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Privilege and perspective

Dear Annie: My spouse and I chose to raise our kids in a neighborhood with excellent schools and a strong sense of community. The downside is that it’s also a very affluent area, and many of the families around us are far wealthier than we are. We work hard and live comfortably enough, but we can’t provide the kinds of luxuries that some of our children’s friends take for granted — brand-name clothes, international vacations, new cars at 16 and the latest electronics. Lately, our kids have started acting embarrassed about what we can’t afford. They complain that their ...

Horoscope

It’s a triple-layered day of fools, with the full moon giving a pinky promise of renewal. April Fool’s Day plays with illusion and perception, reminding us that things aren’t always as they seem. Passover honors the courage to step into freedom. Under the Pink Moon, these themes weave beautifully: awakening, questioning appearances and stepping into liberation. ARIES (March 21-April 19). It’s wonderful to be foolish about starting things because beginnings rarely arrive with perfect timing or certainty. Many worthwhile ventures begin simply because someone decided the idea ...

Hints From Heloise

Look out for this phone call scam Dear Heloise: I know you warn people never to give out their personal information, but since this past Christmas, I have been blasted with phone calls from callers who claim to be from some fake government agency and are checking to see if I’m gullible enough to give out information about my Medicare card. I usually hang up on them, but not everyone knows that they are scammers. Who should I report these callers to in order to stop them? — Naomi L., in Oklahoma Naomi, try the Federal Trade Commission at ReportFraud.FTC.gov. You’re correct — ...

Good Friday

Christians describe the day an innocent man was violently executed as “Good.” Unless you know the whole story, it doesn’t make much sense. This is Holy Week on the Christian calendar. It began with Palm Sunday, which commemorates the Triumphal Entry. As Jesus rode a young donkey into Jerusalem, the people shouted, “Hosanna!” and “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” The symbolism may not be obvious now, but it was then. Hundreds of years before, Zechariah had prophesied that Israel’s king would come “riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a ...

Dems: Trump knows your weak spots

Sure, the “No Kings” marches drew millions rightly protesting Donald Trump’s assaults on our democratic institutions. But Democrats must dig deeper and ask how Trump could actually win another term after trying to overturn the 2020 election results with a violent attack on the Capitol. It wasn’t as though most Americans adored him. Gallup’s approval rating for Trump on election eve was a sad 46%. Trump carried the 2024 vote by playing the Democrats on three issues that aggravate even moderate Americans. They are open borders, the demonization of law enforcement and racial, ...

Lessons from Vietnam

We Americans are an impatient lot. If we must engage in warfare, we would prefer it be wrapped up in weeks, not months, and certainly not years like World War II, Korea and Vietnam. In those wars we had the draft, so more Americans were engaged in fighting and watching their progress, or lack thereof. Today, while recruiting numbers have increased in our all-volunteer military, the taste for war among the public has declined. One of President Trump’s positions that attracted voters was his promise to end wars, not start new ones. Granted, any candidate running for president can ...