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The intersection of faith, culture and politics
Weekend of February 3-5, 2017

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"Thankfulness has an inner connection with humility. It recognizes that what we are and what we have is due to others and above all, to God."

--- Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

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Powerful
Letter from limbo
By Paul Greenberg

The Pulitzer winner at his best

Reality Check
The Trump way of war
By Caroline B. Glick

Unlike his predecessors, Trump is serious about winning. To do so, he is even willing to take this radical step

Liberty
Trump vows to 'totally destroy' restrictions on religious institutions support of candidates
By John Wagner & Julie Zauzmer

President's pledge to empower people of faith was no empty promise

Coupling
The real secret to a happy marriage
By Kim Giles

A totally fresh approach, including how you can change a negative spouse.

This is one article you don't want to miss

Wellness
Four mistakes people make when going gluten-free
By Jae Berman

Your assumptions may well be wrong

Ess. Ess/Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Ellie Krieger

A game-day classic scores with a healthful twist

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• Chip Bok

• Jake Fuller

• Taylor Jones

• Rick McKee

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

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On this day in . . .

• 1690, the colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America

• 1783, Spain recognizes United States independence

• 1809, the Illinois Territory is created

• 1830, the sovereignty of Greece was confirmed in a London Protocol

• 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens held a shipboard peace conference off the Virginia coast; the talks deadlocked over the issue of Southern autonomy

• 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, granting voting rights to citizens regardless of race

• 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax

• 1917, during World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the former announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.

• 1941, during World War II: Nazi Germany forcibly restores Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy, France

• 1945, during World War II: The Soviet Union agrees to enter the Pacific Theatre conflict against Japan. ALSO: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17's of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin

• 1966, the unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon

• 1973, U.S. President Richard Nixon signed into law the Endangered Species Act

• 1984, Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one women to another resulting in a live birth. ALSO: Astronauts, Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit

• 1992, angry rhetoric escalated between the United States and Japan when Japanese Prime Minister Miyazawa accused U.S. workers of lacking a "work ethic."

• 1994, the shuttle Discovery blasted off into space with the first Russian astronaut aboard a U.S. spacecraft. ALSO: President Bill Clinton announced the United States was lifting its trade embargo against Vietnam

• 2001, the XFL, a football league founded by the World Wrestling Federation and jointly owned by NBC, held its first two games, in which the Las Vegas Outlaws beat the New York/New Jersey Hitmen 19-0, and the Orlando Rage beat the Chicago Enforcers 33-29. (However, the XFL folded after just one season.)

• 2004, the discovery of the lethal poison ricin in the mailroom of U.S. Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., the Senate majority leader, forced the closing of three Senate office buildings in Washington

• 2008, the New York Giants scored a late touchdown for a spectacular Super Bowl win, 17-14, that ended the New England Patriots' run at perfection. ALSO: Serbian President Boris Tadic, a pro-Western leader who favors closer ties with the United States, won re-election over a hard-line Radical Party candidate

• 2009, the White House announced that Tom Daschle had asked to be removed from consideration as health and human services secretary after acknowledging he'd failed to pay all his taxes. ALSO: U.S. President Barack Obama was reported considering tougher sanctions against Iran after that nation's launch of its first space satellite

• 2010, maintaining its strenuous protests of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, China warned of sanctions against American companies participating in the deal

• 2011, tens of thousands of protesters staged unprecedented demonstrations against Yemen's autocratic president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, a key U.S. ally in battling Islamic militants, as unrest inspired by uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia spread further in the Arab world. "Arab Spring" protests also targeted several other points, including Iraq, Libya, Jordan, Algeria and Bahrain

• 2012, federal prosecutors dropped their investigation of Lance Armstrong, ending a nearly two-year effort aimed at determining whether the seven-time Tour de France winner and his teammates had participated in a doping program. (In Jan. 2013, Armstrong publicly admitted taking performance-enhancing drugs.)

• 2016, Rand Paul dropped his Republican campaign for president, opting to run for re-election to the Senate

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