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Wednesday, December 7, 2016


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Outlook
Swearing makes you smarter. Really?
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson


Why does the media keep looking for ways to turn vice into virtue?


 


Reality Check
Clues in exposing Trump's foreign policy hand
By Caroline B. Glick


What the president-elect's picks mean --- and what to expect





Controversy
Hoenlein defends Trump from kvetchy Jewish leftist 'leaders'
By Julie Zauzmer


Head of Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is a powerful but pragmatic statesman --- and mentsh





Consumer Intelligence
Trump has a family foundation. Why don't you?
By Suzanne Woolley


Everyone who is anyone, it seems, has a family foundation. And then some



Coupling
17 traits of a life-long lover
By Hannah Rose


An individual with these 17 traits will love you forever, guaranteed.



Wellness
10 kitchen ingredients you didn't know could help you lose weight
By Liset Rivet


Some ingredients you have in your kitchen can work double duty to help you with your weight loss goals



Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Lavanya Ramanathan


A mixed-up salad that's fit for a feast


[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

Nate Beeler

Lisa Benson

Bill Day

Matt Davies

Jerry Holbert

Dana Summers

Michael Ramirez

Michael Ramirez BONUS!





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On this day in . . .


1787, Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution

1869, outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri

1909, chemist Leo H. Baekeland received a U.S. patent for Bakelite, the first synthetic plastic

1911, China abolished the requirement that men wear their hair in a queue, or ponytail

1917, World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary

1925, five-time Olympic gold medalist and future movie Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in 150-yard free-style swimming

1930, W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show

1941, during World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor --- The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing a declaration of war upon Japan by the United States

1946, a fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history

1972, Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth

1982, in Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States

1993, the Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York

1999, the Recording Industry Association of America files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client alleging copyright infringement

2003, during a visit to the United States, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said "we will never tolerate" Taiwan splitting away from China

2006, the U.S. military transferred the first group of Guantanamo Bay detainees to a new maximum-security prison on the naval base

2010, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange surrendered to authorities in London, where he was jailed for nine days before being freed on bail as he fought extradition to Sweden for questioning in an investigation of "abuse against a woman"

2013, Merrill Newman, 85-year-old Korean War veteran/tourist held in North Korea for more than a month, returned to the United States

2014, six prisoners held for 12 years at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, arrived in Uruguay amid a new push by President Barack Obama to close the U.S. prison



[ I N S I G H T ]

David Shribman: Pearl Harbor moves from memory to history

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Not again!

Katie Mettler: 75 years later, remembering FDR's day of 'infamy,' a phrase that almost wasn't

Bob Tyrrel: How Bob Dylan copped a Nobel

Ramesh Ponnuru: Big threat on campus isn't political correctness

Josh Rogin: Former Pentagon chief Leon Panetta says Democrats should give Mattis a waiver to be defense secretary

Byron York: Senate Dems plan to 'Ashcroft' their good friend Jeff Sessions

Michelle Malkin: The Messy Truth About Van Jones

Chris Cillizza: Dems have lost an entire generation of congressional leaders

Stephen Carter: A response to the pleas to shut up Trump

Marc A. Thiessen: Trump's Taiwan call wasn't a blunder. It was brilliant

Charles Hurt: Dirty little secret of Washington's Masters of Insanity, revealed

Jonah Goldberg: Can we really take Trump seriously, not literally?

John Stossel: A Strong Leader

Dick Morris: ObamaCare: Let It Wither Away

Walter Williams: Majority Rule Equals Tyranny

Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

Mallard Filmore

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