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Monday, June 26, 2017

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PONDERABLE

"If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book. You have to believe, in other words, that art is morally trivial and that education is morally irrelevant."

--- Irving Kristol

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Controversy
Now That We Know
By Eytan Kobre

It's hard -- indeed, painful -- to concede that not only did you muff-up but caused irreversible damage to millions of others. Secular Jewish leaders must start doing so now. Otherwise, it will be too late.

The world's faiths should learn from this self-inflicted destruction

In-Depth
Obama could have punished Russia for Putin's election assault. Yet he didn't
By Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima & Adam Entous

The story that everybody will be buzzing about.

Read it here and decide for yourself (INCL. 10-minute video summary)

War on Jihad
Former Al-Jazeera anchor says TV network aids terrorists
By Eli Lake

Lawsuit reveals a dangerous double game

Passionate Parenting
Wondering if the work of parenting matters?
By Lindsey M. Roberts

These 5 things can up your job satisfaction

Wellness
Doctor on demand: How app culture is reviving the house call
By Hayley Tsukayama

'Our number one goal is that, five years from now, you won't have to go to the doctor's office.'

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By David Lebovitz

The simply delicious, creamy frozen dessert that doesn't require churning

[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]

• Sean Delonas

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• Lisa Benson

• Chip Bok

• Jeff Danziger

• David Hitch

• David Hitch BONUS!

• Bill Schorr

• Mike Shelton

• Dana Summers

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

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On this day in . . .

• 1284, the legendary Pied Piper leads 130 youths out of Hamelin, Germany

• 1848, end of the June Days Uprising, the French workers' revolt in, Paris

• 1917, the first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain, France, Italy, and Russia against Germany, and Austria-Hungary in World War I

• 1927, the Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island. It was declared a New York City landmark on July 12, 1988 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 26, 1991. It is located in an area in Astroland, which closed on September 7, 2008

• 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions

• 1936, initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter

• 1939, film censors approved "Gone With The Wind" but fined Producer David O. Selznick $5,000 for objectionable language in Rhett Butler's famous closing line to Scarlett O'Hara: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

• 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco

• 1948, the Berlin Airlift began in earnest after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes to the isolated western sector of Berlin

• 1950, President Truman authorized the Air Force and Navy to enter the Korean conflict

• 1959, the Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships

• 1963, President Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he made his famous declaration: "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) --- despite reports to the contrary in venues as prestigious as the New York Times and Newsweek, he didn't say "I am a jelly doughnut."

• 1973, former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" kept by the Nixon White House

• 1974, the Universal Product Code (UPC) is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio

• 1976, the CN Tower, the world's tallest free-standing structure on land, is opened to general public, in Toronto. In 1995, the CN Tower was declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers

• 1989, the Supreme Court ruled the death penalty may be imposed for murderers who committed their crimes as young as age 16, and for mentally retarded killers as well

• 1990, U.S. President George H.W. Bush discarded his "no new taxes" campaign pledge, saying "it is clear to me" taxes are needed as part of a deficit-reduction package

• 1993, the U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait

• 1995, an attempted assassination of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak failed during his visit to Ethiopia

• 1997, in a series of decisions, the Supreme Court ruled that terminally ill Americans had no constitutional right to doctor-assisted suicide, but did nothing to bar states from legalizing the process; struck down a congressional attempt to keep smut off the Internet, saying it violated the First Amendment; let stand the president's line-item veto authority without addressing its constitutionality

• 1998, the Supreme Court issued a landmark sexual harassment ruling, putting employers on notice that they can be held responsible for supervisors' misconduct even if they knew nothing about it

• 2000, two rival groups of scientists announced they had deciphered the genetic code, the human genome

• 2002, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools was unconstitutional. (The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the decision in 2004 on a technicality.) ALSO: The Group of Eight nations, meeting in Canada, announced that Russia would be made a full-fledged member of the elite group

• 2006, President Bush said it was "disgraceful" that newspapers had disclosed a secret CIA-Treasury program to track millions of financial records in search of terrorist suspects

• 2008, the Supreme Court struck down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia as it affirmed, 5-4, that an individual right to gun ownership existed. Juan Alvarez, who triggered a 2005 rail disaster in Glendale, Calif., by parking an SUV on the tracks, was convicted of 11 counts of first-degree murder. (Alvarez was later sentenced to 11 consecutive life terms.) ALSO: North Korea officials handed to China a list of its nuclear facilities. In exchange, the United States removed North Korea from its list of countries that sponsor terrorism and lifted some sanctions

• 2012, officials said the windswept Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado's Pikes Peak region had forced more than 6,000 people from their homes. (Thousands more would be evacuated in the days ahead.)

• 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Barack Obama had exceeded his executive authority in 2012 when he appointed members to the National Labor Relations Board without Senate confirmation. The nation's highest court also unanimously struck down the 35-foot protest-free zone outside abortion clinics in Massachusetts, declaring it an unconstitutional restraint on the free-speech rights of protesters

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