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Outlook
What's your Your H.Q.?
By Dr. Erica Brown

Happiness is foundational to the religious mindset.

But can our emotions be turned on and off like a light-switch?


 

Reality Check
Major secular Jewish groups have embraced the antisemites' false defense
By Caroline B. Glick

The rise of the networked Left

Diplomacy
President Trump's openly pro-Israel pick for Jewish State ambassador -- imagine that! -- clears key Senate panel
By Karoun Demirjian

"Controversial" David M. Friedman, however, not there just yet

Personal Growth
6 ways second chances can make you happier
By Hannah Rose

You know what you've been told by those who guide you. Here's what science says

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Bonnie S. Benwick

What to cook now: Something salty and sweet, with a little heat and meat

Consumer Intelligence
How CIA Spies Rate Your Computer's Antivirus
By Anthony Cuthbertson

WikiLeaks documents have revealed the opinion of CIA hackers on popular antivirus software

[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

• Nate Beeler

• Chip Bok

• Lisa Benson

• Daryl Cagle

• Jake Fuller

• Bob Gorrell

• RJ Matson

• Steve Sack

• Dana Summers

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

Marilyn Penn: Mr. Gaga: A Review

Peter Brookes: Cutting Kim's funding, access to technology crucial for Trump

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On this day in . . .

• 1496, Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere as he left Hispaniola for Spain

• 1804, in St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States

• 1814, Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France

• 1848, the Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war with Mexico

• 1862, the U.S. Treasury issued the first American paper money, in denominations from $5 to $1,000

• 1876, Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."

• 1891, Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching

• 1902, a United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera

• 1922, Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, although he is released after two years of the sentence, being released in February 1924 after an operation for appendicitis

• 1949, Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington, D.C., of treason. (She served 12 years in prison.)

• 1959, Tibet leads an unsuccessful uprising against ten years of Chinese occupation in Lhasa. Thousands massacred by the occupying Chinese army

• 1969, in Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He would later retract his guilty plea

• 1977, astronomers discovered rings around the planet Uranus

• 1980, "Scarsdale Diet" author Dr. Herman Tarnower was shot to death in Purchase, N.Y. (Tarnower's former lover, Jean Harris, was convicted of murder; she served nearly 12 years in prison before being released in January 1993.)

• 1982, the United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups. ALSO: Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun

• 1988, prior to the 50th anniversary of the Anschluss, Austrian President Kurt Waldheim apologized on his country's behalf for atrocities committed by Austrian Nazis

• 2000, the NASDAQ stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom

• 2004, teenage sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, a practitioner of that "religion of peace", was sentenced in Chesapeake, Va., to life in prison for an October 2002 killing spree in the Washington D.C. area that left 10 people dead

• 2006, officials confirmed that Tom Fox, an American who was among four Christian activists kidnapped by practitioners of that "religion of peace" in Iraq, had been found slain

• 2007, captured terrorist Khalid Sheik Mohammed, long suspected of masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, confessed to planning them and said he played a role in about 30 other attacks and plots. ALSO: A federal court threw out a District of Columbia ban on keeping handguns in private homes as unconstitutional

• 2011, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, signed a bill ending or sharply restricting bargaining rights for most government workers in the state

• 2013, the president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, accused the Taliban and the U.S. of working in concert to convince Afghans that violence would worsen if most foreign troops left --- an allegation the top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Joseph Dunford, rejected as "categorically false."

• 2016, Donald Trump and his Republican rivals turned their presidential debate in Miami into a mostly respectful but still pointed discussion of Social Security, Islam, trade and more

[ I N S I G H T ]

Wesley Pruden: Breaking up in the Trump Era is easy to do

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Recent Alarming Headlines

Lenore Skenazy: Weird of Mouth

• An airline passenger made a scene over a $12 blanket --- and the pilot diverted the plane

• • Left's No. 1 physicist: 'World government' only way to save humankind

Greg Crosby: Once Upon a Time

L. Brent Bozell III: ABC's Huge Gay Propaganda Flop

Madison Gesiotto: See no evil: Libs refuse to see themselves as hypocrites

Rich Lowry: Andrew Jackson's warnings for Donald Trump

Dave Weinbaum: Open letter from President Trump to Obama's communist insurgency

David Limbaugh: Free Market Solutions the Key to Health Care Reform

(WELL, HMMM) Max Boot: Has WikiLeaks joined the Trump administration?

The Fact Checker: The Truth Behind the Rhetoric: Schumer's claim that 'millions of women turn' to Planned Parenthood for mammograms

Charles Krauthammer: Washington has worked itself into a frenzy over two different conjectures

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore