Reality Check
The agenda that undermines America's bond with the Jews
By Melanie Phillips

An outsider's view.

For more than three decades, the writer, a long-time JWR contributor, has served as Britain's political conscience. A journalist and author, in 1996, she was awarded the prestigious Orwell Prize for journalism

Wellness
Harvard Health: Are sugar substitutes too sweet to be true?
By Emily Gelsomin, M.L.A., R.D., L.D.N.

Relying on them to keep your weight under control? You should read this now

Must-Know Info
Do You Have to Pay a Plumber If He Can't Stop Your Leak?
By H. Dennis Beaver, Esq.

A contracts professor weighs in on "The Case of the Dripping Bathtub Faucet," where a plumber couldn't quite stop a leak and wonders what compensation -- if any -- he might expect from his client

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Ellie Krieger

Surprise! This nourishing yet sumptuous soup is studded with cheese tortellini

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• Chip Bok

• A.F. Branco

• A.F. Branco BONUS!

• Pat Byrnes

• J.D. Crowe

• Matt Davies

• Randall Enos

• Ed Gamble

• Ed Gamble BONUS!

• Steve Kelley

• Bart van Leeuwen

• Bart van Leeuwen BONUS!

• Jeff Stahler

• Tom Stiglich

• 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

• 2016, a Pakistan International Airlines aircraft crashed near Islamabad, killing 48 people. Among the dead was pop-star-turned-Muslim-cleric Junaid Jamshed. ALSO: a 6.5-magnitude earthquake rattled Indonesia's Aceh province, killing nearly 100 people

• 2017, Democratic Sen. Al Franken said he would resign after a series of sexual harassment allegations

• 2018, comedian Kevin Hart withdrew from hosting the 2019 Academy Awards after coming under fire for past tweets deemed anti-homosexual

• 2019, a dozen frail survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor returned to honor those who died in the 1941 bombing that launched the U.S. into World War II

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Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report

• A professor thought he was sending money to help federal officials catch human traffickers. It was a scam

Tyler Cowen: How to make sure your complaint is heard

Christine Flowers: Life requires reciprocal respect and an open mind --- with an asterisk

(LIBERTARIAN HUMORIST) Ron Hart: The death of humor, suffocated under the murky PC standards of the left

Jay Ambrose: An election that really, really counts

Dan Balz: In Georgia, a focus on who will show up at polls

Michael Reagan: Teed off in Los Angeles

Yeganeh Torbati & Beth Reinhard: Biden's pick for budget chief, runs a think tank backed by corporate and foreign interests

Jeff Jacoby: Congress goes after forced labor, and big business objects

• Mallard Filmore

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