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Reality Check
How Western dupes help propagate murderous 'Palestinian' lies
By Melanie Phillips
For more than three decades, the author, 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
Humanity
He holds the Guinness World Records title for the longest career at the same company and though forced to retire --- was right back the next day
Must-Know Info
Cryptocurrencies prices have tumbled to near-historic lows, leaving experts to wonder what's next for these digital assets
Wellness
If soreness sets in ...
Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
A from-scratch blueberry poke cake upgrades a retro classic
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• Chip Bok
• A.F. Branco BONUS!
• Matt Davies BONUS!
• Tom Stiglich BONUS!
• Dana Summers BONUS!
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ]
On this day in . . . • 1527, the Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic
• 1568, Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England
• 1770, 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France
• 1804, the French Senate declared Napoleon Bonaparte emperor
• 1843, the first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri
• 1866, the U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel
• 1868, President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate
• 1891, the International Electro-Technical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electrical current (the most common form today)
• 1918, the Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense
• 1919 , a naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight
• 1929, in Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out
• 1943, during the Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends
• 1951, the first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines
• 1960, Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California
• 1961, Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'etat to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea
• 1966, the Communist Party of China issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution
• 1988, a report by United States' Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
• 1991, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addressed a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress
• 2002, the remains of kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl were unearthed in Pakistan
• 2005, Newsweek, after a public apology, printed a retraction to a story that accused interrogators at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay of flushing a copy of the Koran down a toilet. Riots in Afghanistan that followed the story claimed 16 lives. ALSO: a U.S. Senate panel said high-ranking Russian politicians made illicit multimillion-dollar oil transactions with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein under the U.N. oil-for-food program
• 2011, a judge in New York refused to release on bail the chief of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was accused of trying to rape a hotel maid. (The charges against Strauss-Kahn were later dropped.) ALSO: the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court at The Hague in the Netherlands said he would seek an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi for crimes against humanity
• 2012, Vermont became the first state to ban hydraulic fracturing to extract gas from underground deposits
• 2013, President Barack Obama named a temporary chief for the scandal-marred Internal Revenue Service and pressed Congress to approve new security money to prevent another Benghazi-style terrorist attack
• 2015, U.S. commandos killed a man described as the Islamic State's head of oil operations in a rare ground attack inside Syria. ALSO: An Egyptian court sentenced the country's first freely elected leader, ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, to death over a mass prison break during the 2011 uprising that eventually brought him to power. AND: American Pharoah won the Preakness in a driving rain, keeping alive his Triple Crown bid, which he achieved at the Belmont Stakes the following month
• 2017, the White House issued a furious denial after a report that President Donald Trump personally appealed to FBI Director James Comey to abandon the bureau's investigation into National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. ALSO: President Trump met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House, where both leaders vowed to repair a relationship battered by years of disputes over Syria’s civil war and its various fighting groups
• 2021, Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City flattened three buildings and killed more than three-dozen "human shields"; the attack was the deadliest in the latest round of violence between Israel and Hamas. Hamas launched rockets from civilian areas in Gaza toward civilian areas in Israel; one slammed into a synagogue in the southern city of Ashkelon hours before evening services for the Jewish holiday of Shavuos, but no injuries were reported
[ I N S I G H T ]
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News of the Weird: Going to Extremes
Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report
Deroy Murdock: Vote the Dems into the Smithsonian
Robert Barnes: Clarence Thomas says Supreme Court leak has eroded trust in institution
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: The Slaughter of Babies Should Be Unfathomable
Jeff Jacoby: Who's afraid of lib media bias?
Michael Scherer & Josh Dawsey: RINO REVOLT! More Republicans are working to undermine Trump endorsements
Michael Reagan: The Great Baby Formula Shortage of 2022
Helena Andrews-Dyer: Young Thug is latest rapper to have lyrics used against him in court
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