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Weekend of January 13-15, 2017

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PONDERABLE

"Many give way to despair to free themselves from the burden of hope."

--- Rabbi Shraga Silverstein

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Inspiration
The Things We Carry
By Dr. Erica Brown

Consider these wise words when the world seems bleak and your personal relationship with Him in doubt

Reality Check
Obama's transparent presidency
By Caroline B. Glick

BHO and his followers in the US and around the world refuse to see the connection between the policies borne of that ideology and their destructive consequences

Coupling
10 awful things you'll never regret doing to your wife
By Tiffany Fletcher

Do them for her own good --- and yours

Consumer Intelligence
How to Master the Rules of Credit Cards to Maximize Your Rewards
By Miriam Cross

$ecrets to make your life considerably better

It Could Happen to You
This fit young woman was having strokes, and doctors didn't know why
By Sandra G. Boodman

Adrift on a sea of possible causes, she took charge of her health and found the answer

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

With chickpeas around, who needs chickens?

• Sean Delonas

• Nate Beeler

• Lisa Benson

• Chip Bok

• Walt Handelsman

• RJ Matson

• Dana Summers

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

Marilyn Penn: Good Morning America

Cory Franklin: Attention Must Be Paid To These Obits

[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ]

On this day in . . .

• 1830, the Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins

• 1832, President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis

• 1842, Dr. William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad

• 1847, the Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California

• 1893, U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution

• 1898, Emile Zola's famous defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, "J'accuse," was published in Paris

• 1910, radio pioneer and electron tube inventor Lee Deforest arranged the world's first public radio broadcast, a performance by the New York Metropolitan Opera

• 1915, an earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800

• 1942, Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car

• 1945, during World War II, Soviet forces began a huge, successful offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe

• 1968, Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom Prison

• 1972, Prime Minister Kofi Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong

• 1982, shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 737 jet crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists. Coincidentally, a Washington DC Metro Rail train is derailed, killing 3 people

• 1987, seven top New York Mafia bosses were sentenced to 100 years in prison each, including the heads of the Genovese, Colombo and Lucchese crime families

• 1993, U.S. and allied fighter planes bombed targets in southern Iraq to punish Saddam Hussein for his repeated violations of U.N. resolutions that ended the Persian Gulf War

• 1999, President Bill Clinton's legal team dispatched a formal trial brief to the Senate, arguing that neither "fact or law" warranted his removal from office; House officials sent the Senate all public evidence in the case. ALSO: Michael Jordan, regarded by many as the greatest basketball player ever, announced his retirement. He had led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships

• 2002, the off-Broadway musical "The Fantasticks" finished its original run of nearly 42 years and 17,162 shows

• 2005, Major League Baseball adopted a tougher steroid-testing program that suspended first-time offenders for 10 days and randomly tested players year-round

• 2008, President George W. Bush, visiting the United Arab Emirates, gently urged authoritarian Arab allies to satisfy frustrated desires for democracy in the Mideast and saved his harshest criticism for Iran, branding it "the world's leading state-sponsor of terror."

• 2011, Vice President Joe Biden became the first top U.S. official to visit Iraq since the country approved a new Cabinet; Biden emphasized to Iraqi leaders that the U.S. wanted nothing more than for Iraq to be free and democratic

• 2012, the cruise ship Costa Concordia slammed into a rocky shoal near the Italian coast and capsized, killing 32 people

• 2013, a Cairo appeals court overturned Hosni Mubarak's life sentence and ordered a retrial of the former Egyptian president for failing to prevent the killing of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising that toppled his regime. (Mubarak was later ordered released.)

• 2015, in an emotional act of defiance, Charlie Hebdo resurrected its irreverent and often provocative newspaper, featuring on the cover a caricature of a weeping Prophet Muhammad holding a sign reading "I am Charlie" with the words "All is forgiven" above him

• 2016, less than a day after 10 U.S. Navy sailors were detained in Iran when their boats drifted into Iranian waters, they and their vessels were back safely with the American fleet. ALSO: Defense Secretary Ash Carter laid out broad plans to defeat Islamic State militants and retake the group's key power centers in Iraq and Syria. AND: The Al Jazeera America cable news network said it was shutting down two and a half years after its launch. Three winning tickets split a world-record $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot.

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