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"When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed."

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Making of a Menace
IN COLLEGE, JCC BOMB THREAT SUSPECT HAD 'AFFINITY FOR JEWS'
By Max Kutner

Juan Thompson's informative transformation


 

Education
A clear signal that the Trump administration intends to make expanding school choice a key priority
By Valerie Strauss

A highly unusual trip for a president and what it means for America's future

Coupling
12 important things you forgot to thank your husband for
By Melinda Fox

Don't let these loving things your husband is doing go unnoticed

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

This one-skillet dinner brims with Mediterranean goodness --- and it's ready to serve in a half-hour

Wellness
New weapon against deadliest cancer
By Laurie McGinley

It could benefit tens of thousands of patients in the United States alone - as many as a third of those diagnosed at a late stage with the most common form of the disease

Waealth Strategies
7 Great 'America First' Stocks to Own Under Trump
By Tom Petruno

As the president's "America First" themes translate into actual policies, it should become clearer which companies could be the biggest beneficiaries

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• Sean Delonas

• Sean Delonas BONUS!

• Eric Allie

• Lisa Benson

• Chip Bok

• Jake Fuller

• Steve Kelley BONUS!

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

• Michael Ramirez BONUS!

Marilyn Penn: Biological Appropriation

Cory Franklin: The Flying Dutchman of the Academy Awards

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On this day in . . .

• 1836, Mexican forces captured the Alamo in San Antonio killing the last of 187 defenders who had held out in the fortified Texas mission for 13 days. Frontiersman Davy Crockett was among those killed on the final day

• 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark ruling that black slave Dred Scott could not sue for his freedom in a federal court, even though his white owner had died in a "free" state

• 1896, Charles B. King tested his automobile on the streets of Detroit, Michigan, becoming the first man to drive a car in the Motor City

• 1899, the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin registers Aspirin, the brand name for acetylsalicylic acid, on behalf of the German pharmaceutical company Friedrich Bayer & Co. Now the most common drug in household medicine cabinets, acetylsalicylic acid was originally made from a chemical found in the bark of willow trees. In its primitive form, the active ingredient, salicin, was used for centuries in folk medicine, beginning in ancient Greece when Hippocrates used it to relieve pain and fever. Known to doctors since the mid-19thcentury, it was used sparingly due to its unpleasant taste and tendency to damage the stomach

• 1933, a nationwide bank holiday declared by President Roosevelt went into effect

• 1944, during World War II, U.S. bombers flying from Britain began the first daytime attacks on Berlin

• 1967, the daughter of Josef Stalin, Svetlana Alliluyeva, appeared at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi and declared her intention to defect to the West

• 1981, Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time as principal anchorman of "The CBS Evening News"

• 1982, an Egyptian court sentenced five practitioners of that "religion of peace" to death for the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. Seventeen others drew prison terms

• 1991, U.S. President George H.W. Bush declared the Persian Gulf War over

• 1997, a gunman stole a $1 million Picasso portrait ("Tete de Femme") from a London gallery. (The painting was recovered and two suspects arrested a week later.) ALSO: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II launched the first official royal Web site. AND: China introduced new laws to bolster its campaigns against dissent, ethnic separatism and subversive Western ideals

• 2002, independent Counsel Robert Ray issued his final report in which he wrote that former President Clinton could have been indicted and probably would have been convicted in the scandal involving former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. ALSO: Federal regulators approved the proposed $22 billion merger of Hewlett-Packard Co. and Compaq Computer Corp

• 2003, the U.S. Senate approved a U.S.-Russian agreement whereby each country would reduce deployed nuclear warheads to between 1,700 and 2,200 by 2012

• 2004, President George W. Bush backed off on plans to require frequent Mexican travelers to the U.S. to be fingerprinted and photographed before crossing the border

• 2006, South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds signed legislation banning most abortions in his state (abortion-rights groups were able to get enough signatures to put the measure to a vote, and the ban was rejected in the November election)

• 2007, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was convicted of lying and obstructing an investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity

• 2008, in the deadliest attack on Israeli citizens in two years, a practitioner of that "religion of peace" fired hundreds of rounds of automatic weapons fire at the Mercaz Harav rabbinical seminary in Jerusalem, killing eight students

• 2009, the White House said U.S. President Barack Obama planned to reverse former President George W. Bush's policy limiting federal funding for stem-cell research

• 2011, the space shuttle and space station crews hugged goodbye after more than a week together, but saved their most heartfelt farewell for Discovery, which was on its final voyage after nearly three decade

• 2012, in Super Tuesday contests, Republican Mitt Romney narrowly won in pivotal Ohio, seized a home-state victory in Massachusetts, triumphed in Idaho, Vermont and Alaska, and won easily in Virginia - where neither Rick Santorum nor Newt Gingrich was on the ballot. Santorum won contests in Oklahoma, Tennessee and North Dakota, while Gingrich won in Georgia

• 2015, Islamic State terrorists devastated the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, using bulldozers to raze the site.



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Victor Davis Hanson: Presidential payback

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Ecret-Say Ode-Kay | And You Thought Not Understanding Academics Was Your Fault

Argus Hamilton's News in Zingers!

Bernard Goldberg: Another Temper Tantrum on a College Campus

Alexandra Petri: The world's most forgettable man

• Russian hackers said to seek hush money from liberal U.S. groups

Charles Hurt: Dems go off the deep end, can't conceal their contempt for U.S. military

Peter Zeidenberg: Special Prosecutor or Witch Hunter?

Debra J. Saunders: The big problem with special prosecutors

Glenn Reynolds: A 'living Constitution' on the right? The Left should be glad that Gorsuch is an originalist and not a conservative activist

Kathleen Parker: R.I.P., DNC?

(HMM) Jennifer Burns: Ayn Rand is dead. Liberals are going to miss her

Bruce Bialosky: Munger's Well-Intentioned But Stupid Plan That Handed Over California to the Dems

George Will: A wry squint into our grim future

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore