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Inspired Living
Long Suffering
By Dr. Erica Brown

The OY in "joy" was no mistake

Reality Check
U.S. Islamists Promote Nationwide Protests Despite Israeli Concessions
By Steven Emerson

The loudest voices heralding Islam as a religion of peace should not be embraced by society-at-large --- and all the more so, not by Jews

Religious Harmony
'It's just like God to use a young Jewish couple to help Christians:' Trump's evangelical advisers defend Kushner
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey

Evangelical leaders usually use their voice on specific issues, not to praise specific administration officials

Prevent a Divorce!
15 things every husband wants his wife to QUIT doing
By Hannah Rose

Save your marriage by quitting these 15 things

Wellness
Trying to conceive? Think about what you're eating
By Christy Brissette

One in 8 couples has difficulty getting pregnant or carrying a baby to term

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

Salmon Secrets: These unconventional ingredients add a subtle, yet compelling depth of flavor

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• Nate Beeler

• Lisa Benson

• Bob Gorrell

• RJ Matson

• Gary McCoy

• Rick McKee

• Steve Sack

• Dana Summers

• Gary Varvel

• Gary Varvel BONUS!

• Michael Ramirez

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On this day in . . .

• 904, Salonica -- the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of Macedonia -- falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city

• 1703, Daniel Defoe, the an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe, is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers

• 1777, the Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman, was made a major-general in the American Continental Army

• 1790, the first U.S. patent is issued to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process

• 1792, director David Rittenhouse laid the cornerstone in Philadelphia for the U.S. Mint, the first building of the federal government

• 1865, the first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Australia

• 1919, German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution (which comes into force on August 14)

• 1945, Pierre Laval, premier of the pro-Nazi Vichy government, surrendered to U.S. authorities in Austria; he was turned over to France, which later tried and executed him

• 1948, President Harry Truman helped dedicate New York International Airport (later John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild Field

• 1957, the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations designed to detect Soviet bombers approaching North America, went into operation

• 1964, the American space probe Ranger VII transmitted pictures of the moon's surface

• 1972, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the ticket with George McGovern following disclosures Eagleton had once undergone psychiatric treatment

• 1974, Watergate figure John Ehrlichman was sentenced to 20 months in prison for his role in the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Ellsberg was the Pentagon consultant who leaked the "Pentagon Papers," documents about the war in Vietnam

• 1976, NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo

• 1981, the 42-day strike of Major League Baseball ends

• 1987, Iranian pilgrims and riot police clashed in the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, resulting in some 400 deaths, according to the Saudi government, which blamed the Iranians for the violence

• 1991, President George Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow. ALSO: the U.S. Senate overturned a 43-year-old law and voted to allow women to fly military warplanes in combat

• 1997, in Brooklyn, N.Y., police seized five bombs believed bound for terrorist attacks on New York City subways by practitioners of that "religion of peace"

• 2002, a bomb exploded by practitioners of that "religion of peace" inside a cafeteria at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, kills nine people, including five Americans

• 2006, Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raul Castro. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana (La Pequena Habana in Spanish), Miami, Florida, where many Cuban Americans participated

• 2011, ending a perilous stalemate, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders announced a historic agreement on emergency legislation to avert the nation's first-ever financial default. ALSO: Syrian security forces launched a ferocious assault on defiant cities and towns, killing at least 70 people and possibly many more

• 2014, officials reported the number of people killed in a 3-week-old Israeli-Hamas Gaza conflict had risen to 1,360 Palestinians and 59 Israelis, including 56 soldier

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Mark Steyn: Flight and Fancy

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Awesome

• Media wars: 34% of Americans approve court-ordered fines for biased or inaccurate news stories

• Latest twist on upscale urban living: A dorm for grownups in a historic mansion

Argus Hamilton's The News in Zingers

Alexandra Petri: All the Mooch that's fit to print

Jeff Jacoby: Research isn't tainted just because industry picks up the tab

Greg Jaffe & Andrew deGrandpre: In John Kelly, Trump gets a plain-spoken disciplinarian as his chief of staff

Debra J. Saunders: Trump's Humiliation of Sessions Just Plain Ugly to Watch

Dino Grandoni: Trump wants members of Congress to personally feel the pain of ObamaCare

David Weigel: Voter by voter, GOP super PAC tries to separate the party from Trump

Andrew Roth: Putin orders cut of 755 personnel at US missions

Ashley Parker: Trump's Troubleshooter: Veep travels to reassure allies and send message to Russia

Bruce Bialosky: Fixing the Tax Mess

George Will: Trump is something the nation did not know it needed

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore