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Outlook
The evil of economics
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson

A new study shows that free markets don't make for free minds

Turning Middle East Madness Productive
Military-grade tech to monitor eggplants rather than explosives
By Gwen Ackerman

The Israeli inventors of Flux IoT's Eddy, a robot measuring less than a foot tall, intend the device to become the industry standard for indoor farmers who want to grow pesticide-free, water-efficient crops via hydroponics

Life Hacks
The complete guide to spring cleaning your computer
By David Nield

Blow away those digital cobwebs (Complete with easy to follow images)

Passionate Parenting
Confessions of a cruddy mom
By Molly Freestone

Why is parenting so frustrating and overwhelming?

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

How to make a simple, straight-up, deli-style chicken soup worth crowing about: Bubbie -- and your in-laws -- will be jealous! (Includes FAQs)

Wellness
If you've avoided colonoscopies because of the icky prep, help may be on the way
By Marlene Cimons

The latest efforts to make lifesaving screening less onerous

[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

• Lisa Benson

• Chip Bok

• Bob Gorrell

• Jerry Holbert

• Gary McCoy

• Dana Summers

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

Marilyn Penn: Faux Racism

Peter Brookes: Asia's a powder keg

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On this day in . . .

• 1622, the Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population

• 1630, Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables

• 1638, Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent

• 1765, Britain enacted the Stamp Act of 1765 to raise money from the American colonies. (The Act was repealed the following year.)

• 1820, U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel with Commodore James Barron near Washington, D.C.

• 1882, Congress outlawed polygamy

• 1871, in North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment

• 1894, the first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts

• 1895, first display (a private screening) of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumiere

• 1916, the last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored

• 1933, during Prohibition, President Roosevelt signed a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal

• 1945, representatives from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Transjordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen met in Cairo to establish the Arab League

• 1946, the British mandate in Transjordan came to an end

• 1954, closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens

• 1960, Arthur Leonard Schawlow & Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser

• 1974, the U.S. Senate passed and sent to the states for ratification the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a measure popularly known as the Equal Rights Amendment. However, the required number of states failed to ratify it before the deadline

• 1978, Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of "The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico

• 1984, teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded

• 1987, a garbage barge, carrying 3,200 tons of refuse, left Islip, N.Y., on a six-month journey in search of a place to unload. (The barge was turned away by several states and three other countries until space was found back in Islip.)

• 1993, the Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path

• 1997, a day after a practitioner of that "religion of peace" killed three women in a Tel Aviv suicide bombing, Israeli troops clashed with hundreds of Palestinians in Hebron. ALSO: Tara Lipinski, at age 14 years and 10 months, became the youngest women's world figure skating champion. AND: Comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth --- about 122 million miles

• 2004, Ahmed Yassin, ym"sh, co-founder and leader of the terrorist group Hamas and two bodyguards are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles

• 2010, former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton toured the quake-devastated capital of Haiti --- a visit intended to remind donors of the immense needs facing the recovery effort. Google announced it would stop censoring search results on its site in China by shifting it from the mainland to Hong Kong. ALSO: The largest U.S. "community organizing group", known as ACORN, announced it was disbanding because of declining revenues

• 2011, a senior U.S. official confirmed Russia and the United States have begun exchanging nuclear stockpile information under the new arms reduction treaty

• 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama had ordered approval of the southern part of the Keystone pipeline from Oklahoma to the Gulf Coast. The pipeline is designed to transport synthetic crude oil and diluted asphalt to the Gulf of Mexico and other U.S. destinations from Alberta, Canada. ALSO: A group of military officers seized control of the Mali government and ousted President Amadou Toumani Toure who had planned to step down after the April elections

• 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama, visiting Israel's memorial to Holocaust victims, said bigotry and hatred have no place in a civilized world

[ I N S I G H T ]

Andrew Malcolm: What's important about Trump's budget is not what you think

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Cunning Strategies

Jonah Goldberg: Republicans are finding it hard to play defense

(WHAT YOU MAY HAVE MISSED) Elise Viebeck: Trump's First 100 Days: 'I'm gonna come after you'

Niall Ferguson: China has taken on Silicon Valley, and guess who is winning?

L. Brent Bozell III: Time to Stop Taxpayer-Funded Propaganda

John Stossel: Kindest Cuts

Byron York: How pundits got key part of Trump-Russia story all wrong

Jackson Diehl: For this Russian dissident, holding Putin accountable was almost deadly --- twice

Michelle Malkin: Bring Assata Back ASAP

Paul Kane: Gorsuch steals Dems' line of attack

Amber Phillips: 4 takeaways from Neil Gorsuch's highly politicized confirmation hearing

Kathleen Parker: President Trump's sanest decision reminds us that there are still grown-ups in public service

Charles Hurt: Trump-obsessed media pay no attention to the man holding the political puppet strings

Walter Williams: Transgender Challenges

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore