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Dear Annie: My son and daughter-in-law have been married for about three years. She used to be a very nice girl when dating my son. When they told me they were getting married, it was just so that she could be put on my son’s health insurance because she couldn’t work anymore. I was still happy. She sold her house and moved into his house. I live five hours away, so when I visit, I usually stay four days and play with my granddaughter, who is 9 years old. I was kidding around one day when my son was leaving for work and I said, “Aren’t you going to kiss your wife goodbye?” ...

Daily Horoscope

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You want to be alone and unbothered, but you talk to people anyway, and that lifts your spirits more than solitude could. It’s amazing how much happier you get when decide to let go of what you want. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). It’s a good day to sort out who is in charge of what and take responsibility for as much of it as you can. After you handle things, use hand-sanitizer - actually and metaphorically. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The self-help site suggests taking five minutes to decompress. Is that a joke? With all the pressure you’re under, you’ll ...

‘Fact-checkers’ off base

Recently, I released a video that called California’s fires “government fueled.” A few days later, Facebook inserted a warning on my video: “Missing Context. Independent fact-checkers say this information could mislead.” Some of my viewers now feel betrayed. One wrote: “Shameful, John... what happened to you!!? Your reporting was always fair... (but) your... fires story was so... unfair, even Facebook tagged it.” A “fact-check” from Facebook carries weight. Worse, Facebook says that because my video is labeled misleading, it will show my content to fewer ...

Examining ‘VIP syndrome’

A few years before he died, my friend Charles Krauthammer, a psychiatrist turned Pulitzer-winning political commentator, told me that the quality of health care you receive tends to rise in tandem with your income — up to a point. For some people, the two lines separate when they get so rich that they can afford the diagnoses and treatments they want rather than the ones they need. Look at Steve Jobs and Michael Jackson, Charles said — very different people who shared a common addiction to getting their way. Jobs thought he could outsmart pancreatic cancer, rejecting conventional ...

Not a great example

New York City is becoming an economic basket case. “‘We’re at war’: New York City Faces a Financial Abyss,” screams a New York Times headline. New York City’s unemployment rate stands at 16%, double the nation’s average. Yet, even in the midst of a “financial abyss,” the animosity of New York’s liberal elite remains undeterred in its hostility toward free enterprise and entrepreneurship, the pillars of job creation and economic recovery. In a latest example, commercial real estate development firms have pulled out of a proposed project, Industry City, that ...

Where did compassion go?

Comedian Chris Rock, hosting “Saturday Night Live,” summarized the feelings shared by much of President Donald Trump-hating America when he quipped, “President Trump is in the hospital from COVID and I just wanna say my heart goes out to COVID.” The audience then erupted in laughter. During the Barack Obama administration, the country faced the H1N1 virus, or swine flu. Did the Obama administration, unlike the Trump administration, respond to that crisis with scientific-based action that saved the lives of untold Americans? Joe Biden aide Ron Klain, who served Biden in the ...