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"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."

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Outlook
Right on the Left
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson

Finding cause for hope in the most unlikely places

Reality Check
Donald Trump, Middle East Messiah?
By William Booth

He's got the right mix of bombast and unpredictability, those who seek Israel's destruction hope

Personal Growth
Prioritizing these three things will improve your life --- and maybe even save it
By Colby Itkowitz

They may seem obvious, but then why aren't you doing them?

Life's Journeys
Suitcase GPS? Scented bags? Collapsible sunglasses? The latest travel gadgets
By Andrea Sachs

The airline industry will likely make your upcoming family trip hell. Here are some accessories to make it more bearable

Wellness
How to eat for an energy boost
By Carrie Dennett, M.P.H., R.D.N.

The foods you choose - and when you eat them - affect how you feel throughout the day

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Sara Moulton

Tender is the lamb, and easy on the cook

[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

• Lisa Benson

• Jerry Holbert

• Jeff Koterba

• Rick McKee

• Michael Ramirez

Cory Franklin: Truth, Death, And Silicon Valley

Marilyn Penn: Norman: A Review

[ T O D A Y  I N  H I S T O R Y ]

On this day in . . .

• 1715, Edmund Halley's total solar eclipse (the last one visible in London, United Kingdom for almost 900 years)

• 1791, the Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

• 1802, Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city

• 1877, Labatt Park (formerly Tecumseh Park, 1877-1936), near the forks of the Thames River in central London, Ontario, Canada -- and the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world -- has its first game

• 1919, U.S. airplane passenger service began when pilot Robert Hewitt flew two women from New York to Atlantic City, N.J.

• 1921, West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax

• 1937, Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

• 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity

• 1947, new post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect

• 1951, the United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman

• 1952, Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole

• 1957, Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles

• 1960, the Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, Netherlandsthe. ALSO: Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time

• 1968, the United States and North Vietnam agreed to open peace talks in Paris

• 1973, the Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out as the world's tallest building. The world's tallest structure today is the 828 m (2,717 ft) tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The building gained the official title of "Tallest Building in the World" at its opening on January 4, 2010

• 1978, the first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States

• 1979, Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party won the British general election, making her the first woman prime minister of a major European nation

• 1989, Chinese leaders rejected students' demands for democratic reforms as some 100,000 students and workers marched in Beijing

• 1990, U.S. President George H.W. Bush canceled the modernization of NATO short-range nuclear missiles and artillery, accelerating the pace of the removal of U.S. and Soviet ground-based nuclear weapons from "the transformed Europe of the 1990s."

• 1999, Oklahoma City is slammed by an F5 tornado killing forty-two people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This is the strongest tornado ever recorded with wind speeds of up to 318 mph

• 2000, the sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet

• 2001, the United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947

• 2005, Iraq's first democratically elected government was sworn in

• 2006, a federal jury in Alexandria, Va., rejected the death penalty for al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, deciding he should spend life in prison for his role in 9/11; as he was led from the courtroom, Moussaoui taunted, "America, you lost."

• 2007, Queen Elizabeth II opened her U.S. visit by meeting with survivors and relatives of the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting rampage. She later addressed Virginia lawmakers on the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, Va., the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States

• 2010, BP declared it would pay all "legitimate and objectively verifiable" claims related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. AND: Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad, a practitioner of that "religion of peace", was apprehended aboard a flight preparing to depart New York for Dubai. ALSO: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton exchanged heated words at the United Nations, the site of a monthlong debate over the world's nuclear weapons. AND: An Indian court convicted a Pakistani practitioner of that "religion of peace", Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, of murder and other charges for his role in the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai that left 166 people dead

• 2012, U.S. officials published online a selection of letters from Osama bin Laden's last hideaway; the documents portrayed a network that was weak, inept and under siege - and its leader seemingly near wit's end about the passing of his global jihad's glory days

• 2013, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ordered border agents to verify the validity of visas for all foreign students entering the country.

• 2015, two gunmen opened fire outside a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas. Both men were shot and killed

• 2016, in a stunning triumph for a political outsider, Donald Trump all but clinched the Republican presidential nomination with a resounding victory in Indiana that knocked rival Ted Cruz out of the race.

[ I N S I G H T ]

Andrew Malcolm: The familiar fundamentals of North American life are not seriously subject to the vagaries of passing political promises --- or renegotiations

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Well, that certainly explains it!

Karen Tumulty: Pelosi: Let's say we welcome pro-lifers in order to win

John Stossel: Break the Chains

Jonah Goldberg: Columnist Stephens stirs up a climate of anger

Byron York: Why can't house repeal ObamaCare? Because a lot of Republicans don't want to

(SMART) Salena Zito: Trump: 'You Make a Mistake Here, There Is Nothing to Work Out'

David Filipov & Ashley Parker: Red phone call: Trump, Putin strategize for first time

Michelle Malkin: A Thinking Mom's Message for Jimmy Kimmel

L. Brent Bozell III: Sudden Media Anger Over Happy Talk to Dictators

(OUCH) Wesley Pruden: A pity party for the unlovable press

Dick Morris: Republicans Fold Like A Tent On Budget Deal

Walter Williams: Trade Ignorance and Demagoguery

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore