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A museum fuels hatred of America

BILBAO, Spain — The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a masterpiece of American architecture, a swirl of curved configurations crafted out of sheets of titanium by Frank Gehry. But step inside the stunning structure, and the celebration of America is over. Most of the second floor is dedicated to the works of American artist Jenny Holzer, who seems to be filled with loathing for the land of her birth. As you enter one gallery, you are greeted with an exhibit called the “Inflammatory Essays,” a series of posters printed on colored paper and containing the artist’s various manifestos. ...

Assessing relationship expectations

Dear Annie: My boyfriend and I have been together for seven years. We have lived together for nearly five years and been engaged for the past three years. We are both in our late 50s. He has never been married and had no children. He has been very successful in his business. I have been married twice and have three children. We get along great. We go to movies, eat out, go on vacation together, and we laugh all the time. He treats me like a queen and my children as if they were his own. So here’s the problem: Everything we have is in his name only — house, cars and ...

Loving from afar

Dear Annie: I had my 14th birthday two weeks before I gave birth to my son. The hardest thing I have ever done was to sign the paper for him to be adopted. The entire time I was pregnant, I tried to think of any way I would be able to keep and raise my son. At 14, I completed my first semester in ninth grade but had to drop out my second semester. I cried and prayed each night for a way to keep my son, to be able to take care of him. For years, I would look into the faces of boys and then men to see if I recognized my son. I silently celebrated each birthday, and prayed he was OK and ...

Reducing mass shootings by recognizing red flags

Want to reduce the number of mass shootings in the United States? Then let’s ramp up efforts to stop domestic abuse. Just as a red flag is raised when a child tortures animals, often a precursor to later criminal behavior, there is plenty of evidence that mass shooters display red-flag behaviors, like aggression and violence against women and children, before they ever pick up a gun and start hunting fellow human beings. Oh, I know domestic abuse is a topic people don’t like to talk about. And when they do, they often conclude it’s a private matter or a “woman’s issue.” ...

Furry foes and floppy friends

Dear Annie: My friend Jess and I recently moved into a three-bedroom apartment together. We each have one cat. We knew it would be challenging to integrate the cats at first, but we figured that it wouldn’t be too difficult in such a spacious place. Boy were we wrong. Every night is fight night for these cats. I wake up several times a night to them body slamming each other, from the sound of it. I can’t tell if they’re fighting or just roughhouse playing, but it doesn’t sound good. I get out of bed to detach them; two hours later we repeat the whole scene. Jess and I have tried ...

Late bloomers show the strength of America

With all the attention the national debate between socialism and capitalism is getting, a new book has arrived on the scene that casts valuable perspective. The book is “Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement,” written by Forbes Magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard. Karlgaard takes on the cult of youth that is capturing so much of our popular culture, particularly on the left. He reminds us in this important book that life is about learning, accumulation of wisdom, self-renewal and, in the best cases, prevailing against adversity. These are ...