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Seriously Funny
Truth Ache
By Mordechai Schiller

Even the devil can quote scripture for his own purposes. Now the mainstream media is quoting Orwell as the new scripture in their sanctimonious crusade for "truth"

SPOT ON!


 

Perplexing
Trump policy on Israel is evolving in somewhat surprising ways
By Anne Gearan

Outlines emerged Friday after a conflicting series of statements attributed to the administration

Liberty
Is that sermon political?
By Jeff Jacoby

Religious leaders should answer for their words and deed to a higher authority --- higher, even, than the IRS

Middle East Madness
Trump vows to turn empowered Iran's dreams into nightmares
By Liz Sly

The aftermath of Obama's Middle East meddling, however, risks his doing so with disastrous results

Coupling
5 problems marriage won't fix
By Emily Cummings

If you wed thinking that "happily ever after" will solve these, it's all but certain you'll wind up divorced

Wellness
How athletes can avoid -- or at least minimize -- cramps
By Jeff Vrabel

Pickle juice is an option. Thankfully, it's not the only one

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

This crispy, crunchy Old World favorite is a sneaky, scrumptious way to get kiddos (and their parents) to eat veggies

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• Nate Beeler

• Lisa Benson

• Lisa Benson BONUS!

• Chip Bok

• Walt Handelsman

• David Horsey

• Scott Stantis

• Dana Summers

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

Neil Steinberg: J.S.G. Boggs, clever craftsman of currency, is dead

Peter Brookes: Pause in U.S. entry policies sensible

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On this day in . . .

• 1778, during the American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic

• 1815, New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens

• 1899, during the Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate

• 1900, the international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree

• 1922, the Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy

• 1933, the 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution, establishing the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices, goes into effect

• 1951, the Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history

• 1959, Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit. ALSO: At Cape Canaveral, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished

• 1978, the Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4 inches an hour

• 1987, broad no-smoking rules took effect for 890,000 employees in 6,800 U.S. federal buildings nationwide

• 1998, Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport

• 2002, a federal judge in Alexandria, Va., ordered John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban," held without bail pending trial

• 2004, a female suicide bomber, a practitioner of that "religion of peace", detonated explosives in a suitcase during rush hour in a packed Moscow subway car killing 39 people and injuring about 200

• 2010, a raging storm with heavy snowfall left nearly 90,000 homes without power in Maryland and Virginia and forced much of the nation's capital to a standstill

• 2011, Egypt's vice president met with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and other opposition groups and offered sweeping concessions, including granting press freedom and rolling back police powers in the government's latest attempt to end two weeks of upheaval

• 2012, the United States suspended operations at its embassy in Damascus and evacuated its staff, citing the deteriorating situation across Syria

• 2014, U.S. stocks tumbled, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 320 points after reports of sluggish U.S growth added to investor worries about the global economy

• 2016, Seven GOP Republican hopefuls faced off three days before the New Hampshire primary; Marco Rubio, a first-term senator on the rise in the presidential race, faced a barrage of attacks while Sen. Ted Cruz, fresh off his victory in the Iowa caucuses, also came under withering criticism

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Thomas Sowell: Education at a Crossroads (TEMP. OUT OF RETIREMENT)

Thomas Sowell: Education at a Crossroads: Part II

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Not, again!

Argus Hamilton's The News in Zingers

Robin Givhan: Fashion world throwing anti-Trump hissy fit on runways

Debra J. Saunders The New Edge of Intolerance

James Lankford, Steve Scalise & Jody Hice: US nonprofits, including churches, should be allowed to take sides in politics

The Fact Checker: The Truth Behind the Rhetoric: Senate Dems' misleading language on a 60-vote 'standard' for Supreme Court nominees

Dan Balz Anti-Trump protests may be gaining a lot of attantion, but party has no quick fixes in their bid to regain ground lost

Philip Rucker & Ashley Parker: Team Trump finally organizes as prez heads to long weekend at Mar-a-Lago

David Weigel: Dems think they've figured out what they stand for and how to retake Washington

Kathleen Parker: The left's boogeyman vision of Gorsuch

Bruce Bialosky: Let's Get Real About the Trump Travel Ban

George Will: A modest proposal to solve inequality

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore