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Double taxation? These 13 states tax your Social Security benefits
Selena Maranjian, The Motley Fool, USA Today(Photo: Getty Images)When you think of double taxation, you might think of dividends. After all, they're paid to you out of the funds that remain after a...
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30 Jeff Bezos' wealth is now equal to 2.3 million Americans' - Note for a...
David Carrig, USA TODAY(Photo: Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images)Just how wealthy is Jeff Bezos?It would take the combined wealth of 2.3 million Americans to equal the $127 billion that the Amazon...
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‘Millennial’ Means Nothing - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
John Quiggin, New York Times, March 6, 2018; original article contains links.Image from article, with caption: Tyra Hemans, a student from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida ,...
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The Autumn of the Oscars - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
Ross Douthat, New York Times, March 7, 2018Image from article, with caption: Jimmy Kimmel joking in his opening monologue about the Oscar statueExcerpt:There are conservatives, including the president...
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To the disunited workers of the world: Advice from Wall Street
Editorial Board, "Trump’s Hoover Temptation,"Wall Street Journal; see also.A confluence of political forces recalls the blunders of the 1930s.From the article:[T]he Gipper [Ronald Reagan] issued a...
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Food Tailored to Our Genes May Be on the Menu Soon
Lisa Ward, Wall Street JournalImage from article, with caption: Not everyone responds the same way to a given diet. A blood test might show what will work best for you.Excerpt:New research raises the...
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Library of Congress Now Accepting Applications for 2018 Literacy Awards
loc.govPrizes Recognize Innovative Organizations Promoting Literacy and Reading; Deadline for Applications is April 30Press Contact: Brett Zongker, (202) 707-1639Public Contact: Center for the Book,...
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JB Facebook visual remark on the status of women in France - marked as "spam"...
Here's the latest Fb exchange (6:42 PM. 3/2018) on an Facebook-censorship interesting topic, in which my non-verbal/non-testicular ode to Joan of Arc was banned as "spam." [See above; below]The image...
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What Holds America Together - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
David Brooks, New York Times, March 19, 2018Whitman image from articleLast week I went to Houston to see the rodeo. That rodeo is not like other rodeos. It’s gigantic. It goes for 20 days. There can be...
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‘The Train: RFK’s Last Journey’ Review: An American Icon’s Final Trip - Note...
Richard B. Woodward, Wall Street JournalImage from article, with caption: An untitled image from Paul Fusco‘s 1968 ‘RFK Funeral Train’Photographer Paul Fusco took pictures from the funeral train...
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Double Standards Won’t Close the Racial Learning Gap - Note for a discussion,...
Wall Street JournalAnd racial preferences set up bright students—who otherwise would be excelling at less-selective schools—to fail at elite colleges.By Jason L. Riley,March 20, 2018 6:32 p.m. ETSAmy...
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Welcome to Zucktown. Where Everything Is Just Zucky - Note for a discusion,...
David Streitfeld, New York Times, March 21, 2018; original article contains links and additional illustrations.Image from article, with caption: "facebook, which has created a virtual community, is...
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The Dead End of Identity Politics - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
The Wall Street JournalTo expand the base is almost inevitably to shrink it equally.PHOTO: ISTOCK/GETTY IMAGESBy Crispin SartwellMarch 21, 2018 6:35 p.m. ET89 COMMENTSSuppose there are two political...
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‘Class Matters’ Review: The American Dream as Nightmare - Note for a...
The Wall Street JournalA class warrior’s dilemma: “To have a horror of the bourgeois,” Jules Renard wrote, “is bourgeois.”PHOTO: GETTY IMAGESBy Joseph EpsteinMarch 22, 2018 5:28 p.m. ETAs Churchill...
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How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of ‘Race’ - Note for a discussion,...
Gray MatterBy DAVID REICH MARCH 23, 2018, THE NEW YORK TIMESAngie Wang image from articeIn 1942, the anthropologist Ashley Montagu published “Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race,” an...
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American Adults Just Keep Getting Fatter
By Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times, March 23, 2018image from articleAmerican adults continue to put on the pounds. New data shows that nearly 40 percent of them were obese in 2015...
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‘American Empire’ Review: Signing Up for the Imperial Club
The Wall Street JournalOverseas territories that the U.S. acquired in the late 19th century became a “forgotten empire.”PHOTO: GRANGER / THE GRANGER COLLECTIONBy Wm. Roger LouisMarch 23, 2018 4:44 p.m....
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The Bubble: March for Our Lives protesters dismissed by conservatives - Note...
William Cummings, USA TODAY; original article contain a video, "Protesters explain why they’ve had #enough and give their thoughts on gun control during the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C.,...
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The Post-World War II Order Is Under Assault From the Powers That Built It
Peter S. Goodman, New York Timesimage fromExcerpt:In the early 1990s, shortly after the Berlin Wall came down and the West claimed victory in the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama [see], a Stanford University...
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In Praise of Privilege - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
David Brooks, New York Times, March 26Image from article, with caption: Hundreds of thousands of people filled the street in Washington and cities around the world for student-led demonstrations in...
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