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Dear Annie: I would like to add to your advice to the mom whose 22-year-old daughter wants to move into her own apartment. Based on past experience, “Distressed About Departing Dependent” is worried that her daughter will soon be asking her for money to pay rent, which she is unable to provide. Your advice was to support her in other ways, but “if she asks for cash, tell her no, and stick to it.” The baby bird needs to learn to fly on her own. Good advice, but wrong timing.

The Hollywood screenwriters picketing studios since May know that having famous actors beside them brings more attention to their cause. And the media got real interested in their strike when they could write headlines like “Hollywood Stars Join the Writers’ Picket Line.”

Today is the 200th day of 2023 and the 29th day of summer. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1848, the first women’s rights convention in the U.S.

Dear Annie: My husband, “Gary,” is unemployed. Has been for the 4 1/2 years we’ve been together.

In the Trump era -- and in the media, it’s still the Trump era -- there is no need to strain a mental muscle to prove journalists have a liberal bias. We find it everywhere. But there are still leftists who channel the spirit of Eric “What Liberal Media?” Alterman and claim reporters tilt inescapably to the right. Claiming a liberal bias is somehow silly nonsense.

One of the most absurd claims the leading candidate for the GOP nomination makes about himself and his term in office is that he restored global respect to the United States. He said it frequently when he was in office, and stressed to Bret Baier three weeks ago that he’s running again “because I want to make America great again. We had great -- we were respected all over the world. Very simple.”

Dear Annie: I’m a 35-yearold woman with no children who has been happily single for over two years, keeping to myself and not dating on purpose. Recently, I had to attend an event, and I was approached by a very pleasant man who is about four years younger than me. He seems very intelligent, wellspoken and is fairly attractive. He asked me out on a date, and we had a nice time together, talking well into the evening.

News stories have reported that despite the Supreme Court’s decision in cases brought against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, those and other selective schools still want to employ racial quotas and preferences in admissions.

Last Tuesday a federal judge banned communications between large parts of the federal government and social media platforms. The case was brought by two Republican attorneys general and several individuals to allege that the government has unconstitutionally censored online speech from conservatives.

Anyone who hates the phrase “deep state” should ponder how it can be defined by anonymous leaking from inside the government. The media elite love to try to run the country between elections, especially as they use scandals to damage Republican candidates for president.