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Inspired Living
The Curse of Cowardice
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson

Where are the leaders who will restore our world to sanity?

World Review
Despite rising anti-Semitism, young European Jews aren't ruled by fear
By Toby Axelrod

Reflecting a shifting approach to Jewish continuity, rather than fixating on the Holocaust and Israel, Generation 3.0 is all about carpe diem

Act Two of Life
How Early Retirees Can Get Cheap Health Insurance
By Michael Yoder

If you're retiring before age 65, you'll want to take a second look before turning on any sources of taxable income, including pensions or IRA withdrawals. That's because you might jeopardize your ability to qualify for incredibly cheap health insurance, as well as generous out-of-pocket cost subsidies

Prevent a Divorce!
10 lies you need to stop believing about your marriage
By Lindsey Miller

Banish these untruths as if your marital bliss depends on it --- it does

Wellness
My best trick for staying fit? Telling everyone I used to be fat
By Mike Riggs

"Awkward honesty" works. Well

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Cathy Barrow

These wings are sweet, spicy, tingly --- complex yet dead simple. In a word: 'Irresistible'

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• Bob Gorrell

• David Hitch

• David Hitch BONUS!

• David Hitch BONUS!

• Rick McKee

• Mike Shelton

• Mike Shelton BONUS!

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

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On this day in . . .

JWR TODAY -- Williams; Jonah G; Stossel; Malkin; Parker 10 lies you need to stop believing about your marriage + MUCH more -- Wednesday, June 21, 2017

• 1768, James Otis, Jr. -- best known for his quip "taxation without representation is tyranny" -- offends the King and parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court

• 1788, the U.S. Constitution became effective when a ninth state, New Hampshire, ratified it

• 1834, Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine

• 1898 , the United States captures Guam from Spain

• 1915, the U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens

• 1919, Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I

• 1932, heavyweight Max Schmeling lost a title fight rematch in New York by decision to Jack Sharkey, prompting Schmeling's manager, Joe Jacobs, to exclaim: "We was robbed!"

• 1942 , during World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland

• 1948, Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City

• 1964, three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan

• 1973, in handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test, which now governs obscenity in U.S. law

• 1982, John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan

• 1985, international experts in Sao Paulo, Brazil, conclusively identified the bones of a 1979 drowning victim as the remains of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, ym"sh, ending a 40-year search for the "angel of death" of the Auschwitz concentration camp

• 1989, a sharply divided Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest is protected by the First Amendment

• 1990, an estimated 50,000 Iranians were killed by an earthquake

• 2000, North Korea promised to refrain from long-range missile tests after the United States lifted some economic sanctions against it. ALSO: Some 55 years after World War II ended, 22 Asian-American veterans received the Medal of Honor for bravery on the battlefield during a White House ceremony. AND NASA announced that its Mars Global Surveyor had spotted grooved surface features, suggesting a relatively recent water flow on the planet

• 2001, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts practitioners of that "religion of peace -- 13 Saudis and a Lebanese -- in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen

• 2004, SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight

• 2005, forty-one years to the day after three civil rights workers were beaten and shot to death, Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, was found guilty of manslaughter. (Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison.)

• 2007, the U.S. Senate approved a bill requiring auto makers to raise fuel-economy averages to 35 miles per gallon by 2020

• 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a law making it a crime to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization

• 2016, Hillary Clinton, during a visit to the battleground state of Ohio, said Donald Trump would send the U.S. economy back into recession, warning that his "reckless" approach would hurt workers still trying to recover from the 2008 economic turbulence. ALSO: North Korea fired two suspected powerful new Musudan midrange ballistic missiles, according to U.S. and South Korean military officials, the communist regime's fifth and sixth such attempts since April 2016. AND: The Obama administration approved routine commercial use of small drones in areas such as farming, advertising and real estate after years of struggling to write rules to protect public safety

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Jonah Goldberg: We ignore free speech's paradox at our detriment

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Can't Possibly Be True!

Garrison Keillor: If you need to walk through the world in a state of stupefaction, you don't belong in a democracy

L. Brent Bozell III: Joy Reid's Immoral Moment

John Stossel: 'Stingy' Jeff Bezos

Michelle Malkin: The Double Murder of Otto Warmbier

Kathleen Parker: Can words kill people?

Main Street, USA by Salena Zito: They fear doom: Dem chairs across the country realize they have a very big problem

Byron York: Five more notes on Trump's current predicament

Paul Roderick Gregory: Is Russiagate Really Hillarygate?

Charles Hurt: Bern victims pile up in Democratic Party

Josh Rogin: Though Obama negotiated an agreement with Iran, he abandoned two Americans held hostage there. The Trump administration is working on getting them home

Dick Morris: Trump Should Call Dem Bluff on Health Care

Norman J. Ornstein: The constitutional crisis that almost was

Walter Williams: A New Twist on Teaching Economics

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

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