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Weekend of March 31-April 2, 2017

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Inspiration
A Tree Grows in Babylonia
By Dr. Erica Brown

Role modeling, leadership done right

Reality Check
Israel's silenced majority
By Caroline B. Glick

The pressure the Trump administration is exerting on Israel to constrain the rights of Jews to property in Judea and Samaria is the direct consequence of the refusal of the American foreign policy establishment to reckon with the reality that Israelis have internalized

Wellness
How a full spice cabinet can keep you healthy
By Carrie Dennett, M.P.H., R.D.N.

Antioxidant, anti-cancer properties can help the body run smoothly

Law
Naming a baby is hard enough without state's veto
By Noah Feldman

ZalyKha Graceful Lorraina Allah should have her day in court -- and win

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

As main-course or retro appetizer, this mushroom's made for stuffing

Wealth Strategies
6 money tips from someone who saved $1 million by age 30
By Jonnelle Marte

How one man went from being unemployed, broke and living with his parents to super-wealthy

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• Nate Beeler

• Lisa Benson

• Chip Bok

• Steve Kelley

• Rick McKee

• Dana Summers

• Michael Ramirez

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On this day in . . .

• 1774, during the American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed in the Boston Port Act

• 1880, Wabash, Ind., became the first town in the world to be illuminated by electrical lighting

• 1889, French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its completion

• 1903, Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft

• 1906, the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States, later renamed the National Collegiate Athletic Association, was established

• 1917, the United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands

• 1918, Daylight Saving Time goes into effect in the United States for the first time

• 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a public work relief program in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men, ages 18-25 is established. A part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, it provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state and local governments

• 1942, during World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession

• 1945, during World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands

• 1948, the U.S. Congress passed the Marshall Aid Act, a plan to rehabilitate war-ravaged Europe

• 1951, Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau

• 1954, the U.S. Air Force Academy was established at Colorado Springs, Colo.

• 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum

• 1966, the Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first spaceprobe to enter orbit around the Moon

• 1968, President Johnson stunned the country by announcing he would not seek another term in office. He and simultaneously ordered suspension of U.S. bombing of North Vietnam

• 1976, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that coma patient Karen Anne Quinlan could be disconnected from her respirator (Quinlan, who remained comatose, died in 1985.)

• 1980, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets due to bankruptcy and debt owed to creditors

• 1985, the first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York

• 1991, the Warsaw Pact formally ended as Soviet commanders surrendered their powers in an agreement between pact members and the Soviet Union

• 1992, the USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California. ALSO: The U.N. Security Council voted to impose air traffic and weapons sanctions against Libya for not surrendering six men wanted by the United States, Britain and France in the bombings of a U.S. jetliner and a French plan

• 1996, Russian President Boris Yeltsin announced a halt to combat operations in Chechnya, limited troop withdrawals and a willingness to hold indirect talks with the rebels' leader

• 2001, riot police laid siege to Slobodan Milosevic's villa in an attempt to bring the former Yugoslav president to justice. But a defiant Milosevic rejected a warrant, reportedly telling police he wouldn't "go to jail alive." (He was taken into custody the next day.)

• 2005, a damning report by a presidential commission concluded the United States knew "disturbingly little" about nuclear and biological threats from dangerous adversaries. ALSO: Terri Schiavo, 41, died at a hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., 13 days after her feeding tube was removed in a wrenching right-to-die dispute that engulfed the courts, Congress and the White House and divided the country

• 2007, President Bush called for the release of 15 British sailors and marines held by Iran, calling their capture by Tehran "inexcusable behavior." (The crew members were released on April 4.)

• 2008, the Dow Jones industrial average closed at 12,262.89, down 7.6 percent since the end of 2007. It was the worst quarterly performance in five years

• 2009, the Dow Jones industrial average closed the month at 7,608.92, up 7.7 percent, while the Standard and Poor's 500 rose 8.5 percent, closing at 797.87 and the Nasdaq composite rebounded from six-year low and closed at 1,528.59, a one-month gain of 11 percent

• 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama announced an expansion of offshore development and exploration on the Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico and support for areas of Alaska's North Slope as part of a broad new energy security plan

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Wesley Pruden: Girding Republican loins for war

Wesley Pruden: Girding Republican loins for war

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: It's Definitely NOT 'One World'

Greg Crosby: Males Need Not Apply

• Panty liner triggers a TSA pat-down just one step removed from a pap smear

Rick Newcombe: Should This Policeman Be In Prison?

David Limbaugh: Four Days in Israel Verify Biblical Places and Events

Justin Fox: The dumpster fire hasn't been put out quite yet

Jonah Goldberg: Reaction to Pence story shows traditional Christians face double standard

Jeff Jacoby: When presidents break big promises

L. Brent Bozell III: Samantha Bee: Great World Leader?

The Fact Checker: The Truth Behind the Rhetoric: Sanders' convoluted claim that Dems are not trying to filibuster Gorsuchs

Kelly Riddell: The art of the comeback

Rich Lowry: The Crisis of Trumpism

Mona Charen: Democratic Vendetta

Callum Borchers: It's clear from Trump's Supreme Court pick that his changing libel laws is an empty threat.

Karen Tumulty: Trump struggles against some of the forces that helped get him elected

Michael Barone: Doesn't Anybody Know How to Play This Game?

Charles Krauthammer: The road to single-payer health care? We still got time to revisit a more ambitious repeal-and-replace plan

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore