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Inspired Living
Why On Earth Are We Here?
By Rabbi David Aaron
Is the Lord really just a cosmic party pooper?
Reality Check
Despite the impulse to blame Netanyahu and the usual targets of left-wing scorn, the real answer is the growing popularity of theories like intersectionality that sanction anti-Semitism
Passionate Parenting
Praising children's effort, not their outcome or ability, has become a parenting rule. It's a sign of data-driven advice going too far, argues a professor of economics at Brown University
Wellness
Can you deduce the answer from the question?
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[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ]
On this day in . . . • 1779, during the American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance
• 1794, the battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars
• 1812, U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom
• 1813, James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, cries out "Don't give up the ship!"
• 1815, Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France
• 1831, James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole
• 1869, Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric voting machine
• 1879, Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War
• 1880, the first public pay telephone began operation in New Haven, Conn.
• 1925, Lou Gehrig plays the first game in his streak of 2,130 consecutive games; it was the longest such streak until broken by Cal Ripken Jr. in 1995
• 1940, the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation goes out of business, giving the City of New York full control of the subway system in the city
• 1941, the "Farhud", a pogrom against Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad. About 180 Jews were killed and 240 injured
• 1942, during World War II: The Warsaw paper Liberty Brigade publishes the first news of the concentration camps
• 1943, a civilian flight from Lisbon to London was shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all aboard, including actor Leslie Howard
• 1958, Charles de Gaulle became premier of France, marking the beginning of the end of the Fourth Republic
• 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court banned prayers and Bible teaching in public schools on the constitutional grounds of separation of church and state
• 1974, the Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine
• 1977, the Soviet Union formally charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason. (Shcharansky was imprisoned, then released in 1986; he's now known as Natan Sharansky)
• 1978, the first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed
• 1980, CNN made its broadcast debut
• 1997, Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, was fatally burned in a fire set by her 12-year-old grandson in her New York apartment. ALSO: The Broadway show "Titanic" won five Tony Awards, including best musical. AND: The Chicago Tribune published a column by Mary Schmich which urged the graduating class of 1997, among other things, to "wear sunscreen" (the tongue-in-cheek essay ended up being wrongly attributed to author Kurt Vonnegut on the Internet).
• 2000, the Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed
• 2001, the Dolphinarium massacre: A practitioner of that "religion of peace" kills 21 Jewish civilians at a disco in Tel Aviv. ALSO: The king, queen and seven other members of Nepal's royal family were shot dead by Crown Prince Dipendra, who then mortally wounded himself
• 2002, President Bush told West Point graduates the U.S. would strike pre-emptively against suspected terrorists if necessary to deter attacks on Americans, saying "the war on terror will not be won on the defensive."
• 2004, a federal judge declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional, saying the measure infringed on women's right to choose. (The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the law in April 2007.)
• 2006, six world powers, including the U.S., agreed on a package of incentives to persuade Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program. ALSO: A contrite U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took responsibility for the flooding of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina
• 2007, Jack Kevorkian -- dubbed "Dr. Death" -- is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan
• 2008, a fire at the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood destroys several icons from movies, such as Courthouse Square, the clock tower from Back to the Future, and the King Kong exhibit on the studio tour
• 2009, General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history. ALSO: A gunman shot and killed Pvt. William Andrew Long outside of an Army recruiting center in Little Rock, Ark.; another soldier, Pvt. Quinton I. Ezeagwula, was wounded. (Suspect Abdulhakim Muhammad, a convert to that "religion of peace", is still awaiting trial.)
• 2010, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that criminal suspects had to explicitly invoke their right to remain silent, and that simply remaining silent was not sufficient to stop police questioning. ALSO: Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, announced their separation after 40 years of marriage.
• 2013, hundreds of demonstrators threw stones and set fires and riot police used tear gas and pepper spray in Ankara and Istanbul on the third day of Turkey's worst anti-government protests in years
• 2014, freed American soldier Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl entered the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, a day after he was released by the Taliban in exchange for five Guatanamo terrorism detainees. (Bergdahl was later charged with desertion.)
• 2017, President Donald Trump announces he will withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate
• 2021, the Biden administration suspended oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, reversing a drilling program approved by the Trump administration. ALSO: The Biden administration formally ended a Trump-era immigration policy that forced asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court. AND: Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a measure making Florida the latest state to bar transgender girls and women from playing on public school teams intended for students identified as girls at birth
[ I N S I G H T ]
(THOUGHT PROVOKING) Ben Shapiro: The Anarchic Philosophy Behind 'LGBTQI+ Pride Month'
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Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report
Garrison Keillor: I'm out of it. So I keep my mouth shut
Michelle Malkin: 20 Years: The Murder of LA Sheriff's Deputy David March
MediaWatch by Tim Graham: Biden's 'Rolling Calamities' Aren't His Fault?
Rich Lowry: NO SHAME: The leader of free world is a walking gaffe machine
Byron York: A 2024 Trump-Biden death match?
Cynthia M. Allen: Finally, fresh solutions for old problem --- if egos can be put aside
Jay Ambrose: How to overcome evil in a shrunken society
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