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Monday, July 11, 2016
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"Sometimes, the road less traveled . . . is less traveled for a reason."
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Reality Check
Whoever said crime doesn't pay hasn't talked to the family of a Palestinian terrorist
It's NOT 'One World'
At first, there was complete silence from officials.
Numbers that are now emerging are likely to shock a country still coming to terms with what happened in Cologne more than half a year ago
Heads-Up!
Warning to parents who don't monitor their kids' web surfing habits
Wellness
We roll our eyes at the friend who preaches about her juice cleanse. But a strict diet - even when it seems healthy - can become dangerous
Wealth Strategies
Yields have been creeping up on bond maturities of up to three years, and that's boosting payouts at short-term bond funds
Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
Charred Fig and Spinach Salad With Lemon Tofu 'Feta' is a light, flavorful main masquerading as a summer side salad
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• Sean Delonas BONUS!
• Chip Bok
• Chip Bok BONUS!
Dennis Byrne: Trump zealots, you'll be sorry
Monica Crowley: Going full Orwellian on the Islamic threat
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1798, the U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by a congressional act that also created the U.S. Marine Band
• 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, N.J.
• 1859, Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" was published
• 1864, Confederate forces led by General Jubal Early began an abortive invasion of Washington, D.C., turning back the next day
• 1934, President Roosevelt became the first chief executive to travel through the Panama Canal
• 1955, the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado was dedicated with 300 cadets in its first class
• 1960, Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" was published
• 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia
• 1980, ailing American hostage Richard I. Queen, freed by Iran after eight months of captivity by practitioners of that "religion of peace", left Tehran for Switzerland
• 1985, Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros became the first pitcher in Major League Baseball to strike out 4,000 batters as he fanned Danny Heep of the New York Mets
• 1988, nine people were killed when five terrorists, pracitioners of that "religion of peace", attacked hundreds of tourists aboard a Greek cruise ship, the City of Poros, which was steaming toward a marina in suburban Athens
• 1995, the U.N.-designated "safe haven" of Srebrenica fell to Bosnian Serb forces. ALSO: The United States normalized relations with Vietnam
• 1998, Air Force Lt. Michael Blassie, a casualty of the Vietnam War, was laid to rest near his Missouri home, after the positive identification of his remains, which had been enshrined at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington, Va.
• 2000, a Middle East summit hosted by President Clinton opened at Camp David between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, ym"sh. Barak offered to give Arafat 95% of he was asking, including, possibly, parts of Jerusalem. Arafat refused
• 2002, lawmakers balked at moving the Coast Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Agency into a new Homeland Security Department despite pleas from senior Cabinet officials to stick to President George W. Bush's blueprint. (Both agencies did end up being included in the new department.)
• 2008, federal regulators seized IndyBank, one of the largest U.S. banks to fail in the economic crisis. IndyBank faced huge losses from defaulted mortgages. Its takeover was expected to cost the U.S. government as much as $8 billion. ALSO Tony Snow, JWR friend and former White House press secretary under U.S. President George W. Bush and Fox News Channel host, died of cancer at age 53
• 2011, eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky went missing while walking home from religious day camp in Brooklyn, N.Y. (his dismembered remains were discovered two days later; a suspect, Levin Aron, has been charged with kidnapping and murder)
• 2015, top Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, head of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, escaped from a maximum security prison for the second time by exiting through a secretly dug mile-long tunnel (he was recaptured in January 2016). ALSO: A crowd of furious Bosnian Muslims jumped over fences and attacked Serbia's prime minister, Aleksandar Vucic, with stones and water bottles, marring the 20th anniversary commemorations of the Srebrenica massacre
Glenn Reynolds: Why politicians love cities
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Chutzpah!
Paul Greenberg: Man vs. machine
Marc Champion: Why the popular support for the Western alliance may be evaporating
Robert J. Samuelson: Getting globalization right
• Rudy Giuliani: Black fathers need to teach kids 'the real danger to them is not the police'
Ann E. Marimow: Scalia opinion could shorten sentences for hundreds of prisoners
Nat Hentoff: Comey's Hillry probe is deja vu all over again
Bernard Goldberg: Hillary, Donald and the 'Compared to What' Test
Bill Schneider: 1968 and 2016?
Margaret Carlson: Score Another for The Donald: Trump out-strategized Congress on Comey and Clinton
Robert Costa: A curveball in Trump's Veep search: A retired Dem general
Alan Bjerga: Possible Trump running mate supports abortion rights
Bruce Bialosky: Democrats, Have You No Shame?
Chris Cillizza: Who had the Worst Week in Washington? Corrine Brown
George Will Is anemic growth the new normal?
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[ I N S I G H T ]
Lenore Skenazy: Going Dough Nuts
Newt Gingrich: What about the Clinton corruption investigation?
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