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How I Make Money Online
Join my Make Money Online Email List. Email me and let me know what you find useful. Click here for a free pdf book on finding profitable niches. Click here for a free pdf book on 21 online income streams. … Continue reading
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Fans mourn death of Israel Baseball League
From TabloidBaby: We told you it’s official. The Israel Baseball League is as dead as Heath Ledger. The Israel Association of Baseball, the nation’s sport governing body, has canceled the league’s contract and effectively kicked the IBL out of the … Continue reading
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We All Have Our Demons
From Dennis Prager: Friday January 25, 2008 H1: Blacks Turning against Bill With Dennis Prager Prager H1: Are blacks losing trust in the “first black president”?.. Dennis plays some highlights from the Republican Debate last night and comments. Length: … Continue reading
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Will journalists
Will Bunch writes: I’m going on 49 years old, and I have a lot of friends around my age who have survived the surge in newsroom layoffs and are still working in an ink-stained newsroom somewhere. Not one of us … Continue reading
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Ends And Means
Here are some new poems and commentary by my new friend (we’ve never met in person, only by email) Dr. Gershon Hepner: Ends and Means The ends may justify the means providing you achieve your ends, but don’t expect to … Continue reading
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Mexico City Rolls Out Women-Only Buses
How can we get more of this type of behavior in America? How can we get more poverty, illiteracy, illegitimacy, corruption, welfare dependency and criminality? Hmmm. Wait. I know. Let’s import more law-breaking immigrants and appoint them to key political … Continue reading
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What Have You Done About Diarrhea In Africa?
Far more Africans die from diarrhea than from AIDS. So why go on a 5K run for AIDS in Africa? Go run to dry up the diarrhea in Africa. (From Dennis Prager) When I was a kid, people were ashamed … Continue reading
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All In The Numbers: A Mathematical Explanation For The ‘Shidduch Crisis’
Mathematician Ariel Halbert writes in The Jewish Press: is the best of times and the worst of times in the world of shidduch dating. Anecdotal evidence suggests that most single men in the various circles of Orthodox Jewry today have … Continue reading
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Non-Male Non-Orthodox Non-Rabbis
Rabbi Gil Student writes: There was an article in The Jerusalem Post a few weeks ago announcing that the Hartman Institute has decided to start ordaining women as Orthodox rabbis (link). I did not comment on it initially because it … Continue reading
Death Penalty For Taunting
From Dennis Prager: Thursday January 24, 2008 H1: Death Penalty for Taunting With Dennis Prager Prager H1: Reports this past weekend reveal that the boys at the San Francisco Zoo were drunk and did, in fact, taunt the tiger in … Continue reading
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