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Seriously Funny
Time Whorf
By Mordechai Schiller

Let me tell you something about time. It’s not what you think. But it is what you say. Confusing? Wait, it gets better. …

War on Jihad
Paranoid Terrorist Apologism Dominates 'Moderate Muslim' Convention
By John Rossomando

Monitoring the "religion of peace" on their home turf

Only in the Middle East!
Israeli diplomat tells United Nations their resolution is less important than fixing his toilet
By Ruth Eglash

Jewish state's citizens outraged that biblical holy place designated a 'Palestinian' World Heritage site

Wellness
Going 'lectin-free' is the latest pseudoscience diet fad
By Cara Rosenbloom

Health gurus warn of negative effects. Here's the scientific truth

Build A Better Child
7 ways to give your kids a wonderful childhood (even if you had a terrible one)
By Jessie Shepherd, MA, AMCHC

Parenting can be daunting, but these guidelines may provide just the help you're looking for

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Joe Yonan

This dairy, delicious potato salad is light, luscious and yet magically still addictive

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• Lisa Benson

• Lisa Benson BONUS!

• Chip Bok

• Bob Gorrell

• Walt Handelsman

• Jerry Holbert

• Steve Sack

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

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On this day in . . .

• 988, the city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey

• 1212, the most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground

• 1778, during the American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain

• 1821, the United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain

• 1850, Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term

• 1913, Death Valley, California hits 134 fahrenheit, the highest temperature recorded in the United States

• 1919, President Woodrow Wilson personally delivered the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate, and urged its ratification. (However, the Senate rejected it.)

• 1925, Meher Baba, an Indian mystic and spiritual master who declared publicly in 1954 that he was the Avatar of the age, begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration

• 1929, American paper currency was reduced in size as the government began issuing bills that were approximately 25 percent smaller

• 1938, Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world

• 1940, during World War II: Vichy France government is established. ALSO: The German Luftwaffe begin to hit British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though)

• 1951, armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean War began at Kaesong

• 1962, Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit

• 1985, Coca-Cola, besieged by consumers dissatisfied with the new Coke introduced in April, dusted off the old formula and dubbed it "Coke Classic"

• 1991, in Moscow, Boris Yeltsin was inaugurated as the first freely elected president of the Russian republic

• 1992, in Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations

• 2002, the House approved, 310-113, a measure to allow airline pilots to carry guns in the cockpit to defend their planes against terrorists (President George W. Bush later signed the measure into law). ALSO: A unified Senate approved harsh new penalties for corporate fraud and document-shredding (however, the legislation was never enacted)

• 2005, Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage

• General Motors completed its race through bankruptcy with the signing of a contract with the U.S. government, which got 61 percent of the company. The recovery plan included considerable shrinkage, including the closing of factories and layoffs of 21,000 union workers

• 2011, the space shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station, the final such hookup in orbit. ALSO: Britain's best-selling Sunday tabloid the News of the World, brought down by a phone-hacking scandal, signed off with a simple front page message: "THANK YOU & GOODBYE."

• 2012, Clashing over the economy, President Barack Obama challenged Mitt Romney to join him in allowing tax hikes for rich Americans like them; Romney dismissed the idea and redirected charges that he had sent jobs overseas when he worked in private equity, calling Obama the real "outsourcer-in-chief."

• 2014, Hamas, responding to Israeli airstrikes against Palestinian militants in Gaza, released a video saying it would carry out terrorist attacks in Israel. The narrator said, "Wait for suicide attacks on every bus, cafe and street." ALSO: Germany demanded that the CIA station chief in Berlin leave the country as a new round of allegations of U.S. espionage worsened friction between the two allies

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Mark Steyn: The Will of the West

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: TP Goes High Tech | A Different Way to Assess Reality

Argus Hamilton's News in Zingers

• A cyberhero's work is never done: 23 year-old surfer who saved world from WannaCry attack girds for next wave

• Researchers think they know where Amelia Earhart died --- days after a photo suggested she lived

Declassified by Eli Lake: Julian Assange joins Trump's war against CNN

Aaron Gregg: Administration pushes to enforce 'Buy American' laws; starts with Pentagon shutting foreign firms out of its supply chain

Charles Hurt: Making no apologies, President Trump replaces Obama Doctrine with American Exceptionalism

Bernard Goldberg: Here's an Idea, Mr. President . . .

Jeff Jacoby: From normalizing Bill Clinton to normalizing Donald Trump

Anne Applebaum: The political love-fest that was forced to end

Debra J. Saunders: Trump Likens Terrorism Fight to Poland's Resistance to Nazis

Cheryl K. Chumley: Trump lassos spirit of America

(HMM) Dan Balz: At the Group of 20 summit, who is the real Trump?

Liz Sly: A new Syrian ceasefire offers an early test of Trump's friendship with Putin

Joby Warrick: How North Korea got those missile engines

Marc A. Thiessen: Senate GOP's health-care bill is a liberal's caricature of conservatism

Albert R. Hunt: Libs shouldn't tolerate the loony left

(HMMM) James Hohmann: Europe trip shows how the Trump Doctrine is situational and always in flux

Bruce Bialosky: The Foolishness of Never Trumpers

Dick Morris: 'Understanding Trump': A Review of Newt Gingrich's New Book

George Will: How to make the health bill this century's most significant domestic policy reform

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore