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Stop It!
The Bible is a sacred text, not a Cliffs Notes for federal budgeteers
Seriously Funny
Who can hear the sound of one hand typing? A wordsmith gets a glitch
Most-Pro-Israel Presidency Yet?
More evidence that the change in U.S. administrations has shifted America's positions on Israeli suburb building and overall attitude to the Jewish state
War on Jihad
A step or more behind the terrorists doesn't mean they must stay that way
Wellness
The battle over access to unapproved treatments moves from the states to Congress
Passionate Parenting
This legal skills professor and one-time prosecutor and child welfare attorney offers an informed perspective that should be embraced
Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
This delicious duo had starring roles on Broadway. Enjoy them at home
Smile!
"He was just there, inside the machine, looking out of the glass," his father recalled. (Includes short video)
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• Chip Bok
Marilyn Penn: After the Storm: A Review
Julia Gorin: Chelsea Clinton, Our Next First Female President, to Receive an 'Impact Award'
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted present-day Florida
• 1794, the United States establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates
• 1846, during the Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas
• 1854, the Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia
• 1884, the first telephone line between Boston and New York was inaugurated
• 1886, Apache leader Geronimo surrendered to U.S. federal authorities
• 1941, during World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup
• 1943, during World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska
• 1945, during World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told reporters in Paris that German defenses on the Western Front had been broken
• 1964, the strongest earthquake to hit North America -- magnitude 9.2 -- struck Alaska, killing 117 people
• 1970, the Concorde makes its first supersonic flight
• 1975, construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins
• 1976, the first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens
• 1977, two Boeing 747 jumbo jets collided and exploded in flames on a foggy runway in the Canary Islands, killing 577 people in the worst aviation disaster in history
• 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in Delaware v. Prouse that police could not stop motorists at random to check licenses and registrations unless there was reason to believe a law had been broken
• 1996, an Israeli court convicted Yigal Amir of assassinating Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and sentenced him to life in prison
• 2002, Passover Massacre: A practitioner of that "religion of peace" praises Allah before blowing himself up and killing 29 people partaking of a Passover seder in Netanya, Israel. ALSO: President George W. Bush grudgingly signed landmark legislation designed to limit the role of big money in political campaigns, triggering a rush to the courthouse by critics challenging the law's constitutionality
• 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush, seeking to calm concerns that the war in Iraq is proving tougher than expected after its first week, said the United States and Britain will battle Saddam Hussein's forces "however long it takes to win."
• 2004, NASA's unmanned experimental hypersonic plane reached about 5,000 mph in a test flight -- more than seven times the speed of sound
• 2007, NFL owners voted 30-2 (with Cincinnati and Arizona dissenting) to make the video replay system a permanent officiating tool
• 2008, North Korea underscored its anger over South Korea's tough new stance toward the communist country with the test-firing of short-range missiles
• 2011, international air raids targeted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte (SURT) for the first time as rebels quickly closed in on the regime stronghold
• 2013, Julia Pierson became the first woman to head the U.S. Secret Service. (She didn't last long. Pierson resigned in October, 2014.)
• 2014, the U.S. Air Force took the extraordinary step of firing nine midlevel nuclear commanders and announcing it would discipline dozens of junior officers at a nuclear missile base, responding firmly to an exam-cheating scandal
2016, a bombing in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore killed 65 people in a park crowded with Christians, including many children; a breakaway faction of the Taliban claimed responsibility. ALSO: The Syrian government recaptured the historic city of Palmyra from Islamic State fighters who had waged a 10-month reign of terror there
Glenn Harlan Reynolds: Colossal GOP failure and not just on health
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Suspicions Confirmed | Finer Points of the Law
Argus Hamilton's The News in Zingers
Lenore Skenazy: Your Baby, Decoded
Anna Fifield: Dismissing Kim Jong Un as crazy risks underestimating him
Hugh Hewitt: It was a good week for the GOP. But it could have been great
Amber Phillips: Trump's First 100 Days: What's next for Trump and Congress
Ashley Parker & Philip Rucker: Jared tasked to lead initiative fulfilling key campaign promise
Debra J. Saunders: Trump Finds Freedom Lacks Loyalty
David M. Shribman: A party divided against itself
Bernard Goldberg: The (GOP) Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Sean Sullivan: Trump goes after Freedom Caucus, but its leader doesn't hit back
Amber Phillips: Congressman resigns from Freedom Caucus after health-care drama
Kelly Riddell: Is the president getting played by Speaker Ryan?
Dick Morris: House Revolt Is Revolting
Bruce Bialosky: Are the Climate Change People Right?
George Will: A new voice for conservatism
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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