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15 Minutes to Financial Freedom The email contained a single-word subject: “Help!” The sender, I’ll call her “Emily,” had been asked by her community group leader to give a 15-minute presentation on how to achieve financial freedom. She was honored to have been asked, excited to do it, but also panicked by the thought.

Dear Annie: I read your column all the time. I was married to a wonderful woman for 27-plus wonderful years until she passed last year. We don’t have any kids, but we have an adorable furry guy named Max (he is a Cavachon).

I have never understood people who openly complain about their relationships and their spouses. If you constantly complain about the person you have chosen to spend your life with, what does that say about you? And let’s be clear, I’m not talking about hard times because life will surely deliver hard times. And I’m not talking about confiding in a friend when you’re struggling. Yes, please do that.

There were 436,465 American high school boys who played soccer in the 20212022 school year and 481,004 who played baseball. More than half a million -- 521,616 to be precise played basketball, while 569,262 competed in track and field.

Dear Annie: I have been married to my second husband for 40 years, and we are both in our 80s and not in the best of health. My problem is extended visits from my sons -- one son lives in Asia, and the other lives across the other side of the U.S. Due to the time and expense involved in traveling, the one living in another country likes to stay three or four weeks. The last visit caused tension and was almost more than I could bear.

One of the most infuriating and tiresome tactics our hyperpartisan media employ is trying to tie a mass shooting to conservative policy or rhetoric. Speaking out against critical race theory in our schools shouldn’t be thrown on a greasy slope with inspiring violent death.

A Federal Judge Compared Waylon Bailey’s Facebook Jest to ‘Falsely Shouting Fire in a Theatre’ Back in March 2020, a dozen or so sheriff’s deputies wearing bulletproof vests descended upon Waylon Bailey’s home in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, with their guns drawn, ordered him onto his knees with his hands on his head, and arrested him for a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The SWATstyle raid was provoked by a Facebook post in which Bailey had made a zombiethemed joke about COVID19.

Disability Myths There are so many misconceptions about the Social Security disability program. I’ve written a book called “Social Security: 100 Myths and 100 Facts.” It puts to rest all the crazy rumors that are out there about the entire Social Security program.

Dear Annie: My husband and I will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary this year. Here’s the problem: I caught him sleeping with a friend of ours three years ago at our home while I was at work. I became suspicious and set up a nanny cam, and it was all on video.

In 2016, Donald Trump faced the strongest Republican presidential field in decades. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were brash young champions of the Tea Party that had redefined the GOP in the last two midterms.