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Propagandists, from Shakespeare to Jacqueline Susann, have been telling the unrich that money doesn't buy happiness. The unrich, not being immune to spasms of common sense, sometimes wonder about this.--Anthony Haden-Guest


Last night I went to Weirton with Mom to have dinner with some of the principals in a gas and oil project she is working on. Fascinating. There are not enough tradesmen to work on the new cracker plant in Ohio; they are building training schools for them. Tough guys transitioning out of steel into gas. Just an amazing night. Mom was really good with them. Good food at LaCochina.
Chris and Alyssa went to Kennywood. Chris won a racoon doll.


A very ugly thing has grown out from the cracks involving the recent shootings. People are beginning to spout a new theme: These maniacs are actually not maniacs. There seem to be two reasons. First, the demagogues in politics and Press get to deputize the maniacs as members of their political opponents, not representatives but actually one of them. So a lunatic shooting up a store because he doesn't like Mexicans becomes a guy opposed to illegal immigration, just like many other Americans. So anyone opposed to illegal immigration is just one frustrating moment away from shooting up a candy store. The Right didn't even do that with Oswald or Sirhan. The other notion is that, if they're not nuts, this allows them to legislate against them with optimism. After all, if they are insane, what can rational people do? Crazies do not respond to laws. But if they are declared sane, then laws should work.
Incompetent ambition married to mendacity.

Despite the popularity of wearable fitness devices, recent research has failed to find measurable health benefits for consumers. Does this mean the technology is overhyped?
This year, the deficit will end up being the fourth highest in U.S. history. It's gigantic, and it will hit a little over $1 trillion by the end of the fiscal year. It's also larger than previously projected. And it's growing fast, at a time when the United States is not in a recession -- unlike the economies that delivered the three previous highest deficits.

Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else’s resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.--Freidman

 If the Left was motivated by pure reason then it would not be the case that liberals are just as likely as conservatives to deny science on the safety of vaccines and genetically modified foods. 

From Norway to France, Canada to Sweden, California to New York, economists have found that government-provided paid leave leads to lower wages for women, fewer prospects for advancement and overall reduced employment.

Will asks: "....the U.S. women's national soccer team being paid less than the men's team: Is it pertinent that in 2018 the men's World Cup in Russia generated $6 billion in revenue, 46 times this year's women's World Cup projected revenues of $131 million? Or that women players receive a higher percentage of their World Cup revenues than the men receive from theirs?
Or that, as Christine Rosen writes, "the path to qualifying for the men's World Cup is much more arduous and competitive than it is for the women's World Cup. The men have to win more games over a longer period of time to qualify than do the women"? Are you also indignant -- if not, why not -- that the Rolling Stones make more than comparable women's groups? And if there aren't such comparable groups, do you, Sen. ("I have a plan for that") Warren, have a plan for government to right this wrong? Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, you say: "If you win 13-0 -- the most goals for a single game in World Cup history -- you should be paid at least equally to the men's team." At least. So, were the men ever to beat Thailand even more lopsidedly, would your dollars-for-goals metric remain gender-neutral?

The United States Congress overwhelming approves the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving President Lyndon B. Johnson nearly unlimited powers to oppose “communist aggression” in Southeast Asia. The resolution marked the beginning of an expanded military role for the United States in the Cold War battlefields of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

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After 50 years of decline, the number of young women “discerning the religious life”—or going through the long process of becoming a Catholic sister—is substantially increasing. 

In 2017, 13 percent of women from age 18 to 35 who answered a Georgetown University-affiliated survey of American Catholics reported that they had considered becoming a Catholic sister. That’s more than 900,000 young women, enough to repopulate the corps of “women religious” in a couple of decades, even if only a fraction of them actually go through with it.

And the aspiring sisters aren’t like the old ones. They’re more diverse: Ninety percent of American nuns in 2009 identified as white; last year, fewer than 60 percent of new entrants to convents did. They’re also younger: The average age for taking the final step into the religious life a decade ago was 40. Today, it’s 24. They’re disproportionately middle children, often high-flying and high-achieving. 
(Fairbanks)