Letter From Pittsburgh
Unity in tragedy as mourners gather at first funerals for victims in synagogue massacre
By Gabriel Pogrund, Kayla Epstein & Steve Hendrix

Disrupting attempts to politicize shooting fail as grief-stricken city comes together

Chutzpah!
Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre Exposes Muslim Feminist's Two-Faced Opportunism
By Steven Emerson

Linda Sarsour said all the right things about anti-Semitism after the massacre at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue. And it might have been encouraging, if she hadn't spent years demonizing Jews and Israel

Includes audio of previous "outreach"

Good News
Pakistani Christian woman who faced the death penalty for blasphemy is acquitted by high court after 8 years on death row
By Meagan Flynn

We are all in this, together

Passionate Parenting
We've so overscheduled our kids that doctors are now prescribing playtime
By Katherine Marsh

We idiotically insist that all of their activities be purposeful and structured

Must-Know Info
Want better customer service? Don't call. Text
By Geoffrey A. Fowler

Chat and messaging apps from Apple, Facebook, Whatsapp and others are more efficient, less painful than phone calls - and both sides of the conversation are more likely to keep their cool

Wellness
Why stiffness and soreness could indicate a more serious issue
By Gabriella Boston

Without knowing it, you could be compensating for these situations, and making things worse

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Ivy Manning

The flavors of fall: Creamy, Curried Parsnip & Apple Soup is a symphony of tantalizing tastes --- and absolutely delicious

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• Sean Delonas

• Nate Beeler

• Lisa Benson

• A.F. Branco

• Ed Gamble

• Gary McCoy

• Rick McKee

• Steve Sack

• Michael Ramirez

• Michael Ramirez BONUS!

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On this day in . . .

• 1517, the Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg

• 1876, a monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 deaths

• 1913, dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States

• 1917, Battle of Beersheba, "last successful cavalry charge in history", as part of the Sinai and Palestine campaign during World War I

• 1938, during the Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public

• 1941, the destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors, even though the United States had not yet entered the war

• 1943, during World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception

• 1956, the United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal

• 1959, Lee Harvey Oswald attempts to renounce his American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR

• 1961, in the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Tomb

• 1968, the Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1

• 1985, salvage divers located the remains of the booty-laden pirate ship Whydah, which sank Feb. 17, 1717, off Cape Cod, Mass.

• 2001, Microsoft and the Justice Department reached a tentative agreement to settle the historic antitrust case against the software giant. ALSO: Former Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive Sara Jane Olson pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to the attempted murder of police officers (she was paroled in 2009 after serving about half her prison sentence)

• 2004, Iranian lawmakers chanted, "Death to America!" after a unanimous vote to allow their government to resume uranium enrichment activities

• 2010, a former teenage al-Qaida fighter, Omar Khadr, was sentenced by a military judge at Guantanamo to eight more years in custody under the terms of a plea agreement unsealed after a military sentencing jury said he should serve 40 years for war crimes. ALSO: Practitioners of that "religion of peace" took over a Baghdad Catholic church just before services were to begin, touching off a bloodbath in which more than 40 hostages and seven Iraqi troops were reported killed

• 2013, the U.S. Federal Aviaion Administration announced airlines could soon allow passengers to use laptops, tablets, music players, e-readers, etc., on flights, with certain restrictions, and that cellphones and other devices must be kept in "airplane mode," disabling their wireless features

• 2014, SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic's effort in spaceflight for tourists, crashes during a test flight in the Mojave Desert, killing one of the pilots and seriously injuring the other

• 2015, Russian airliner Metrojet Flight 9268 crashed after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport in Egypt, killing all 224 on board. Investigators suspected a bomb on the plane caused the crash

• 2017, eight people were killed when a practitioner of that "religion of peace" drove a truck along a bike path in New York City in an attack that authorities immediately labeled terrorism; the driver, identified by authorities as Uzbek immigrant Sayfullo Saipov, was shot and wounded by police. (His trial is scheduled for October, 2019.)

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John Stossel: A Bridge to Sell You

L. Brent Bozell III: Journos Stink as Discourse Cops

• Neo-Nazis lament synagogue slayings --- but for tactical, not moral, reasons

• How'd this government agency get infected with malware? 9,000 pages of porn

• Mueller probes Roger Stone's interactions with Trump campaign, timing of WikiLeaks release of Podesta emails

Marc A. Thiessen: Our descent into vitriol began long before Trump --- and Dems are culpable, too

Michelle Malkin: Yes, Unvetted Illegal Caravans Threaten Public Health

Byron York: Finally, a day of reckoning for Michael Avenatti?

Stuart Rothenberg: For handicapping midterm races, old rules may no longer apply

Anne Gearan & Griff Witte: Merkel's political exit is a kind of vindication for Trump

Walter Williams: Dem-Controlled House

• Dry Bones

• Mallard Filmore