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"The wise man knows what he speaks, but the fool speaks what he knows."

--- Rabbi Yosef Karo



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Inspiration
A Spiritual Bucket-List
By Dr. Erica Brown


If we are going to check off anything, it better be the experiences that make life worth living before the checklist runs out





Reality Check
Obama's money and Israel's sovereignty
By Caroline B. Glick


What the American president is demanding would normally be shocking. Are Democrat Jews expecting the same from a President Hillary?





Coupling
9 little gestures to pamper your hubby
By Megan Shauri

Give your marriage some extra lovin' by surprising your husband with little gestures that have a BIG impact




 


Society
Whom are you voting for? This guy can read your mind. Really
By Jacob Bogage

This might be the closest the country gets to an explanation of this crazy election without dissecting a brain





Consumer Intelligence
Elite travelers skip airport security line
By Alan Levin

The next time you're stuck in a long security line, consider this: At most U.S. airports it's possible to buy your way out of the wait



Life Hacks
Born to run? It may be possible to nurture a preference for exercise in the womb
By Nancy Szokan

Predisposition to being chunky or know somebody who is? Forward this link





Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Ellie Krieger


Secrets & recipe for mastering smoothie making this summer


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Nate Beeler

John Branch

John Deering

Bob Gorrell

Christo Komarnitski

RJ Matson

Dana Summers

Dana Summers BONUS!

Dana Summers BONUS!

Gary Varvel

Michael Ramirez





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On this day in . . .


1497, John Cabot lands on North America in Newfoundland; the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings

1807, a grand jury in Richmond, Va., indicted former Vice President Aaron Burr on charges of treason and high misdemeanor (he was later acquitted)

1812, Napoleon's Grande Armee crosses the Neman River beginning his invasion of Russia

1901, the first major exhibition of Pablo Picasso's artwork opens at a gallery on Paris' rue Lafitte, a street known for its prestigious art galleries. He was 19 years-old

1938, a 450 metric ton meteorite strikes the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania

1940, France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II

1947, a man from Boise, Idaho, described a "saucer"-shaped object above Washington state's Mt. Rainier, thus coining the term "flying saucer"

1948, Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the western allies to organize the massive Berlin Airlift

1957, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States

1964, the Federal Trade Commission began requiring all cigarette packages to have a message for consumers warning them about the health dangers of smoking

1983, the space shuttle Challenger -- carrying America's first woman in space, Sally K. Ride -- coasted to a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California

1993, Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber

1998, President Clinton left on a nine-day visit to China amid a swirl of controversy over his policy toward the Beijing government. ALSO: AT&T made a move to return to the local phone service game by snapping up cable heavyweight Tele-Communications, Inc. for a reported $48 billion.

2004, in a bizarre conclusion to a huge upset, the chair umpire called the wrong score in the second tiebreaker, and Venus Williams fell 7-6 (5), 7-6 (6) to Karolina Sprem in the second round at Wimbledon

2007, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saddam Hussein's cousin known as "Chemical Ali," and two other ex-officials in Saddam's were sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for slaughtering up to 180,000 Kurdish men, women and children two decades earlier

2010, John Isner defeated Nicolas Mahut in a first-round match played over three days at Wimbledon. The match -- longest in pro-tennis history -- took 11 hours, 5 minutes and 183 games to decide a winner.

2012, the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi was elected president of Egypt

2015, a federal judge in Boston formally sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for the 2013 terror attacks. ALSO: Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley became the first southern governor to use his executive power to remove Confederate banners, as four flags with secessionist symbols were taken down from a large monument to rebel soldiers outside the state capitol in Montgomery.



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Wesley Pruden: The bad moon rising over Hillary

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Undignified Deaths

Greg Crosby: Independence Day

Suzanne Fields: Hip-Hop Civics, as Taught by Trump and 'Hamilton'

David Limbaugh: Free Condoms --- What Could Go Wrong?

Mona Charen: Men at Work ... or Not

Jennifer Rubin: Court decisions: What they tell us, and don't

Robert J. Samuelson: How health care creates wage inequality

Megan McArdle: Republicans Have a Shot at Replacing Obamacare

Paul Greenberg: Annals of pseudoscience from Lysenko to climate changers

Jonah Goldberg: Time for Trump to put up or shut up

Jenna Johnson & Jose A. DelReal: In Scotland, Trump celebrates 'Brexit' vote

Dan Balz: Echoes of American politics in Brexit vote

Emily Rauhala, Brian Murphy & Ylan Q. Mui: Global markets in tailspin after British vote to exit EU

Rich Lowry: Even SCOTUS can’t stop Obama from gutting immigration enforcement

Bill Whalen: Trump Finds A Message That Works; With A Few Tweaks, It Can Be Even Better

David Weigel & Aaron C. Davis: Sanders, who has no plans to endorse or appear with Hillary ahead of the Dem convention, is in the midst of his own transition

David B. Rivkin Jr. & Andrew M. Grossman: The wrong way to control guns

Charles Krauthammer: Hillaryism: Trapped by circumstance, she is the status quo candidate of uninspired incrementalism

Dry Bones

Mallard Filmore

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