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Weekend of January 31-February 2, 2014
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[ T O P S T O R I E S ]
thought
The fourth in a periodic series for serious students of theology who aren't scared to examine their most personal beliefs.
The author, a world renowned psychiatrist, will leave believers stronger in their faith and skeptics challenged and maybe even changed
reality check Fact-checking the political bogeymen --- American and Israeli MUST-READ!
fantas-tech It may soundd like the setting for a futuristic movie about humans colonising a new planet. It isn't
ess, ess/eat, eat! AFFOGATO with a different kind of warmth
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[ L I F E S T Y L E S ]
Ask Mr. Know-It-All
Ask Doctor K by Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D.: How to treat toddler's constipation
Bruce Williams on JWR: I-bonds are easily passed to heirs; equity index annuity overcharge
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ]
• 1606, Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England
• 1747, the first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital
• 1865, during the Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, submitting it to the states for ratification. ALSO: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief
• 1915, during World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russia
• 1917, during World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare
• 1929, the Soviet Union expelled communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky. He was assassinated in Mexico in August 1940
• 1930, 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape
• 1942, during World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore
• 1943, German Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of World War II's fiercest battles
• 1945, US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War
• 1950, President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb
• 1958, the launch of Explorer 1, the first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit. ALSO: James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt
• 1968, Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive
• 1982, the Israeli Cabinet agreed to a multinational peacekeeping force to act as a buffer between Israel and Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula
• 1990, the first McDonald's restaurant opened in Moscow
• 1999, a team of international scientists reported it traced the predominant strain of the AIDS virus to a subspecies of chimpanzee that lived in parts of Africa
• 1995, President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy
• 2000, Illinois Gov. George Ryan halted all executions in his state after several death row inmates were found to be innocent of the crimes for which they were to be put to death
• 2001, in the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988
• 2002, the Bush administration handed abortion opponents a symbolic victory, classifying a developing fetus as an "unborn child" as a way of extending prenatal care to low-income pregnant women under the State Children's Health Insurance Program. ALSO: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a speech that the United States had to prepare for potential surprise attacks "vastly more deadly" than those on 9/11.
• 2007, nine blinking electronic devices planted around Boston threw a scare into the city in what turned out to be a marketing campaign for a late-night cable cartoon
• 2011, a federal judge in Florida declared the Obama administration's health care overhaul unconstitutional, siding with 26 states that argued people cannot be required to buy health insurance. ALSO: Egypt's military promised not to fire on peaceful protests and recognized "the legitimacy of the people's demands." Myanmar opened its first parliament in more than two decades, an event greeted with cautious optimism by opposition lawmakers despite the military's tight management of the event.
• 2012, a U.S. congressional report accused the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives of bungling a sting operation called "Fast and Furious" in which guns were sold to illegal "straw buyers" in an effort to catch drug cartel leaders, but some of the weapons were used in crimes, including the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent
• 2013, Chuck Hagel emerged from his grueling confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee with solid Democratic support for his nomination to be President Barack Obama's next defense secretary
Wesley Pruden: The Republican suicide strategy
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: The Aristocrats! Armed & Clumsy (all-new!)
• Argus Hamilton: The News in Zingers
Lenore Skenazy : The Real Housewife Scandal of New Jersey
Greg Crosby: We're all Eloi Now
Suzanne Fields: Hatred of the Jews: More Than the Banality of Memory
Linda Chavez: Reducing College Costs
Michelle Malkin: School Choice and Common Core: Mortal Enemies
Jonah Goldberg: Davis, Democrats sneak past inconvenient realities of abortion
Paul Greenberg: State of the Union: All drift, no real direction
Andrew Malcolm: Obama bemoans worsening income inequality as if he hasn't been president
Michael Gerson: Obama's thin agenda: The State of the Union lacked a theme
Rich Lowry: The Picayune President
Dana Milbank: America doesn't need a lame-duck president
Diana West: War is hell. But now so is marine sergeant's life --- courtesy of his own country
Charles Krauthammer: No to war on women': The GOP should not focus on female sexuality
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• Andy Capp
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