Diplomacy
All 100 senators sign letter asking for equal treatment of Israel at the U.N.
By Anne Gearan

The unusual unanimity expands on the fierce denunciation of U.N. treatment of Israel mounted by Nikki Haley, the Trump administration's ambassador to the United Nations

Passionate Parenting
No, applying neuroscience to my baby won't make me a better mom
By Olga Mecking

When I was a new mother, the parenting books I read encouraged me to treat child-rearing like a science project

Wellness
Automated calls give police a way to check on seniors living on their own
By Jenni Bergal

Take advantage of local services and possibly prevent tragedy

Life Hacks
SMS and MMS tend to disappear. How to prevent that
By David Nield

Whether you're switching to a new phone or just want a record of your chats, the right tools and apps can help you preserve your SMS messages (INCLUDES DIAGRAMS)

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

The recipe that might convince you to make Indian food at home

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• Chip Bok

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• Jerry Holbert

• Rick McKee

• Dana Summers

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

Cory Franklin: Erin Moran And the Reverse Hollywood Dream

Julia Gorin: Letters to Aligned-Thinking-Only NY Post and Washington Times

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On this day in . . .

• 1789, there was a mutiny on HMS Bounty as the crew of the British ship set Capt. William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific

• 1792, France invades the Austrian Netherlands  (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War

• 1796, the Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast

• 1902, using the ISO 8601 standard Year Zero definition for the Gregorian calendar preceded by the Julian calendar, the one billionth minute since the start of January 1, Year Zero occurs at 10:40 AM on this date

• 1930, the first night game in organized baseball  history takes place in Independence, Kansas

• 1932, a vaccine  for yellow fever is announced for use on humans

• 1939, Powell Crosley produces America's first miniature or "bantam" car. The Crosley was a foot shorter and 100 pounds lighter than the pre-war Volkswagen Bug, and far smaller than anything manufactured by American companies. At a $800 sticker price, Crosley was unable to convince consumers to purchase a miniature car when they could buy a full-size car for a few hundred dollars more. He was soon out of business

• 1945, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee the country

• 1952, war with Japan officially ended as a treaty that had been signed by the United States and 47 other nations took effect. Also: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, one of the most highly regarded American generals of World War II, steps down as supreme commander of the combined land and air forces of NATO. He does this in order to run for president. In November 1952, "Ike" wins a resounding victory in the presidential elections, and in 1956, is reelected by a landslide

• 1958, Vice President Nixon and his wife, Pat, began a goodwill tour of Latin America that was marred by hostile mobs in Lima, Peru, and Caracas, Venezuela

• 1967, heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army, the same day Gen. William C. Westmoreland told Congress the U.S. "would prevail in Vietnam"

• 1970, President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia

• 1975, the last U.S. civilians were evacuated from South Vietnam as North Vietnamese forces tightened their noose around Saigon

• 1980, President Carter accepted the resignation of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who had opposed the failed rescue mission aimed at freeing American hostages being held in Iran by practitioners of that "religion of peace"

• 1986, the Soviet Union informed the world of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. ALSO: The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea

• 1992, the Agriculture Department unveiled its pyramid-shaped recommended-diet chart that had cost nearly $1 million to develop. Of course, it was later revised

• 2001, a Russian rocket lifted off from Central Asia bearing the first space tourist, California multi-millionaire Dennis Tito, and two cosmonauts on a journey to the international space station

• 2005, a military jury at Fort Bragg, N.C., sentenced Sgt. Hasan Akbar, a practitioner of that "religion of peace", to death for the 2003 murders of two officers in Kuwait. ALSO: More than 100 volunteers joined police in Duluth, Ga., in searching for Jennifer Wilbanks, a bride-to-be who had vanished two days earlier. (Wilbanks turned up in Albuquerque, N.M., having run away on her own.)

• 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Indiana law requiring state or federal photo identification in order to vote

• 2009, three Albanian immigrant brothers, practitioners of that "religion of peace", were sentenced in Camden, N.J., to life in prison for their part in a plot to attack soldiers at Fort Dix

• 2010, the U.S. government approved the building of the nation's first wind farm, off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., designed to produce "clean," renewable energy

• 2012, Syria derided United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as biased and called his comments "outrageous" after he blamed the regime for widespread cease-fire violations

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Wesley Pruden: Spooked by the power of words, words, words (THOUGHT PROVOKING)

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: What are you thinking!? | 'You Have the Right to (Any Ol') Attorney'

Greg Crosby: Oh, those silly wacky kids!

Rich Lowry: Next to Berkeley's fascists, Ann Coulter is a lib

Mona Charen: A Road Map for Dealing With Campus Radicals

Jonah Goldberg: Berkeley didn't birth 'free speech' but seems intent to bury it

Adam Taylor: A mugwump? Boris Johnson's use of insult against opposition leader leaves Britain perplexed

David M. Shribman: Expo 67, that bright shining moment: In Montreal 50 years ago, a World's Fair captured the world's imagination

David Limbaugh: Liberal Thought Police Getting Scarier

L. Brent Bozell III: Reagan's Lesson for Trump

Suzanne Fields: How Hillary Doomed Her 'Inevitable Presidency'

Deroy Murdock: Good, Bad & Ugly of Trump's First 100 Days

Charles Krauthammer: Don't mistake the results of the French presidential election for a sign that populism is abating

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