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Reality Check
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War on Jihad
What is really prompting the move?
Humanity
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Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
You can't beat these souffles for dinner --- but pouring works
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• Mike Shelton BONUS!
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1782, George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart, a decoration to recognize merit in enlisted men and non-commissioned officers
• 1789, the U.S. War Department was established by Congress
• 1882, the famous feud between the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky erupted into full-scale violence as one member of the Hatfield clan was killed by three McCoy brothers, who ended up being slain in turn
• 1888, Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia went around and around with the U.S. Patent Office for a time, but, finally, got a patent for the revolving door
• 1927, the Peace Bridge between the United States and Canada was dedicated during ceremonies attended by Prince Edward of Wales, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and U.S. Vice President Charles Dawes
• 1928, the U.S. dollar began to shrink. New bills, one third smaller than previousones, were issued by the U.S. Treasury Department
• 1942, U.S. and allied forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II
• 1944, IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I)
• 1947, the balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki, which had carried a six-man crew 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean, crashed into a reef in a Polynesian archipelago
• 1959, the United States launched Explorer VI, which sent back a picture of the Earth. ALSO: The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design and is still in use
• 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving President Lyndon Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces
• 1965, the infamous first party between Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hell's Angels takes place at Kesey's estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels
• 1967, during the Vietnam War: the People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant
• 1974, French stuntman Philippe Petit repeatedly walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center
• 1987, the presidents of five Central American nations, meeting in Guatemala City, signed an 11-point agreement designed to bring peace to their region
• 1997, a Russian capsule on a fix-it mission docked gingerly with the crippled Mir space station, bringing a new crew charged with salvaging the orbiting outpost
• 2007, Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run
• 2010, Elena Kagan was sworn in as the 112th justice and fourth woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. ALSO: A healthy-looking Fidel Castro appealed to President Barack Obama to stave off global nuclear war in an address to parliament that marked his first official government appearance since emergency surgery four years earlier
• 2012, Jared Lee Loughner pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder in Tucson shootings that killed six people and wounded 13, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Under his plea agreement, Loughner is imprisoned for life without parole and no opportunity to appeal
• 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama said he authorized targeted airstrikes as needed against Islamic militants in northern Iraq
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Harvey C. Mansfield: Are All Men Created Equal?
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Leonid Bershidsky: Robots created a language. No need to panic
Karin Brulliard: Why aren't environmentalists focussing their wrath at fido and mittens?
Barkha Dutt: I'm a feminist. Menstrual leave is a bad idea
Jenna Johnson: West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is far from the only Democrat Trump won over
Carol Morello: China urges North Korea to be 'smart' and drop its missile tests
Albert R. Hunt: One man's crusade to build consensus on facts
Theodore R. Johnson: Why the next black president could be a Republican
Ana Swanson: US job growth surges in July
Joshua Muravchik: What Trump and Tillerson don't get: Aiding democratization overseas isn't charity
Debra J. Saunders: The White House Press Briefing Showdown
David Weigel: Red Alert? The socialist movement is getting younger, thanks to one 75-year-old
Dave Weinbaum: My special prosecutor can beat up your special prosecutor
Bruce Bialosky: The Treachery of Murkowski, Collins and McCain
George Will: The GOP has become the party of the grotesque
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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