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Outlook
Incivility: the new gold standard
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson

How low can we go?


 

Reality Check
Making the PLO Great Again
By Caroline B. Glick

The PLO is the Siren that drowns US administrations

Diplomacy
White House looks for deep cuts to U.N. funding
By Karen Deyoung

Enforcing politically: "He who pays the piper calls the tune"?

Undoing Obama's anti-Israel damage

Coupling
9 bad habits you didn't even know your marriage had
By Emily Cummings

Just because you might not realize these bad habits, doesn't mean your spouse hasn't

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

An on-trend, smooth and creamy -- yet healthful -- comfort-food dish that is destined to stand the test of time

Life Hacks
How to back up and protect your data from old smartphones, tablets, and computers
By David Nield

Everything you need to do before selling or recycling your devices

[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

• Chip Bok

• Joe Heller

• Steve Kelley

• Rick McKee

• David Hitch

• David Hitch BONUS!

• Dana Summers

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

Marilyn Penn: The Sense of An Ending

Neil Steinberg: 'Pain is the great destroyer of language'

[ T O D A Y  I N  H I S T O R Y ]

On this day in . . .

• 1493, Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas

• 1776, South Carolina becomes the first American colony to declare its independence from Great Britain and set up its own government

• 1783, in an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'etat never takes place

• 1913, President Wilson held the first open presidential news conference

• 1916, President Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa

• 1939, during World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist

• 1944, during World War II, Allied bombers again raided German-held Monte Cassino

• 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act

• 1977, the U.S. House of Representatives began a 90-day test to determine the feasibility of showing its sessions on television

• 1985, the first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com)

• 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union. ALSO: The Israeli Knesset brought down Yitzhak Shamir's government on a no-confidence motion after the Likud Party leader refused to accept a U.S. peace proposal

• 1991, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic declared Serbia's secession from the Yugoslav federation

• 2002, a Houston jury spared Andrea Yates' life after prosecutors stopped short of demanding the death penalty for the tormented mother who'd drowned her five children in the bathtub. (Yates was sentenced to life in prison; however, she was later acquitted by reason of insanity in a retrial.)

• 2003, a strange new illness with pneumonia-like symptoms called severe acute respiratory syndrome -- SARS -- spread from Asia to Europe to North America

• 2004, French President Jacques Chirac signs the law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools, commonly known as the headscarf ban. ALSO: Astronomers reported finding an object with a diameter of 800 to 1,100 miles circling the sun far beyond the orbit of any known planet. It was dubbed a "planetoid."

• 2005, former WorldCom chief Bernard Ebbers was convicted in New York of engineering the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history. (He was later sentenced to 25 years in prison.)

• 2006, Saddam Hussein, testifying for the first time in his trial, called on Iraqis to stop killing each other and instead fight U.S. troops; the judge reprimanded him for making a rambling, political speech and ordered the TV cameras switched off

• 2007, "Palestinian" leaders of Hamas and Fatah agreed to a coalition government but their platform didn't recognize Israel or renounce violence

• 2009, a chorus of outrage greeted news that some $165 million in executive bonuses were being paid by bailed-out insurance giant American International Group

• 2011, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces overwhelmed rebels in the strategic eastern city of Ajdabiya, hammering them with air strikes, missiles, tanks and artillery. ALSO: Israeli navy commandos seized a freighter carrying tons of weapons reportedly slated for Palestinian forces in Gaza. The Jerusalem Post said the weapons were from Iran

• 2012, the Taliban in Afghanistan suspended preliminary peace negotiations with the United States blaming unwanted U.S. efforts to include Afghan leaders in the talks. ALSO: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai urged NATO troops be limited to major bases by 2013 after the killing of 16 civilians allegedly by a U.S. soldier



[ I N S I G H T ]

Jonah Goldberg: Given a choice between fear and apathy, I'll take fear

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Not again!

Dennis Prager: Some on the Left Now Criticize the Students They Created

Aaron Blake: Turns out Trump didn't avoid income taxes for 18 years, after all

Chris Cillizza: This 2005 Donald Trump tax return is a total nothingburger

Michelle Malkin: The Dirty Dem Dogs of Disruption

L. Brent Bozell III: Hiding the Media's Disapproval Rating

Bob Tyrrell: Finally, comeuppance begins for the Boomers to see themselves as hypocrites

Byron York: New Trump executive order hurts Hawaii's feelings

John Stossel: Ignorant Media

Niall Ferguson: Cyber War I has already begun

Walter Williams: Liberty Is Not for Wimps

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore