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War on Jihad
How ISIS is beginning to train child terrorists in the West
By Anthony Faiola & Souad Mekhennet

One hopes the judges on the 9th circuit read this article.

Either way, you certainly should


 

Reality Check
Trump is right: Settlements don't impede peace
By Jeff Jacoby

Attention student leaders and pro-Israel activists print/share/memorize this!

World
Netanyahu is urged not to use the words 'Palestinian state' when he visits Trump
By William Booth

The Israeli PM is under pressure from the right as he preps for one of the most important meetings of his career this week

Publicly Personal
Dating wasn't working for me --- until I went out with 15 guys in one month
By Jen Glantz

Pathetic lives can be amusing

Consumer Intelligence
How to get a reluctant airline to compensate you
By Christopher Elliott

Airlines aren't always obligated to compensate their customers for inconvenience. Here's how they can be persuaded

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

Doing a Mediterranean-spiced, Midwestern classic one better

[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

• Nate Beeler

• Chip Bok

• Bob Gorrell

• Jeff Koterba

• Rick McKee

• Steve Sack

• Dana Summers

• Gary Varvel

• Ed Wexler

• Adam Zyglis

• Michael Ramirez

• Michael Ramirez BONUS!

Mark Davis: Trump aligning with Putin against ISIS doesn't make them BFFs

Peter Brookes: Global arms race won't stop now: U.S. eyes potential foes working on new weaponry

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On this day in . . .

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

• 1635, the first public school in the U.S., Boston Latin School, is founded

• 1741, Andrew Bradford of Pennsylvania published the first American magazine. Titled "The American Magazine, or A Monthly View of the Political State of the British Colonies," it lasted three issues

• 1795, the University of North Carolina became the first U.S. state university to admit students with the arrival of Hinton James, who was the only student on campus for two weeks

• 1880, Thomas Edison observes the "Edison effect", the thermally excited charge emission process

• 1920, the League of Nations recognized the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland

• 1935, a jury in Flemington, N.J., found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-slaying of the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was later executed.)

• 1945, during World War II, the Soviets captured Budapest, Hungary, from the Germans. ALSO: Allied planes began bombing the German city of Dresden

• 1955, Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls

• 1960, France exploded its first atomic bomb, in the Sahara Desert

• 1981, a series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky

• 1990, an agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.

• 1997, Discovery's astronauts hauled the Hubble Space Telescope aboard the shuttle for a 1 billion-mile tuneup to allow it to peer even deeper into the far reaches of the universe. ALSO: On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average broke through the 7,000 barrier for the first time, ending the day at 7,022.44

• 2000, the last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies

• 2002, John Walker Lindh pleaded not-guilty in federal court in Alexandria, Va., to conspiring to kill Americans and supporting the Taliban and terrorist organizations. ALSO: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II made former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani an honorary knight

• 2003, an investigative panel found that superheated air almost certainly seeped through a breach in space shuttle Columbia's left wing and possibly its wheel compartment during the craft's fiery descent, resulting in the deaths of all seven astronauts

• 2006, auditors reported that millions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina disaster aid had been squandered, paying for such items as a $450 tattoo and $375-a-day beachfront condos

• 2008, under oath and sometimes blistering questioning, seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens told Congress: "I have never taken steroids or HGH." ALSO: Hollywood writers ended their 100-day strike that had disrupted the TV season and canceled awards shows.

• 2011, Egypt's military leaders dissolved parliament, suspended the constitution and promised elections in moves cautiously welcomed by protesters who'd helped topple President Hosni Mubarak. ALSO: Cairo police were accused of stealing artifacts, including statues of King Tutankhamen (Tut) from the Egyptian Museum during anti-government demonstrations

• 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a $3.8 trillion budget request that would hike taxes on the rich and spend new money on infrastructure and education but did little to reform entitlement programs

• 2014, the Afghan government, despite protests from the U.S. military, released 65 suspected members of the Taliban from prison

• 2016, Justice Antonin Scalia, the influential and highly regarded conservative member of the Supreme Court, was found dead at a private residence in the Big Bend area of West Texas; he was 79. ALSO During a Republican presidential debate that evening in Greenville, South Carolina, the candidates, with the exception of Jeb Bush, insisted that President Barack Obama step aside and let his successor nominate Justice Scalia's replacement

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Victor Davis Hanson: Postmodernism By Another Name (THOUGHT PROVOKING)

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

• When a United pilot ranted about Trump, Clinton and divorce, her passengers fled

• This con man lied his way into Princeton. Decades later, he was found squatting in mountain shack

Argus Hamilton's: The News in Zingers!

Bruce Bialosky The Death of Comedy?

Nafeesa Syeed: Pentagon hires hackers to target sensitive internal systems

Aaron Blake: Why Dems can't just obstruct their way back into power

Paul Kane: Will the rising lib tea party turn on Dems?

David M. Shribman Now we are in a cycle of revenge that imperils any nominee's efforts to win confirmation

Emily Guskin: There's a very simple reason Dems probably won't filibuster Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch

Philip Rucker, Adam Entous & Ed O'Keefe: As Flynn falls under growing pressure over Russia contacts, Trump remains silent

Julian Zelizer: Protests didn't hurt Reagan, and they're not going to stop Trump

Debra J. Saunders: Miscalculated war Trump needn't have lost

Megan McArdle: The Dems and their immigration problem(s)

Charles Hurt: A warning to the Dems that's too late to ignore

George Will: Who will protect Americans from their protectors?

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore