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"At 5 your son is your master; at 10, your servant; at 15 your double; and after that, friend or foe, depending on his upbringing. "

---Rabbi Chasdai ibn Crescas



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Inspired Living
Hazing and holiness
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson



A ritual of youth gone terribly wrong







World
Today's German military has a Nazi problem
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.


German officials are trying to weed out groups that have extreme, Nazi-idealizing views and access to military weapons




 


Passionate Parenting
Growing up under the watchful eyes of his mother's newsfeed
By Stacey Steinberg


Does it matter if I am oversharenting?



Wealth Strategies
How to Thrive as Market Cycles Return
By James K. Glassman


We're heading back to the old normal. The Fed is raising interest rates as the economy approaches full employment and inflation picks up





Consumer Intelligence
New baby monitors offer peace of mind --- and questions
By Alice Callahan




Parents want to track their child's breathing and motion, but devices have downsides





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


Unexpected flavors meld so well in this quick, easy skillet chicken its actually company-worthy


[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

Nate Beeler

Chip Bok

Jerry Holbert

Jeff Koterba

Rick McKee

Dana Summers

Gary Varvel

Adam Zyglis

Michael Ramirez





[ T O D A Y  I N  H I S T O R Y ]


On this day in . . .


70, Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, opens an full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city's Third Wall to the northwest

1775, representatives from the 13 colonies begin the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. ALSO: Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured the British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, N.Y.

1837, the Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels

1863, Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson dies eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops during the American Civil War

1865, Union forces captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Irwinville, Ga.

1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States

1872, Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States

1893, the Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883. The act required a tax to be paid on imported vegetables, but not fruit

1933, the Nazis, ym"sh, staged massive public book burnings in Germany

1940, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned, and Winston Churchill formed a new government

1954, Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts

1960, the nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth

1968, preliminary Vietnam peace talks began in Paris

1994, the state of Illinois executed serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murders of 33 young men and boys

1996, a "rogue storm" near the summit of Mount Everest kills eight climbers, making this the deadliest day in the mountain's history. Among the dead are experienced climbers Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, both of whom were leading paid expeditions to the summit

2001, the Justice Department handed over thousands of documents it said should have been provided to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh's attorneys; because of the blunder, McVeigh's execution, set for May 16, 2001, was postponed for a month

2002, a tense 39-day-old standoff between Israeli troops and Palestinian terrorists at one of Christianity's most sacred sites, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, ended with 13 terrorists flown into European exile and 26 released into the Gaza Strip. ALSO: Cuban activists delivered more than 11,000 signatures to the National Assembly demanding a referendum on broad changes in the socialist system, an unprecedented challenge to Fidel Castro's 43-year rule

2005, a hand grenade which is thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet (20 metres) from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate

2006, Daniel Biechele, a former rock-band manager whose pyrotechnics caused a 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed 100 people, was sentenced to four years in prison

2011, the bulging Mississippi River rolled into the Mississippi Delta after cresting before daybreak at Memphis, Tenn., causing widespread damage. ALSO: In a one-two punch against Moammar Gadhafi's forces, NATO war planes struck a command center in Tripoli and pounded targets around the besieged port of Misrata

2012, JPMorgan Chase said it had lost $2 billion in six weeks in a trading portfolio designed to hedge against risks the company took with its own money. ALSO: two car bombs exploded outside an intelligence compound in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people and injuring nearly 400

2013, the Internal Revenue Service apologized for giving special scrutiny to applications for tax-exempt status that used the words "Tea Party" or "patriots"




[ I N S I G H T ]

Mark Steyn: The Midnight Train

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Wait, What!?

Michelle Malkin: Can Cops Get a Fair Trial in America?

Niall Ferguson: Is social democracy shattered?

Julie Tate & Julie Vitkovskaya: Everything that led up to Comey's firing

Amber Phillips: Senate Republicans hold the key to what happens next with Trump and Russia. Here's an early rundown of where GOP senators stand

Aaron Blake: Trump needed a really good excuse to fire Comey; Comey gave it to him

Andrew Malcolm: Trump's religious freedom executive order is a promise kept, sort of

John Stossel: Improved Health Bill

L. Brent Bozell III: Historians Still Ruining Obama's Mythical Memoir

Byron York: Spending bill, not Obamacare, reveals deep GOP division

Jonah Goldberg: Courts, Colbert enabling Trump's violations of democratic norms

Walter Williams: What Do Leftists Celebrate?

Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

Mallard Filmore



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