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"Rabbi Tarfon says in reference to challenges: You are not required to complete the task, yet you are not free to withdraw from them."
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Outlook
One of the great Groucho's most memorable musings is, in actuality, a restating of a Truth that both believers and skeptics alike must master
America in Decline
The stats and status --- and what it means
Solutions
The juxtapositioning of these stories was no accident
Personal Growth
How to perceive yourself and your life in a new way that will lessen the pain you are experiencing, and change your mindset in order to affect the way others see you
Wellness
The health (and planetary) benefits carry over, even with the occasional burger
Wealth Strategies
With the Brexit taking hold of the markets, energy stocks have once again began to falter
Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
This luscious pineapple dessert not only is packed with aromatic Caribbean flair. It satisfies a sweet tooth healthfully as well
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• Lisa Benson BONUS!
• Chip Bok
• Randall Enos BONUS!
Marilyn Penn: Captain Fantastic - A Review
Monica Crowley: Hillary Clinton beats the rap while condemning others to face it
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1821, Spain ceded Florida to the United States
• 1898, during the Spanish-American War, Spanish troops in Santiago, Cuba, surrendered to U.S. forces
• 1917, the British royal family adopted the name "Windsor"
• 1918, the RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the Unterseeboot 55 with 5 lives lost
• 1936, an Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the Spanish civil war
• 1938, Douglas Corrigan, the last of the early glory-seeking fliers, took off from Floyd Bennett field in Brooklyn, ostentatiously pointed west. However, a few minutes later, he made a 180-degree turn and vanished into a cloudbank to the puzzlement of a few onlookers Twenty-eight hours later, Corrigan landed his plane in Dublin, Ireland, stepped out of his plane, and exclaimed, "Just got in from New York. Where am I?" He claimed that he lost his direction in the clouds and that his compass had malfunctioned. The authorities didn't buy the story and suspended his license, but Corrigan stuck to it to the amusement of the public on both sides of the Atlantic. By the time "Wrong Way" Corrigan and his crated plane returned to New York by ship, his license suspension had been lifted, he was a national celebrity, and a mob of autograph seekers met him on the gangway.
• 1945, during World War II: Potsdam Conference. At Potsdam, New York, President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the three main Allied leaders, begin their final summit of the war. The meeting will end on August 2.
• 1955, Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California. ALSO: Arco, Idaho, a town of 1,300 people, became the first community in the world to receive all its light and power from atomic energy
• 1968, revolution in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif was overthrown and the Ba'ath Party installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President
• 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower linkup of its kind
• 1979, Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza resigned and fled into exile in Miami
• 1996, TWA Flight 800, a Paris-bound Boeing 747, exploded and crashed off Long Island, N.Y., shortly after leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people aboard
• 1997, the F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business
• 1998, a diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. ALSO: Nicholas II, last of the Romanov czars, was buried in Russia 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks. AND: A 23-foot-high tsunami hit the northern coast of Papua New Guinea, killing more than 2,000 people
• 2002, a double suicide bombing by practitioners of that "religion of peace" in Tel Aviv killed three. ALSO: In Britain, a one-day strike by 750,000 municipal employees closed schools, libraries and recreation centers in their first national walkout in more than two decades
• 2005, the Iraqi Special Tribunal filed its first criminal case against Saddam Hussein for a 1982 massacre of Shiite
• 2006, an earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami that struck the Indonesian island of Java, killing about 700 people. Around 200 were reported missing and thousands were rendered homeless
• 2007, the Dow Jones industrial average crossed 14,000 for the first time before ending the day at 13,918.22
• 2008, former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft told a congressional committee he doesn't believe waterboarding is torture. Ashcroft said he thinks a report on the simulated drowning procedure would be serious but not torture.
• 2012, Israel plunged toward a political crisis after the largest party in the government quit, leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in charge of a hard-line coalition opposed to most Mideast peace moves
• 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 carrying 298 people was shot down over rebel-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border. All aboard the Boeing 777 were killed, including dozens of children.
Wesley Pruden: A rousing week for the Gaffe Patrol
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Least Competent Cops
Greg Crosby: Unimportant News
Ed O'Keefe & Dan Balz: Attempts to unbind GOP delegates crushed, effectively ending 'Never Trump' movement
Robert Barnes: Following backlash, Ginsburg expresses 'regret' for remarks criticizing Trump
Suzanne Fields: Robots Join the Thin Blue Line
Mona Charen: Fact-checking a Memorial Service
Ron Hart: Obama, the divider-in-chief: Intemperate remarks stoke racial flames
The Fact Checker: The Truth Behind the Rhetoric: Obama's strange claim that it is easier for teens to buy a Glock than get a book
Deroy Murdock: Invisible men: Black victims of black killers remain in the shadows
Jonah Goldberg: Despite marketing efforts, Clinton and Trump aren't changing
Jonathan Bernstein: Mike Pence looks like Trump's ideal veep
Rich Lowry: The Case for Newt
David Limbaugh: Obama, Clinton and Race Exploitation
Charles Krauthammer Resisting the revisionists: Finally, a first step
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