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NOTE FROM A 'SIMPLE JOE'


Hi:

The letters that you've featured from the readers so far I can never match. I'm just a simple Joe and hope you will let me have my say.

I enjoy JWR because it defends my beliefs and values and enables me to not be intimidated by those who portay me in their all-ecompassing TV, radio and movies and newspapers as something I'm not.

It's good to know that I'm not alone.

JWR also enables me to have answers ready for my kids when they come home questioning (oboviously instigated by others) what I teach them is right and wrong.

I'm not a rich man. Our family lives with little more than the necessities. So why do I support JWR?

Well for starters, because I believe it is a necessity.

Because I'm a loyal person who appreciates my friends, be they living or electronic.

Lastly, because I know that most folks won't.

These days it seems that everybody wants somebody else to do what he should be doing himself.

Life has taught me that can work for a while but it almost always stops.

So if you want JWR to stop, keep ignoring Mr. Jolkovsky's requests for help.

I don't have a lot. But I have enough to give something. I bet you do, too.

JWR makes it easy to chip-in.

I divide my donation over the year. You can do that or give once a year.

I hope my simple thoughts convince you, the readers, to help JWR keep on keeping on.

And I hope Mr. Jolkovsky publishes this note.

Please sign me "Simple Joe".
Alvin, TX

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PONDERABLE


"To be a person of truth, be swayed neither by approval nor disapproval. Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are."

--- Rebbe Nachman



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On this day in . . .


211, Publius Septimius Geta, co-emperor of Rome, is lured to come without his bodyguards to meet his brother Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla), to discuss a possible reconciliation. When he arrives the Praetorian Guard murders him and he dies in the arms of his mother Julia Domna

1606, the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who found, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States

1777, during the American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

1941, duringWorld War II: Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army

1950, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was named commander of the military forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

1958, the U.S. satellite Atlas transmitted the first radio voice broadcast from space, a 58-word recorded Christmas greeting from U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower

1972, the splashdown of Apollo 17 ended the United States' manned moon exploration program

1984, the prime ministers of Britain and China signed an accord, returning Hong Kong to China in 1997

1986, Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky

1998, during the Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate

2001, the fires that had burned beneath the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York City for the previous three months were declared extinguished except for a few scattered hot spots

2003, Libya announced it would abandon efforts to develop nuclear, biological and chemical weapons

2006, President George W. Bush said he would increase the number of Americans in the military to deal with terrorism worldwide. Bush acknowledged that U.S. military forces were stretched too thin

2007, President George W. Bush signed energy legislation that increased average vehicle's fuel economy by 2020 to 35 miles per gallon, a 40 percent hike

2008, a landmark $200 billion program intended to support consumer credit will allow hedge funds to borrow from the Federal Reserve for the first time

2010, the body of an American tourist, Kristine Luken, 44, was found near a road outside Jerusalem. (A practitioner of that "religion of peace" was later sentenced by an Israeli court to life in prison for stabbing Luken.)

2011, North Korea announced that leader Kim Jong Il, 69, had died (two days earlier). Kim, son of the founder of the communist country, had been in power since 1994. He was succeeded by his son Kim Jong Un

2012, Britain announced it would begin a gradual withdrawal of its forces in Afghanistan in April 2013

2013, Target, confirming a security breach, said criminals stole credit and debit card information millions of people who shopped in its stores in the post-Thanksgiving period

2015, Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton debated in Manchester, New Hampshire, where they engaged in a pointed but polite discussion of national security, Americans' heightened terrorism fears and the economy



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Kathleen Parker: The parable of Mother Emanuel

Aaron Blake: Fret not GOPers: Why Trump will not fail electoral college

Sean Sullivan: High-powered GOP leaders line up to sway Rubio

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump's Russia 'Reset'?

Adam Taylor: Soviet leader Gorbachev says a new union could rise again

Bill Whalen: In Trump Derangement Syndrome, We Have Three Presidents All Rolled Into One

Christine M. Flowers: America turns away as world ends in Aleppo

Bruce Bialosky: Zappa Takes on Insidious Microaggressions

Matthew Hennessey: 'Faithless' --- and Destructive: Dems need to put away their anti-American fantasies about overturning Trump's victory in the Electoral College

George Will: Remember this as Trump becomes the actual president-elect

Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

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