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Inspired Living
The Fool in the Mirror
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson

How not to save the world

 





Reality Check
What could possibly have possessed Abbas to believe he can get away with mistreating Trump and his envoys?
By Caroline B. Glick



Enter Commanders for Israel's Security (CIS), stage left





War on Jihad
'Call of Duty' Is Islamophobic?
By Conor Gaffey

Claims by Muslim country that the exceptionally popular video
game enjoyed by, among others, those in the American military, pictured above, dehumanizes Muslims




Liberty
The Supreme Court sided with Trinity Lutheran Church. Here's why that matters
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey



Has the 'wall' finally started to crack?



Education
First step toward vouchers for parochial students?
By Emma Brown

Some are worried. Very worried



Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Christine Gallary

Hang-up that phone and make this at home! Kung Pao (Chinese Sichuan) dish is weeknight -- and vegetarian -- friendly


[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

John Branch

Lisa Benson

Bob Gorrell

Dave Granlund

David Hitch

Jeff Koterba

Rick McKee

Mike Shelton

Mike Smith

Gary Varvel

Michael Ramirez

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On this day in . . .


1776, during the American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.

1865, the Army of the Potomac, the major Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, is disbanded

1902, the U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal

1914, Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I

1919, the Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria Hungary on the other side

1967, Israel declared Jerusalem reunified under its sovereignty following its capture of the Arab sector in the Six-Day War

1978, the United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions. The Supreme Court ordered the University of California-Davis Medical School to admit Allan Bakke), a white man who argued he'd been a victim of reverse racial discrimination

1997, in Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield II, Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece from Holyfield's ear

2000, the Supreme Court ruled the Boy Scouts can bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders. ALSO: Elian Gonzalez was returned to his native Cuba seven months after he was cast adrift in the Florida Straits

2007, the American bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list

2009, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, rousted out of bed in the middle of the night by soldiers, was forced from office and into exile in Costa Rica in the culmination of a bitter power struggle over proposed constitutional changes

2011, the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, issued an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on charges of crimes against humanity

2012, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the new healthcare law known as the Affordable Care Act or ObamaCare. ALSO: Attorney General Eric Holder became the first sitting Cabinet member held in contempt of Congress, a rebuke pushed by Republicans seeking to unearth the facts behind a bungled gun-tracking operation known as Fast and Furious. (The vote was 255-67, with more than 100 Democrats boycotting.)

2016, three suicide bombers -- practitioners of that "religion of peace" -- armed with assault rifles stormed Istanbul's Ataturk airport, killing 44 victims and wounding nearly 150


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Michelle Malkin: The Brutal Battle Against Medical Kidnappers

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Wrong Place, Wrong Time

An ICE agent visited a restaurant. About 30 vetted employees up and quit the next day, some seeking legal help

(INCL. VIDEO) Appalachian wrestling's new villain calls himself 'Progressive Liberal.' Hillary's on his shirt

Paul Greenberg: Play ball!

Jonah Goldberg: Rhetoric boils over in health-care debate

Kathleen Parker: The health-care debate we're missing amid all those memes

Joseph Curl: Time to put Pelosi out to pasture

L. Brent Bozell III: 'Scandal-Free' Obama to Scandal-Plagued Trump

John Stossel: School, Inc.

Declassified by Eli Lake: Obama choked on Russia long before the 2016 election

Ellen Nakashima: Spy agencies seek permanent authority for contested surveillance program

Karen Deyoung: Persian Gulf rivals converge on Washington to argue their cases

Dick Morris: Give States Power Over Obamacare Replacement

Hugh Hewitt: They just don't 'get it': If Republicans fail to compromise, they will also lose the Supreme Court

Byron York: Georgia vote says more about Trump now than House in '18

Walter Williams: Were Confederate Generals Traitors?

Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

Mallard Filmore



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