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"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily."

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Unexpected
How Donald Trump is saving a self-destructive secular Judaism from itself. Is that a good thing?
By Jonathan S. Tobin

Synagogues, temples and the resistance

Controversy!
Migrant Muslims' hate of Europe's Jews documentary was commissioned with tax payer funding only to be axed by European TV stations
By Marc Neugroschel

Move defies experts who were engaged to evaluate the film; eventually praised it, still call for its release

Personal Growth
6 ways to get more appreciation
By Kim Giles

Simple ways to enhance your life

Evolution, Huh?
Scientists Discover a Multiverse in the Brain
By Hannah Osborne

Reveals the organ operates on up to 11 different dimensions and a "world we had never imagined"

Consumer Intelligence
Parents: Did your kids order, on the sly, from Amazon?
By Samantha Schmidt

You are now eligible for a refund

Life Hacks
Six Google search tips to find anything faster
By David Nield

There's more to Google search than meets the eye

Start searching smarter

(Detailed instructions; diagrams)

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

You won't be able to guess the unlikely fruit making this summer pudding the berry best

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• Nate Beeler

• Chip Bok

• Bob Gorrell

• Joe Heller

• Dana Summers

• Dana Summers BONUS!

• Gary Varvel

• Gary Varvel BONUS!

• Michael Ramirez

• Michael Ramirez BONUS!

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On this day in . . .

• 1777, the Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States

• 1789: Mutiny on the Bounty: Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,000-mile) journey in an open boat. ALSO: Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky

• 1807, emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition

• 1900, Hawaii becomes a United States territory

• 1937, Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday

• 1938, Action Comics issue one is released, introducing Superman

• 1940, during World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat. ALSO: The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence. AND: A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp

• 1942, Anne Frank begins to keep a diary

• 1951, UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I), the first commercial computer produced in the United States, is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau

• 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that adds the recognition of the Divine into the United States' Pledge of Allegiance

• 1985, TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by by practitioners of that "religion of peace" shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece. The aircraft with its passengers and crew endured a three-day intercontinental ordeal during which one passenger, a U.S. Navy diver, was murdered. Dozens of passengers were then held hostage over the next two weeks, until released by their captors

• 1990, the Supreme Court upheld, 6-3, police checkpoints that examine drivers for signs of intoxication

• 2000, in the biggest step toward peace since the end of fighting in the Korean War, the leaders of North and South Korea signed an agreement pledging to work for reconciliation and eventual reunification

• 2005, U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins, who'd crossed into North Korea in 1965, arrived in the United States for his first visit in 40 years

• 2008, heavy rains flooded Iowa and other Midwestern states, claiming at least 24 lives and damaging millions of acres of corn and soybeans. ALSO: Iran rejected a six-nation offer of incentives to stop enriching uranium, prompting President George W. Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to jointly warn Tehran anew during a news conference in Paris against proceeding toward a nuclear bomb

• 2012, ousted Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, in exile and tried in absentia, was sentenced to life imprisonment for ordering the shooting of protesters

• 2016, Democrat Hillary Clinton brought a close to the presidential primary season with a win in the District of Columbia



[ I N S I G H T ]

Andrew Malcolm: What that Comey hearing really revealed about Washington

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Luckiest (Bewildered) Animals

• Historian accused of stealing American war heroes' dog tags to sell on eBay

Bernard Goldberg: Liberals For Segregation

Michelle Malkin: Rape Fakers Must Pay a Higher Price

Callum Borchers: Why Megyn Kelly and the rest of the media can't just ignore Alex Jones

L. Brent Bozell III: Comey Flunks The New York Times

Jonah Goldberg: Trump will be impeached if Republicans lose the House

Tom Hamburger & Karen Tumulty: Congressional Dems to file emoluments lawsuit against Trump

Dan Balz: New reports highlight shifting social attitudes and shifting coalitions and the rise of Trump. Will GOP adapt?

Alicia Colon: When losing an election makes you lose your mind

Carol Morello & Anne Gearan: Trump's top diplomat said a proposed 30 percent budget cut will not make the U.S. less effective overseas. Senators on both sides of the aisle aren't so sure

Marc A. Thiessen: The New York Times recklessly exposes a CIA operative's identity

Leonid Bershidsky: How the Russian internet censor banned itself

John Stossel: Fly Better

Byron York: Five notes on Trump's current predicament

Charles Hurt: Jeff Sessions takes the gloves off

Walter Williams: Rewriting American History

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore