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Outlook
In Search of Journalistic Integrity
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson

When the media become more interested in creating news than in reporting it


 

Reality Check
Netanyahu, Congress, AIPAC and the PLO
By Caroline B. Glick

For 23 years, Israel and the US have empowered the PLO. It must stop now!

Controversy
Pro-Israel evangelicals are escaping AIPAC's shadow
By Eli Lake

Christians United for Israel has been a junior partner to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee it comes to lobbying Congress. That may be about to change

Coupling
3 ways to repair your marriage this week
By Kim Giles

You can take the fear and conflict out of your relationship and bring back the love

Wellness
The nutrient you didn't know you were missing
By Christy Brissette

Essential to health at all ages and stages -- and especially critical for brain development -- a shocking 90 percent of Americans aren't getting sufficient amounts of it

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

Take comfort in a warm bowl that tastes rich, but isn't

[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

• Sean Delonas

• Nate Beeler

• Chip Bok

• John Darkow

• David Fitzsimmons

• Dave Granlund

• Rick McKee

• Michael Ramirez

Marilyn Penn: Toni Erdmann: A Dissent

Dennis Byrne: Here are some Republican plans to replace Obamacare

[ T O D A Y  I N  H I S T O R Y ]

On this day in . . .

• 1759, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated

• 1785, the Continental Congress convened in New York City

• 1787, William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus

• 1805, Michigan Territory is created

• 1861, Alabama secedes from the United States

• 1880, a total solar eclipse blackens the sky of San Francisco one day after the funeral of Emperor Norton

• 1902, Popular Mechanics magazine is published for the first time

• 1908, the Grand Canyon National Monument was created with a proclamation by President Theodore Roosevelt. (It became a national park in 1919.)

• 1913, the first sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, went on display at the 13th Automobile Show in New York

• 1922, first use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient

• 1935, Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California

• 1943, the United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China

• 1949, first recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.

• 1962, an avalanche on Huascaran in Peru causes 4,000 deaths

• 1964, the United States Surgeon General Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., publishes a report saying that smoking may be hazardous to health. It is the first such statement ever made by the U.S. government

• 1972, East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh

• 1974, the world's first surviving set of sextuplets are born to Susan Rosenkowitz in Cape Town, South Africa

• 1977, France set off an international uproar by releasing Abu Daoud, a PLO official and practitioner of that "religion of peace" who was behind the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics

• 2001, the Federal Trade Commission approves the merger of AOL and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner

• 2002, the first planeload of al-Qaida prisoners from Afghanistan arrived at a U.S. military detention camp in Guantanamo, Cuba

• 2003, calling the death penalty process "arbitrary and capricious, and therefore immoral," Illinois Gov. George Ryan commuted the sentences of 167 condemned inmates, clearing his state's death row two days before leaving office

• 2006, a Georgian court convicted a man of trying to assassinate President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili with a grenade in Tbilisi on May 10, 2005, and sentenced him to life in prison

• 2007, President Bush's plan for a surge of American troops to Iraq ran into a wall of criticism on Capitol Hill as administration officials drew confrontational challenges from both Democrats and Republicans

• 2010, Mark McGwire admitted to The Associated Press that he'd used steroids and human growth hormone when he broke baseball's home run record in 1998. ALSO: 78 percent of U.S. air travelers say they support using full body airport scanners, a Gallup poll indicated

• 2011, heavy rain in Brazil triggered floods and mudslides that killed more than 900 people and left an estimated 25,000 homeless

• 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama said the war in Afghanistan "will come to a responsible end" by the end of 2014

• 2014, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon died at age 85. He had been in a coma for eight years following a massive stroke



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Karen DeYoung: Flynn: Foreign policy to stress 'peace through strength'

Byron York: Six questions about the Russia hacking report

Dick Morris: Hillary Used Corporate Cronies To Finance State Dept. Pavilion Named After Herself

Jonah Goldberg: Will Trump's Twitter fixation drive away his allies?

Bob Tyrrell: Donald Trump's Whiggery

Walter Williams: The Black Community and Crime

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• Mallard Filmore