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"He who sees everything, sees nothing."

---   Abraham Shlonsky



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Outlook
World Peace through Shared Servings
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson

We've all heard that you are what you eat. Now we learn that you may be what others eat


 




Reality Check
Trump as anti-semitic enabler?
By Jonathan S. Tobin




Let's examine the American president





Not Satire
Feminist fundamentalists? Nike courts 'empowered' Muslim women with new 'performance hijab' line
By Cindy Boren




Company may have found new niche



Passionate Parenting
10 ways to help anxious children
By Denise W. Anderson




Children often do not know why they are anxious; they just know they are experiencing discomfort. Here are ten ways we can provide a calming influence, and help them feel better about what is happening in their world and their place in it



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


They look like crab cakes, but these vegetable patties can hold their own



Consumer Intelligence
A frenzy for flipping: Success secrets
By Michele Lerner




Buying and selling a house for profit isn't easy, but there are ways to make it pay


[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

Sean Delonas

Lisa Benson

Bob Gorrell

Jerry Holbert

Dana Summers

Dana Summers BONUS!

Gary Varvel

Michael Ramirez

Michael Ramirez BONUS!




[ T O D A Y  I N  H I S T O R Y ]


On this day in . . .




1655, John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in what will be the United States

1817, the New York Stock Exchange is founded

1854, U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry made his second landing in Japan; within a month, he concluded a treaty with the Japanese

1862, during the Civil War, the ironclad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) rammed and sank the USS Cumberland and inflicted heavy damage on the USS Congress, both frigates, off Newport News, Va.

1913, the Internal Revenue Service began to levy and collect income taxes in the United States

1917, the U.S. Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule. ALSO: Russia's "February Revolution" (so called because of the Old Style calendar being used by Russians at the time) began with rioting and strikes in Petrograd

1921, after Germany failed to make its first war reparation payment, French troops occupied Dusseldorf and other towns on the Ruhr River in Germany's industrial heartland

1936, Daytona Beach Road Course holds their first oval stock car race

1957, Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis

1965, the United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam, about 3,500 Marines sent to defend the U.S. air base at Da Nang

1971, Joe Frazier defeated Muhammad Ali by decision in what was billed as "The Fight of the Century" at Madison Square Garden in New York

1997, President Clinton, in keeping with his push for private businesses and churches to hire off welfare rolls, ordered federal agencies to do the same

1983, President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire" before the British House of Commons

1990, Colombia's M-19 leftist guerrilla group surrendered its arms, ending 16 years of insurrection

1999, the Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing. ALSO: T the U.S. Energy Department fired a Chinese-born computer scientist from the Los Alamos, N.M., National Laboratory in the theft of U.S. nuclear secrets

2000, President Bill Clinton submitted to Congress legislation to establish permanent normal trade relations with China. (The U.S. and China signed a trade pact in Nov. 2000.)

2001, the Republican-controlled House voted for an across-the-board tax cut of nearly $1 trillion over the next decade, handing President George W. Bush a major victory only 48 days into his term

2002, Kmart Corp. announced the closing of 284 stores and elimination of 22,000 jobs. ALSO: The U.S. Senate passed a bill cutting taxes and extending unemployment benefits

2003, Israeli helicopters fired missiles at a car in the Gaza Strip, killing a top Hamas leader and three bodyguards

2004, a new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council

2006, Iran threatened the United States with "harm and pain" if the U.S. tried to use the U.N. Security Council to punish Tehran for its suspect nuclear program. ALSO: three Alabama college students reportedly looking for cheap thrills were arrested on charges they set fire to nine rural Baptist churches

2007, the British House of Commons approved a measure requiring the House of Lords to be elected by the people rather than appointed

2008, U.S. President George W. Bush vetoed legislation that would have outlawed severe interrogation methods such as waterboarding used by the CIA. Bush said the proposal would eliminate "one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror."

2009, U.S. President Barack Obama said the United States may try reconciliation with Taliban moderates in an effort to turn around the Afghan war

2011, as fighting in Libya between insurgents and forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi continued and casualties escalated, rebel leaders gave Gadhafi 72 hours to resign or be hunted as a criminal

2012, Syria's deputy oil minister (Abdo Husameddine), looking tense, announced in a video that he had defected from President Bashar Assad's regime

2013, former Argentine President Carlos Saul Menem and ex-Defense Minister Oscar Camilion were convicted of smuggling weapons to Croatia and Ecuador

2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 carrying 239 people vanished over the Indian Ocean en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. A massive search found no sign of the plane and a government statement months later said all aboard -- 227 passengers and 12 crew members -- "are presumed to have lost their lives."

2016, Democrat Bernie Sanders breathed new life into his longshot White House bid with a crucial win in Michigan's primary while Hillary Clinton breezed to an easy victory in Mississippi; Republican Donald Trump swept to victory in Michigan, Mississippi and Hawaii, while Ted Cruz carried Idaho



[ I N S I G H T ]

Joseph Curl: Americans, domestically, live in truly terrifying times --- and that's not hyperbole

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Least Competent Artists

Mona Charen: O.J. and Us

John Stossel: Killing Big Bird

Jonah Goldberg: Twitter is proving to be Trump's Achilles' heel

Paul Greenberg: Hear America talking

L. Brent Bozell III: The Media's Anonymous-Sources Hypocrisy

Michelle Malkin: A Day Without American Tech Workers

Gold Star father Khan's claim that the US is restricting his travel may be unraveling

The Statue of Liberty went dark overnight

Byron York: The information vacuum inside the Trump Russia controversy

Craig Timberg, Ellen Nakashima & Elizabeth Dwoskin: Why the CIA is using your TVs, smartphones and cars for spying

Amber Phillips: The three GOP factions that could doom Republicans' Obamacare replacement bill

Bob Tyrrell: Those mercurial Dems

Hugh Hewitt: Dems demanding a special prosecutor should be careful what they wish for

Ramesh Ponnuru: Trump fails to take his wiretap story seriously

Declassified by Eli Lake: What Trump tweeted about Obama and wiretaps is almost certainly false. But it's not the end of the story

Dick Morris: I've got the solution to replace Obamacare

Walter Williams: College Campus Disgrace

Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

Mallard Filmore



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