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Monday, December 12, 2016
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The Faithful
While you don't need scientific evidence to strengthen your religious conviction ....
The details of three studies
Religion of Piece(s)
INCLUDES VIDEO
Backgrounder
How Egypt's Copts fell out of love with president
Faith & Science
John Glenn, who died Thursday at age 95, was an American hero: a trailblazer in science and a devoted public servant on Earth as well as in the heavens. He was also a man of deep faith, with a vantage point on God's handiwork that few humans experience
Coupling
... eventhough they maybe "conventional wisdom"
Consumer Intelligence
With banks competing to offer customers the most irresistible credit card perks, consumers are left with an array of complicated, potentially expensive options
Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
A golden secret in every slurp
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• Chip Bok
• David Hitch BONUS!
Monica Crowley: Donald Trump and the real black swan event
Marilyn Penn: The Comedian: A Review
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1862, the USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine
• 1901, Italian physicist and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland
• 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt nominated Oscar Straus to be Secretary of Commerce and Labor; Straus became the first Jewish Cabinet member
• 1913, two years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "The Mona Lisa" was recovered in a Florence, Italy, hotel room
• 1915, President of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai announces his intention to reinstate the monarchy and proclaim himself Emperor of China
• 1937, Japanese planes bombed and sank the U.S. gunboat Panay in the Yangtze River north of Nanking, China. Japan later said it was a mistake
• 1941, Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, announces extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery
• 1942, during World War II: German troops begin Operation Winter Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad
• 1946, a United Nations committee voted to accept a six-block tract of Manhattan real estate offered as a gift by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to be the site of the U.N.'s headquarters
• 1975, Sara Jane Moore said she willfully tried to kill U.S. President Gerald Ford. She was sentenced to life in prison but was released Dec. 31, 2007
• 1981, martial law was imposed in Poland
• 1991, the Russian Parliament ratified a commonwealth treaty linking the three strongest Soviet republics in the nation's most profound change since the 1917 revolution
• 2002, North Korea announced it would reactivate a nuclear reactor idle since 1994
• 2000, George W. Bush was transformed into the president-elect as a divided U.S. Supreme Court reversed a state court decision for recounts in Florida's contested election
• 2001, a bus ambush by practitioners of that "religion of peace" killed ten Israelis, prompting Israeli warplanes to strike back; Yasser Arafat, ym"sh, bowed to longstanding Israeli demands by closing the offices of the militant Hamas and Islamic Jihad
• 2008, an Iraqi journalist, calling him a "dog," threw two shoes at U.S. President Bush during a news conference in the Iraqi prime minister's office in Baghdad. Bush ducked and wasn't struck
• 2010, the inflatable roof of the Minneapolis Metrodome collapsed following a snow storm that had dumped 17 inches on the city. (The NFL was forced to shift an already rescheduled game between the Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants to Detroit's Ford Field.)
• 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the way the Board of Immigration Appeals applies federal law in deportation cases. The high court opinion said the BIA's method "is 'arbitrary and capricious' under the [federal] Administrative Procedure Act."
• 2012, South Korean authorities said North Korea, defying international warnings and a U.N. resolution, fired a long-range test rocket.
• 2013, North Korea announced the execution of Jang Song Thaek, an uncle of leader Kim Jong Un, for trying to overthrow the government. Jang, until recently, had been considered one of the most powerful figures in the country. ALSO: The House voted to ease across-the-board federal spending cuts and head off future government shutdowns, acting after Speaker John Boehner unleashed a stinging attack on tea party-aligned conservative groups campaigning for the measure's defeat
• 2015, nearly 200 nations meeting in Paris adopted the first global pact to fight climate change, calling on the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution but imposing no sanctions on countries that didn't do so
Mark Steyn: The Abandoned Frontier
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Insanity Defined | Weird Science
Argus Hamilton's News in Zingers
Stephen Carter: What it was like to look up to John Glenn
David M. Shribman: Outposts of transformation
Laura Vozzella: Fiorina: Moves by Trump are 'brilliant'
Jenna Johnson & Elise Viebeck: Former critics flock to New York to make amends
Anthony Cuthbertson: Site on Dark Web Fundraises for Trump's Assassination
Albert Hunt: Dems must get past mere opposition to Trump
Cal Thomas: Mike Pence says Trump has a mandate
Cal Thomas: Transcript of Cal Thomas' interview with vice president-elect Mike Pence
Bruce Bialosky: Sure, Let Them All In and Make Them Legal
Dan Balz: A deeper look at how blue-collar towns turned red
The Fact Checker: The Truth Behind the Rhetoric: The White House's claim that 800,000 manufacturing jobs were added during Obama's presidency
George Will: The prize that Bob Dylan really deserves
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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