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PONDERABLE

"Gold and silver are purified through fire. If we feel no sense of purification or refinement after prayer, it may have lacked heat."

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Inspired Living
The Modern-Day Prophet
By Dr. Erica Brown

What would their business card say?


 

Reality Check
Temple Mount terror puts the lie to Palestinian rage
By Eli Lake

Now the world knows -- or should -- the truth. Will they admit to being snookered?

Humanity
For the first time, Israel describes the aid work it carries out in Syria
By Ruth Eglash

Be prepared to be shocked. It must be remembered that Syria is far from an ally of the Jewish state

Bizarre
Muslim activist calls Jake Tapper 'alt-right'
By Ron Kampeas

Linda Sarsour goes after the CNN anchor

Good News
5 things that tend to get (much) better as you get older
By Karen Banes

Look forward to aging? Yes, indeedy!

Wellness
Low-carb vs. low-fat: Before driving yourself batty, know this
By Carrie Dennett, M.P.H., R.D.N.

The most effective way to shed those stubborn pounds

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Jim Webster

Sandwich nation: How to make 3 of America's favorite meaty masterpieces

[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

• Nate Beeler

• Chip Bok

• Sean Delonas

• Sean Delonas BONUS!

• Bob Gorrell

• Dave Granlund

• Steve Kelley

• Jeff Koterba

• Rick McKee

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

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On this day in . . .

• 1861, the first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Va., resulting in a Confederate victory

• 1865, in the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first true western showdown

• 1873, at Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American West

• 1930, President Hoover signed an executive order establishing the Veterans Administration

• 1944, American forces landed on Guam during World War II

• 1949, the U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty

• 1954, the Geneva Accords divided Vietnam into northern and southern entities

• 1955, during the Geneva summit, President Eisenhower presented his "open skies" proposal under which the U.S. and the Soviet Union would trade information on each other's military facilities

• 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the lunar module

• 1970, after 11 years of construction, the massive billion-dollar Aswan High Dam across the Nile River in Egypt was completed, ending the cycle of flood and drought in the Nile River region but triggering an environmental controversy

• 1972, Bloody Friday bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army around Belfast, Northern Ireland - 22 bomb explosions, 9 people killed and 130 people seriously injured

• 1980, draft registration began in the United States for 19- and 20-year-old men

• 1983, the world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at -89.2 degrees C (-129 degrees F)

• 1988, Ayatullah Khomeini reluctantly orders cease fire in the Iran-Iraq war

• 1996, dozens of memorial services were held across the country to remember the 230 people lost in the crash of TWA Flight 800

• 1997, the fully restored USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides") celebrates her 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years

• 1998, the Pentagon said it found no evidence to support allegations in a CNN report that U.S. troops had used nerve gas during a 1970 operation in Laos designed to hunt down American defectors

• 2000, Special Counsel John C. Danforth concluded "with 100 percent certainty" that the federal government was innocent of wrongdoing in the siege that killed 80 members of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, in 1993. ALSO: Group of 8 leaders met for an economic summit on the Japanese island of Okinawa, where President Clinton also sought to soothe long-simmering tensions over the huge American military presence

• 2001, street battles raged for a second day in Genoa, Italy, site of a Group of Eight meeting, despite pleas for calm from protest leaders and global summit leaders alike

• 2005, terrorists attempt to attack the London transit system by planting bombs on three subways and on one bus; none of the bombs detonate completely. The attempted attack came exactly two weeks after terrorists killed 56 people, including themselves, and wounded 700 others in the largest attack on Great Britain since World War II. The previous attack also targeted three subways and one bus. ALSO: The House voted to extend the USA Patriot Act

• 2007, David Beckham made his debut with the Los Angeles Galaxy in front of a sellout crowd of 27,000. (Beckham got into the exhibition game in the 78th minute of Chelsea's 1-0 victory.) ALSO: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final volume of the wizard series by J.K. Rowling, went on sale

• 2009, Taco Bell mascot Gidget the Chihuahua died in Santa Clarita, Calif. at 15

• 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of U.S. lending and high finance rules since the 1930s

• 2016, Donald Trump accepted the GOP presidential nomination with a speech in which he pledged to cheering Republicans and still-skeptical voters that as president, he would restore the safety they feared they were losing, strictly curb immigration and save the nation from Hillary Clinton's record of "death, destruction, terrorism and weakness."

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Wesley Pruden: The swamp strikes back

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Most Competent Criminal | The Passing Parade

• Teens film, mock man as he drowned, police say

Lenore Skenazy: He Flunked 1st Grade --- and Now Look

Greg Crosby: In the Throes of a Dilemma

Emma Brown: Education secretary Devos has teachers' unions fuming

Paul Greenberg: A modest proposal

Jonah Goldberg: Health care fight shows Washington at its worst

Rich Lowry: The GOP's looming health-care disaster is the whole party's fault

Suzanne Fields: The American Divide: Deplorables Vs. Pussyhats

(This lib is REALLY worried) Ronald A. Klain: A judiciary transformed at blazing speed

L. Brent Bozell III: The vanguard of a new regime of 'progressive' decency, funded by the taxpayers

Ed Rogers: Jeff Sessions and others: Don't quit!

Aaron Blake: Trump set a red line for Robert Mueller, and now Mueller has reportedly crossed it

Mona Charen: Why Would You Want Putin as a Friend?

David Limbaugh: OK, GOP: No More Excuses

Charles Krauthammer: What to do for little Charlie Gard

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore