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The intersection of faith, culture and politics
Weekend of February 10-12, 2017

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PONDERABLE

"A young man has to live and an old man wants to."

--- Yiddish Proverb

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Inspiration
The Miracle Mind
By Dr. Erica Brown

Cultivating spirirtual sensitivity toward the world around us

Reality Check
Beautiful friendship with dangers lurking in the background
By Caroline B. Glick

Netanyahu to meet with Trump at White House. How he should prepare

First Amendment
Pressure groups crying foul after religious liberty protections are enacted nationwide
By Sandhya Somashekhar

Trump didn't sign an executive order, but states are filling the gap

Personal Growth
The real secret to dealing with stress
By Kim Giles

How you can choose your level of consciousness. You can process your emotions and choose the state you want to experience in any moment

Wellness
Step away from the scale: It's not all about how much weight you lose
By Gabriella Boston

You made the fitness resolution while raising your glass of bubbly on New Year's Eve, and you've worked out three times a week for more than a month. But the scale. Is. Not. Budging.

Take heart from this analysis

L'chaim!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Joshua E. London

Four ardent spirits to warm with

[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]

• Lisa Benson

• Jake Fuller

• Steve Kelley

• Jimmy Margulies

• Steve Sack

• Kevin Siers

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

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

On this day in . . .

• 1258, Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed

• 1306, before the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murdered John Comyn, his leading political rival, sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence

• 1763, Britain, Spain and France signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years' War

• 1863, the world-famous dwarfs General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City

• 1933, the New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram

• 1933, in round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him. ALSO: The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram

• 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam

• 1967, the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution, dealing with succession to the Presidency and establishing procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, is ratified. It also deals with responding to Presidential disabilities. It supersedes the ambiguous wording of Article II, Section 1, Clause 6 of the Constitution, which doesn't explicitly state whether the Vice President becomes the President if the President died, resigned, was removed from office or was unable to discharge the Presidential powers

• 1996, the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time

• 1999, resigned to losing their case, House prosecutors said public opinion polls had made a stronger impression on senators than any evidence that President Bill Clinton had committed high crimes and misdemeanors

• 2000, the hijackers of an Afghan plane, practitioners of that "religion of peace", surrendered, ending a four-day standoff at Stansted airport outside London

• 2005, North Korea boasted publicly for the first time that it possessed nuclear weapons. ALSO: New York civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart was convicted of smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients, radical Egyptian sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, to his terrorist disciples on the outside. (Stewart began serving a two-year, four-month sentence in Nov. 2009.)

• 2009, the Senate approved President Barack Obama's giant economic stimulus measure. ALSO: U.S. and Russian communication satellites collided in the first-ever crash of its kind in orbit, shooting out a pair of massive debris clouds

• 2010, Russia said it was concerned about U.S. government plans to place a proposed anti-ballistic missile interceptor in Romania but remained open to an explanation

• 2011, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused to step down or leave the country and instead handed his powers to his vice president, stunning protesters in central Cairo who waved their shoes in contempt and shouted, "Leave, leave, leave." (Mubarak resigned the next day.)

• 2013, the northeastern United States was digging out from a monster snowstorm that killed nine people and left at least 400,000 customers without power

• 2015, the parents of anti-Israel protestor Kayla Jean Mueller and U.S. officials confirmed the death of the 26-year-old who had been held captive by the Islamic State group (IS said Mueller had been killed in a Jordanian airstrike). ALSO: NBC announced it was suspending Brian Williams as "Nightly News" anchor and managing editor for six months without pay for misleading the public about his experiences covering the Iraq War. And: Jon Stewart announced he would step down as host of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central later in the year

• 2016, Senate Democrats and Republicans united behind tougher sanctions on North Korea for violating international law by pursuing nuclear weapons. AND: For the 15th time, officials denied parole for Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kenned

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