exercises in the Yellow Sea. North Korea, which shelled a South Korean island a few days earlier in an effort to head off the exercises, warned the drills would move the region closer to "the brink of war."
• 2012, Consumer confidence reached its highest level in nearly five years, with the help of rising home values, more hiring and lower gas prices. ALSO: U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice met privately with three Republican senators who had indicated they would block her possible nomination to be U.S. secretary of state; they said afterward that they were even more troubled by her initial explanation of the attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. (The following month, Rice withdrew from consideration to be secretary of state.)
• 2018, the United States imposed sanctions on Nicaraguan Vice President and first lady Rosario Murillo de Ortega for corruption and human rights abuses. ALSO: President Donald Trump threatened to cut off all federal subsidies to General Motors because of its planned massive cutbacks in the U.S
[ I N S I G H T ]
Ben Shapiro: Buttigieg's Massive misstep: Telling the truth
News of the Weird: Overreaction | Wait, What!?
Rogue Report by Argus Hamilton
• Top Clinton strategist assures Trump he wouldn't be removed from office
• Trump plans to designate Mexican cartels as terror groups, stirring outcry
• A healthy man was licked by his dog. He was dead within weeks
L. Brent Bozell III: Bloomberg Destroys Journalism Norms
Leonid Bershidsky: Another day, another billion-dollar museum heist
John Stossel: Thanks, Private Property!
Jonah Goldberg: Presidential candidates love to say they'll unite the country. Hah
Walter Williams: Who Are the Real Racists?
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