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Inspired Living
The Final Refuge
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson


If truth is intimidation, maybe things aren't as bad as they seem




 


War on Jihad
Those Islamic virgins will now come with a hefty price tag
By Ruth Eglash


Israel sues heirs of Palestinian 'lone wolf' terrorist, seeking compensation





Love Your Neighbor
How to understand and speak to a depressed person
By Kim Giles

Depression will be the 2nd most disabling condition behind heart disease in the world by 2020. You or somebody you love will likely suffer from it



Warning!
Her newborn kept getting sick because she was ingesting placenta, CDC says
By Peter Holley


The practice of placenta-eating has gone mainstream and that's a problem, experts say



Wealth Strategies
The 10 Most Important Years of Your Financial Life (& How to Prepare For Them)
By Ken Moraif



Would you rather lose a third of your money when you're 60 or 75?



Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Bonnie S. Benwick

It's almost like having an entree and dessert in one bite. Oh, and it's one-pan simple


[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

Lisa Benson

Chip Bok

Bob Gorrell

Joe Heller

Gary McCoy

Gary McCoy BONUS!

Dana Summers

Gary Varvel

Michael Ramirez


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On this day in . . .


JWR TODAY -- If truth is intimidation; Williams; Malcolm; Malkin; Greenberg; Goldberg + Much, MUCH more -- Wednesday, July 12, 2017

1606, England's King James I decreed the design of the original Union Flag, which combined the flags of England and Scotland

1633, the formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins

1943, President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial

1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President

1955, the polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective

1957, the jury-deliberation movie drama "12 Angry Men," starring Henry Fonda, opened in New York

1958, American pianist Van Cliburn won the first Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow

1961, the Soviet Union launched the first manned spacecraft. Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1)

1970, Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst. (The astronauts managed to return safely.)

1981, the first U.S. space shuttle flight was launched. The flight of Columbia was the first U.S. manned space mission since July 1976

1986, Pope John Paul II visited a Rome synagogue in the first recorded papal visit of its kind

1990, under pressure from environmentalists, three top U.S. tuna canneries -- Heinz, Van Camp and Bumblebee -- announced "dolphin-safe" tuna-catching practices

1994, Laurence A. Canter and Martha S. Siegel ( partners in a husband-and-wife firm of lawyers) post the first commercial mass Usenet spam. To many people, this event, coming not long after the National Science Foundation lifted its unofficial ban on commercial speech on the Internet, marks the end of the Net's early period, when the original Netiquette could still be enforced. ALSO: Israel and the PLO agreed that 9,000 Palestinian police would be stationed in Jericho and the Gaza Strip after the Israeli military withdrawal

1997, Tiger Woods became the youngest person to win the Masters Tournament and the first player of partly African heritage to claim a major golf title

1999, a federal judge in Little Rock, Ark., found U.S. President Bill Clinton in contempt of court for lying during his sworn deposition in January 1998, when he testified that he hadn't had illicit relations with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Clinton was fined $1,202

2000, Attorney General Janet Reno met in Miami with the U.S. relatives of Elian Gonzalez, after which she ordered them to bring the 6-year-old boy to an airport the next day so he could be taken to a reunion with his father in Washington. Elian was seized by federal agents ten days after Reno's order to turn him over

2001, the Philippine military rescued U.S. hostage Jeffrey Schilling from practitioners of that "religion of peace" who had threatened to behead him

2002, a female practitioner of that "religion of peace" blew herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Machane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104. ALSO: Venezuela's interim president, Pedro Carmona, resigned a day after taking office in the face of protests by thousands of supporters of the ousted president, Hugo Chavez

2003, Gen. Amir al-Saadi, Saddam Hussein's top science adviser, denied Iraq had any weapons of mass destruction and surrendered to U.S. forces

2005, three practitioners of that "religion of peace" with suspected al-Qaida ties, already in British custody, were charged with a yearslong plot to attack the New York Stock Exchange and other East Coast financial institutions. Seven men were eventually convicted in British court and received sentences ranging up to 26 years; the leader of the group, Dhiren Barot, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder and received life in prison

2006, confessed practitioner of that "religion of peace" and al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui expressed no remorse for his role in the Sept. 11 attacks as he took the stand for the second time in his death-penalty trial in Alexandria, Va.

2009, American cargo ship captain Richard Phillips was rescued from Somali pirates by U.S. Navy snipers who shot and killed three of the hostage-takers

2011, Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale - the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster - even as it insisted radiation leaks were declining at its tsunami-crippled nuclear plant

2012, Florida neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, charged with second-degree murder, made his first courtroom appearance in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Jury selection began in Greensboro, N.C., for the corruption trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards, charged with six counts of campaign finance fraud. (The jury ended up acquitting Edwards of accepting illegal campaign contributions but deadlocking on the other five counts.)

2013, a suicide bomber, a practitioner of that "religion of peace", detonated his explosive vest in a Kirkuk, Iraq, coffee shop, killing at least 33 people and injuring more than two-dozen others. It was the latest in a wave of random attacks that killed more than 2,000 people in the country since April.


[ I N S I G H T ]

Andrew Malcolm: Donald Trump and the other president, Donald Trump

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: People Different From Us

Paul Greenberg: The crazy lady across the street

Jonah Goldberg: Charlie Gard's fate shouldn't be decided by the state

Michelle Malkin: The Crisis in America's Crime Labs

John Stossel: Stupid Hostile Media

Charles Hurt: Long live President Trumpopov!

Michael Kranish, Tom Hamburger, David Filipov & Rosalind S. Helderman: Spin aside, who is Natalia Veselnitskaya, Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr., actually?

Matt Zapotosky & Ellen Nakashima: SMOKE BUT NO GUN? Trump Jr.'s emails could put him in legal jeopardy, but more would be required for criminal case, analysts say

Byron York: For Trump critics, to follow is to lead

L. Brent Bozell III: Remember Bill Clinton's Asiagate Scandal?

Charles Lane: North Korea has one big advantage over its adversaries

Ed Rogers: The Dems aren't being honest about health care

David M. Shribman: There's a long way to go

Walter Williams: Minimum Wage Cruelty

Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

Mallard Filmore



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