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PONDERABLE


"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."

--- Hannah Arendt



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Inspiration
The Season of Celebrating the Human Deed
By Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo


An absolutely PROFOUND essay about individuality --- and the responsibility that goes hand-in-hand with it





Reality Check
Obama's hostile eulogy
By Caroline B. Glick


With the world watching, Obama used a funeral to accuse detractors of Israel's late president of support for slavery --- and more

 



Personal Growth
The hard, raw truth about changing others and relationships
By Kim Giles with Nicole Cunningham


Read only if you want to succeed





Healthy Living on a Budget
The key to finding exercise regimens that help and don't hurt
By Sandra Block


How to Stay Fit After 40



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


Double Chocolate 'War' Cake is big flavor, moist, fudgy crumb and one-pan ease --- and what it is missing, you won't



Wealth Strategies
How Investors Can Profit From Toll Roads
By Jeffrey R. Kosnett


You might not complain so much about ever-rising highway tolls if you get a cut of the action


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Nate Beeler

Lisa Benson

Chip Bok

John Deering

Bob Gorrell

Steve Kelley

Jerry Holbert

Jimmy Margulies

Rick McKee

Rick McKee BONUS!

Rob Rogers

Dana Summers

Gary Varvel

Gary Varvel BONUS!

Michael Ramirez

Michael Ramirez BONUS!



Reagan joke writer Doug Gamble: A Preview of the Next Trump-Clinton Debate

Monica Crowley: Donald Trump's secret weapon for Debate No. 2


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On this day in . . .


1582, due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain

1777, George Washington's troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Pa., resulting in heavy American casualties

1853, Antioch College opened in Yellow Springs, Ohio, as the first non-sectarian school to offer equal opportunity for both men and women

1884, the Naval War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport, Rhode Island

1889, Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture

1918, German Chancellor Max von Baden, appointed by Kaiser Wilhelm II just three days earlier, sends a telegraph message to the administration of President Woodrow Wilson in Washington, D.C., requesting an armistice between Germany and the Allied powers in World War I

1927, sculpting begins on the face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills National Forest of South Dakota. The granite images of four of America's most revered and beloved presidents -- George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt -- were completed 12 years later. ALSO: the era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of "The Jazz Singer," a movie starring Al Jolson that featured both silent and sound-synchronized scene

1940, Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, and Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the Alps, where the Nazi leader sought Italy's help in fighting the British

1945, Billy Goat Tavern owner Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series because his pet goat's odor was bothering other fans. He was outraged and placed a curse on the team saying there would never again be a World Series game played at Wrigley Field. His exact words: "Them Cubs, they aren't gonna win no more." The curse was immortalized in newspaper columns over the years, particularly by syndicated columnist Mike Royko, and gained widespread attention during the 2003 postseason when Fox played it up during the Cubs-Florida match-up in the National League Championship Series

1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit ALSO: Leave It to Beaver premieres

1958, the nuclear submarine USS Seawolf surfaced after spending 60 days submerged

1966, LSD is declared illegal in the United States

1973, 80,000 Egyptian troops cross the Suez Canal, destroying the fortified Israeli Bar-Lev Line and starting the Yom Kippur War

1977, the first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight

1981, President of Egypt, Anwar al-Sadat, is assassinated by practitioners of that "religion of peace"

1993, ten hours into a tank assault on the Russian White House parliament building, rebel parliamentarians led by Vice President Aleksandr Rutskoi and Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov surrender to Russian President Boris Yeltsin

1995, 51 Pegasi was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it

1996, a judge in Philadelphia issued an injunction preventing Major League baseball umpires from striking for the remainder of the postseason over an incident in which Roberto Alomar of the Baltimore Orioles spat on umpire John Hirschbeck

1997, U.S. President Bill Clinton used his new line-item veto power to eliminate 38 military spending projects

2000, Slobodan Milosevic finally conceded defeat to Vojislav Kostunica in Yugoslavia's presidential elections, a day after protesters angry at Milosevic for clinging to power stormed parliament and ended his 13-year autocratic regime

2001, Barry Bonds hit his 70th home run to tie Mark McGwire's 1998 record in a 10-2 victory over Houston (The legitimacy is still being debated) ALSO: Rickey Henderson homered to pass Ty Cobb and become baseball's career leader in runs scored with 2,246 during San Diego's 6-3 win over Los Angeles

2005, U.S. President George W. Bush said the United States and allied forces had foiled at least three al-Qaida U.S. attacks since Sept. 11, 2001

2006, the U.N. Security Council adopted a statement warning North Korea of unspecified consequences if it carried out a nuclear test

2007, British adventurer Jason Lewis finally returned home, completing a 13-year, 46,000-mile human-powered circumnavigation of the globe at Greenwich, England

2008, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped to 9,955, its first close below 10,000 since 2004. ALSO: Congress began investigating what went so wrong on Wall Street to prompt a $700 billion government bailout

2009, President Barack Obama promised that al-Qaida had "lost operational capacity" in Afghanistan after a series of military setbacks and vowed to continue the battle to cripple the terror organization

2012, Venezuela's National Electoral Council announced that President Hugo Chavez had won re-election for the third time. (Chavez died in March 2013 at age 58 after at two-year battle with cancer.)

2013, seven Egyptian soldiers were killed by insurgents a day after at least 53 other people died in clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi. Interim Prime Minister Hazem Beblawi said in a televised address it was a "critical time" for Egypt and appealed to the people to "stand together, be optimistic about the future."

2015, President Barack Obama apologized to Doctors Without Borders for the American air attack that killed 42 people at its hospital in Afghanistan, and said the U.S. would examine military procedures to look for better ways to prevent such incidents. AND: The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the federal government ran a budget deficit of $435 billion in the just-completed budget year, the smallest shortfall since 2007



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Wesley Pruden: If this is peace, where's the war? (SPOT ON)

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Wait, What!?

Greg Crosby: Hooray for Columbus Day

The kiss: These babies held or smooched by presidential candidates are all grown up

Mona Charen: The New Non-Working Class

Jonah Goldberg: Gore's support not exactly a game-changer for Hillary

Suzanne Fields: Harsh and Mean --- Politics as Usual

The Fact Checker: The Truth Behind the Rhetoric: Clinton, Kaine airbrush out inconvenient details about U.S. troop departure from Iraq

Michael Barone: Robin Hood Economics Falls Flat in Debates (SMART)

Rich Lowry: Suddenly a good year for 'normal' Republicans

David Limbaugh: Kaine Reveals Emptiness of Democratic Policies

Dick Morris: Trend in Trump's Favor

Deroy Murdock: Trump should make bureaucrats removable again

Charles Krauthammer: The stillborn legacy of Barack Obama

Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

Mallard Filmore

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