Inspired Living
Breaking promises
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb

Is it always a virtue to keep your word and never change your mind? Isn't that a sign of a certain rigidity, which is not always beneficial, and may even sometimes be morally wrong?

Wellness
Can old vaccines from science's medicine cabinet ward off coronavirus?
By Carolyn Y. Johnson & Steven Mufson

The old vaccines are oddities among the cutting-edge and targeted technologies being developed to combat the novel coronavirus

Ah, the Marvels of Modern Mating
My online dating profile was so bad my wife ignored me. Then I learned how to play the game
By Evan Wolkenstein

Superficiality sells --- sadly?

Must-Know Info
Is it time to delete TikTok? A guide to the rumors and the real privacy risks
By Geoffrey A. Fowler

We looked under the hood at what data the TikTok app gathers about you --- and where it sends it

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

This summer, do as the Sicilians do and make a tray of refreshing almond granita (No fancy gadgets required)

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• Chip Bok

• A.F. Branco

• Jake Fuller

• Ed Gamble

• Joe Heller

• Joe Heller BONUS!

• Steve Kelley

• Jeff Koterba

• Rick McKee

• Tom Stiglich

• Dana Summers

• Dana Summers BONUS!

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

• Michael Ramirez BONUS!

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On this day in . . .

• 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

• 2012, the Boy Scouts of America announced a policy of banning homosexuals from membership would remain in effect. They caved to pressure in 2013

• 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

• 2016, three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers investigating a report of a man with an assault rifle were killed, less than two weeks after a black man was shot and killed by police in the city in a confrontation that sparked nightly protests that reverberated nationwide. (The gunman was killed by tactical officers.)

• 2019, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was sentenced to life in U.S. prison for conspiracy to commit murder, drug trafficking and money laundering. The drug kingpin had twice escaped from Mexican prisons

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Josh Hammer: Intersectionality Vs. America

News of the Weird: Bad Apples

• Mallard Filmore

• Rich Americans are donating more from huge charity stockpiles

• Walmart, Kroger grapple with coin shortage, urge card use instead

• Senator calls for civil rights probe of St. Louis prosecutor investigating gun-brandishing couple

Greg Crosby: Open the Schools!

Froma Harrop: Is Remote Work the Road to Downward Mobility?

MediaWatch by Tim Graham: Leftist Protests More Sacred Than Church Services

Mona Charen: Bari Weiss Was Too Honest for The New York Times

David Harsanyi: Speech Police have finally gone too far

Rich Lowry: The Unappreciated Shrewdness of the Biden Campaign

Amy Gardner & Lori Rozsa: Supreme Court deals blow to 1.4 million felons in key battleground state seeking to regain voting privileges

David Limbaugh: Don't let the Neville Chamberlains of the Right discourage those who grasp the struggle

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