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One need not feel guilty -- inded, you should feel proud -- about being selective in life. Your family and yourself must come before all else, teaches Scripture. And the latest scientific research
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Reality Check
Over the past week, two major US institutions have produced studies that discredit their names and reputations
Prevent A Divorce!
A disintegrating relationship will become so much better once this is realized
It Could Happen Again
Doctors couldn't figure out why she was so sick. Then a test revealed a surprising problem
Wellness
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Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
This two-step, 20-minute succulent secret is the antidote to boring grilled chicken. No marinating required
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• Chip Bok
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1504, Michelangelo's towering marble statue of David was unveiled to the public in Florence, Italy
• 1543, Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling
• 1565, the first permanent European settlement in what is now the continental United States was founded on the site of the present St. Augustine, Fla.
• 1776, the Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States
• 1791, Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington
• 1839, John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph
• 1850, the Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt
• 1892, an early version of "The Pledge of Allegiance," written by Francis Bellamy, appeared in "The Youth's Companion"
• 1930, Scotch cellophane tape made its debut as a sample of the tape was shipped to a Chicago firm which specialized in wrapping bakery goods in cellophane
• 1935, 19-year-old Frank Sinatra launched his singing career when he appeared with a group called The Hoboken Four on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour radio talent show. ALSO: An assassin shot U.S. Sen. Huey P. Long, D-La., at the Capitol building in Baton Rouge, La. Long died two days later
• 1941, the 900-day Siege of Leningrad by German forces began during World War II
• 1947, first actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University
• 1951, a peace treaty with Japan was signed by 49 nations in San Francisco
• 1965, Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10-12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages
• 1966, "Star Trek" premiered on NBC-TV
• 1970, a British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan
• 1971, the four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison
• 1974, President Gerald R. Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former President Richard Nixon
• 2008, a London jury convicted three British practitioners of that "religion of peace" of conspiracy to commit murder in an alleged plot to carry out suicide bombings aboard airliners bound for the United States and Canada
• 2010, BP took some of the blame for the Gulf oil disaster in an internal report, acknowledging among other things that it had misinterpreted a key pressure test of the well, but also assigned responsibility to its partners on the doomed rig. ALSO: An ABC News/Washington Post poll indicated that 49 percent of Americans had an unfavorable view of Muslims
• 2014, the Baltimore Ravens terminated star running back Ray Rice's contract and the NFL suspended him indefinitely after the release of a video that showed him punching his future wife in the face in a hotel elevator in Atlantic City
• 2016, California and federal regulators fined Wells Fargo a combined $185 million, alleging the bank's employees illegally opened millions of unauthorized accounts for their customers in order to meet aggressive sales goals
[ I N S I G H T ]
Wesley Pruden: Trading the ass for a little horse sense
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Ironies
Greg Crosby: Whole Lot of Crazy Going On
Suzanne Fields: No 'Safe Place' for an Education
Robert Barnes: In major Supreme Court case, Justice Dept. sides with baker who refused to make wedding cake for gay couple
Mona Charen: Poking the Beehive
David Limbaugh: Sens. Feinstein and Durbin Are Fooling No One
Cheryl K. Chumley: Trump still beats Hillary, any poll day of the week
Alicia Colon: OMG, Falling in Love with the President
L. Brent Bozell III: Cheers for Your First Abortion?
• PETA thinks vegans should donate their poop to those in need
• Hispanic-owned firm that received threats chosen to build prez's border wall prototype
Ellen Nakashima: New FBI head said he's detected no White House interference in the Russia investigation
Charles Hurt: Trump sidesteps roadblock of Republicans
Robert Costa, Sean Sullivan & Mike Debonis: Multiple GOP senators and aides reveal a sense of helplessness after Trump openly flouted their plans
Jonah Goldberg: Desperate for a win, Trump shafts his party
Aaron Blake: Prez says he might get rid of debt limit vote altogether. If conservatives let it happen, they might as well admit they are powerless
Rich Lowry: Trump's TV addiction is leading to big mistakes
Tammy Bruce: Dem leaders change their tune on Trump
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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