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Seriously Funny
Do Gallup poll respondents have a prayer?
By Danny Tyree
I'm flummoxed by subsets of the supposedly pro-God respondents
Reality Check
The question is, why he is doing this? The author is a former senior aide to Israeli PM Begin and an author of numerous books
Heads-Up!
A Muslim and Israelis offer a lesson --- and a warning
"Harmless" video games are being produced to "re-educate" the player's sensibilities, including political ones
Must-Know Info
How you can minimize what's out there, step by step
Wellness
The legislation is the product of months of work to forge a compromise. But the bill still faces daunting political odds in a chamber where narrow margins and election-year tensions make legislating a difficult proposition
Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
How to make a better ice cream sundae, with recipes and tips
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• Chip Bok
• A.F. Branco BONUS!
• KAL
• Jeff Stahler BONUS!
• Jeff Stahler BONUS!
• Michael Ramirez BONUS!
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ]
On this day in . . . • 1829, English scientist James Smithson left a will that eventually funded the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, in a country he never visited
• 1844, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) founder Joseph Smith was murdered by a mob in Carthage, Ill.
• 1847, the first telegraph wire links were established between New York City and Boston
• 1859, Louisville, Ky., schoolteacher Mildred Hill wrote a tune for her students and called it "Good Morning To You." Her sister, Patty, wrote the lyrics and later added a verse that began "Happy Birthday To You."
• 1893, the "Panic of 1893" began as the value of the U.S. silver dollar fell to less than 60 cents in gold
• 1895, the inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives
• 1898, the first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia
• 1905, the Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war. It later came to be viewed as an initial step towards the Russian Revolution of 1917, and was the basis of Sergei Eisenstein's silent film The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
• 1950, the United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War
• 1954, the world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow
• 1967, the world's first ATM is installed in Enfield Town, England, United Kingdom
• 1974, U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union
• 1976, Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the practitioners of that "religion of peace" and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda
• 1979, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled private employers could give special preferences to blacks to eliminate "manifest racial imbalance" in traditionally white-only jobs
• 2002, in a landmark church-state decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that tuition vouchers were constitutional
• 2003, the national do-not-call registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolled almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day
• 2005, U.S. crude oil prices closed at a record $60 a barrel. ALSO: Dennis Rader, the so-called "BTK" killer (bind, torture, kill), pleaded guilty to 10 slayings in the Wichita, Kan., area
• 2011, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted by a federal jury in Chicago of a wide range of corruption charges, including the allegation that he'd tried to sell or trade President Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat. (Blagojevich was later sentenced to 14 years in prison.) ALSO: The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a California law that banned the sale of violent video games to minors under 18 years old in a major First Amendment case
• 2013, the Senate passed, 68-32, comprehensive legislation offering the hope of citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in America's shadows. (The House has yet to act on any element of the legislation.)
• 2014, a review of the troubled Veterans Health Administration requested by President Barack Obama said the VHA had a "corrosive culture," poor management, outdated technology, inadequate facilities, a shortage of doctors and nurses and a history of retaliation against employees
• 2017, the FARC rebel group officially disarms in a ceremony with the Colombian government. ALSO: A new and highly virulent outbreak of malicious data-scrambling software began causing mass disruption across the world, hitting Europe -- and Ukraine -- especially hard
[ I N S I G H T ]
(THOUGHT PROVOKING) Jeff Jacoby: Do Christian lives matter?
News of the Weird: The Passing Parade
Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report
Lenore Skenazy: Letter to a Worried Grandma
Christine Flowers: Why the law should be gender blind
Greg Crosby: Surprise! Another Federal Holiday
Michael Reagan: The sad descent of Disney
MediaWatch by Tim Graham: Partisan 'Fact-Checkers' Despise Biden Satire
(OOPS) Dick Morris: Dems' Hot Buttons Aren't Working
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