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Don't worry about the state of someone else's soul and the needs of your body. Worry about the needs of someone else's body and the state of your own soul.

--- Rebbe Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev



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Outlook
What Pharaoh can teach us about being stubborn
By Rabbi Berel Wein


A lesson for sophisticates from a historian, author and international lecturer



Reality Check
The Obama administration's most covert war
By Caroline B. Glick


There's more than one way to wage a battle. The American president is now coming clean






Coupling
3 secrets you're telling your friends that are destroying your marriage
By Aaron Anderson


Your spouse confides in you. Here's three of his or her secrets to keep



Consumer Intelligence
The limits of Fitbit and other wearable technology
By Ana Swanson ·


There are four things to do to actually make a Fitbit helpful



Gezunt/ On Health
Popular heartburn medication linked to chronic kidney disease
By Lenny Bernstein


A new study raises more questions about widely used heartburn drugs



Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet

By Amy Sherman

They're Delicious! Who cares if these Lemon Ricotta Pancakes have plenty of protein, almost no carbs


[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

Nate Beeler

John Cole

Jake Fuller

Bob Gorrell

Jerry Holbert

Steve Kelley

Gary McCoy

Rick McKee

Steve Sack

Gary Varvel

Michael Ramirez

Cory Franklin: Concussion And Conflict Of Interest

Monica Crowley: The deal with the Clinton devil is over


[ T O D A Y  I N  H I S T O R Y ]


On this day in . . .


69, Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but only rules for three months before committing suicide

1759, the British Museum opens

1777, the people of New Connecticut declared their independence. (The tiny republic later became the state of Vermont.)

1870, a political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly)

1885, Wilson Bentley takes the first photograph of a snowflake

1892, James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball

1936, the first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio (the building was for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company)

1943, the world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia

1967, in the first ever Super Bowl, the Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.

1970, Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya

1973, during the Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam

1976, President Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison

1989, NATO, the Warsaw Pact and 12 other European countries adopted a human rights and security agreement in Vienna, Austria

1991, the United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm

1999, House prosecutors prodded senators at President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial to summon Monica Lewinsky and others for testimony and "invite the president" to appear as well

2000, masked gunmen opened fire in a hotel lobby in Belgrade, killing Serbian warlord Zeljko Raznatovic, better known as Arkan, who had been indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal for alleged atrocities in Bosnia and Croatia

2003, Mickey Mouse and The Walt Disney Co. scored a big victory as the Supreme Court upheld longer copyright protections for cartoon characters, songs, books and other creations worth billions of dollars

2005, an intense solar flare blasts X rays across the solar system. ALSO: ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon. AND: Wilbert Rideau, an award-winning black journalist who'd spent nearly 44 years in Louisiana prisons for the 1961 death of a white bank teller, Julia Ferguson, was found guilty of manslaughter in a fourth trial by a racially mixed jury and set free

2007, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq

2009, in a farewell address to the nation, President George W. Bush said while his policies were unpopular, there could be little debate about the results: "America has gone more than seven years without another terrorist attack on our soil." ALSO: Congress cleared the release of the final $350 billion in bailout funds for the financial industry. ALSO: US Airways Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger ditched his Airbus 320 in the Hudson River after a flock of birds disabled both engines; all 155 people aboard survived

2013, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo approved what supporters said would be the nation's toughest gun-control law. "You can overpower the extremists with intelligence and with reason and with common sense," Cuomo said before signing the measure.

2015, Elon Musk announced that he would be building a Hyperloop test track for companies and student teams to test out their transportation pods. It was initially claimed that the track would be built in Texas, though it appears now that it will be built next to SpaceX's Hawthorne facility. ALSO: Police in Belgium conducted raids across the country, killing two suspected Islamist terorists



[ I N S I G H T ]

Wesley Pruden The befuddled president without a clue

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Government in Action

Argus Hamilton: The News in Zingers

Dave Weinbaum: Preparing your children to conquer the world

Sonny Bunch: With '13 Hours,' Hollywood is finally acknowledging conservative audiences

Suzanne Fields: What Do Women Want This Year?

The Fact Checker: The Truth Behind the Rhetoric: Debaters put forth some claims that are head-scratchers or downright wrong

Chris Cillizza: Winners and losers from the sixth Republican presidential debate

Dan Balz: But can Donald Trump actually be the Republican nominee?

David Limbaugh: Obama's SOTU Versus Reality

David Ignatius: A new year of turmoil for China

Michael Barone: With '13 Hours,' Hollywood is finally acknowledging conservative audiences

Jonah Goldberg: The bogeymen of the 'billionaire class'

Rich Lowry: Why Obama is oblivious to yet another American humiliation

Dick Morris: Women are leaving Hillary

Greg Crosby: Obama-ed Out

Charles Krauthammer: The state of the presidency: spent

Mallard Filmore

Dry Bones

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